Paper Or Plastic By Ddick Question for those who were around long enough to have used base commissaries... does anybody else remember commmisary boxes?... these were fairly stout cardboard boxes (no tops) maybe 24 long, 12 wide, made with outward sloping sides, and with hand holes in the ends. The baggers (usually dependent kids of high-school age) who worked only for tips, put your grub in them. The boxes were for sale at the checkout, $0.10 each, if you hadnt brought yours with you and hauled them around in your shopping cart (known as either a trolley, or a buggy here in TN) until you got to the checkout. The boxes would handle heavier items quite well... canned or bottled, never ripped, and although they required two hands to transport the grits into the castle, could be used over and over... you just got in the habit of loading your nested stack of commissary boxes in the car when headed to the commissary... made sense, and this was before the EPA was invented. These might have been a west coast phenom, but recall those for both the Stumps and the big Navy commissaries in the San Diego area. Granted, the common tee-shirt disposable bag has its benefits... among them is... Read the rest of this submission at: grunt/corps/newsletter/9936/#paper Submit your Marine Corps related stories and images at: grunt/corps/newsletter/9936/#paper
Posted on: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 15:00:01 +0000
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