Roughing it as a kid (Making it Rough on our kids)

Butcher- Back when I was a kid Shasta was the hit.

Baker:  OH yeah! Shasta.  Now they name kids that.  When I see a child named Shasta... I see Root Beer, Black Cherry, and Cream Soda.  Seriously would you name your child Black Cherry?  People need to google names before they go there... Sorry I regressed... Just needed to get that off my chest.

Butcher--  We had pop one week a year, mom would buy 4 cans for a dollar and we would be allowed SHASTA for our lunches at Bible school.  We would spend 20 minutes wrapping that soda in tin foil for our lunch, only to get to lunch and it be as warm as ever.  

CSM:  WE only got pop like 3 times a year.  Unless we went to the bowling alley.  Then we’d get strawberry pop.  I still love strawberry pop.

Baker:  You got to admit though … at 25 cents a can... they couldn’t afford to put any addictive ingredients in it.  That is key today.  Put something addictive in it like caffeine and you can corner the market on kids addiction.  (or the Butcher’s addiction) She thinks she actually likes diet coke on ice... truth is she is an Addict.  And it ain’t the ice baby.  Addict.. with all the bells and whistles.   Then you charge 2.00 a bottle and Americans are under the influence of the Coke Cartel.  Hot dogs, baseball, apple pie, and Coke addicts. That’s America.

CSM:  And then there theory is that after we have them all addicted to the caffeine that they can’t do without, they will realize that one Coke a day is not enough.  So, they will make even more money because you will need 2 and 3 and 4 Cokes a day to fill that addiction.  But wait, that still won’t be good enough, that’s when we pop out the little bottles of energy drinks for $5.00 a shot.  Yeah, they are small, but heck it will fix that caffeine craving, and we’ll make even more money.  The Baker, you are correct, we are under the influence of the Coke Cartel and our government says it is legal!  So now we better change the title of this from “roughing it as a kid” to “making it rough on our kids”.