When did Louisiana get snooty? We still regularly eat possum as your northern neighbor.
Ovaltine??
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When did Louisiana get snooty? We still regularly eat possum as your northern neighbor.
mmb617
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We drank Ovaltine all the time as kids and I liked it. These days if I want hot chocolate I use Swiss Miss simply because it's easier needing only hot water instead of hot milk. I can get hot water from my Keurig but I don't have a hot milk dispenser.
Though at times I had ovaltine in the UK during WWII (from Merchant Navy Captains/First mates who used to "kip" in our house when convoys came into Liverpool), I can still remember the "chocolate hard tack" that was made for lifeboat stores and had a life of 6 months (or earlier if the ship went down!") Once the expiry date was past, we were able to obtain it from the MN sailors and it was designed to be "carved off with a sailor's knife" and then added to water. We used to put it into hot water and since it had enough calories to maintain 4 men per day, you can imagine why a 4-6 year old child loved it. Dave_n
I think Ovaltine is still around mainly because of that Christmas Story. We bought it once when I was a kid, instead of Quick, and it got thrown out. 5 kids and none of us liked it! I use Hershey's syrup now because I put it on ice cream, too. And pie. And peanut butter sandwiches.
Don't panic!
Not everything is competitively priced on Amazon. Like almost everything else, you need to shop around and be price conscious.
I don't think I've ever had Ovaltine in my life, but I just checked a few websites out of curiosity. Kroger has 18oz cans of Ovaltine "Rich Chocolate" for $6.79. Meijers has it for $5.99, Target for $5.69 and it's $5.37 at Walmart.
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OMG! WHY HAVE I NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT...?!?!
Mom said that when she was young this was on the store shelf next to Ovaltine.
Darkenfast
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I tried Hoppes. Left a nasty aftertaste in my mouth.
Egads!
And I though Smucker's was a poor choice for a company name.
No comment <bite tongue>...
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I loved their malted milk tablets when I was a kid.
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Egads!
And I though Smucker's was a poor choice for a company name.
No comment <bite tongue>...
Wait...I don't get it...
Oh! Nevermind...
Rpg
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I still use Horlicks malted milk powder when I can locate it: most often in Asian groceries.
I'm not sure, but I thought I heard a slam on blue hair. That's totally unfair and you are cancelled. If I had any hair I would make it blue out of spite. And besides, Ovaltine has malt. Have you compared the taste of a chocolate milkshake to a chocolate malt? Many years ago, I discovered that a chocolate shake was 25 cents and a malt was 35 cents. The lights went on and I never looked back.
Ovaltine 1951
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Because the only ones still drinking the stuff are blue hairs stuck on nostalgia. You know, the same folks that use Hoppe's #9.
Well....am I lucky that I have no blue hairs and use Ballistol! But I do like Ovaltine, regular or chocolate. Sometimes make some in hot milk if I can't sleep.
Here in this ex-colony, it's about $8.00 (~$6.30 USD)
dasnake
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For me.
I couldn't tell you the last time I had ovaltine, but I've been going to the ovaltine cafe in downtown Vancouver since my old man and I started playing pool on hastings in the fifties, it opened in '42 and still going, I wonder if jokes like amazon will last that long?
I couldn't tell you the last time I had ovaltine, but I've been going to the ovaltine cafe in downtown Vancouver since my old man and I started playing pool on hastings in the fifties, it opened in '42 and still going, I wonder if jokes like amazon will last that long?
I tried Ovaltine one time and to this day I have never figured out why anyone would want to drink it.
There's your answer.
Last year when I went to spend time in OR with my daughter and grand kids she bought a "mans" bar soap for me so I didn't have to use "girly" soap.
I liked the soap and knew my local stores wouldn't have it so I checked Amazon and it was $6.92 for two bars of soap.
We went back to where she bought it and bought all they had for $2.49 for two bars of soap.
I tried Ovaltine one time and to this day I have never figured out why anyone would want to drink it.
Well, as the ancient Romans used to say, "De gustibus non est disputandum", which I think means "If you don't like it, you can always throw up" or something like that
You're likely not too keen on Marmite, either. (I read somewhere that Marmite can be used for bedding rifles once it's well past its sell-by date, so that old jar in the back of the cupboard may still be useful.)
Which is probably what the seller on Amazon had done!
You have to wonder about some of the sellers on Amazon. I lost a Phillips bit from my Megapro multi-bit screwdriver (excellent, industrial-grade drivers, BTW) and, not thinking anyone locally had them, looked on Amazon since I can't get down to Hardware Sales in Bellingham WA where I'd bought it years ago. $12.00!!!! Megapro is a Canadian company whose head office is about 30 miiles from me, but the screwdrivers are made in Niles, MI (Yes- actually American-made. How rare is that?) I was in a local tool store and thought I'd check. Yep- they had 'em. $2.69.
Aggie1906
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Kraft malted milk powder was my choice. I only suffered enough Ovaltine to get my red plastic Captain Midnight mug. Terrible stuff, could hardly be convinced to dissolve in milk. OK, a can of Hershey's or some Quick were ok too. You had to cut out the wax top seal to send in with your twenty five cents. Maybe two of of them, now that I think of it.
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