Snacks as a kid

 What was something you liked to eat as a snack after school? In the fall, Dad bought apples.  I think he said that a bushel of apples was $3.00.  ($20/peck in Chicagoland 40 years later) He traveled through apple country on his way to Wayland from Maynard and he’d buy a bushel of apples often (not quite weekly?)  A bushel is a lot of apples.  

Hungry?  Eat an apple.  Thirsty?  First drink a “Turkey” glass of water.  The Turkey glass was enormous - 24 oz?  Then you can have a glass of Tang.  

We had saltine crackers with  butter (margarine, we didn’t start eating butter again until Winnie joined the family.  Butter was too expensive).  

Once in a while, someone would buy twinkies for snacks.  They come 10 to pack.  4 kids, 2 days of lunches. 2 “extra,”  The extra never made it very far.

I remember Winnie made chocolate chip cookies to take camping one year and hid them in the cold oven in a plastic bowl so no one would eat them.  For some reason someone pre-heated the oven in the morning and melted the bowl/cookie combination - no one got cookies that camping trip.

One summer dad bought a do it yourself shed.  Step 1 was “stain the shed walls.”  Dad left us a case of cut rate soda, a gallon of stain and a bunch of rags.  He came home to stained shed walls.  Also stain handprints up and down the staircase to the kitchen and downstairs bath.  Rough stain lines marking the top of the boards on the walls of the garage.  Stain droplets all over the garage floor.  Doubtless,  soda - gone.