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aint_no_life_nowhere

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21. What? No wild hickory nuts?

Reply to handmade34 (Reply #8)

Wed Oct 30, 2013, 02:27 PM

Oct 2013

Thinking about those commercials of his for Grape Nuts cereal in the 1970s and his claim that it tasted like wild hickory nuts.

EDIT to add the old TV commercial.

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five bucks wow, someone is making a killing. loli phabay Oct 2013 #17

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people used to call me "Euell Gibbons" handmade34 Oct 2013 #8

I'm impressed! In_The_Wind Oct 2013 #10

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and the teasing continues... handmade34 Oct 2013 #30

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Just berries which I posted about some time back... Locut0s Oct 2013 #33

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