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Slumlord and renegade are my pards. Well I like to think they are. When it’s in the 20’s and my teeth are chattering I miss my days in the youth center. Getting beat up for my food doesn’t seem so bad when you are cold.

Yep. And I’m sure you’ve been whooped a dozen times firsthand.

Sure did and it was a treat for us kids. This is what the RCs looked like when I was young. The Moon Pies still look and taste the same.

Edit- I still drink RC and had one just this morning. I quit Coca Cola altogether whenever they went woke a few years ago.

Moon Pies were not a part of our area. Royal Crown was our "brown pop" and Bubble Up was our "white pop".

similar experience

Lived there in the early 90s. Wife and I decided to go to a Mardi Gras parade in downtown. Not knowing much about the town I'm think hey, its just like an Xmas parade. Man was I wrong

First , we were the only white faces in the crowd, I'm talking hundreds of people. So the floats come by and I didn't even realize they threw stuff into the crowd, but then we see them coming our way and they are throwing out moon pies, beads, candy, whistles , whatever. Little black kids are going crazy, fighting over this stuff, running up under the floats


So the people on the float see us, the only white faces in the crowd and they point to us, start throwing us all the good stuff they held back - full size candy bars , big beads , moon pies - the black people aren't really pissed but they let me know immediately what they thought about us getting the good stuff, I think they might have been really pissed if were weren't handing it to the mass of kids arounds us. I told my wife these float people are trying to get my ass kicked.


So the floats go by and we're waiting for the second crew to come by. Someone shoots off firecrackers and everyone, I mean everyone in the crowd drops thinking someone is shooting a gun, except the stupid white man and his white wife who just stood there standing up looking around. Once they realized it was just firecrackers they all had a big laugh about us just looking at them like wtf are you people doing.

I wan't really concerned about safety but I also didn't really feel ok there. This was 1992. No way would I even think about it now.

Good talk, Covtard

Absolutely!!

Go together like peas and carrots.

Back in the 70s - in my teenage years - I woked for a grocery store chain. The "Moonpie" salesman had convinced the story manager to purchase a large quantity of Moonpies. They set the display up front - as close to the buggies as possible.

I was in the office one day and the manager commented that the Moonpies had been on display for 2 weeks - but were not selling. He couldn't understand it.

I asked, "Are you open to a fix?" He said yes.

I told him to place an RC cola display right beside the Moonpies and see what happens.

To my surprise, when I came to work the next afternoon, the RC Cola display was up - right beside the Moonpies.

In two days - both Moonpies and RC colas were gone.

Durning my youth, an RC Cola and a Moopie was tradition.

Yep more times than I can remember as a child. Always at my grandparents.

Probably more than that, but I try to roll with people better at it than me.

Sure have! Its been a while.

RC and Crown , used to be one of my favorites .

Here in the Mississippi Delta, RCs and Moon Pies are fine fare. Out from Clarksdale MS on Hobson Plantation(where the first crop of cotton was gathered using mechanical pickers) is the Shack Up Inn, a collection of shotgun houses. Guests who follow the Blues stay there, and Moon Pies are left on the pillows and RCs in the fridge. Used to be that way. Same thing N of Greenwood at Tallahatchie Flats on Money Road be
side the Tallahatchie River. It’s a collection of 6 tenant houses and one real juke joint. They held my wife’s class reunion at the juke joint. Was at the grocery last week and they had Moon Pies in chocolate, vanilla, banana, and strawberry; but they have shrunk in size considerably. Also saw Stage Planks in lemon, strawberry, and I believe vanilla icing. I wanted my granddaughters to have a taste of southern culture. Had a field day in an old timey store in Jackson TN buying “penny” candy ( not a penny anymore). Great Buffet there tho it’s been several years. I believe they do likewise at the Alluvian Hotel in Greenwood too ( the moon pies on the pillows). Kind of a tongue in the cheek- Hell naw we ain’t been reconstructed thing.

I love me some RC. Every so often I find some RC cherry. That is some good stuff. I am not a moon pie fan.

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Dollar General has 3 2-liter RC Colas for $3.00. Not a bad soda pop. You can even mix a couple of scoops of vanilla ice cream.

No.

I have had both. Coke is king around here, but I get an RC occasionally too. Even poured peanuts in them.

If Moon Pies are fresh, they are actually pretty good. Unfortunately, most of them have been sitting on store shelves for what seems like decades. I was coming out of the Chattanooga Sportsmans Warehouse a while back and some Boy Scouts were selling boxes of Mini Moon Pies. I bought 3 boxes, one of each flavor. They are made in Chattanooga and those apparently came straight from the kitchen.

RC is still being made but not bottled in the spiral glass bottles..

Yes many times when young. Or pour a bag of salted peanuts in it.

We had nabs and a Pepsi around 10am in our tobacco patch....late 60s/early 70s.....NC border belt market......i still like that combo to this day