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[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 132 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

Young people have no idea what it used to smell like. For a decade everything reeked of smoke and hairspray.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 24 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Everywhere you went felt like a bowling alley.

[–] InputZero@lemmy.world 8 points 9 hours ago

Everything you touched had a thin sticky layer of cigarette smoke gunk on it. Hell I remember doctors casually smoking in examination rooms.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 41 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

You could taste it in the air

[–] FantasmaNaCasca@lemmy.world 21 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Galadriel: Feel it in the water

[–] ProfessorHoover@infosec.pub 8 points 18 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Mastema@infosec.pub 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

🎶I feel it in my toes...

(I got you!)

[–] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 hours ago

Christmas is around us,
Come on and let it snow.

Rock star singing Christmas parody song from Love Actually

[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 8 points 17 hours ago

This is so real. Like everyone had a broom on their heads. It was full on capybara hair.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 9 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

now that you mention it, cheese burgers taste different than they used to because of this most likely.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 6 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

They changed the oils they cooked with from tallow to whichever vegetable oil is cheapest. Those newer oils burn at cooking temperature and add a flavour to the fried meat

That happened in the late '80s when the lies about saturated fat became popularly believed

[–] ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 20 hours ago

It was awesome.