Thing To Remember That People Did Once: groce.

 Well, to groce must mean to sell foodstuffs and household supplies, mustn't it? Like a grocer does...or used to do. Round here it's all supermarkets and delicatessens, nowadays.

I rather miss grocers, especially the way they'd put your purchases in a small brown paper bag and then, holding the bag by the top corners, whirl it round to scrunch the top closed. As a child I'd be hoping like mad they'd give themselves a bash on the nose, but they never did.

Well, in those days we had to make our own entertainment.

Thing To Remember That People Did Once: groce. All right, to groce isn't actually a word, but grocer comes from the Old French grossier, from gros, which means large, from the Latin grossus, which means thick.

Whether it's the grocer's slices of ham, or the man himself, who was large I do not know.