I'm so old I've...

[Mrs-M]

.....I remember when bananas had seeds!

Yes, I do, too. I wonder if it had something to do with growing food (without) artificial growth agents and hormones? Unlike today...

[decemberlov]

.....I remember when bananas had seeds!

What??!! That's absolutely BANANAS!!

[CathyA]

LOL. yeah......I didn't especially care for the seeds. They were very small, but alot of them. I think we have gotten used to seedless stuff, but I'm not sure its a good thing. How do they keep growing with no seeds?????
I have been eating and enjoying watermelon all summer. But one I bought recently that was supposed to be seedless, was not...........and it was no fun at all! haha

I'm so old, the little seedling trees I've planted are getting old and dying.

[Mighty Frugal]

LOL. yeah......I didn't especially care for the seeds. They were very small, but alot of them. I think we have gotten used to seedless stuff, but I'm not sure its a good thing. How do they keep growing with no seeds?????
I have been eating and enjoying watermelon all summer. But one I bought recently that was supposed to be seedless, was not...........and it was no fun at all! haha

I'm so old, the little seedling trees I've planted are getting old and dying.

I think the way seedless fruit keep growing is they do have seeds-but they 'mature' later. I don't know how the scientists made the watermelon (and now learning bananas too!?!) mature later to grow their seeds later but I think that's what they do (complete semi-educated guess on my part).

They make a strain of the fruit to ripen BEFORE the seeds grow-people eat it. If you left a seedless watermelon to keep growing/living then seeds would eventually come and they use these seeds to grow for the next year

I figured this out because many seedless watermelon had those soft white 'young' seeds in them

[Mrs-M]

Watermelon (in our house), is an all-time favourite, especially the seedless ones. So sweet and succulent they are! I could easily enjoy a steady diet of melons and citrus. Love both!

I'm so old I remember having watermelon-seed spitting competitions when we were kids. There was a definite technique to doing it, and we tried it all. Rolling our tongues, pursing our lips together to help build pressure, and I'm sure there were a few more, but I'm so old I've forgotten the other ones! LOL!

[larknm]

I remember rotary phones, the ice-man coming with a big block of ice in his tongs for the ice box (I still think of our refrigerator as the box, not the fridge), egg and milk man coming, man in one-horse-pulled cart staying in the road outside for a while for any on the contiguous blocks to come get knives sharpened, washing clothes and everything else on washboard in sink, washing the bottom sheet and putting the top sheet on as the bottom one, great-aunt making comforters at our kitchen table (no sewing machine), radio The Shadow, Stella Dallas, the Great Gildersleeve. Entertainment kick the can, hide and seek, swinging statues, catching fireflies, guessing what color the next car driving by would be.

[sweetana3]

I still have one rotary phone. Heavy, loud, and always works.

[Gregg]

Seedless watermelons aren't allowed at our house. They're just not as much fun. (And you never get that occasional surprise growing in Mom's tulips the next spring either.)

We have a rotary phone again. The kids found it in my Mom's garage and thought it was so cool! It works perfectly. Surprise, surprise.

[San Onofre Guy]

I recall enjoying the Oranges sent from Florida. The owner of the company my Dad worked for in Maine would go to Florida after Thanksgiving for the winter and he would ship boxes of Oanges for his employees to enjoy.

Yes they were a novelty

[CathyA]

larknm, what neat memories you have!
I totally forgot about playing statue! That was always fun!