This may be for the "poor folk" from the 80s.... (about plastic margarine bowls)

[Critical Recovery]

This may be for the "poor folk" from the 80s.... (about plastic margarine bowls)

Does anybody remember those plastic conical brightly colored margarine dishes with plastic lids?

A lot of people reused them for dinner bowls.....
And that is what we had for bowls.


Does anyone know what I am talking bout?

I am looking for an example or a picture to show someone on another website and can't seem to find it.

I grew up in Michigan, so they may be regional.

There were two kinds. the very EARLY ones that were more conical and sloped outward (like a wok) and the later, thinner ones that were just cylindrical.
I'm looking for a picture of the early ones that were "Wok shaped" and kind of thick.

 

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[releventchair]

Maybe look under good china,fancy cereal bowls.parrkayyy,"butter" (talking tub).

 

[releventchair]

Google plastic margarine cereal bowl. Then the garage sale post shows some pics.
Not the same ones from I.G.A. store...

 

[BrianB]

Is this what your looking for............

 

[Critical Recovery]

YES!!!! The orange one on the right!!! BANNER!!!!!!!!!!

 

[BrianB]

Glad I could help, just did an image search for plastic margarine bowls, and found it.

 

[Critical Recovery]

Glad I could help, just did an image search for plastic margarine bowls, and found it.

I musst have been lazy or did something wrong cuz I have been looking for that style FOREVER!

i remember eating my "subsidy cereal" out of it on Saturday mornings.
(Dad left early and mom worked at the corner store part time, so we got subsidies)

subsidies were provided for low income and the cereal was "close" to things like "Lucky Charms" (kaboom) and "captain Crunch" (King Vitamin) It was pretty crappy and not really close to the "real thing" but we ate it.

Like "government cheese!"

 

[Beans]

subsidies were provided for low income and the cereal was "close" to things like "Lucky Charms" (kaboom) and "captain Crunch" (King Vitamin) It was pretty crappy and not really close to the "real thing" but we ate it.

Like "government cheese!"

What!!! You got Kaboom and King Vitamin, man you must have been living well. We go those 10 gallon plastic bags of Puffs. The only way they had any taste was when you put the powder instant milk on them then they tasted like crap.

 

[Critical Recovery]

What!!! You got Kaboom and King Vitamin, man you must have been living well. We go those 10 gallon plastic bags of Puffs. The only way they had any taste was when you put the powder instant milk on them then they tasted like crap.

Ha! yeah, I remember the bags too!
And the milk that came in boxes. But MAN, I STILL to this day miss that government cheese.......

 

[releventchair]

R.O.F.L. oh yaa, wholesome goodness! Really nothing could make em better. soaking made them worse.
Lucky i didn,t have them all the time.
Yes C.R. cheese was all right. It got bartered too it seems. Black and white cans at the ol mans in early 70s must have been from same source as cheese.

 

[Critical Recovery]

Remember the peanut butter? :-D

 

[releventchair]

Hard to stir,never could get all the oil to mix. All ways seemed to be chunky,probably would have worked for a candle.

 

[Critical Recovery]

Hard to stir,never could get all the oil to mix. All ways seemed to be chunky,probably would have worked for a candle.

I was helping a friend clean out a relative's house (hoarder type) last weekend and I found a paper "jar" of that stuff from like 1984.
The oil had seeped through the white cardboard and formed a puddle under it and we had to hit it to unstick it from the cupboard.

 

[releventchair]

Stick to your ribs!
How about green rubber boots that kept your feet five degrees colder than the ground? Any complaints met with a couple bread bags.

 

[Critical Recovery]

Stick to your ribs!
How about green rubber boats that kept your feet five degrees colder than the ground? Any complaints met with a couple bread bags.

yeah, we got the foam "moon boots" with hard plastic soles... Bread bags were the 'My boots leak" fix!!!!

 

[Beans]

Remember the peanut butter? :-D

Made great Peanut Butter cookies.

 

[mcb66]

I wish I could find out who made the government cheese. That stuff was awesome.

 

[labradigger1]

cr, i have a black one just like the orange one pictured. i have used that bowl for 20 years for cereal, it is without a doubt my favorite bowl for cereal, it holds just the rite amount, doesn't spill and will not break.

 

[2Minnesota]

Thanks for all the memories!! I was actually laughing out loud reading through these posts....I can relate to most of the posts.

 

[nozzlehead]

Speakin of memories...anyone remember having to save the cardboard mik jug so you'd have something to mix the powdered milk in? How about when we liked Spam? If you remember those I bet you remember Alka-Seltzer in a glass tube then...they all went hand in hand!