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My grandparents on both sides were immigrants and did not have a very good command of the English language. Therefore, there really are no words that I am aware of that they used that are passe.
Me too...one thing I do recall is that the one grandfather I spent time with, said "God Bless America" frequently....and he really meant it.
I've heard the original name for it was oleomargarine, so that's probably why old folks call it that
Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner! That's exactly why older folks called it "oleo". I've always wondered why it changed to "margarine".
Does anyone here remember when oleo was sold pure white? It wasn't allowed to be yellow so they wouldn't try to pass it off as butter. But it wasn't very appealing so the manufacturer put a dye capsule inside the package and you broke the capsule and massaged the bag until the oleo turned yellow.
Grandfather used to tell us children, when we were making a lot of noise, "Cut out that racket". I never hear anyone say that nowadays.
Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner! That's exactly why older folks called it "oleo". I've always wondered why it changed to "margarine".
Does anyone here remember when oleo was sold pure white? It wasn't allowed to be yellow so they wouldn't try to pass it off as butter. But it wasn't very appealing so the manufacturer put a dye capsule inside the package and you broke the capsule and massaged the bag until the oleo turned yellow.
Grandfather used to tell us children, when we were making a lot of noise, "Cut out that racket". I never hear anyone say that nowadays.
I remember seeing the packages of margarine in the grocery store when I was little girl and I would start squeezing the little red capsule but my mom would yell at me.
He picked up his marbles and went home. (didnt' get his own way, pout)
Alley-your very largest and prized marble for shooting the others.
conckers-kids used to collect chestnuts and played a game with them. Some conckers
were even polished and fixed up to make them better. (I'll have to look this up, my Dad used to talk about this game and it was around 1900.)
Conkers or Conker[citation needed] is a game traditionally played mostly by children in Britain, Ireland and some former British colonies using the seeds of horse-chestnut trees – the name conker is also applied to the seed and to the tree itself. The game is played by two players, each with a conker threaded onto a piece of string: they take turns striking each other's conker until one breaks. --Wikipedia
Like stickball and skully, marble games have faded as a pastime, done in by asphalt paving, the rise of video games, and the death of the vacant lot.
I was going to say stickball. I never heard of skully. Apparently there is a computer game called marbles so the word is not going away, it's coming back. Real marbles were allies, agates, and cat's eyes and they were made of glass.
one I recall hearing way back- "holy cats!" (as an expression of surprise)
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(as an expression of surprise)
