Barney & Clyde by Gene Weingarten; Dan Weingarten & David Clark for January 14, 2020

He’s not. Google “uranium ice cream.”

Old Phosphorant French Vanilla was my favorite!

Learned something I didn’t know until today (Wikipedia). “Sassafras is no longer used in commercially produced root beer since sassafras oil was banned for use in commercially mass-produced foods and drugs by the FDA in 1960 due to health concerns about the carcinogenicity of safrole, a major constituent of sassafras oil, in animal studies.”

We used to paint stuff with phosphorescent paints. I can’t imagine that those would be deemed safe these days. (And the plethora of things: rode in truck beds sitting on the sides, rode without seatbelts, without helmets and extremities pads, and even drank from the garden hose…) Amazing we are alive today.

My mother stopped making snow cream because our family doctor was concerned about the radioactive fallout in snow from all the above-ground tests in the 50s and 60s. https://www.hallmarkchannel.com/home-and-family/recipes/snow-cream I’d bet there is a lot of pollution in snow from coal plants now.

And we liked it!

I always disliked root beer, but don’t know if I ever had any of the traditional type flavored with a carcinogen. Maybe it tastes better.

“And Coca Cola contained real coca.” “Not in your lifetime, Grandpa.”

Better check it out on your iPhone to be sure.

i remember when chock full o’ nuts was really full of psychos…

Uh oh. I used to chew sassafras root all the time when I went camping as a kid. That explains a lot.