They Don't Make 'Em Like They Used To
Apr. 3rd, 2011 09:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frustratedpilotIt got broken tonight.
It was like part of the family. It was iconic.
We had it thirty years...bought it soon after the shopping center at US 19 and Spring Hill Blvd. opened.
It was beginning to show its age, so its breaking should not have surprised me--but it did.
It was a Rubbermaid one-pint measuring beaker, slabsided, with scales on both sides, translucent smoky brown, no handle, spout on one side. Bought it at Publix.
Made countless dishes while utilizing it to confirm quantities of ingredients. Its "killer app" was the milk for Kraft Macaroni & Cheese, which it excelled at. We must have prepared well over 1000 batches of Macaroni & Cheese using that beaker.
And now it's gone and we'll have to find another somewhere. Life from here on will not be the same.
FP
It was like part of the family. It was iconic.
We had it thirty years...bought it soon after the shopping center at US 19 and Spring Hill Blvd. opened.
It was beginning to show its age, so its breaking should not have surprised me--but it did.
It was a Rubbermaid one-pint measuring beaker, slabsided, with scales on both sides, translucent smoky brown, no handle, spout on one side. Bought it at Publix.
Made countless dishes while utilizing it to confirm quantities of ingredients. Its "killer app" was the milk for Kraft Macaroni & Cheese, which it excelled at. We must have prepared well over 1000 batches of Macaroni & Cheese using that beaker.
And now it's gone and we'll have to find another somewhere. Life from here on will not be the same.
FP
