Posted: 11/23/2006 12:48:37 PM EDT
 I'm sorry I crack up everytime I think of that. I wonder if they really were that sugary. Wouldn't that be great if they really were made of sugar, made of sugar and dispensed beer. I'll take two. 
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"Sugar Titties" were the precursor to the modern day pacifier. You know, before they invented rubber or latex baby bottle nipples? OK youngens'...listen up because I'll only explain it once. You'd take a tea towel, or a CLEAN diaper, or a piece of soft cotton cloth from a flour sack (yes, they used to make flour sacks out of cotton cloth) and you'd put about a teaspoon full of sugar in the corner of the cloth and then wrap it into a small ball about the size of a mamma's nipple. Then, you'd dunk that in milk, just enough to get it wet through and through (or if the baby was teething REALLY bad, maybe dip it in brandy or even bourbon whiskey if the kid just wouldn't STFU already, numbs the gums and makes them sleep better...and then give the REST of the whiskey to mom/dad ) and then give it to the baby just like a pacifier. It got the same results, just something to make the little squirt shut his/her pie-hole for a while.  Wikipedia |