Do you remember the smelly green modeling clay that was a fixture of my youth, and is it still available?
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September 14th, 2015
“Sludge” seems to be an appropriate description?
It came in sticks, like butter, that were individually wrapped in cellophane.
I was never convinced modeling clay was a toy, but my paternal grandmother was a teacher with a ton of the stuff and a built-in kitchen cutting board dedicated to it.
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I had to make a model of the human brain with that stuff. Went straight into the garbage after it was marked.
I remember clay coming in many colors. My sisters would make little dioramas of furnished houses in shoeboxes and they would raid my marbles to serve as the “families” in the houses. Funny, I’d forgotten all about “clay town.” The clay had no foul odor as I remember.
I remember this stuff. But no luck on google finding out anything about it. It would have been in the 80’s when I would have used it.
That stuff was nasty. I vaguely remember feeling like it was something adults liked more than kids did. Play-Doh was infinitely more enjoyable to use, though I wonder now how toxic it (well, any of it, really) was back when I was a child and getting it into every last pore.
Was it actually Plastecine? Because my memory of it being green (a dark-ish green) is really strong, but Plastecine seems to have been sold in rainbow coloured packs.
Does anybody remember white, nontoxic paste, sold in jars with brushes attached to the inside of the lid? All kids ate that stuff, and I don’t think anyone ever suffered for it. Admit it—you ate paste. I’m coming clean here—I did! I loved the way it smelled and tasted.
Any of the various compounds which have replaced it are infinitely nicer smelling and would have to be proven nontoxic in order to be sold nowadays.
It’s the old law of supply and demand. If the demand has dropped to nil, why would any company continue making/selling it?
@Love_my_doggie I never ate paste, but I did make hand prints with glue and recorded my finger/hand prints. I’m from Canada so we had different school supplies.
@Love_my_doggie I never ate paste, but like the clay, I can recall its smell and texture just from reading your post. It really did smell edible, though I’m sure that was a bad idea. ;)
This appears to be very close to what I’m remembering, and it appears that something very similar is still available.
Hopefully not for kids, so much.
Of course I ate paste. Both liquid and dried.
You should try this stuff, it’s called bubber, I found some in a hobby store once, omg that shit is amazing, no joke. It feels like what I can only assume clouds would feel like if you could touch and mold them into shapes. Lol. It is literally the softest stuff I have ever felt. I don’t know what they make it from but it’s not messy and it never dries out so it can always be reshaped, I don’t remember it having a smell, but I highly recommend it trying it.
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