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Dropping Like Flies

jaguar
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Re: Dropping Like Flies March 13, 2013 at 02:40 PM UTC #
K8teebug wrote:
http://www.abc27.com/story/21554320/gibbles-snack-food-line-to-end

RIP Gibbles potato chips and cheese puffys.

I am SO SAD about this.  A mainstay in my family for many many years.


This really bothers me though, in my world, Gibbles Potato Chips have been half dead for decades once they changed the recipe. Don't know why they did it but they are not the same chips I grew up with. Completely different. They use to be really thick and crunchy. All twisted up with a great bite and taste. I've never been a big fan of potato chips but loved those things. Then at some point, they started making them to be much more like Utz. Different but much closer to Utz than their original form.

When I was a kid I use to love visiting my grandparents and taking a walk up to the Martin's store for a treat. Grew up with Gibbles Potato Chips, Martin's Potato Rolls and Yingling Beer well before either of those made their way here. Okay, so it was the adults in my family drinking the beer and me swiping sips on occassion. Still not impressed with the beer, the chips lost what made them so good but those potato rolls better stay around as long as I'm here.

In some weird way, it's sort of like losing a family member. Even a bit more shaking that Gibbles went only months after my mother dying as these things are all things I relate to her side of the family.
Unsanity
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Re: Dropping Like Flies March 14, 2013 at 05:38 AM UTC #
Clive Burr, Iron Maiden's drummer for the first 3 albums.
Relaxer
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Re: Dropping Like Flies March 18, 2013 at 03:42 PM UTC #
Jason Molina  :'(
brokensocscene
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Re: Dropping Like Flies March 18, 2013 at 03:48 PM UTC #
WHAT??  :'(

Relaxer wrote:
Jason Molina  :'(
gaaaaaaaaah
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Re: Dropping Like Flies March 18, 2013 at 03:58 PM UTC #
goddamnit
ggw
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Re: Dropping Like Flies March 18, 2013 at 07:29 PM UTC #
Relaxer wrote:
Jason Molina  :'(


That one hurts.
Yada
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Re: Dropping Like Flies March 18, 2013 at 07:33 PM UTC #
damn. :(
RatBastard
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Re: Dropping Like Flies March 18, 2013 at 10:14 PM UTC #
Addiction is one fucked up disease…
K8teebug
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Re: Dropping Like Flies March 19, 2013 at 11:59 AM UTC #
so sad
Relaxer
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Re: Dropping Like Flies March 20, 2013 at 07:15 PM UTC #
Harry Reems
not as sad as Jason Molina but probably more of an influence to my 12-year-old self.
James Ford
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Re: Dropping Like Flies March 20, 2013 at 07:21 PM UTC #
The man had a threesome with Ginger Lynn and Traci Lords. Yeah, what a tough life he led.


Relaxer wrote:
Harry Reems
not as sad as Jason Molina but probably more of an influence to my 12-year-old self.
Relaxer
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Re: Dropping Like Flies March 20, 2013 at 07:29 PM UTC #
What makes you think he had a tough life?
Though he provides a solid, relatively eloquent interpretation of the legal problems he had right here
James Ford
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Re: Dropping Like Flies March 20, 2013 at 07:38 PM UTC #
I was just ineloquently agreeing with your comparison to Jason Molina, in a roundabout way.

Relaxer wrote:
What makes you think he had a tough life?
Though he provides a solid, relatively eloquent interpretation of the legal problems he had right here
i am gay and i like cats
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Re: Dropping Like Flies March 20, 2013 at 07:41 PM UTC #
you remember traci lords and ginger lynn?  jerking off to the days of vhs?  god . . . we are old.  go watch this, it is awesome.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1291547/


sorry . . . you may get back to the normal, morbid death watch.
ggw
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Re: Dropping Like Flies March 22, 2013 at 04:36 PM UTC #
Chinua Achebe
grateful
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Re: Dropping Like Flies March 23, 2013 at 11:45 AM UTC #
My Chemical Romance
beetsnotbeats
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Re: Dropping Like Flies March 24, 2013 at 04:43 AM UTC #
Joe Weider
Relaxer
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Re: Dropping Like Flies March 25, 2013 at 07:34 PM UTC #
grateful wrote:
My Chemical Romance


:( :'( :-[

This blows. They were my generation's Cheap Trick.
Wait, my generation's Cheap Trick was probably actually Cheap Trick but still, MCR made solid power pop and I lament the loss.
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