I guess you gotta be a real Geezer to remember when every gradeschool classroom had a big ol' jar of paste for every couple of desks. It was actually a problem in our school, more of the paste got eaten than ended up on the papers it was meant for. Although I frequently saw classmates stick fingers into the paste and eat it, I never did it myself, after taking a taste once at somebody's urging I had no further interest. Maybe somebody else got "minty" paste, but back in North Carolina ours just tasted like flour and water, only slimier
