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A Shiny Small Tin Box
Jun 26, 2022 07:47:17   #
Robert J Samples Loc: Round Rock, Texas
 
The time was most likely September or October of 1938, shortly before my little sister was born in November. I was not quite four years old at the time. I had just wakened from my nap. No one else was in the house so I went exploring for things in the kitchen. I don’t clearly remember, but my parents did and refreshed my memory.

Anyway, I go out to the garden playing and throwing this shiny small tin box and then running to capture it again. My mother and a teenage cousin were working in the garden and my mother became curious as to just what I was throwing around. It was an empty box of Ex-lax. I had opened the child-proof box, eaten all the contents, and was playing with the empty box.

Since no one knew how much I had eaten, it scared my mother and so when dad came home, they bundled me up in the car and took me to town to visit the doctor for his opinion. They were scared because my having taken an overdose might be harmful. The doctor examined me and said that likely it would not cause any harmful side effects. They were relieved. And as the doctor had said, I had no after effects at all.

However, I do remember that later I would have terrible stomach aches from eating green peaches or plums. Each spring I just could not resist the turning of their colors from green to pink, or even red long before they were really ripe. I could not help trying some long before they would ripen. I would pay the price for this with a severe stomach ache later. Just Sayin…RJS

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Jun 26, 2022 07:51:55   #
bknecht Loc: Northeast pa
 
Robert J Samples wrote:
The time was most likely September or October of 1938, shortly before my little sister was born in November. I was not quite four years old at the time. I had just wakened from my nap. No one else was in the house so I went exploring for things in the kitchen. I don’t clearly remember, but my parents did and refreshed my memory.

Anyway, I go out to the garden playing and throwing this shiny small tin box and then running to capture it again. My mother and a teenage cousin were working in the garden and my mother became curious as to just what I was throwing around. It was an empty box of Ex-lax. I had opened the child-proof box, eaten all the contents, and was playing with the empty box.

Since no one knew how much I had eaten, it scared my mother and so when dad came home, they bundled me up in the car and took me to town to visit the doctor for his opinion. They were scared because my having taken an overdose might be harmful. The doctor examined me and said that likely it would not cause any harmful side effects. They were relieved. And as the doctor had said, I had no after effects at all.

However, I do remember that later I would have terrible stomach aches from eating green peaches or plums. Each spring I just could not resist the turning of their colors from green to pink, or even red long before they were really ripe. I could not help trying some long before they would ripen. I would pay the price for this with a severe stomach ache later. Just Sayin…RJS
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Oh RJS, the things we do as little kids. Wondering if those severe stomach aches persist till this day on the peaches and plumbs.

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Jun 26, 2022 08:05:59   #
Slimshady Loc: Central Pennsylvania
 
Don’t forget the green apples too. No matter how bad the belly ache,we would still eat them. Glad to hear from you RJ

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Jun 26, 2022 08:13:32   #
Robert J Samples Loc: Round Rock, Texas
 
No more stomach aches from green peaches or plums. We did not grow any apples. I don't know why, depending upon the type of apple, and the local climate, they don't do well unless they have the necessary cold days, or something like that. I no longer eat green peaches, apricots, or plums! Just Sayin...RJS

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Jun 26, 2022 09:47:42   #
Rutinbuck Loc: Haysville, Kansas
 
My grandma and grandpa had a big apricot tree next to his garage where he worked on cars for people. Me and my brother would get up on top of the roof of his garage and gorge ourselves eating them while picking them for grandma. She made the best apricot cobbler in the world and would have that for dessert right after eating chicken and dumplings or chicken and noodles from a freshly killed chicken. I really miss them days.

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Jun 27, 2022 06:37:24   #
Robert J Samples Loc: Round Rock, Texas
 
There's nothing better than an Apricot pie, or anything with apricots. Of course the National Pie of Texas made with pecans comes awfully close. My oldest daughter always makes me a couple of apricot pies for my birthday every year! Just Sayin...RJS

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Jun 27, 2022 18:56:34   #
Justoldjim Loc: JUNCTION CITY, OR.
 
Robert J Samples wrote:
There's nothing better than an Apricot pie, or anything with apricots. Of course the National Pie of Texas made with pecans comes awfully close. My oldest daughter always makes me a couple of apricot pies for my birthday every year! Just Sayin...RJS


my mom made apricot hand pies or as we called them fried pies

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Jun 27, 2022 20:17:39   #
Foodfisher Loc: SO. Cal coast
 
Lived in a house once that had a peach tree in the back yard. The peach tree grew next to the septic tank. When it came time to empty the tank, the man who emptied the tank lifted the lid, started the sucker hose, picked a couple peaches, leaned against the tree and ate the peaches while he watched the tank go empty.
I know it's weird but peaches only come out of a can for me now.

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Jun 27, 2022 20:31:42   #
HosChap Loc: Deland, FL
 
I used to pick green apples from a tree at the back of our property and eat them. One day my Grandmother and her sisters were at my house baking and asked about the apple. I told them where I got it. They asked me to go pick some. I pulled my red radio flyer wagon out here and filled two brown grocery bags full. They peeled them all and made apple pies and homemade apple sauce, which I ate my share of. What a great memory.

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Jun 27, 2022 21:48:28   #
Barnacles Loc: Northern California
 
When I was a kid, we had a back yard full of fruit trees. Plums, apricots, nectarines, peaches, several kinds of citrus, ...and a cherry tree that never produced. When the fruit began to ripen, my folks would go out and STRIP every last piece of fruit from the tree so that Mom could "put it up" (that's canning it).

I LOVED fresh fruit, and the only way I could get any was to eat it when it was BARELY ripe. I had to develop a taste for incompletely ripe fruit, and to this day I prefer fruit that's still firm, almost crunchy.

I never got a belly ache from any of it!

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Jun 27, 2022 23:12:35   #
Robert J Samples Loc: Round Rock, Texas
 
I was born in Cooke County, Tx and the county seat is Gainesville. There is a cafe there called the Fried Pie Cafe. It broke my heart when I passed by there about a year ago and it was closed due to Covid. I would usually go by, eat a couple and buy a dozen to take home. Individual fired pies are to die for. They had four or five flavors but Apricot was always #1 with me. Just Sayin...RJS

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