<p>SBMom, I'm a martini ahead of you but I'm sure you can catch up...</p>
<p>From what I remember, BC powder is a pain reliever for Headaches and Neuralgia (what the heck is neuralgia?). My grandmother swore by BC (maybe it's a southern thing).</p>
<p>It came in little waxed paper wrappers, much like the inner part of a chewing gum wrapper. You would (at least my father would and so taught me) open the wrapper, hold it over your tongue and slide the powder onto the tongue. The bitter, gritty taste of it made it seem like it worked better than any other headache remedy - or maybe it did work better. But you had to have cojones to be willing to take it (or a really bad headache, the curse of my family).</p>
<p>And yes, sybbie, I'm pretty sure those waxed paper wrappers came a few to a pack - the pack being dark blue and white envelopes (that's what I remember <em>leaves to check it out on google</em>)</p>
<p>Well, for those of us with this little nostalgia obsession
<a href="http://www.bcpowder.com/history_main.aspx%5B/url%5D">http://www.bcpowder.com/history_main.aspx</a>
it is kind of a walk through southern culture. There's even a link on the three different ways to take it (straight shooter, tough-guy and mixer upper).
Bet curmudgeon was a tough-guy if the stuff got as far west as Texas.</p>
<p>You bet I can Alum!</p>
<p>We'll just make sure to have some of this great bar food so we don't get too soused. I particularly like their turkey jerky...bought on sale when the local supermarket realized they got turkey by mistake instead of beef jerkey.</p>
<p>SBmom,</p>
<p>Do you find it strange that in1930 - The Great Depression hits while BC volume increases 100 percent? </p>
<p>I think that we could top this on sinner's alley especially the way we've been drinking lately. If you are going to start throwing back LI iced teas, then you're definitely going to need some.</p>
<p>Hey, I gotta stop in here again for a cool one. it's too hot out there in the other threads. The low murmer of voices and casual conversation in here is really refreshing....</p>
<p>BC powder...hmmmm, okaaaay</p>
<p>ANyway, off to make double chocolate brownies as the fog rolls in, the DH is watching bball, which takes waaayyyy too long, but at least it moves faster than baseball, and why is a no hitter so exciting? I mean NOTHING happens. I am going to time a baseball game and see how much time is actually spent playing the game. I am guessing a 1/2 hour of the 4 hours of tv time.</p>
<p>Needless to say, my DH just LOVES me watching sports with him. I jsut have to comment of the tabbacky, or the spittin, or the weird way the pitcher stands, and he goes upstairs to watch. Then the remote is MINE!!!!</p>
<p>jmmom, remember-I'm a Georgia peach ;) transplanted to Tejas for college and I just stuck. BC Powder never went away. It's in every Stop and Rob convenience store we have and yup you just slide it on to your tongue straight from the packet, chase it with a Dr.Pepper and go on back to baling hay. Now in the south, old or deep-it's the same except it's likely to be a coca-cola or an R'a C Co-Cola as a chaser.</p>
<p>Now as to bar food, and keeping with the southern theme, who wants to offer up to our under-educated patrons the culinary delights found in most all members of "Fine Southern Roadhouses and Dives", a Conde Nast Company? </p>
<p>I'll leave some fun for others but I'll start with pickled sausages from a giant jar. Um-ummm. Ten or twenty cocktails and a couple of those floating missiles can sustain life indefinitely.</p>
<p>Oh man, R-C Cola.... I used to love that stuff. And I grew up in NEW JERSEY!</p>
<p>And I love baseball. :) The most cerebral of games. (Ya want action? Watch lacrosse.)</p>
<p>I used to have these little tablets you put in water and made rootbeer, in Alaska we thought that was coool</p>
<p>Nothing happens in baseball???? Nothing happens in a no-hitter???? Migosh, being at a baseball game is heaven on earth, one of the few purely perfect moments one can have. (I'll leave the others to the imagination.) </p>
<p>Anyhoo, I was avoiding Sinners Alley from the start, just seemed a bit too cozy for me, but I'll come by tomorrow if you put the ballgame on--it's Subway Series time, and i want to see Pedro take the Yankees apart--drinks on me.</p>
<p>Mootmom, I remember RC cola too, and Tab....how did they manage to taste different I wonder.....
Now we've discovered Mexican coke. I'm NOT making this up. This little dive we go to on Melrose stocks this Coca Cola that's bottled in Mexico and it's made with real sugar, not corn syrup which makes a huge, cleaner difference in flavor--doesn't have the funky aftertaste. I didn't believe it but I handed one as an experiment to my daughter, the soda expert, and she instantly agreed. Great...now among everything else, she's developed a fussy palate for coke.</p>
<p>And their is no crying in baseball either, or on this thread</p>
<p>TAB!!! thinking back, it tasted like shoe polish</p>
<p>Could BC possibly stand for Bi*C*arbonate....?</p>
<p>Secret Indulgence</p>
<p>raw chocolate chip cookie dough, Kept on VH1 and champage and orange juice, and a sunday afternoon nap...</p>
<p>anybody else</p>
<p>NAPS!!!! Oh baby I love my naps.</p>
<p>Really expensive face cream... travel & food... and I go to the good car wash.</p>
<p>Other than that I am a cheapskate.</p>
<p>I know there are certain um, times when dark chocolate, good salty blue cheese and red wine can solve a lot of my issues.</p>
<p>Mezzomom,</p>
<p>I thought I noticed a dusty old bottle of Laphroaig way up on the back of the top shelf...</p>
<p>(Hey - it's 3:44 am - where's the rest of the gang?!)</p>
<p>Well, I stumbled out for some air and tripped into a nearby convention center filled with overwrought kids worrying about admissions selection, college choice, and SATs. Phew - helped them the best I could but it wore me out - just the intensity of it all. I need a drink. Bad.</p>