"When Firemen Get The Munchies"
"Hey, they're back," Marco Lopez informed his fellow firefighters, upon
hearing the Station's garage door grinding open.
He and his hungry shiftmates gathered around John Gage as he came into the
dayroom, carting two brimming grocery bags.
"Did you guys get everything on the list?" Chet Kelly queried,
hopefully.
"Yes! And, it wasn't easy!" the paramedic complained, as he plunked the
parcels down onto their kitchen's countertop. He pulled a bag of Fritos Corn
Chips from one of the paper sacks and handed it to the Station's resident
'Frito Bandito', Marco Lopez. "Funions?" he then inquired.
"Over here," Hank Stanley, who was sandwiched between a Bassett Hound and a
leather couch cushion called out.
Gage flung the Funions at his Captain and then reached for another snack.
Noting the name upon the label, he immediately tossed the item to Chet Kelly.
The Irishman caught his Koo-Koos in self-defense and then carried them off to
a quiet corner, to be devoured.
"Jiffy Pop," the snack dispenser pronounced.
Mike Stoker snatched the little aluminum-covered frying pan from the paramedic
and stepped over to the stove.
John's partner, Roy DeSoto, pulled two objects from the shopping bags: a can
of Cheeze Whiz and a box of Ritz crackers.
Gage fished his Fandangos from the bottom of one of the sacks and suddenly
realized they had a snack left over. "Who gets the Whip & Chill?"
"We all do," Stoker declared, as the dome on his disposable frying
pan began to mushroom. "It's going to be our dessert tonight."
Over the muffled popping, a quiet crunching could be heard. Such was the case
when the firemen of Station 51 got the munchies.
The End
Notes gleaned from a 70's Food website:
Dolly Madison Koo-Koos were round yellow cakes with cream
filling. Covered in beige-colored icing, with little crumbs on top. Snoopy
was on the package, when Dolly Madison was using the Peanuts characters for
their advertising.
Fandangos were a corn chip snack made by Frito-Lay. They were
shaped like a shell, like the Shell gasoline symbol, and about the size of a
quarter. They came in two flavors: green onion and pizza.
Fritos Corn Chips had the Frito bandito "Aye aye aye aye , I
am the frito bandito," logo.
Funions were onion-flavored rings of Chippy/pork rind things.
Good flavor, good crunch.
Jiffy Pop was unpopped popcorn sold in a cheap frying pan
complete with handle. The pan had a tight aluminium foil cover that expanded
into a dome as you heated the pan on the stove and the corn popped. Made
obsolete by microwave oven popcorn products. Jiffy-Pop was usually dry,
tasteless corn and you always burned some of the kernels. Great TV
commercials though with wide-eyed kids gathered 'round the stove watching
the dome expand with all that perfectly popped popcorn.
Whip N' Chill Dessert was a combination of Jello and Cool
whip...mousse-like with bottom layer of jello Jello. You had a mix that
you added water to, you used a cooking whip with to mix it up and then
chilled it. When ready, it was like a light pink marshmellow like
substance that you ate with a spoon.
Cheeze Whiz and Ritz Crackers are still being sold, today.
