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From: "Paul Mackin" <paul.mackin@verizon.net>
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> On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 22:29, D. Barton Johnson wrote:
> > EDNOTE. "How fully I fdelt nature glued to me / And how my childish
palate
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> loved the taste / Half-fish, half-honey of that golden paste! / My
picture
>
> book was at an early age. Can anyone recall the taste of mucilage?
>
> I recall mucilage with the red rubber top very well. Am trying to decide
> if it had a fishy or honey taste. I wouldn't have thought so but am not
> really sure. It was quite sniffible even if one didn't care to taste it.
> It was certainly a "golden paste."
>
> This was long before the days of Elmer's Glue.
>
> I don't think teachers quite liked mucilage. It was too sticky. Things
> got stuck together one didn't WANT stuck together. The preferred glue in
> the schools I went to was white and called library paste. We made it out
> of flour and water.
>
> P.
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>
> >
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> > I believe the golden paste is simply the glue that was called mucilage
that
> > used to be common in school rooms and used by kids at home through most
of
> > this century and probably the last for pasting together their art junk.
> >
> > It came in a bottle with a reddish rubber sort of a nipple that you
rubbed
> > on whatever surface you were going to stick something to, say, a photo
> > snipped from Life magazine into a scrap book.
> >
> > I would bet almost every kid who used this stuff tasted it at some time.
> >
>
>
From: "Paul Mackin" <paul.mackin@verizon.net>
>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (36
lines) ------------------
> On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 22:29, D. Barton Johnson wrote:
> > EDNOTE. "How fully I fdelt nature glued to me / And how my childish
palate
>
> loved the taste / Half-fish, half-honey of that golden paste! / My
picture
>
> book was at an early age. Can anyone recall the taste of mucilage?
>
> I recall mucilage with the red rubber top very well. Am trying to decide
> if it had a fishy or honey taste. I wouldn't have thought so but am not
> really sure. It was quite sniffible even if one didn't care to taste it.
> It was certainly a "golden paste."
>
> This was long before the days of Elmer's Glue.
>
> I don't think teachers quite liked mucilage. It was too sticky. Things
> got stuck together one didn't WANT stuck together. The preferred glue in
> the schools I went to was white and called library paste. We made it out
> of flour and water.
>
> P.
>
>
> >
> > ------------------
> > I believe the golden paste is simply the glue that was called mucilage
that
> > used to be common in school rooms and used by kids at home through most
of
> > this century and probably the last for pasting together their art junk.
> >
> > It came in a bottle with a reddish rubber sort of a nipple that you
rubbed
> > on whatever surface you were going to stick something to, say, a photo
> > snipped from Life magazine into a scrap book.
> >
> > I would bet almost every kid who used this stuff tasted it at some time.
> >
>
>