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#TTT @dabbe Early Gen Z here! I feel like a lot of iconic food we had overlaps or isn‘t super unique. I remember things like gushers, fruit roll-ups, lunchables, etc. Specifically to me, I remember walking tacos, rice + milk + cinnamon & sugar in a bowl, and trix yogurt lol.

GingerAntics What are walking tacos? I haven‘t thought of trix yogurt in ages! I had that in the 90s. (edited) 5d

dabbe Oh, the rice bowl! That's the only way my mom could get us to eat rice! She turned it into a kind of pudding that way! Thanks for sharing. 💙🩶🖤 5d

RosePressedPages @GingerAntics Walking tacos are where you take a small dorito bag, put in taco meat and toppings, close the top and crush the chips and mix the ingredients in, and voila! Dinner is served 4d

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RosePressedPages @dabbe I‘m glad I‘m not the only one who had this! 4d

dabbe @RosePressedPages 🎯🤣🎯 4d

GingerAntics @RosePressedPages oh wow. That‘s a new one on me. 4d

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Bookwormjillk

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Late Gen X here. My mom would often make us spaghetti o sandwiches- spaghetti o‘s between buttered pieces of bread. Fat and carbs yum. Another favorite was American Chop Suey which was macaroni with ground beef and tomatoes slathered in margarine. Actually I could go for some of that. We would also eat El Paso taco kits every time my dad went out of town because he didn‘t like “weird food.” Weird in those days being not spaghetti or burgers. #TTT

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dabbe Loved those taco kits and Appian way pizza kits! My mom would let us have those on a Friday if we were good. I can't imagine Spaghetti-Os on bread ... 🤢 for me! And the American chop suey! Oy! Thanks for sharing. 💙🩶🖤 5d

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Dilara

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Gen X growing up in France, here.
The 70s/80s were the time that US-style convenience food really took off. That's when Kellogg's breakfast cereals became ubiquitous, and how I loved my Coco Pops (or Chocopops as they were then called here)!
There was also a thing for substituting every fat with sunflower oil, and sunflower-oil margarine was big. We walked back on that 😚

#TTT #TakeThreeThursday @dabbe

Dilara Parents mostly cooked from scratch or semi-scratch, except for tinned fish & ravioli. Food was mostly French and Indian, with the odd - no doubt bastardised - Italian dish. Occasionally goulash, paella, couscous, or a US or UK dish (hamburger, scones), the only East-Asian dish on a regular rota being fried rice, until Asian ready meals became available in the late 80s. Most of our exotic-to-us recipes came from Tupperware cookbooks 😁 (edited) 5d

dabbe How interesting! Loved Coco Pops, too. They actually turned the milk brown! And yep, sunflower oil was good then not good--just like peanut/coconut oil! And those Tupperware cookbooks, well, and just Tupperware in general. There was always a Tupperware party going on at someone's house in our 'hood! Thanks for sharing. 💙🩶🖤 5d

Dilara @dabbe I still have some of my mother's and grandmother's Tupperwares 😁 2d

dabbe @Dilara 🤩😍🤩 2d

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kspenmoll

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I grew up in 60s/70s.
Doing this brought find memories of my mom who was a fresh foods,bake from scratch cook. Frozen TV dinners,& fish sticks were real, infrequent treats.So were sugary cereals.Charles Chips potato chips were delivered to our house by the Charles Chips man.”My parents drank canned Maxwell House coffee.My great Aunt used to bring a big jello mold every Sunday for dinner.This was such fun!!!! #TTT #TakeThreeThursfay

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Aims42 Lol, your mom sounds like my mom, we would get TV dinners only when a babysitter came over. They were considered a treat for us 😆 5d

BkClubCare @Aims42 - yes! Always a big deal!! 📺 dinners... 5d

Aims42 @BkClubCare Them and Lunchables 😂 My mom refused to buy those for our lunches so they were a “babysitter dinner” only hahaha 5d

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BkClubCare @Aims42 - I don't think Lunchables were invented yet when I was a kid! I got Lucky Charms cereal on my birthday 🍀 5d

Aims42 @BkClubCare ooooo! I loved lucky charms too, haha! Yep, those were a special occasion cereal in our house too 😆 5d

tpixie Loved Charles Chips potato chips and pretzels!!!! 🥨 5d

dabbe All these foods! 😍 My mom was fairly healthy, too ... until my parents divorced, and she went back to school while working. Suddenly my younger sister and I were able to eat any of the above whenever! We pretty much had Kraft Mac n' Cheese almost every night then! Thanks for sharing. 💙🩶🖤 5d

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TheEllieMo

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#TTT #TakeThreeThursday @dabbe

This may be my own bias talking, but I feel that I don‘t even need to say what generation I am, because people will know thanks to the infamy of these icons of the dinner tables of my childhood:

- the prawn cocktail
- the cheese and pineapple hedgehog
- Angel Delight (Butterscotch, obviously)

Caroline2 Butterscotch 🤤 6d

Dilara UK seventies child? 😁 5d

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick I've never had any of these. 5d

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dabbe My guess: Gen X in the UK? The hedgehog makes me wanna 🤢, but the Angel Delight? YUM! Thanks for sharing. 💙🩶🖤 5d

TheEllieMo @Dilara @dabbe yup, born late 60s so grew up in the seventies ☺️ 5d

TheEllieMo @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick they were everywhere in the UK in the 70s! Prawn cocktail still exists but has been gentrified, Angel Delight is still available in all major supermarkets, but the cheese-and-pineapple hedgehog has thankfully been consigned to history 5d

TheEllieMo @Caroline2 it‘s absolutely the best flavour! 5d

dabbe @TheEllieMo Old Gen X-er here: born in 1965! Something we have in common. 😊 5d

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick That's why I'm not familiar! I have only spent 2 weeks in England 25 years ago. 4d

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dabbe

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#TTT #TakeThreeThursday @dabbe

I got a little carried away. All of these were introduced during the Gen X years of 1965-1980. And I ate all of these. In abundance. Not so much anymore, but I may have to go back and visit a few of these gems. 🤣

Bookwormjillk Jello pudding pops were so good!!! 6d

willaful I'm a deprived child, my mom wouldn't have any of these in the house! 6d

TheBookgeekFrau Jello pudding pops were my favorite! 6d

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RamsFan1963 Even though I was born in 1963, I still consider myself Gen X not a Boomer, and I hate the Boomer X subcategory, sounds like a bad superhero name. 5d

AnnCrystal 👏🏼🤩😋💝. 5d

AlaMich And microwave popcorn was a revelation! 🍿 5d

LibrarianRyan OMG. Funny story. My brother-in-law who was a cook in the army, took a can of manwhich to work for lunch one day. He was a cook in the army for 11 years. And he did not know you had to add meat to manwhich. 5d

CSeydel My daughter wanted to serve “80s food” the night we watched the Stranger Things finale, so she asked her dad and me, what are some 80s foods? We both said, SPAGHETTI-Os 5d

CSeydel (She did not want to eat Spaghetti-Os) 5d

CSeydel @RamsFan1963 I never heard it called Boomer X, but I agree with you it sounds awkward. I‘ve seen people born in the border years (late 50s/early 60s) call themselves “Generation Jones” but I don‘t know where that name came from. 5d

DGRachel Spaghetti-Os with meatballs was my go to! I miss Jiffy Pop on the stovetop, even though microwave popcorn is so convenient. The Jiffy Pop always burned but nothing beat watching the foil expand like some kind of space age treat. 😂 5d

Hooked_on_books Oh my gosh, Jello Pudding pops! That‘s a blast from the past. 🤩 5d

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick All such tasty treats! 5d

dabbe @Bookwormjillk And it still saddens me to remember that Bill Cosby did those commercials. I adored him back in the day. Now ... 🤬. 5d

dabbe @willaful My mom wouldn't either! Until my parents divorced. She went back to school while working and basically let my younger sister and me eat whatever we wanted. My two older sisters are still jealous about that! 🤣 5d

dabbe @TheBookgeekFrau IKR? 😍 5d

dabbe @RamsFan1963 You're close enough! I was born in 1965, the supposed first year. I wear my Gen X title with pride! 🤩 5d

dabbe @AnnCrystal 💙🩶🖤 5d

dabbe @AlaMich I remember standing in front of that microwave with my mouth hanging open. Couldn't believe it! 🍿 5d

dabbe @LibrarianRyan That. Is. Priceless. 🤩🤣🤩 5d

dabbe @CSeydel I hated Spaghetti-Os but LOVED RavioliOs! 🤣🤩😍 5d

dabbe @CSeydel I'm with her! 😍🤣🤩 5d

dabbe @DGRachel IKR? Now, when I think of that, I think of Drew Barrymore popping Jiffy Pop in the first movie SCREAM! 😱🤣🤩 5d

dabbe @Hooked_on_books IKR? 🤣🤩😍 5d

dabbe @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick They were, weren't they? And so healthy, too! 🤩🤣😍 5d

AlaMich @DGRachel I was dying to try Jiffy Pop because of those darn commercials, but my dad would never buy it because we already had a succession of electric poppers. 5d

dabbe @AlaMich Pretty much the same here for the most part. We even had to just do it on the stove in a pan until the huge bottle of popcorn was gone; then, we might be able to have the Jiffy pop! 🤣 5d

willaful @dabbe I'm pretty much as old as Gen X gets and I completely reject the entire concept of “Boomer X!“ Call me Geriatric X if you must! 5d

dabbe @willaful You belong with us cool Gen X-ers, period! 💙🩶🖤 5d

JenlovesJT47 Oh dear Lord you have no idea how much I miss Planters cheeseballs and cheese curls!! They were SO delicious! They had the cheeseballs make a reappearance a couple of years ago but they were not the same. 😭 4d

Sparklemn I still think about pudding pops when I wander through the frozen foods aisles. But alas… 4d

dabbe @JenlovesJT47 I loved eating them with toothpicks! 🤩 4d

dabbe @Sparklemn 🎯🤎🎯 4d

MemoirsForMe Oh my… I‘m a true Boomer who missed this party by a few (ahem) years. I lived on pop tarts, Devil dogs, ring dings and Cap n Crunch with Bazooka Bubble gum in between. 👵🏻 4d

dabbe @MemoirsForMe Love all of these, especially the Bazooka bubble gum. I couldn't watch any baseball game without it! 🤣 Thanks for sharing. 💙🩶🖤 4d

MemoirsForMe I‘m sure our dentists didn‘t mind our affinity for Bazooka. 😉 And how about those tiny comics! 3d

dabbe @MemoirsForMe Matt and I talked about all of this on our walk today. We're major baseball fans (Go, D-Backs). My dad was a Little League coach, Matt was a middle school/high school coach ... it's in our blood. But absolutely no baseball without Bazooka! So sugary and juicy and delightful! And the comics! Fab memory! I can't believe I could read them with my naked eyes back then! 🤣⚾️😍 3d

MemoirsForMe Thanks for sharing your baseball memories! So cool! 🥰⚾️ I remember riding my bike to our local Little League games mainly to pick up Bazooka at the little snack bar. Those tiny comics require a magnifying glass these days. 😂😂😂 3d

dabbe @MemoirsForMe And hip, hip, hooray for those mini snack bars! They were the main reason I went! 🤣🤩🤣 3d

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dabbe

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#TTT #TakeThreeThursday @dabbe

Changin' it up a bit! I've been in nostalgia-mode, so ... the topic today is FOOD. Comment below or create your own post with three foods that were big in your generation. Maybe they were even created during your generation! Be sure to share your generation, too, if you want. I can't wait to see what you come up with. Tagging a few to get the ball rollin'! All are welcome to play!!! 😍

Kristy_K, mcctrish, DebinHawaii, Mimi28, Aims42, DrSabrinaMoldenReads, Cuilin, AmyG, kspenmoll, TheBookHippie, Amiable, JenlovesJT47, Texreader, CogsOfEncouragement, BookishMarginalia, AnneCecilie, Susanita, TheLudicReader, Suet624, TieDyeDude, Deblovestoread, Librarybelle, Tamra, mcipher, Chrissyreadit, Read4life, Cathythoughts, Skygoddess1, BarbaraBB, CatLass007, Mollyanna, eeclayton, Ruthiella, Bookwomble, CBee, MaGoose, kelli7990, Jari-chan, TheAromaofBooks, Sparklemn, lil1inblue, aroyse, AnnCrystal, WildAlaskaBibliophile

JenlovesJT47 In high school I lived off of hot pockets and pizza rolls. And grew up drinking Surge. (I miss that stuff!). I swapped a Surge addiction for a Mt Dew addiction which I still suffer from 😆 #imissthe90s 6d

dabbe @JenlovesJT47 I #didthedewtoo! That was the drink I needed to stay up all night in college studying for exams! That and No-Doze got me through the mid 80s. Thanks for playing and sharing! 💙🩶🖤 6d

WildAlaskaBibliophile Jello salads, meatloaf, tuna noodle casserole. Guess my age, lol. 6d

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TheBookHippie Canned chocolate pudding, unfrosted cinnamon sugar pop tarts and god help me …TAB… 6d

SamAnne I‘m GenX but the late life accident so all my brothers are boomers. We didn‘t eat a lot of junk food on our house but yes, my working mom@made a lot of tuna casseroles, jello salads. I drank a lot of the nasty sweet Vienna instant coffee. And eww, Vienna sausages. 6d

mcctrish I was born in ‘64 but I‘m the oldest and I recently read that cusp babies identity with the next generation if they are oldest - it‘s captain crunch, doc pep and taco kits for me 6d

BookishMarginalia Tab! Orange Fanta! Cameo cookies (which are Nabisco cookies sold only in Puerto Rico), Betty Crocker mix brownies, Steak Ums 🤣🤣🤣 6d

CatLass007 1961, so I‘m a late Boomer. Boomer and proud of it. Mom worked and Daddy helped with the dishes but he didn‘t mess with the cooking. I don‘t think we knew a lot, if anything, about the dangers of processed foods back then but we at a lot of TV dinners growing up. 6d

Ruthiella What I remember as big on the ‘70s was kiwis, yogurt and bran muffins. All foods that existed obviously for centuries but were only “discovered” in my corner of Southern California when I was a child. Honorable mention goes to granola bars. 6d

willaful @SamAnne my husband is like that too. We used to joke about fixing up his oldest brother with my mom. He was originally diagnosed as a uterine tumor. 😂 6d

AnnCrystal 🙋🏽 Millennial. So many options. Growing up, It was during the junk food (probably poisonous) craze 😂. Favorites: hot pockets 🍕 Nerds 👾 Squeezit 🥤...also Lunchables, but they were expensive, so was an occasional meal treat. (edited) 5d

marleed I began adulting in the 80s - 70s teenager here. I was a motherless kid of a single dad (and nuns😜). Let‘s see - I remember shake-and-bake chicken legs, tang, Idaho mashed potatoes that came dried and in a plastic bag, oohhh and my favorite- potted meat sandwiches 😜 5d

CSeydel You won‘t have any trouble guessing how old I am from my list: Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Spaghetti-Os, and Little Debbies (edited) 5d

TheLudicReader I am a boomer. I remember 1-2-3 Jello, my mom mixing regular milk with powdered milk and water to stretch it further, and Whoopie pies. 5d

Ruthiella @marleed Shake n Bake. Totally remember that! 😆 5d

Hooked_on_books @SamAnne I‘ve been a vegetarian for 30 years now, but as a little kid, I actually loved Vienna sausages. 🫣 My mother was horrified. 😂 5d

Chrissyreadit kraft mac-n-cheese, frozen pot pies, nesquick chocolate milk, 5d

rwmg Generations seem to be getting shorter. I remember when a generation was about 25 or 33 years, i.e., 3 or 4 a century depending on who was counting. Or are a lot more 15 year olds having babies now? 5d

mcipher All the sugar cereals - Froot Loops, Trix, Cap‘n Crunch, Cocoa Pebbles… PopTarts, Crystal Pepsi, Cool Ranch Doritos… 5d

aroyse Gen X here - does anyone remember those little boxes of single serve variety cereals? Each box was lined with wax paper, with a perforated front so you could open it up, pour the milk in, and eat directly out of the box. (edited) 5d

SamAnne @Hooked_on_books I did too! And so gross. Do they still exist? 5d

CSeydel Oh you know what I just randomly remembered … Snackwells! The defining food brand of the 90s. Obviously the secret to eating healthy was eliminate fat and crank up the sugar 🙄 5d

Hooked_on_books @SamAnne I just looked them up in my grocery store app, and they sure do! 😝 5d

CBee @CSeydel omg Snackwell‘s - and they weren‘t even that good 😂 But I do still love spaghetti O‘s 😁 (edited) 5d

dabbe @WildAlaskaBibliophile I'm guessing Millennial, though you have Gen X traits, too! We had lime green jello salad with chunks of lettuce in it! 🤢 I actually love tuna noodle casserole and meatloaf. Thanks for sharing. 💙🩶🖤 5d

dabbe @TheBookHippie OMG! TAB! That was the diet soda before Diet Coke came out. If I remember right, it had a slight citrus taste to it. 🤢 Thanks for sharing. 💙🩶🖤 5d

dabbe @SamAnne Oh, lordy, those sausages! And the too sweet coffee! 😱 Thanks for sharing. 💙🩶🖤 5d

dabbe @mcctrish I see you as Gen X all the way, baby! Taco kits and pizza kits, especially the Appian Way Pizza Kit! I still love Captain Crunch and can eat it in a baggy like snacks. Thanks for sharing. 💙🩶🖤 5d

dabbe @BookishMarginalia OMG, I loved Orange Fanta! Never had the Cameo cookies, but yes to the brownies and steak ums! We called them Sizzle Steaks here in Phoenix! Thanks for sharing. 💙🩶🖤 5d

dabbe @CatLass007 And what a revelation those dinners were! You could get your tv tray, plop down your dinner, and (of course) watch tv while eating! What a novelty! 🤩 Thanks for sharing. 💙🩶🖤 5d

mcctrish @TheBookHippie I actually identified with Fresca more than Tab 😆 5d

dabbe @Ruthiella Kudos to you and your family for healthy foods! Kiwi fruit didn't seem to be in the store until the 70s, if my memory is correct. And what a novelty! Still love it today. 🥝 Thanks for sharing. 💙🩶🖤 5d

dabbe @willaful 🤣🤩😍 5d

dabbe @AnnCrystal I loved Nerds! Thanks for sharing. 💙🩶🖤 5d

TheBookHippie @mcctrish 🤣🤣🤣🤣 5d

dabbe @marleed Potted meat as in something like deviled ham? Or Spam? And how could I forget Shake-and-bake? Kudos to your dad, btw; he raised quite a lovely lady. Thanks for sharing. 💙🩶🖤 5d

dabbe @CSeydel I want to say Gen X because all these appeared pretty much during that period. Am I right? Thanks for sharing. 💙🩶🖤 5d

dabbe @TheLudicReader A late boomer! Was that the layered jello? Loved that stuff! We called Whoopie pies Moon pies, and I still love them! Thanks for sharing. 💙🩶🖤 5d

dabbe @Chrissyreadit Still love ALL of these! Thanks for sharing. 💙🩶🖤 5d

WildAlaskaBibliophile @dabbe Gen X, born 1977 😊 5d

dabbe @rwmg Good point. Or are they getting shorter because we now have such short attention spans? 🤔 5d

dabbe @mcipher Sweet and salty ... we were hooked! 🤩 5d

dabbe @aroyse Oh yes, I remember! I thought that was so cool! No dishes to clean up afterwards, especially if you ate it with a plastic spoon as well! 😍 Thanks for sharing. 💙🩶🖤 5d

dabbe @mcctrish Loved Fresca! And Teem and Squirt, too! 💚 5d

dabbe @WildAlaskaBibliophile I was close! I'm the oldest Gen X-er, born in 1965. 😊 5d

dabbe @CBee Those Snackwells tasted like cardboard, but we'd eat 'em because, hey, cookies! 🤣 5d

WildAlaskaBibliophile @dabbe 🤗 5d

CSeydel Yep! 1975. 5d

dabbe @CSeydel Though I'm ancient compared to you, we're still in the same cool generation! 💙🩶🖤 5d

marleed @dabbe I don‘t quite know. It cam in a tiny can and was easily spreadable on a slab of bread. I‘d make a sandwich for my school lunch. No condiments required. When I married (at 20😳) and came home with a couple cans, Craig was like what the hell is this. Me: For sandwiches of course. Craig: Have you read the ingredients!? Me:😱. …I‘ve not eaten it in 40+ years! 4d

dabbe @marleed Now that's hysterical! 🤣 4d

Sparklemn Diet Mountain Dew, Little Debbies, and Cool Ranch Doritos. Gen X 1971. And I eat all of them still! Rarely, however. (edited) 4d

CBee @WildAlaskaBibliophile same 👋🏻🥰 4d

WildAlaskaBibliophile @aroyse yes!! We had those when we'd go on vacation! And Club crackers with Cheese Whiz! 😆 4d

WildAlaskaBibliophile @CBee 💓💓💓 4d

dabbe @Sparklemn OMG, Little Debbie! The peanut butter and chocolate stick things! I think I have to get some next time I'm at the store! Thanks for sharing. 💙🩶🖤 4d

dabbe @WildAlaskaBibliophile @aroyse Oh, Cheez Whiz! In my wilder (ahem) college days, when we'd get the midnight munchies, we'd just open our mouths and squirt that shit right in there! 🤣 4d

dabbe @WildAlaskaBibliophile @CBee You were born in '77, too? How cool is that? 😍 4d

aroyse @dabe Brace yourself! I learned at softball today that Gen Z may also be referred to as Centennials, and Gen Alpha is 2011-2025. 3d

dabbe @aroyse Addie and Shi fall into the Centennials/Gen Z category, right? So many ways to identify ourselves! 😍 3d

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CindyMyLifeIsLit

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I missed the question about the fictitious movie title, but since I‘ve seen Home Alone a million times (who hasn‘t?), I‘m pretty grounded on the details. I went and looked at the “25 Interesting Facts” and was surprised that Joe Pesci carried his method acting to the point of actually biting a child! That seems a little intense.
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dabbe I agree! And he was aloof to Cullkin to make sure he was afraid of him. Plus all of his f-bombs! Thanks for playing and sharing. Nice score, too! 💚🤍♥️ 4w

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BookmarkTavern

Home Alone: The Classic Illustrated Storybook | John Hughes, Jason Rekulak

Hahaha! Nice! Anyway, I totally guessed on half of these, and I‘ve only seen this movie once like six years ago! 😂 Might have to brush up on this movie!

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dabbe It is a funny one! ♥️🤍💚 4w

Deblovestoread You did great. I got 69% and I watch it every year. 4w

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dabbe

Home Alone: The Classic Illustrated Storybook | John Hughes, Jason Rekulak

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Having seen this movie a lot, that explains my best score ever! 🤣

In reading 25 Surprising Facts about this movie, here are three I didn't know:
1. HA was a Guinness record holder for 25 years (most $ made on opening weekend).
2. Robert De Niro turned down the Joe Pesci part.
3. Pesci's role (Harry Lime) is the same name as Orson Welles's role in THE THIRD MAN, a fabulous movie. https://tinyurl.com/4rndcy3v

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