Feb 28th 2013 08:36 am Appreciative Audience
Increasingly, I’ve taken up nutritition and food to the point they’re like a hobby with me now. I’ve read most of yesterday’s posts with interest, and a few with horror. No, I’m not going to elaborate. Among the things I’ve learned is that nutrition is like poliltics or religion. There are “facts” to support whatever you want to believe! I started out thinking I’d simply learn the science of it, and informed decisions would follow. I was naive, of course. It isn’t that I don’t have opinions; see my comic strips for hints. I have charted what I hope is a healthy course for myself. To be honest, though, I don’t know how right I am. I’m not about to tell someone else they should stake their health on my nascent understanding. Besides, there are plenty of people on the Web willing to do that. I do enjoy reading others’ opinions on the subject, though, so have at it!
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160 Responses to “Appreciative Audience”
Nancy in Bucks County on 28 Feb 2013 at 9:14 am #
We watched “Forks Over Knives” recently and it was an eye opener. We have tried to increase our plant based food and limit our animal products. Bacon and alll things deli are off limits for us. Considering a CSA for the upcoming growing season to learn more about new-to-us veggies. They offer recipes for all their produce.
Was in Santa Barbara, CA last week for a conference and noticed how few fatties there were among the locals. Lots of bicycles, foot paths and good produce. Hated to leave… Though my wallet was vey anxious to vamoose.
Dave in NC on 28 Feb 2013 at 9:17 am #
of course, the idea of sucking the head out of a crawdad makes me shiver, so when it comes to foods each to his own.
nonegiven on 28 Feb 2013 at 9:40 am #
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0984755179/
Ghost Rider 6 on 28 Feb 2013 at 9:47 am #
“…micronutrient-rich ingredients that health-conscious shoppers are looking for”? Really?
I believe it was just a few years back many nutritionists were touting the benefits of a diet modeled on that of the upper class Ancient Egyptians, one rich in wheat and barley consumed as yeast-enriched bread (and beer), fresh vegetables and fruit, healthy oils, and fish and lean meat. Now modern medical studies on preserved bodies from that era reveal they suffered from an array of health problems we now commonly blame on poor dietary habits, including atherosclerosis.
To some extent, the problem is they keep moving the goal posts.
Mud bugs are good, and you really don’t have to suck the head. Just enjoy the tail.
Symply Fargone on 28 Feb 2013 at 9:50 am #
I’ve stopped worrying about what is good or bad for me, i eat as my grandparents did whne I was young. Every meal has a protein, a vegetable and a starch. I love vegetables and the only canned goods I grew up with were canned tomatoes and canned corn. To this day it is my preferred method of eating, that said when I have traveled in my life I have found that if you are a guest you eat wht they eat and that can have strange and weird consequences(I’ll pull a Mindy* on that as I am still eating)
On a musical note I am headed to a James Montgomery CD release party at the Bull Run Friday for all you MA folks, if you like blues harp, you know James.
With that I am Symply Fargone(w/12 new inches of white stuff in Maine and heading to Massachusetts again) Hope it doesn’t snow more later.
Symply Fargone on 28 Feb 2013 at 9:53 am #
@Jean in Dahlonega Ga aka Trapper Jean,
A good friend of mine has been doing paleo and has lost large amounts of weight (30+)and touts it all the time. If I were overweight I could seee doing it. He touts it all the time, but will eat lasagna if that is what he gets when invited, now that i know we taylor meals when he comes.
Mindy on 28 Feb 2013 at 9:57 am #
Jimmy, there is a school of thought [I know of three practitioners] that holds, simply, “If it tastes good it’s probably bad for you and, if it isn’t, be patient, it soon will be.” We try to eat sensibly but moderation is still, in my ill-informed opinion, the key. Perhaps not to health and happiness but it surely is a key to something.
Dave, the first time I circled a boiled crayfish in all its red glory, I was poised to barf but then I noticed that everyone else standing around those six interior doors [that had been removed from their frames and set on sawhorses] in the back yard…well, none of them seemed to have any ill effects other than slapped hands if they let their fingers come too close to someone else’s stash of mud bugs. So I watched the peeling process, took a deep breath, and leaped right in. I’ve been smacking hands that come too close to my stash ever since. Some day I’ll tell you how crayfish and Cajuns led to the completely acceptable name “Coonass” for a denizen of Lousy Anna. It shocked me to hear it so calmly spoken in mixed company, at first, now I are one…
Symply Fargone on 28 Feb 2013 at 10:00 am #
JJ, please do not kill me for this. There is a bad word in this link, it is topical and adults should be able to deal with it. I promise to always warn. VM you might want to avoid this one…….Symply staying a little more Fargone than usual
https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/531754_505066996199002_1785581727_n.jpg
John on 28 Feb 2013 at 10:17 am #
Symply, can you define the foods that fall into that category? Man, I love the discussions in the Village! Who says {other than Virgin Mindy and Ms. Collins} that afficionados of exceptional comic strips can’t engage in timely topical stuff?
chill on 28 Feb 2013 at 10:19 am #
SF, now that makes sense!!
Jeff in Ann Arbor on 28 Feb 2013 at 10:35 am #
The NY Times this week has an article about the results (published in the NEJM) of a long term study on the benefits of the Mediterranean diet. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/26/health/mediterranean-diet-can-cut-heart-disease-study-finds.html
“About 30 percent of heart attacks, strokes and deaths from heart disease can be prevented in people at high risk if they switch to a Mediterranean diet rich in olive oil, nuts, beans, fish, fruits and vegetables, and even drink wine with meals, a large and rigorous new study has found.
“The magnitude of the diet’s benefits startled experts. The study ended early, after almost five years, because the results were so clear it was considered unethical to continue.”
Now I just need to find me an Italian cook!
Lost in A**2 on 28 Feb 2013 at 10:49 am #
One thing to remember when considering a “Paleo” diet: no hunter-gatherer society has risen above the Stone Age. My *guess* is that a diet based on what nature provides without assistance offers just enough calories to keep body and soul together. Most of the time. Or, enough of the time to reproduce. Arts and sciences require more calories than that diet can provide. (Yes, I know of cave paintings and music, “the universal language” (which isn’t, but that’s another story.
) but they are ephemeral, leaving little to build upon.)
Ghost Rider 6 on 28 Feb 2013 at 10:53 am #
Also from the article about the Mediterranean diet study:
“Dr. Caldwell Blakeman Esselstyn Jr., the author of the best seller “Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease: The Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven, Nutrition-Based Cure,” who promotes a vegan diet and does not allow olive oil, dismissed the study…he said those in the Mediterranean diet study still had heart attacks and strokes. So, he said, all the study showed was that ‘the Mediterranean diet and the horrible control diet were able to create disease in people who otherwise did not have it.’”
What I take away from the article is that, again, there is no universal agreement on what really works to promote long-term.
Ghost Rider 6 on 28 Feb 2013 at 10:54 am #
“…long-term health.”
Symply Fargone on 28 Feb 2013 at 11:06 am #
John,
As Jean in Dahlonega Ga aka Trapper Jean put it so succinctly in a post on the prior “More is Less”
Some friends of mine have recently adopted the Paleo diet and are quite happy with it. This is from the introductory page of a website for those who want to follow such an eating plan:
“The Paleo diet is based upon eating wholesome, contemporary foods from the food groups our hunter-gatherer ancestors would have thrived on during the Paleolithic era, the time period from about 2.6 million years ago to the beginning of the agricultural revolution, about 10,000 years ago. These foods include fresh meats (preferably grass-produced or free-ranging beef, pork, lamb, poultry, and game meat, if you can get it), fish, seafood, fresh fruits, vegetables, seeds, nuts, and healthful oils (olive, coconut, avocado, macadamia, walnut and flaxseed). Dairy products, cereal grains, legumes, refined sugars and processed foods were not part of our ancestral menu.”
OK folks Symply gotta go, plow came by so I can get out of Woodstock and head to Fargone Massachusetts.
Hoag in MA on 28 Feb 2013 at 11:08 am #
As with most things in life, I try to take the rules and science out of it and follow a simpler rule from my father.
“All things in moderation”
John on 28 Feb 2013 at 11:14 am #
I agree with you, Symply. My doctor gave me what I felt was good advice: Use moderation in what you eat and what you don’t. If you deny yourself too much you’ll be miserable, everyone around you will be miserable, and, odds are, you’re going to trash the diet and do more damage than good.
Ray on 28 Feb 2013 at 11:18 am #
Nutrition is a very young science, and is still at the point where studies in the field routinely contradict each other, and last decade’s conventional wisdom is this decade’s rejected ideas.
Most people have been trained to think that “science” knows all and “scientists” are never wrong, but very few things in the world are easily and definitively provable.
sandcastler on 28 Feb 2013 at 12:28 pm #
Amen Ray!
Steve From Royal Oak, MI on 28 Feb 2013 at 1:33 pm #
I have found that when one bakes, one needs to follow the recipe exactly for best results, but when cooking, I have found myself using the eyeball method. Part of the reason is that vegtables and meat are all of different sizes, textures and tastes, so one needs to sample to make sure that the recipe is going in the right direction.
I guess the same can be said for diet. All of us are of different sizes, shapes, ages and our bodies react totally different to the same food as it does to someone else. There are some things that you can count on, mainly that the more calories that you take in and less calories that you burn will probably lead to an unhealthy condition. It is basically trial and error.
However one thing that I am probably guilty of is eating the same or similar foods too often. Even if it is “Healthy” too much of the same thing is usually not good for you.
Hurd in Bay Minette on 28 Feb 2013 at 2:56 pm #
Nutrition is my hobby also. I have tried most every one of the know diets, but I find that if I use a Paleo template I feel better and healthier. I tie this in with what my grandparents ate with a lot of wild game and fish and it works pretty good. I have lost 68 pounds with diet alone and I’m now trying to up my exercise threshold. I’ve entered my first 5K in April. A zombie run, no less and the doc is impressed with my bloodwork. Everyone has their own body chemistry so we each just have to find what works for us. Bottom line is the higher the quality of the food and the less processing it has the better it is for you.
sideburns on 28 Feb 2013 at 3:10 pm #
Steve, my Mom always told me that baking is chemistry; you have to follow the formula exactly to get the right results. Maybe that’s why I was so good with the mixer during the years I worked in bakeries. I don’t know if you watch any of the cooking competition shows. Most of the contestants cook by eyeball, but they tend to get far more precise when baking, especially when it comes to leavening agents.
Bookworm on 28 Feb 2013 at 3:57 pm #
Jeff, that’s a good news story. Another quote from it: “Low-fat diets have not been shown in any rigorous way to be helpful, and they are also very hard for patients to maintain…”
Lost, since humans have been off the Paleo diet, our brains have actually gotten smaller and our bones less dense. Most of our intelligence developed during the Paleo period.
GR6, there really needs to be many more studies. For instance, many Paleo proponents say eat more meat, especially fatty meats, than any other food. There really aren’t any studies that show what kind of diet is best, since there are too many other factors not considered in most studies. For instance, most high fat vs low fat studies use vegetable oils and seed fats for the fat without asking whether animal fats would be better. That’s how the low fat diets are justified, but Paleo is all about eating animal fats, saying they don’t make you fat. Gary Taubes is helping develop an organization that will sponsor more accurate studies.
Hurd, congratulations on your weight loss! I’ve lost 40 and need to lose about 20 more. But I’m very short, so I’m still technically obese.
Speaking of obesity, it seems to me that everyone started getting fat when the conventional diet advice began to be “eat low fat and whole grain”. That’s when I gained the weight. So I’m back to low carb, high animal fat, and lots of green veggies like I ate in the 50s and 60s, and I feel better and am losing weight. Yes, I eat what everyone else is eating when I’m out, but then I go back to my own food at home.
sandcastler on 28 Feb 2013 at 4:15 pm #
Drink lots of beer, water weight is a short-term weight gain. That is my theory and I am drinking to it.
emeritus Minnesota biologist on 28 Feb 2013 at 4:26 pm #
‘. . . everyone started getting fat when the conventional diet advice began to be “eat low fat and whole grain”.’ That is probably mere coincidence, since the great majority of people don’t really try to follow such regimes. I think ‘everyone’ mostly began to eat more, and, at about the same time eateries began to serve larger portions, maybe to say ‘you want fries with that’ and ‘you want to supersize that’, and to serve sugar drinks in 20 oz. portions. A small coffee, which I always put cream in, is now 12 oz, even in the hospital cafeteria. Americans eat too much, and, as some of you have noted, non-fattening foods sometimes cost more.
Low-fat diets work for some things, if you are faithful and record all of your fat intake. I’ve mentioned before that my prescribed lowfat diet, started Bastille Day 2007, lowered my cholesterol from over 200 to around 170, and coincidentally lowered my weight 15#. I was not overweight, but I’m a bit leaner. I doggie box, or divide most takeouts into 2 meals at home. Will have the 2nd half of a Qdoba burrito tonight, with a good beer [0 fat grams in the beer].
Nancy in Bucks County on 28 Feb 2013 at 5:44 pm #
For us, portion control is key. And our favorite Italian cook is Giada. Even the hubby can be talked into watching her program on Food Network. http://www.foodnetwork.com/chefs/giada-de-laurentiis/index.html
Symply Fargone on 28 Feb 2013 at 5:56 pm #
Nancy in Bucks County and GR6,
Try the food networks Bitchin’ Kitchin, I love that show and the shoes OMG the shoes, I never knew I went that way lol Fargone to the max that girl! http://www.cookingchanneltv.com/shows/nadia-gs-bitchin-kitchen.html
Sandcastler I tried that beer diet, I forget if it worked though, I forgot a lot then….
I don’t really love bread or pasta, not that I don’t like them either, I’d just rather have some veggies and protein with a touch of tater or rice…and just to show you how far my foot is down my mouth, I just thawed some frozen lasagna I made while my girl was on a cruise to have now that we are back in MA with nothing to eat in the house. Owe some time on the elliptical and I am certain “Bad Word”(what I call my trainer) will have some stuff for me to do too.
Bookworm on 28 Feb 2013 at 5:57 pm #
You may be right, eMb. I just know that low fat didn’t work for me, but I did up my carb intake to make up for the lack in taste. Like I said, it all needs to be studied a lot more. Meanwhile, I’m all for eating what works for you!
Charlotte in NH on 28 Feb 2013 at 6:10 pm #
Lost in A**2 — I like your wry and intelligent comments on diet and culture.
eMb — your well reasoned comments really hit the nail on the head, and I agree with you.
Ursen, — Probably I was too hasty in commenting on your finding the healthy foods more expensive. Could you write us some specific examples? Maybe because you and I live in such different parts of the country, prices are not the same.
Jerry in Fl on 28 Feb 2013 at 7:15 pm #
The complete quote is “All things in moderation, including moderation”.
Ghost Rider 6 on 28 Feb 2013 at 7:22 pm #
Nancy, your husband can be persuaded to watch Giada? Really?
I have slowly and steadily lost 10% of my body weight over the past 5 months by gradually decreasing my food portions. Although I have certainly attempted to eat balanced and “healthy” meals, I suspect I would have done about as well, weight loss-wise, if I’d eaten junk food. (Which, of course, I am not recommending.) My point being (and expanding on eMb’s observations) that we should remember that losing weight and maintaining a healthy diet are not necessarily directly related.
sandcastler on 28 Feb 2013 at 7:30 pm #
Okay foodie, here is a link to ways to cook with kale. It is a form of cabbage, all this time I thought it was a type of seaweed. http://m.good.is/posts/healthy-recipes-one-ingredient-five-ways
curmudgeonly ex-professor on 28 Feb 2013 at 8:34 pm #
Ah, kale! It was one of the delights of my youth when cooked up with pinkelwurst! At that time I never could quite figure out what was in pinkelwurst, but have since investigated. We had it for dinner all too infrequently. I imagine the benefits of eating all that kale outdid any possible “evil” of the wurst.
Now, I will have to seek out a grocery carrying the pinkelwurst…thanks for reminding me, sandcastler.
emeritus Minnesota biologist on 28 Feb 2013 at 9:11 pm #
Kale is a cole vegetable [my favorite of which is cauliflower]; kelps are brown algae. Now I have to Metacrawler pinklewurst.
emeritus Minnesota biologist on 28 Feb 2013 at 9:17 pm #
Wiki: ‘Pinkel consists mainly of bacon, groats of oats or barley, beef suet, pig lard, onions, salt, pepper and other spices.’ Sounds like my fat quota for the day in one sausage.
Nancy in Bucks County on 28 Feb 2013 at 10:21 pm #
GR6, yes, really.
And I am looking for Good recipes for kale. Anyone???
Mindy on 01 Mar 2013 at 2:37 am #
The Yarborough guy that used to drive for NASCAR?
Mindy on 01 Mar 2013 at 4:02 am #
I didn’t say that! “Someone else” used my name without changing it! Food Morning, Debbie, from me and either John or Ginger, but not from the one who used my name in such a shameless manner! And good morning to the rest of The Village.
Debbe59 on 01 Mar 2013 at 4:31 am #
Good morning all Villagers……
And a good food morning to Mindy, John and Ginger…loved the Nascar joke Mindy…pretty quick in the a.m. aren’t ya now!!!!
I always thought kale was that long, leafy, green stuff that grew like weeds in one’s yard. And don’t some people cook dandelions?
I missed out on the Duke loss last night to Virginia (hit the sack real early)….I guess all hell broke loose after the game when the fams stormed the game floor. It’s plastered all over the news about Coach K’s infamous ‘F’ bomb…..see, I told you people love to hate Duke. No class at all. I never was a big fan of Bobby Knight either
And a cock a doodle doo morning to you GR……are you taking in dessert to your girls today?
Had to work in my carharts yesterday….had no heat in the packing room. Guess I’ll bundle up again today, as it didn’t get fixed yesterday. Temp outside was a mere 34 degrees, packing room didn’t register as the thermastat only goes down to 50 degrees. Had to opened up the door into the hen house to let some heat escape into the packing room. The hens keep it a nice 76 degrees. It helped warm the packing room up a little. Hard to pack when ya gotta wear thermal gloves.
Ya’ll have a warmfullly blessed day…………..
Debbe59 on 01 Mar 2013 at 5:29 am #
Mindy….you should have taken full credit for the joke…I thought it was great play on words, and it made me grin. Nothing like a grin, a smile, and or a laugh to start the day…..
Ghost Rider 6 on 01 Mar 2013 at 6:58 am #
Really, Debbe…why would my ladies need dessert when they have me?
To continue the food thread, no mud bugs last night, but I did have some delicious boiled shrimp. As far as I know, no one has come up with any nutritional reason why eating boiled shrimp is “bad” for you. But did you know that some religions proscribe the eating of shrimp? Fortunately, the First Pagan Church to which I belong does not. (Just kidding, Ms. Curtis. I’m not a pagan, despite what Mindy would have you believe. Also, the rumor that I am a Druid is baseless. That time I was caught painting myself blue had nothing to do with any religious practice. Besides, Druids didn’t do that, anyway.)
Jerry in Fl on 01 Mar 2013 at 7:06 am #
It must have been cool in my house this morning. I woke up with two cats curled up in my face. They’ve had breakfast, I got the newspaper, such as it is, I’ve attended morning roll call and my next job is to go back to bed for an hour. Debbe, I don’t know how you do what you do, but thinking about it makes me want some grits and eggs this morning. We appreciate your hard work.
Ghost Rider 6 on 01 Mar 2013 at 7:35 am #
No cats in my face, but a lazy man’s ham-and-cheese omelet today…two scrambled with a half ounce of cubed ham and a tablespoon of low-fat sharp cheddar folded in when the eggs are half done. One slice of whole wheat bread grilled with a drizzle of EVOO and four ounces of tomato juice on the side. Ummm.
Steve From Royal Oak, MI on 01 Mar 2013 at 7:48 am #
Nancy:
I love making kale chips. Most recipes just have you tear the leaves in edible fashion on a cookie sheet. Spread a tablespoon of Olive Oil with season salt and put in the oven at 350 for 10-15 minutes. I have modified it to use slighly more oil with a little garlic powder mixed in. You want to make sure that you get all of the leaves covered, but not saturated. If necessarry, I will spray some low fat butter of Pam to make sure all is covered. Then I sprinkle some parmesean cheese on top. No need to salt as the cheese is salty enough. You need to eat it right away. Sometimes you can try putting it back in the oven. If you have a big crowd, one pan will only last a couple of minutes.
I also like Olive Garden’s Zuppa Toscana Soup, but you might need to modify to make it healthy.
http://restaurant.food.com/recipe/olive-garden-copycat-zuppa-toscana-38298
sandcastler on 01 Mar 2013 at 7:53 am #
Morning all. I never become bored when we are discussing food, it is one of my major life delights. The problem is, I am married to a grilled cheese girl. For me to explore the wonderful world of food it means eating out, just what my aging body does not need. Have tired cooking for one, a real pain. Also done cooking classes for a chance to sample new foods and dishes. Keep up the good work, it is the only way I get to see interesting new foods.
Mindy on 01 Mar 2013 at 7:54 am #
Go, Virginia! Go, Virginia!
Ah, Debbe, my recipes originally came out of South Carolina and kale or assorted greens, including dandelion [which i'm not real crazy about] were staples, especially in the Gullah recipes. I don’t know about Debbe, Ghost, but a Ghost for dessert? Well, personally, dear little one, I’d look at dessert and say, “Get the S out of here.” I prefer my homemade ice cream, the recipe of which I won’t share even here in The Village! I do distinctly recall someone offering proof that you were a Druid, Ghost, so, Ms. Curtis, beware! He might do lewd and licentious things to your…Hostess cupcakes? If John didn’t already have all rights and privileges to me in those areas I might consider letting Ghost apply for the job. Might. Maybe. Possibly. Naaah, forget it. You can have him, Ms. Curtis. Anyone who’d be satisfied with four ounces of tomato juice [or tomatoe juice, depending] couldn’t keep up with me. Ain’t I shameless?
John has announced that today is National Kinky Day and that he’s temporarily turned Pagan. Personally, I thought it was National Pokies Day. I’m just sayin’…
Think FOOD, Villagers! Think FOOD!
Ghost Rider 6 on 01 Mar 2013 at 8:29 am #
Two points, Mindy. (1) Every day is National Pokies Day. (2) Every day is National Pokies Day.
Did I not mention the tomato juice was a Bloody Mary? Sans alcohol, of course. It is, after all, just Friday. But I now call it a “Virgin Mindy” in honor of my adopted niece.
Jean in Dahlonega Ga aka Trapper Jean on 01 Mar 2013 at 8:53 am #
Symp, it took me a while to get used to her accent (which is for the show only) but now I love Nadia G and Bitchin’ Kitchen. And yes, her shoes are just to die for!
Around here the entire quote is “Cooking is an art; baking is a science”.
sand, grilled cheese need not be boring. There are all different types of bread and cheeses to use, plus additional fillings. Introduce some new ingredients to your best girl and see what she says.
Has anybody else here seen Super Size Me, the documentary by Morgan Spurlock? For one month he ate all his meals at McDonald’s. He did begin with a full medical exam in which his doctor told him he was in good health, but by the end of the month Spurlock had gained 25 pounds and his doctor told him his chanced for a heart attack had gone up quite a bit.
I will admit I do love mashed potatoes made with cream and lots of butter, but I know eating too much of them is bad for me. I also do not keep bags of Oreos in the house.
Mindy on 01 Mar 2013 at 9:14 am #
Ghost, a Bloody Mary sans alcohol is and has always been called a Virgin Mary. Perhaps you could take Virgin Mindy out for a Virgin Mary without aggravating the Adamant Amy? [Ms. Collins' name was Amy, was it not?] Totally unrelated, I am trying so hard to remember the name of the Topless Cooking Show we watched last night! [Topless except for the top of an apron; some spill and splatter protection are required by OSHA.] We thought it was a satire but turned out it was really and truly kosher! I wrote down the name but lost the wrote down paper. You might not be interested since the lady in question was definitely not as well endowed as your Mythical Giana. Ah, forget it, you probably wouldn’t be interested in anything so crass and vulgar, would you?
Mindy on 01 Mar 2013 at 9:23 am #
Bad taste or not, I just gotta do this! CNN Headline News Headline: “Man vanishes into bedroom sinkhole.” This refers to an incident in Florida.
John saw the headline, never bothered to read the story, muttered, “I didn’t know my ex-wife moved to Florida.” I’m still laughing at the offhanded, totally deadpan way in which he said it.
Dear John’s Ex-Wife: If you’re reading this [and I doubt that since your sense of humor would never allow you into The Village...except, perhaps, as the judgmental Ms. Collins or Virgin Mindy?], this just proves that John still thinks about you. [Signed] Mindy.
Ghost Rider 6 on 01 Mar 2013 at 9:23 am #
Of course not.
Ghost Rider 6 on 01 Mar 2013 at 9:25 am #
“be interested in anything so crass and vulgar”, I mean. Whether or not you are mean is another question entirely.
Ghost Rider 6 on 01 Mar 2013 at 9:36 am #
“Opie Taylor” turns 59 today. Does anyone else find that hard to believe?
http://images.zap2it.com/images/tv-EP00000324/the-andy-griffith-show-ronny-howard-2.jpg
sandcastler on 01 Mar 2013 at 10:02 am #
Help, do any of you Weather Channel viewers know why their weather app is down?
Last evening we saw a Pampers ad with a nursing mom, was after 10ET, but not tasteful. Has anyone else been put off by this ad?
John in Virginia on 01 Mar 2013 at 10:07 am #
sandcastler, somehow the combination tends to be really off putting, as the Cousins would say. On the other hand, I was amazed at how a male-female couple were so loudly irate over a nursing mother who was sitting in the supposed privacy of her automobile after leaving a restaurant so as not to disturb anyone inside. I actually heard one grumble, “That’s what God intended bottles for!” Oy vey…
Mindy on 01 Mar 2013 at 10:07 am #
My turn! My turn!
Did Opie turn left or right, Ghost?
sandcastler on 01 Mar 2013 at 10:09 am #
Mindy, my Opie tracker does not show him anywhere near US 59.
Mindy on 01 Mar 2013 at 10:17 am #
I wondered, sandcastler, because if he turned left on 59th he would be heading toward the bakery and if he turned right he would be heading toward the liquor store. I like to keep track of things like that. Who ever thought that Opie would turn out to be one of the best directors or our time? With or without pastries for Miss Bee. Or Miss Bea. Whichever.
sandcastler on 01 Mar 2013 at 10:37 am #
OK, while on food and eating healthy, this article appeared in my daily reading folder.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/03/01/our-unsafe-food-supply-is-killing-us.html
Steve From Royal Oak, MI on 01 Mar 2013 at 10:57 am #
Mindy it was Aunt Bea…Some might spell it Bee though.
Ghost Rider 6 on 01 Mar 2013 at 11:56 am #
Mindy, I really don’t know, but based on a list of his political campaign donations I once saw online, I think “Opie” may have made a slight left turn.
Even though the above article about our food supply seems to be mostly bemoaning the lack of more government regulation of our daily lives, it does include the statement “Despite the alluring ubiquity of junk food, the ability to eat healthy is available to all of us, if we are willing to choose it.” Which makes me wonder if, as in many things, this may not be as much or more an educational issue as it is a regulatory issue.
sand, no problem with Weather.com app now, but I didn’t notice earlier. Only thing that doesn’t seem to be working on my smart phone is SMS, as I’m still awaiting a reply from a lady friend.
sandcastler on 01 Mar 2013 at 12:05 pm #
GR6, best of luck with your SMS; sorry I am not into role playing.
Bookworm on 01 Mar 2013 at 12:26 pm #
Sandcastler, thanks for the link. Good story. Lunchtime here: Chicken Alfredo made with spaghetti squash instead of pasta. Kale chips will be my snack this afternoon.
Mark in TTown on 01 Mar 2013 at 12:37 pm #
While we are on Food, I saw a picture of this on a restaurant sign on the net: “Ham and eggs. A day’s work for a chicken, a life’s choice for a pig”.
Bookworm on 01 Mar 2013 at 12:58 pm #
Thoughts about the news story Sandcastler gave the link to (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/03/01/our-unsafe-food-supply-is-killing-us.html) [I can never remember how to make the link clickable.] — I don’t really expect the FDA to police what the food companies put in the food they make. They are only making what people buy. If no one bought it, they wouldn’t make it. To me, that’s not what the FDA’s role should be. They could maybe tell us what the additives do to us and let us make up out minds. But there isn’t enough money to do that much testing. So it’s up to us to decide what we’ll put into our bodies.
Bookworm on 01 Mar 2013 at 1:05 pm #
Oh, it IS clickable! Hmmmm.
Mindy on 01 Mar 2013 at 1:19 pm #
Mark in TTown, there might be a tad bit of debate whether or not the pig knowingly made the choice. If so, greater love hath no pig than to lay down his life for my Jimmy Dean sausage and an occasional slice of salt cured Virginia ham, amen!
[Sorry, Ms. Collins, but there it is.]
John in Richmond Texas on 01 Mar 2013 at 1:27 pm #
or to lay down his life for someone’s aortic valve replacement
John in Richmond Texas on 01 Mar 2013 at 1:35 pm #
Trapper Jean, 8:53AM, oh for sure, no Oreos in the house, we keep the good stuff, Nestle’s chocolate chip cookie dough, where you can make only a few at a time. A Whole Foods that just opened near us has a grilled cheese sandwich bar, barstools, adult beverages and made to order grilled cheese sandwiches, with any number/combination of breads and cheeses . .. Help Me ! it’s only 1:30 and nothing on my desk, my boss let me rearrange his file cabinet of job orders from separated by customer to everything numerical but that only took 20 minutes. I can only play so much Word Whomp and Poppit and everyone else has an office and I’m stuck out in the open, so I can’t close my eyes too much
curmudgeonly ex-professor on 01 Mar 2013 at 2:02 pm #
eMb: Fear not the pinkelwurst, should you be so fortunate to find some! If memory serves, each is about 4″ long by 1.5″ diameter, and one served our entire family of four. It typically burst during the cooking/boiling of the kale, so its flavor (and fats) became distributed in the kale. With typical portions of that kale, not much fat would be in a serving. Enjoy!
sandcastler on 01 Mar 2013 at 3:32 pm #
Mindy, I grew up eating home cured ham, now you have me craving a slice. See what you do to me?
Bookworm, sandcastler™ is always written with a lower case “s.”
Ruth Anne in Winter Park on 01 Mar 2013 at 4:00 pm #
Our niece has become quite a kale devotee recently. If I can find where she posted links to good recipes, I will pass them along. Meanwhile,on a less healthy note, a new restaurant just opened near us called Toasted, which describes itself as “Central Florida’s first grilled-cheese eatery”. Haven’t been there yet but it does sound interesting.
Mark in Boston on 01 Mar 2013 at 5:09 pm #
Here in Boston we have our new grilled-cheese eatery, Cheeseboy. http://cheeseboy.com for those who want to find one nearby.
Mark in TTown on 01 Mar 2013 at 6:21 pm #
Ruth Anne, a little searching provided this link: http://igettoasted.com/
And now I’m hungry! Thanks. If I ever happen to be in the area I’ve got to look this place up.
Jerry in Fl on 01 Mar 2013 at 7:41 pm #
Good bread, good meat, good Lord, Let’s eat!
Ruth Anne in Winter Park on 01 Mar 2013 at 8:31 pm #
Mark in TTown – I looked at the menu on Toasted’s website not long after posting here. Comments left on their Facebook page were generally quite positive for a place that just opened this week. We’ll check it out soon and I’ll post my “review” for the Village
Ghost Rider 6 on 01 Mar 2013 at 8:48 pm #
Maybe I put on my grouch hat this morning without noticing, but to me going out to an eatery and paying like nine bucks for a grilled cheese sandwich makes about as much sense as going out to order a three dollar glass of tap water. I mean, when it comes to fixing a good grilled cheese at home, you don’t exactly have to be a cordon bleu chef to fix the freakin’ thing.
However, if this catches on, I’ll look into starting a chain of restaurants that serve only very expensive bowls of canned tomato soup and provide only straws instead of soup spoons. I’d call it “Soup Suckers”.
Trapper Jean on 01 Mar 2013 at 9:01 pm #
Jerry in FL, that little “prayer” got me in sooo much trouble when I was 10 or so. My Uncle Doug was home on leave and had plans to meet some friends so he was having a quick snack before leaving. Since we always said grace before eating I asked Uncle Doug if he wasn’t going to do that, too. He thought a minute then said that prayer. Later when the rest of us sat down for supper and my Dad (Doug’s eldest brother) told me to say grace I figured I would say the new one I had learned from my very cool uncle. Daddy almost choked, then asked where I had heard THAT one. I told him, and he said “that figures, but go back to the old one”. I think he and Uncle Doug had a brotherly prayer meeting later.
Ghost Rider 6 on 01 Mar 2013 at 9:12 pm #
I’ve long felt many ventures into the mid-to-upscale restaurant racket are founded primarily on hype, often buttressed by the Foodie Establishment. But it appears that if the FE decides you are toying with it, it will turn around bite you on your Haunch of Roasted Venison With Red Wine & Rosemary Gravy. I offer as an example the following:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/14/dining/reviews/restaurant-review-guys-american-kitchen-bar-in-times-square.html
emeritus Minnesota biologiost on 01 Mar 2013 at 9:12 pm #
c xp: Thanks. The Wiki site pictured a burst sausage, but I didn’t realize it was so small. I mentioned that cauliflower was my favorite cole vegetable. Kale is my least favorite. I doubt that I will encounter pinkle, so my diet is not in danger. It’s mostly a problem at some restaurants, but Doc says if I manage 9 days out of 10, I’m ok, and the lab work cholesterol has come in around 170 since summer 2007. Nobody is really out of the woods; just the other day a famous oboist collapsed on stage at age 57, was dead of a brain hemorrhage the next day. Don’t know if strokes correlate with cholesterol. Couple weeks from now I drive to the Twin Cities for an appointment. That’s taking your life in your hands. So is too many meals at some of the restaurants down there. Burp.
Ghost Rider 6 on 01 Mar 2013 at 9:23 pm #
sandcaster™: “SMS role playing”? Really? Methinks you’ve been hanging around Mistress Mindy too much.
Charlotte in NH on 01 Mar 2013 at 10:49 pm #
I’ve seen ads for a fairly new restaurant in Manchester, NH that serves only macaroni and cheese! I don’t think it’s a chain, it’s a family-run place. Reading the list of variations they serve is intriguing, as you can imagine — lots of different cheeses and other stuff can be put in. Can’t remember the name of it, something clever.
Bookworm on 01 Mar 2013 at 10:50 pm #
Sorry, sandcastler, my English teacher snuck in. Always had a problem with E. E. Cummings’ stuff.
Mark in TTown on 02 Mar 2013 at 12:04 am #
http://www.germandeli.com/sw126.html
I got yer pinkelwurst right here!
Ghost Rider 6 on 02 Mar 2013 at 12:10 am #
Umm. Droste Kakao.
Symply Fargone on 02 Mar 2013 at 12:20 am #
Used to have a recipe I can no longer find about layering kale, onion(thinly sliced) and potato(thinly sliced) in a pyrex 9×12 in 3 or so layers a la lasagna and adding milk?/cream/something like that and baking at yor usual 350F for I don’t remember how long, but it was delicious, it was the exes recipe, if anyone has one like it, please post, if I don’t acknowledge it, please repost
Much appreciated it is a Fargone recipe I’d Symply love to have again.
Symply Fargone on 02 Mar 2013 at 12:21 am #
GR6 that is the cocoa I grew up on, my Swiss grandmother always bought that, I’ve never known anyone to know that brand. pretty Fargone!
TruckerRon on 02 Mar 2013 at 12:25 am #
The thing about most restaurants is you CAN eat a healthy diet, but it takes more self-control than many of us have. I had no problem keeping my weight down when I was trucking. I’d buy the oversized meals in the truck stops, then request a box and put half the meal in it for later (I had a cooler in the truck). Between the foods I’d pick up at grocery stores and the meals I’d split, I averaged $75 per week for food. And I also volunteered for the loads that required me to get in the trailer and move stuff to the rear — extra $$ and good exercise.
Of course the truckers who ate the whole meals and demanded the no-touch loads ended up a fair bit larger than I ever did!
Mark in TTown on 02 Mar 2013 at 1:33 am #
Symply, here’s one I found: http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/winter-greens-potato-casserole-10000000577195/
Mark in TTown on 02 Mar 2013 at 1:35 am #
And here’s another: http://beacon.salisbury.edu/provident/recipes/potatoes_kale.htm
Mindy on 02 Mar 2013 at 3:36 am #
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD MORNING, VIL-LUH-GERS! [Guess who just watched Robin Williams' funniest ever movie.]
And Food Morning, Debbe!
Other than that, I don’t have a whole lot to say. So I won’t say it. Goodbye.
Virgin Mindy on 02 Mar 2013 at 4:55 am #
If only she’s day that and then stay goodbye-ed. The world would be such a better place.
Russell Way Out There on 02 Mar 2013 at 4:56 am #
Is there a healthy way to make a GOOD Philly steak & cheese?
Ginger on 02 Mar 2013 at 5:00 am #
Will someone tell me (at the risk of changing the topic a tad) why a horse has to be mounted from the left side? When I tried to mount one from the opposite side yesterday she got all antsy and right near stomped on my foot! I did it that way because my left knee hurt and I thought it would be easier to actually step up on my right leg…Mindy just laughed, nasty, evil person that she is even if she is my (relationship indicating phrase deleted).
Lost in A**2 on 02 Mar 2013 at 5:42 am #
I’ve not looked it up yet, but I’d guess training. If a horse is always mounted from the left, he gets used to it and resents change.
Ghost Rider 6 on 02 Mar 2013 at 6:39 am #
Ginger: It’s from days of yore, when one mounted one’s horse from the left because one normally wore one’s sword on one’s left side, and said sword would be in the way of one when one mounted one’s mount. (Unless one was a stallion, in which case mounting from the left would just be kinky.) Horses are creatures of habit (aren’t we all?) and normally expect humans to mount them from the left, as well as being approached from the left for saddling and grooming. Otherwise they suspect one may be a puma or something else trying to eat them and shy away. Of course, they can be trained to be accept a rider from either side. At least that’s what my Daddy told me the first time I saddled a horse, many years ago.
Ghost Rider 6 on 02 Mar 2013 at 6:45 am #
I’ve never had Droste Kakao, SF, but as soon as I saw it, I knew it had to be good. I may order some.
http://www.germandeli.com/drostecacao.html
Ghost Rider 6 on 02 Mar 2013 at 6:45 am #
“…one can get beaten up in school simply by referring to oneself as one.” Dr. Sheldon Cooper
Jerry in Fl on 02 Mar 2013 at 6:46 am #
What’s the deal? I posted a comment and got a screen message “You are posting comments too quickly. Slow down.” And my comment disappeared.
Ghost Rider 6 on 02 Mar 2013 at 6:57 am #
Virgin Mindy, my feeling about you is that, as Hannibal said to Clarice, “The world is more interesting with you in it.” But Mindy apparently does not share that feeling. So you may want to stay away from her, sweetheart, as, given a chance, she might eat you.
Ghost Rider 6 on 02 Mar 2013 at 6:59 am #
Jerry, apparently you are posting your comments too quickly and need to slow down.
Never got that one, although I know the blog software it won’t let you post the exact entry more than once.
Ghost Rider 6 on 02 Mar 2013 at 7:02 am #
See, I posted too quickly and included a superfluous word. And I hereby claim credit for the first use of the word “superfluous” on this blog.
Ghost Rider 6 on 02 Mar 2013 at 7:10 am #
So many comments to post, so little time. I haven’t even had time to check out TWC and the morning “news” shows to see how short the skirts are today.
sandcastler on 02 Mar 2013 at 7:14 am #
Ahhh, good morning from Bayou City.
Mindy, I had to walk out twice on that Robin Williams movie, too intense for this veteran.
Ginger on 02 Mar 2013 at 7:38 am #
Ghost, I think Virgin Mindy used “superfluous” first…when describing herself.
I think I can understand why you might have had to, sandcastler, even though the movie was a terrific comedy. We know a retired Navy guy who was a brown water sailor on PBRs along the DMZ and he said the boat shots brought back a lot of good and bad memories for him as well.
Not mocking the fact at all, but I love the way the military [and the police] so freely use acronyms in their verbal and written records and commentaries. [I hereby claim first user status for "acronymns"!] in MACV there was the 1MARDIV and the ARVIN and SOG and NVA and PLAN, not to mention DEROS, FUBAR, SNAFU [originally in WW2], plus DMZ, FNG, RECON, LRP, LRRP, USN, USA, USAF, VC and TACAIR, FO, RM, FIGMO and LS/MFT. How did you guys ever learn all that and then learn how to not use it in every sentence when you came back to The World? I’m not mocking, I’m fascinated, and, in my own way, I’m complimenting every man & woman in service. [LS/MFT is, I understand, a 1st Infantry term for "Large, Slow Moving Target," referring to Arab women in Iraq.] But what do I know.
I do know that we are all The Village People so now I shall sing “In the Navy” to bug the wax out of John’s ears followed by “YMCA.” Goodbye.
Ginger on 02 Mar 2013 at 7:38 am #
Oh, poo! I got in 1MARDIV but omitted USMC! Forgive me, Chesty Puller and Sgt. Major Lou Diamond!
Ginger on 02 Mar 2013 at 7:39 am #
Oh, poo again! Mindy was Ginger in the past two instances. Drat.
sandcastler on 02 Mar 2013 at 7:56 am #
You learn the military lingo like a foreign language, via immersion. Almost every profession has a lingo that only the initiated can speak. Helps in identifying the pretenders. By the by, you left out every service persons favor, ETS; Expected Time of Separation.
Now on to LSMFT. Original meaning was Lucky Strikes Mean Fine Tobacco. It has been bastardized in many ways. The one I was taught, Loose Stripes Mean Floppy T**s.
Jean in Dahlonega Ga aka Trapper Jean on 02 Mar 2013 at 8:10 am #
Speaking of specialty restaurants, a couple of years ago I was watching one of those non-food shows on the Food Network and they visited a restaurant-in New York, I think- that served only tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches. Of course there were several versions of the soup, and many versions of the sandwich, but still, tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches.
I often watch Robert Irvine and his show Restaurant: Impossible and see what messes the owners have gotten into and I think ‘you know, most people should not be in that business because they are morons who do not know what they are doing’.
Steve From Royal Oak, MI on 02 Mar 2013 at 8:22 am #
Posting too quickly. Fortunately, I have never had that problem…
sandcastler on 02 Mar 2013 at 8:31 am #
Trapper Jean, you show smarts. You have no idea how often I see people with what they believe is the next killer concept. For every $1,000,000 they claim their plan can generate the probability of success is 0.0000001%. What they never see is the graveyard of failed business plans, mainly because it has no tombstones due to poverty.
sandcastler on 02 Mar 2013 at 8:33 am #
Ahhh my earlier post was struck by Siri; Stripes was suppose to be Straps. I apologize for Apple’s cleaning up the comment.
Symply Fargone on 02 Mar 2013 at 9:21 am #
@mark in TTown,
Thanks! I never post too quickly, they seeem to like it slooooooooooooooowwww. Go figger?
Yesterday i went by one of my mother’s friends to drop off a necklace my mother wore as a memento, she made me tomato soup and as she called it a cheesy melt for lunch….and today we are talking about a restaurant that serves these…..interesting……..to me I guess.
May all the villagers have a great weekend, me I’m off to find the village idiot, I hear he is pretty Fargone, think he hides in me mirror.
Ghost Rider 6 on 02 Mar 2013 at 9:53 am #
I agree, Jean. An eatery that offers only tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches strikes me as being like a Nevada brothel that offers only…well, never mind.
Mindy from Indy on 02 Mar 2013 at 10:04 am #
Don’t know if I’ve mentioned this here or not, but I’ve only seen Good Morning Vietnam once -at the drive-in, not too long after it came out. I would have been ten. I was *supposed* to be asleep, but as a lifelong insomniac, no chance. (An aside, my parents forbid my sister and I from watching “scary” movies, but the most intense, hard “R” films weren’t an issue. Go figure.) Anyhow, the bit where the diner blows with “What a Wonderful World” playing in the background is probably THE defining moment of life. The power of the visual image, sound, and world awareness hit home so hard, I’ve never quite been able to sit through either the movie or song since.
Oh, and tomato soup? Number three of the top three soups I’d starve before I’d eat. One – broccoli, two – cabbage. Then again, I won’t touch wild game or 99.99% of water critters either (tuna the exception), so yeah, finicky.
Ghost Rider 6 on 02 Mar 2013 at 10:49 am #
So, Lady Mindy, I don’t suppose I could interest you in any uni (sea urchin) or other fine nigiri sushi, then?
http://mysardinia.com/content/eating-sea-urchin.jpg
Ghost Rider 6 on 02 Mar 2013 at 11:19 am #
Think I’ll fix a crawfish and Andouille sausage dish for my ladies next time.
Mindy from Indy on 02 Mar 2013 at 11:24 am #
Ghost – No. And Eww.
Ghost Rider 6 on 02 Mar 2013 at 12:25 pm #
I know, Lady Mindy, that one was intentionally a little extreme. Most sushi isn’t. Much of it doesn’t even have water critters in it, raw or otherwise. And tuna (toro) is the best of all…if you can afford it.
Mark in Boston on 02 Mar 2013 at 1:45 pm #
Jerry in FL:
Here’s another grace for you:
Rub-a-Dub-Dub, Thanks for the grub!
Yaaaaaaaaaaay God!
Mindy on 02 Mar 2013 at 4:32 pm #
Isn’t “sushi” the Japanese word for Morning Sickness? All day long?
Lost in A**2 on 02 Mar 2013 at 5:02 pm #
You are thinking of sashimi, Ms Mindy. “Sushi” is made with vinegared rice. Admittedly, sushi often includes sashimi. I just read that some restaurants Down South are using crawfish in their sushi.
Charlotte in NH on 02 Mar 2013 at 5:18 pm #
That restaurant of only macaroni and cheese is named “Mr. Mac” and it seems they do a big take-out business, trays or containers one can heat and serve at home. Sounds good!
sandcastler on 02 Mar 2013 at 5:33 pm #
I know sundresses have a following among the Villagers. While it is not high season in most of the Villages regions, this link might help us celebrate the coming sundress season.http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/unusual-winter-light-installation-from-ekaterinburg
sideburns on 02 Mar 2013 at 6:35 pm #
Then again, there’s always the Jackass Roll: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/the-next-food-network-star/jackass-roll-recipe/index.html if you don’t want to use fish.
Robin in FL on 02 Mar 2013 at 8:07 pm #
Got stuck in moderation hell:
If you choose to follow the Mediterranean diet, be aware that most olive oil you buy might be mixed with other oils–there is no agreed-on standard. And plenty of scamming:
http://ca.shine.yahoo.com/blogs/shine-on/olive-oil-scandal-not-virginal-may-seem-191322119.html
Which is a HUGE scandal today…just like it was when Mark Twain wrote about it in the late 1800s. And like it was in 2001.
So, grow your own! Except you don’t really know what is in your soil. Or paleo-wise, kill your own mastadons. Apparently many people in north FL/south AL have been doing that because they have become very scarce. What I love about the paleo diet is how long people lived back then. Oh wait…
We’re all gonna die, looks like.
emeritus Minnesota biologiost on 02 Mar 2013 at 8:21 pm #
Up here we’d have trouble growing our own olive trees. They grow in places that have frost, but I expect they’re not northern-MN hardy. Also, I’m not sure how soon after planting them they first bear fruit. They do it for a long time; we saw trees > 2,000 years old near Delphi, Greece. They are, I believe the longest-lived plants that bear fruit humans can eat.
Jerry in Fl on 02 Mar 2013 at 11:21 pm #
You are correct, Every profession has it’s own vocabulary, full of acronyms. Police radio calls have “signals” supposedly to keep civilians from knowing what is going on. I don’t remember any except signal 20 was a mentally disturbed person. That only applied to about 99.9% of the people that we dealt with and 50% of my co-workers. Gosh, the stories that brings to mind.Some of them would be too difficult to relate here, except maybe the guy trying to climb into a locked computer room and falling through the ceiling, destroying a lot of expensive stuff. Last I heard, he was a licensed mental helth counselor. Isn’t that usually the way it works? BTW my youngest son has degrees in psychology and criminal justice and works in the circus. Seriously.
Mindy on 03 Mar 2013 at 5:09 am #
Jerry, a lot of PDs have gotten away from most “signals,” using, instead, plain language. This is due to some multi-agency confusion on and after 9-11, I’m told.
Ghost? How would you know what is served in a Nevada brothel? Hath thou partaken thereof? As Ms. Collins would inquire…
sandcastler, oddly enough, I’ve lost weight this winter rather than gaining it. Yesterday, before even reading your post, I broke out a couple of Ye Olde Sundresses, a favorite mode of getting-around-town-comfortably in summer months, and found that I’ll either have to buy new ones or have the old ones hemmed up. They sorta sag and bag, as Dad would say, in places. Ironic how a weight loss in the waist could cause the top to slip out of place just enough to make pokies a public nuisance! Or else John did something to the shoulder straps which, on the ones I tried on, are indeed adjustable. Come to think of it, he did hand each dress to me to try on and he was leering, albeit not drooling, rather blatantly…No, Ghost, there will be no film at eleven.
Is this sort of discussion acceptable for a family-oriented room?
Mindy on 03 Mar 2013 at 6:46 am #
Food morning, Debbe!
[From all of us to you!]
Between sandcastler and Ghost with the sundresses I’m chomping at the bit for warm weather to get here! Now that the voyeur preacher is gone I can go and and just lie in the sun as well as fight the Devil Bamboo…and I’m actually looking forward to that! Being cooped up in the house all winter long is a royal pain in the place where it hurts. Ginger is driving me crazy with [gender specific pronoun deleted] yakking and gabbing. As quiet as I am, not to mention as shy and reticent, [gender specific pronoun deleted*] blithering and blathering is too much.
*”Gender specific pronoun” can be “his, her or its.” This announcement made possible by the Federal Truth in Advertising legislation of quite a few years ago [does not apply to politicians or to either governmental officials or agencies or other employees].
Ghost Rider 6 on 03 Mar 2013 at 7:45 am #
Mindy, you didn’t know that one can go to a Nevada bordello’s web site and check the menu, just as for other establishments of public accommodation?
By the way…cold, empty sundresses hanging in trees? Now that’s truly obscene.
So John hands you sundresses and watches up try them on? Ironically, the word of the day is “panoptic”.
Debbe54 on 03 Mar 2013 at 7:47 am #
….good morning to all Villagers
and a specific food morning to you Mindy, John and Ginger…
not much to say today or yesterday….did read al the posts, liked the prayers of grace before eating.
One of my inside cats got out Friday and we still can’t find him.
Ya’ll have a blessed day…
sandcastler on 03 Mar 2013 at 7:51 am #
Hugs Villagers. I see me sundress post has the Village humming. As to John handing out sundresses, Bless You My Son.
Jean in Dahlonega Ga aka Trapper Jean on 03 Mar 2013 at 7:59 am #
It’s a bit too early for me to think of food (besides coffee, that is) and I was going to say something about something somebody posted, but in my search for the aforesaid coffee I forgot what it was. Oh well…
Good Morning, everyone!
Llee on 03 Mar 2013 at 8:36 am #
Jimmy! Great riddle…
Ghost Rider 6 on 03 Mar 2013 at 8:58 am #
Good morning, Debbe. How’s my favorite hippy chick?
Good morning, Jean. How’s my favorite six-foot-tall redhead?
Cold morning in the Deep South today. About sunrise, I saw a squirrel trying to keep his nuts warm.
Robin in FL on 03 Mar 2013 at 9:18 am #
Debbe
Hope you find the kitty!
Mindy on 03 Mar 2013 at 10:58 am #
Hi, Robin. Be careful you don’t encourage Ghost. And, speaking of Ghost, who never ceased to awe and amaze me and the rest of the Village People, panoptic was a very good word even though speel check won’t accept it. Believe it or not, I remembered that word [from something John came up with that is definitely a story for yet another day far, far in the future].
John in Virginia on 03 Mar 2013 at 11:00 am #
With Gene out of the house, I suspect that riddle is going to lead to things more risque and enjoyable, perhaps with even a panoptic element…I may go try that on Mindy.
sandcastler on 03 Mar 2013 at 11:15 am #
Mindy, just Google panoptic.
https://www.google.com/search?redir_esc=&redir_esc=&hl=en-US&client=tablet-android-asus-nexus&source=android-unknown&v=210020311&qsubts=1362330852366&action=devloc&q=panoptic
Mindy from Indy on 03 Mar 2013 at 1:37 pm #
Do you think JJ will post a “March fo(u)rth” retro tomorrow? I hope. Those always make me laugh.
Steve From Royal Oak, MI on 03 Mar 2013 at 2:56 pm #
May the fourth be with you Mindy
Debbe54 on 03 Mar 2013 at 3:24 pm #
Mindy….Virginia Tech Hokies (not to be confused with pokies) take on ….arrcchhhhggg…Duke. Where in the world did they come up with ‘Hokies” My hustband said it had something to do with ‘turkeys’…. Getting ready to watch the Michigan games play….
Thank you Ghost for asking about your favorite ‘hippy chick’, I’m getting by, it’s kinda of like Jack Nigholson in the the movie (As good as it gets) with Cuba Gooding Jr. and they take that road trip…Jack sits at the bar and tells the bartender that alcohol is the last of the legal substances…always dd like Jack…to the point
Well….good game on in a few minutes…Mich State vs Mich Wolverines….I’m haveing ‘sgetti’ tonight
ROBIN….thanks…..we’ve looked and looked…I just cannot figure out how he got out the door. Went outside, called for him (we live in a wooded area), but still no Jack….the cat
Steve….where is Hoosier Hills……………
Jerry in Fl on 03 Mar 2013 at 5:08 pm #
They do have a way of slipping behind your back, into your closet or out the door.
Ghost Rider 6 on 03 Mar 2013 at 7:21 pm #
Debbe, meal after next I treat my ladies to, after the crawfish and Andouille sausage dish, will be ‘sgetti and meat sauce. Enjoy.
Mark in TTown on 03 Mar 2013 at 7:58 pm #
Debbe59, go out with some dry food in a container and shake it. By now your kitty should be getting hungry and hearing a familiar sound might bring it home. It’s worked for me before. Don’t call, just shake. If you hear an answer, then start calling her name.
Mark in TTown on 03 Mar 2013 at 7:59 pm #
His name. Confused the Robin I saw in one post with your cat.
Charlotte in NH on 03 Mar 2013 at 8:33 pm #
Today’s (Sunday) “Funky Winkerbean” says that when Charles Dickens visited this country he toured the mills in Lowell, Mass. He was so impressed with the spirited young women working in the mills, that he wrote of them in one of his books. I can’t think which book this might be; any ideas from you folks?
Steve From Royal Oak, MI on 03 Mar 2013 at 8:40 pm #
Debbe:
Hoosier Hills is near Richmond, just south of Muncie and east of New Castle. My brother does not live too far away from it.
Jerry in Fl on 03 Mar 2013 at 9:19 pm #
Cats can find the best hiding places in the house,too. Check every room, every closet, on top of china cabinets and under everything. Keep calling his name and when you finish do it again. I have been positive that we’ve lost a cat and she will come walking into the room from who knows where. Oh yeah, don’t forget the kitchen cabinets and in the showers. I once found our younger girl on the fourth search of my wife’s closet.
Symply Fargone on 03 Mar 2013 at 11:28 pm #
Charlotte in NH,
try this link: http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/5171
Does not give a title except “American Notes” that i see but lots of info
Symply Fargone on 03 Mar 2013 at 11:29 pm #
Charlotte,
Also same here:
http://inventors.about.com/od/indrevolution/a/Francis_Lowell_2.htm
Symply Fargone on 03 Mar 2013 at 11:30 pm #
Night village…btw if you do like sushi and you are in Boston try O Ya’s ate there the other night and it was amazing. Fargone like outta this world good.
John in Virginia on 04 Mar 2013 at 12:54 am #
Debbe, I think the Hokie name is rather stupid. Needless to say, I am not a Tech fan. Needless to say, I hate basketball. The last game or part of a game I watched was in 1987. I had no choice. It was all that was on a hospital television. That’s ASFYAD.
Mindy on 04 Mar 2013 at 12:54 am #
Darn it! That’s twice in 24 hours!
Debbe54 on 04 Mar 2013 at 4:08 am #
Good morning Villagers…
And a food morning to Mindy, John and Ginger…..
Still no Jack the cat, he is a closet cat…he could open cabinet doors and one never knew he was in one of them. We searched this whole 2700 square foot house, complete with flashlights. The last time anyone saw him was Friday, when my husband was vacuuming under out bed and he just laid there, not even trying to get out of the way; while the other cats galloped to get out of the way of the vacuum. He’s been ‘fixed’ and always was peering through a window looking out. I think he really liked to be an outside cat. He was a rescue kitty that my husband brought home as a kitten from a ferrel house (hog building). I pray that he may return, there’s a lot of uncharted territory out there in our woods.
Mark…I do like the idea of the cat food in a can….gonna try that.
In today’s real time, someone posted the dates of the strips that had the March 4th riddle…it was the third poster.
GR…good luck with your sgetti….
Wonder if they every got the heat going at work, but it’s supposed to creep up to 45 degrees today.
Thanks Steve for the info,
Ya’ll have a blessed day
Rick in Shermantown, Ohio on 04 Mar 2013 at 4:51 am #
And today is the day that I need to thank Arlo for bringing to my attention some years ago that today’s date is also a command.
How I escaped hearing that before Arlo said it is beyond me – I was in my forties, at the very least, maybe in my early fifties.
This makes me wonder what other common sayings I have managed to miss somehow.
Ghost Rider 6 on 04 Mar 2013 at 7:52 am #
I think “Hokie” came from a school fight song and doesn’t really mean anything. Other than being a word that rhymes with “pokie”.
Jean in Dahlonega Ga aka Trapper Jean on 04 Mar 2013 at 8:00 am #
Ghost-good morning to you, too! I’m good this morning, but getting out of my nice warm bed was not easy. The temp is still in the 30s, and those flannel sheets are so warm but getting up was the only way to get coffee.
Lost in A**2 on 04 Mar 2013 at 8:05 am #
Ghost Rider agrees with wikipedia, for whatever that is worth. The original spelling appears to have been “Hoki.”
Rick, Randall Munro has an interesting comment on that subject.