Forgetting is easy these days.

Quite so.

What were we talking about, again?

Wisest action would be to ask "Ok if I sniff it?" and see what the vendor says but I don't think there would be any objections.

Every situation is different. I am impressed, though,
both negatively and positively, by the old Chinese
ladies who don't care and take a sniff or a squeeze
no matter what the grocer says.

Sometimes it's the only way to judge produce. I always sniff a melon at
the stem end.

I sometimes do the thump test or gently press a
fingernail into the blossom end.

Automation would help but I've not seen coin machines that sort by

date > or metal content.
There is such machinery, but it's expensive. I read
somewhere that the breakeven for a substantial
penny-sorting operation would be a copper penny
having a metal worth 3 to 4c - right now it's down
to about 2c.

So one penny would be your 2c worth?

Unless it was a good penny ... or a good 2c worth.

Yes, much as we gripe about the cold, it does have its benefits.

Goes both ways, as does almost everything. It'll
all boil down, if you will, to our hardiness as
a species, but we can help ourselves out by
embracing conservation and renewal technologies
and weaning ourselves from the old ones.

Or reverting back to some of the even older ways.

Maybe ... .

Just buy a small quantity and I'll let someone else take it home.

Same > with white flour.
I'll buy the economy size and let someone take
it home. Most of the echo people use conventional
stuff without compunction.

Different ways of cooking/eating.

Maybe ... .

In those cases it may not have had anything to
do with smoke, first or secondhand.

I still try to keep clear of it.

And barbecues and fireplaces?

Pretty much so. We have a gas fireplace, don't use it a lot but it's
nice to have if we have an extended winter time power outage. Steve does
the outdoor cooking; he has a Boston butt on the pellet grill at the
moment.

Sounds good, but what about his lungs?

Sorry, Steve wasn't in the Army during the Viet Nam era so no jungle fighting with macheties. The cleaver is the closest kitchen tool we

have > to it.
Machete warfare never struck me as a US Army type
of operation - I associate the knives more with
trailblazing, jungle clearing, and so on.

Would have been handy in Viet Nam from what I understand. Also some of
the islands in the Pacific, during WWII.

Probably in our situation the best way to cleave a
green coconut would be in a tub of some sort to
catch liquids. In which case a cleaver or hatchet
would do.

OK, I know we have the cleaver, not sure about a hatchet. I know we do
have an ax. (G)

Axes would work, but with the long handle, but with my
vision I would be a poor choice to do the butchering.

I was thinking of such enterprises as Odette Bery's
obviously suicidal Pudding It First, a food store that
sold only pudding. One might be able to make a go of a
fair stall or a street cart selling only one course
like that, but a storefront that pays utilities and rent,
just wwtt? To give her her due, she had other less
harebrained and more successful businesses too.

Proof was not in the pudding or the eating of same?

Apparently there wasn't enough of the eating to
prove the pudding.

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Title: Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
Categories: Cookies, Desserts
Yield: 48 servings

1/2 c Margarine; softened 2 ts Cinnamon
1/2 c Shortening 1/4 ts Nutmeg
1 c Brown sugar, lt; packed 1/8 ts Ginger
1/2 c Sugar 1 1/2 c Flour; unsifted
2 Eggs 1 ts Baking soda
2 tb Water 1 ts Salt
2 tb Corn syrup, lt 3 c Oats, old fashioned
2 ts Vanilla 1 c Raisins

Cream marg, shortening, sugars, eggs, corn syrup, water, and vanilla;
beat
well. Combine flour baking soda and salt; add to creamed mixture. Beat
well; stir in oats and raisins. Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls onto
ungreased
baking sheet. Bake at 350 deg for 15 min. Cool slightly on sheet before
removing to cooling racks. Source unrecorded

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Hi MIchael,

Forgetting is easy these days.

Quite so.

What were we talking about, again?

I forgot. (G)

Wisest action would be to ask "Ok if I sniff it?" and see

what the > ML> > vendor says but I don't think there would be any objections.

Every situation is different. I am impressed, though,
both negatively and positively, by the old Chinese
ladies who don't care and take a sniff or a squeeze
no matter what the grocer says.

Sometimes it's the only way to judge produce. I always sniff a melon

at > the stem end.

I sometimes do the thump test or gently press a
fingernail into the blossom end.

I won't press a thumbnail into the blossom end but maybe the thumb to
see if it gives a little.

Automation would help but I've not seen coin machines that

sort by > ML> date > or metal content.

There is such machinery, but it's expensive. I read
somewhere that the breakeven for a substantial
penny-sorting operation would be a copper penny
having a metal worth 3 to 4c - right now it's down
to about 2c.

So one penny would be your 2c worth?

Unless it was a good penny ... or a good 2c worth.

Not worth looking into unless you're a serious coin collector.

Yes, much as we gripe about the cold, it does have its

benefits. > ML> Goes both ways, as does almost everything. It'll

all boil down, if you will, to our hardiness as
a species, but we can help ourselves out by
embracing conservation and renewal technologies
and weaning ourselves from the old ones.

Or reverting back to some of the even older ways.

Maybe ... .

Some may be worth it, as in some of the medical use of herbs, etc. A
couple of months ago if I'd said that I was going to use honey on my
knee, how would have you reacted?

Just buy a small quantity and I'll let someone else take it

home. > ML> Same > with white flour.

I'll buy the economy size and let someone take
it home. Most of the echo people use conventional
stuff without compunction.

Different ways of cooking/eating.

Maybe ... .

That's partly what keeps the echo going.

And barbecues and fireplaces?

Pretty much so. We have a gas fireplace, don't use it a lot but it's nice to have if we have an extended winter time power outage. Steve

does > the outdoor cooking; he has a Boston butt on the pellet grill
at the moment.

Sounds good, but what about his lungs?

Seem to be good, AFA (we) K.

Machete warfare never struck me as a US Army type
of operation - I associate the knives more with
trailblazing, jungle clearing, and so on.

Would have been handy in Viet Nam from what I understand. Also some

of > the islands in the Pacific, during WWII.

Probably in our situation the best way to cleave a
green coconut would be in a tub of some sort to
catch liquids. In which case a cleaver or hatchet
would do.

OK, I know we have the cleaver, not sure about a hatchet. I know we

do > have an ax. (G)

Axes would work, but with the long handle, but with my
vision I would be a poor choice to do the butchering.

I'm sure others would volunteer.

I was thinking of such enterprises as Odette Bery's
obviously suicidal Pudding It First, a food store that
sold only pudding. One might be able to make a go of a
fair stall or a street cart selling only one course
like that, but a storefront that pays utilities and rent,
just wwtt? To give her her due, she had other less
harebrained and more successful businesses too.

Proof was not in the pudding or the eating of same?

Apparently there wasn't enough of the eating to
prove the pudding.

Doesn't seem to be so.

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