That also reminds me, our #1 contraband back in the mid ‘80s was dealing in “Now and Later’s” (remember those ?) and cinnamon-dipped toothpicks. Why we thought of those as delicacies, I have no idea...
What kind of Nazi school was this?
Cinnamon toothpicks are always great. Got to tell you that we of Tennessee Preparatory School were a stoic bunch that took those paddlings as the price of doing business. Corporal punishment was laughable to the majority of kids who ended up there...often for the sins of parents who dished out far worse.
TIS/TPS was more a blessing than a curse or now-perceived embarrassment to a "politically correct" regime that allows continued abuse for the sake of the idea that those kids are "always better off in a family situation". Homilies do not replace or appease real situations that call for a refuge from abuse.
And you forgot to mention the pre-crack era attraction of Pixie Stix. Sugar burst right to the brain.