[Magdalen] Closing mail account?

[Allan Carr]

Back around 1943 when I was 12, my mother would give me a nickel for lunch. For that, I got a quarter pound of baloney, two slices of bread, and a penny grab bag of candy from the corner shop by the school. No coca cola.
I don't think she'd ever heard the word nutrition in any of the languages she knew (more or less), English, French, Swedish, or Finnish.

> On Apr 10, 2016, at 1:21 AM, Allan Carr <allanc25 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> During the depression and during WW2, though it was only a nickel, five cents, I had to steal it from a shop or the delivery truck if I wanted some. I sure loved the stuff, as did others, but I don't  remember people being overweight (at least in Canada) back in those days.
> 
>> On Apr 9, 2016, at 12:38 AM, Sally Davies <sally.davies at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> One of the posh coffee shops around here sells bottles of
>> natural-organic-etc Kola drink from West Africa.
>> 
>> It's very expensive and I'm not sure how sweet, I haven't tried it yet.
>> 
>> I didn't think about corn syrup as the reason why Coke doesn't seem as
>> enjoyable now as it did when I was young. I thought I'd just grown out of
>> it...wish my kids would. They love the stuff and would have it every day if
>> they could. An absolute health disaster!!
>> 
>> Sally D