The Big Sandy Mountaineer -

I have reinvented a new taste treat for myself. Since becoming 75 I am trying to live the life that I want to live, rather than the life I should live.

In order to do that I have started eating large gum drops coated with sugar.

I want very large gum drops and want them to taste just like they tasted when I was a boy and would go to the Lyric Theater and buy them in boxes at the counter. My staple for show time eats was a sack of heavily buttered popcorn, a large coke, a box of gum drops and a couple of bags of peanuts.

First I would polish off the popcorn usually when the serial was still on. Then during the cartoon or the start of the movie, I would start on the gum drops and peanuts. I would take a couple of gum drops and a handful of peanuts and put them all in my mouth at once and chew down on them for just about the best taste treat I have every found. Better than spaghetti and meat balls. Better than a turkey dinner. Better than a steak at Andys!

After all that was gone, I would wash it all down with a huge drink of my coke which I tried to keep until the end of the movie. That was tough if it was a double feature.

Well, today I have found that peanuts taste the very same as they always have and I have found a five pound bag of huge gum drops that are to dream of.

So, before I go to bed each night and have my tiny dram of brandy, I eat a few peanuts and have a few gum drops and once again I am in heaven.

Funny how easy it can be to keep a person happy, isn’t it?