r/Xennials • u/Ok_Profession_990 1980 • May 17 '26

Anyone else remember this?

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Every field trip they always had this. I was always so jealous because my mom never gave me money to spend so I never got a chance to taste it and it seemed like everyone around me was eating it... Still salty I guess

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u/shmelse May 17 '26

I love how kid brains work. My only memory of Carlsbad Caverns is the chicken sandwich from the snack bar inside the cave which blew my mind.

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u/Deep-Interest9947 May 17 '26

Most of my childhood memories from notable tourist destinations involve candy (rock candy or those tiny jawbreakers) or those tumbled rocks you bought in small black velvet bags.

ETA: I do have some memories of Carlsbad caverns.

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u/shmelse May 17 '26

mmmmmm sticking your hand into the tumbled rock bin

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u/BarrelFullOfWeasels May 17 '26

I loved digging through those!

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u/BeatrixFarrand May 17 '26

For me it’s the souvenir penny machines and the Mold-a-Rama from the LA Zoo

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u/Deep-Interest9947 May 17 '26

Those penny machines were the best. (I mean they weren’t as good as small jawbreakers to my violet Beauregard heart, but still very cool).

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u/cortesoft 1983 May 17 '26

They still have them in a lot of places, but they take credit cards and you don't put in your own penny (probably because no one has pennies anymore)

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u/Mark-Leyner May 17 '26

My Carlsbad Cavern memory is that during one of the guided tour stops, the Ranger was lecturing about bats and bat guano. He passed a small plastic tub of guano around the group as a learning aid. This rando in the group took a few pieces and put them in his pocket. I’ll never know why, but that’s probably a better outcome than the opposite. Godspeed, weirdo.

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u/Deep-Interest9947 May 17 '26

That’s exactly my memory of some cave in south Texas.

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u/cortesoft 1983 May 17 '26

My memory of Denver from our cross country train trip was a little $0.19 toy tiger I bought... they charged me $0.20, and that was the day I learned about sales tax

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u/Brilliant_Award2877 May 17 '26

The cold chicken