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What Was Your Go-To Tuckhop Order at School: A Flood Of Memories Just Came Belting Back · Lisa & Russell

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  Speaker 1: Got a little bit of loose change in your pocket.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to head down to.
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  Speaker 2: The tuck shop today.
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  Speaker 1: What are we getting?
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  Speaker 3: It's a wonderful little piece of nostalgia. Popped up online
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  Speaker 3: during the week a price list of what was in
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  Speaker 3: the touch shop in nineteen seventy seven at a primary
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  Speaker 3: school in Adelaide. Eighteen cents for a peanut paste sandwich.
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  Speaker 1: Chicko roll twenty five cents, no halves.
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  Speaker 4: No harves, no halves.
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  Speaker 5: Is that?
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  Speaker 4: The other thing we used to get was a half
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  Speaker 4: a horseshoe roll with a.
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  Speaker 2: Horseshoes, Yes, yes, with a little black poppy seeds all them.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Callen and Caaren up.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning morning, Callen. What were you getting from the
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  Speaker 1: tuck shop? Mate?
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  Speaker 6: Good morning, good morning. I always used to go for
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  Speaker 6: a meat pie if I could, in a casual get
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  Speaker 6: myself a little apple pie is a treat, or a
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  Speaker 6: little bit of a lamington. Oh I do remember that.
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  Speaker 6: I remember the little used to get. I think there
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  Speaker 6: were one cent each the coke bottles, you know, five
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  Speaker 6: for five cents.
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  Speaker 5: Oh wow.
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  Speaker 2: It used to be able to get a little lollies
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  Speaker 2: and a little white bag for very small amount of
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  Speaker 2: loose change three cobbers for five cents.
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  Speaker 6: You certainly bringing back memories. And I remember going down
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  Speaker 6: with you with a friend. You know, you go down
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  Speaker 6: and get the old laundry basket full of the brown
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  Speaker 6: paper bags, bringing back to swing them around your head
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  Speaker 6: that you could and you think you're pretty cool to
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  Speaker 6: you do that?
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  Speaker 1: Callum?
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  Speaker 2: Were you Peter's Pies man? Were you a bake Well
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  Speaker 2: or maybe a bit fancying bow bells?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Remember Bakewell pie?
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  Speaker 4: I do, but that.
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  Speaker 6: I think missus Max. Actually, oh, missus Max Pie's because.
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  Speaker 1: I think Missus Max.
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  Speaker 4: I think I went to school with Missus Max.
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  Speaker 2: Missus Max ate up one of the pie companies and
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  Speaker 2: rebranded it.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks thanks Callen.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 4: Phil in w What was your go to at the
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  Speaker 4: tach shop.
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  Speaker 7: In primary school? We had a hot dog in the
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  Speaker 7: donut for twenty one?
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  Speaker 1: Oh why why the twenty one? Why one sent those
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  Speaker 1: ones with a lot of money?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, well, yes, I know you've You know, even with
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  Speaker 2: five cents, you can go and get a small bag
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  Speaker 2: of lollies.
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  Speaker 4: You'll probably get lollly teeth for a cent.
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  Speaker 5: Probably was there.
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  Speaker 7: We used to get a buttered roll for ten cents
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  Speaker 7: in a small packet of twisties and make a twisty roll.
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  Speaker 4: Oh do you know what?
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  Speaker 1: They never got into them.
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  Speaker 4: The other thing that we used to love to it.
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  Speaker 3: We'd go down to the shop where they've sold, you know,
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  Speaker 3: hot chips, and for about twenty cents you could get
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  Speaker 3: the biggest load of hot chips wrapped up in the
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  Speaker 3: in the paper.
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  Speaker 4: And you'd tear the corner off and tipped out and
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  Speaker 4: you've been going for hours. The chips would never end.
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  Speaker 4: Oh those were the days.
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  Speaker 7: Rich kids bought, say, bought sausty drolls and they had
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  Speaker 7: please sasty drolls in the buttered roll and melted the
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  Speaker 7: butter through the bread.
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  Speaker 4: Twisty roll was better, I reckon.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, there's your class to.
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  Speaker 4: Ye bags fell Fell, Thanks mate.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure he won't be buying that for lunch today.
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  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, now that we've brought it up, a twisty.
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  Speaker 1: Roll, you're going to get one. I never liked it.
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  Speaker 1: I never liked a twisty roll.
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  Speaker 2: You didn't know a cheesel Oh yeah, no, not even
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  Speaker 2: a cheesel roll, chel, But then you know what I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: you have to turn away when you dunk your biscuit
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  Speaker 2: into you I do.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it upsets I can't handle it.
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  Speaker 4: You have a visceral reaction.
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  Speaker 3: We're asking what was you go to tuck shop order
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  Speaker 3: penn In Crawley says it Floria Primary. Twin poles were
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  Speaker 3: three cents, then they went to four cents, but if
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  Speaker 3: you had a friend with two cents, you could buy
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  Speaker 3: one together.
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  Speaker 4: And split it.
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  Speaker 3: Because drumsticks were just, you know, ridiculously out of reach.
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  Speaker 4: It Mum and Dad could get exactly.
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  Speaker 3: You might have been able to stretch it to a
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  Speaker 3: chalk wedge or a farge bar.
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  Speaker 4: On a good day.
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  Speaker 2: I remember back in the seventies the little ice creams,
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  Speaker 2: the wafl ice creams. You could buy an ice cream
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  Speaker 2: with the with the packting of the color of your
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  Speaker 2: favorite team.
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  Speaker 4: I don't remember that.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, well you wouldn't because you went for East Perth
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  Speaker 2: and no one buy No one would buy a black
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  Speaker 2: and blue ice cream.
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  Speaker 1: Let's five second. All the other teams sold well.
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  Speaker 8: In a Luca Hello, Hi, I went to Klamunda High
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  Speaker 8: that lived in les Nerdy.
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  Speaker 3: Hello Sisters Sisters shops there.
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  Speaker 8: Oh yeah, we used to go over there and get
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  Speaker 8: chips from the chips and a little handican and Lollie's
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  Speaker 8: for twenty cents, and year sevens were allowed to leave
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  Speaker 8: the school without letting anyone know. Remember that this aside.
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  Speaker 8: I didn't like that one put in Kalamuanda it was
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  Speaker 8: five cents to get home on the bus. But also
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  Speaker 8: the cinnamon the cinnamon buns at the Touch shopp and
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  Speaker 8: Kalamunda were five cents, so I'd walk home from Columnda.
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  Speaker 2: Dirty you go eating your vun, eat your bun and
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  Speaker 2: walk it off.
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  Speaker 1: Have you negated?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah? So you know, because five cents was important.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we didn't actually think that much of walking further.
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  Speaker 8: No, you know, he took a couple of hours.
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  Speaker 2: Five cents now is just an annoyance in your pocket,
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  Speaker 2: whereas then.
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  Speaker 8: It was it was I had a dollar given to
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  Speaker 8: me for the week, and that was to get me
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  Speaker 8: to them from school and whenever I could say, I
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  Speaker 8: could spend the Touch shop.
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  Speaker 1: Simpler times dollar.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks bye, someone you can relate to one hundred percent.
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  Speaker 3: And also, by the way, she's walking up and down
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  Speaker 3: some pretty steep hills.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely that walk from.
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  Speaker 2: Calamud, cinnamon buns and off. We're looking back at lists
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  Speaker 2: when the Touch shop order was yummy until kill joys
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  Speaker 2: like this came along at the end of the day.
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  Speaker 4: A good sandwich, a piece of fruit, a tub of yoga.
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  Speaker 4: You can't go wrong with that.
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  Speaker 1: Boom okay, god my tuck shopping.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we were talking earlier about the footy ice cream,
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  Speaker 2: the Peter's Footy ice cream, which you have no recollection
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  Speaker 2: of Paul from Baldivis does. He sent through a picture
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  Speaker 2: and I took. First thing I noticed is that the
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  Speaker 2: West Perth and East Perth do not. They appear on
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  Speaker 2: different yes, but it's like a little footy shaped chocolate
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  Speaker 2: coated ice cream. And then you know the South Fromantol
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  Speaker 2: and Claremont, East from Antle and they're all there.
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  Speaker 3: We've had a couple of texts saying that chickadees are
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  Speaker 3: still around. Scotty is sent through a well, there's a
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  Speaker 3: picture there that scott Is sent through, so you know
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  Speaker 3: what to look for today. Yes, Bianca at in Sonagra
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  Speaker 3: says primary school was sausage roll and chok milk with
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  Speaker 3: a Count Chocular ice cream afterwards.
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  Speaker 4: Count chocola.
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  Speaker 2: Oh boy, Glenn in Geraldon obviously listening to us on
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  Speaker 2: the iHeart What do you remember.
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  Speaker 5: Morning, Lisa morning, That whole shopping clothes basket, sorry, Lisa,
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  Speaker 5: that you mentioned earlier, a flood of memories just belt
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  Speaker 5: and that. Yeah, and do you remember like it was
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  Speaker 5: always well for myself when I was allowed to do
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  Speaker 5: it on a Friday obviously even in Jarrow, very similar
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  Speaker 5: but that do you ever remember getting any more than
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  Speaker 5: a coin? No, no way? And the one time the
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  Speaker 5: biggest That's exactly right, So because obviously I'm a seventies
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  Speaker 5: kid as well. Yeah, but yeah, the meat pie and
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  Speaker 5: the chop milk, the little the little three hundred milk
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  Speaker 5: chop milk box served for the touch shop for primary school, yep.
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  Speaker 5: And then we'd evolve, evolve into high school and you
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  Speaker 5: get a little bit cooler in high school.
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  Speaker 7: You get your the go to.
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  Speaker 5: You didn't want to look like you eat anything to rubbish,
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  Speaker 5: so you'd have the horseshoe.
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  Speaker 4: That you might roll, yes, yes.
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  Speaker 5: And the large chopped milk, you know, but to drink
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  Speaker 5: the large chopped milk. Get always tuned the bottom corner.
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  Speaker 6: Off the cart.
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  Speaker 2: I never did it, but I do remember those doing it.
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  Speaker 2: Couldn't never understood it, Glenn.
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  Speaker 5: And the same thing at high school, like if and
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  Speaker 5: the until you mentioned it Lisa, I forgot all about
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  Speaker 5: the little pyramid shaped freezer frozen drink.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, yes, and.
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  Speaker 5: They'd give them to you with a corner cut off
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  Speaker 5: with yes. Yeah that was last all.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, you did.
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  Speaker 4: Days.
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely Yeah. Was there ever any other flavor than green?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, there was a green, Yes, a flavor, but it.
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  Speaker 2: Wasn't it was a different glenn. It was a different
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  Speaker 2: it was a different color, but it was all the same.
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  Speaker 5: Even again, we could progress from high school to takee.
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  Speaker 5: When you were, you know, making a bit of a
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  Speaker 5: name for yourself, and you go to the touch shop
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  Speaker 5: and you get the hot dog roll with the hot
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  Speaker 5: chips and tomato sauce and a coke.
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  Speaker 2: That's when you hit the big time.
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  Speaker 4: Great memories. Thank you. Last called Kevin in East Frio.
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  Speaker 4: What was your go to?
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  Speaker 3: Kevin?
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  Speaker 5: Oh?
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  Speaker 9: It was fish and chips because every second week they
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  Speaker 9: got fifty cents WOA and we could go to the
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  Speaker 9: go to the fish and chip shop and for forty cents,
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  Speaker 9: I have enough to feed two of us.
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  Speaker 6: It was huge.
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  Speaker 1: Yeap.
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  Speaker 4: That leaves you with ten cents for mixed lollies.
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  Speaker 9: Oh my goodness, I couldn't. You couldn't do ten cents
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  Speaker 9: with mixed allies could not do it. But our favorite,
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  Speaker 9: our favorite lolly was a wild raspberry. Yeah, get four
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  Speaker 9: for four for one cent.
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  Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, yeah, wow, yeah. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 9: The next schooler went to when you when you bought
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  Speaker 9: your lunch, you went duck shop in the morning and
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  Speaker 9: you and you paid for it. And I'd normally get
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  Speaker 9: a horseshoe polonium sauce and that was about five cents
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  Speaker 9: or something like that. But you'd pay for that and
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  Speaker 9: they'd give you a little plastic toy that looked like it.
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  Speaker 9: And then and then then then when we line up
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  Speaker 9: at the touch shop at lunchtime, give me a plastic
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  Speaker 9: toy and they gave you the appropriate there was so
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  Speaker 9: there was no money changing hands at the shop.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's quicker, that's clever.
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  Speaker 4: Never had that.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't have that. That was a thing, obviously,