Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for January 11, 2015

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    DaJellyBelly  almost 10 years ago

    In the 1960’s there was a feed company near me that still used those types of sacks.

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    Templo S.U.D.  almost 10 years ago

    I guess the color pink being named after the flower pink is similar to the color orange being named after the fruit orange.

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    Jerry  almost 10 years ago

    I remember in the 1950’s, my mother would always go with my dad to buy chicken feed, so that she could pick out the sacks for dresses that she wanted to make for herself.

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    spaced man spliff  almost 10 years ago

    Nice bunch of purples.

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    MJKesquire  almost 10 years ago

    Is that how the term SACK DRESS started??

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    Frogman_tg  almost 10 years ago

    Anyone who would pay $5000 for a bunch of grapes have his/her head on crooked. Idiot! Come to think of it I’ve got a bunch of bananas I might let go for the $5 grand.

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    juicebruce  almost 10 years ago

    Waste not want not.

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    William Reynolds  almost 10 years ago

    I had a shirt made from a flour sack. Those were the good old days?

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    Red_Fez  almost 10 years ago

    Ah ha… In Dicken’s Christmas Carol, the charwoman brought the deceased Scrooge’s fine nightshirt in for sale, stating that calico was good enough him.

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    francisrossi  almost 10 years ago

    There’s a reason the grapes cost so much. They need to meet specific size and sugar percentage requirements to be certified (20g each, 18% sugar, and they’re roughly the size of a table tennis ball). The really expensive ones are the “premium” class, which are 30g per grape and at least 700g for the bunch.

    Admittedly they’re designed specifically to be exclusive, but isn’t that the same with fancy clothes and cars? They’re intended for people with more money than sense, not the mass market.

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    Stephen Gilberg  almost 10 years ago

    Imagine if you discovered you didn’t like the taste of those grapes.

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    Neo Stryder  almost 10 years ago

    I wonder what was the meaning of “pink” in those days.

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    Pedmar Premium Member almost 10 years ago

    Just my luck, I’d get a bunch of those grapes that are sour.

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    John W Kennedy Premium Member almost 10 years ago

    There have been a good many English words spelled “pink”, many of them unrelated, with meanings like “a small stab” or “to cut cloth with a special pair of shears that leave a jagged edge that makes it hard for the fabric to unweave”. It’s not clear where the word “pink” (flower; later color) came from.

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    tuslog64  almost 10 years ago

    Also, feed sacks (before they went to 50# paper sacks) would be printed with two types of ink – a permanent inkfor the floral design, a washable ink with the brand name that would wash out. Folks have many towelsfrom those sacks.

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    osurickbee Premium Member almost 10 years ago

    This reminds me of the Fractured Fairy Tales “Felicia and the Pot of Pinks”!

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    john  almost 7 years ago

    Thanks to the world-wide economic depression of the 1930’s and the war-time shortages of the 1940’s, children who had any furniture their size often had furniture made from modified orange crates, which were cheaper than pasteboard boxes because of the cost of the machines needed to make pasteboard. The home economic theme of that era was "Use it up, / Wear it out, / Make it do or do without! "

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    john  almost 7 years ago

    Thanks to the world-wide economic depression of the 1930’s and the war-time shortages of the 1940’s, children who had any furniture their size often had furniture made from modified orange crates, which were cheaper than pasteboard boxes because of the cost of the machines needed to make pasteboard. The home economic theme of that era was "Use it up, / Wear it out, / Make it do or do without! "

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