Apparently, some people never sleep. :) I’ve decided to get back to baking instead of calendar making. I could contribute a picture of a blueberry pie with an octopus on top. And, yes, the baked pie is never quite as neat as the raw dough.
Blueberry Octopus Pie makes me think of this tune from Neil Diamond:
Porcupine Pie
Porcupine pie, porcupine pie, porcupine pie Vanilla soup, a double scoop please No, maybe I won't, maybe I won't, maybe I will The tutti fruit with fruity blue cheese
Ah, but porcupine pie, porcupine pie, porcupine pie Don't let any get on your jeans And though it sounds a little strange Well, you gotta eat it with gloves Or your hands will turn green
Ah, but porcupine pie, porcupine pie, porcupine pie It easy, straight from a dream. And I do believe I'm gonna get one And leave enough room for dessert Chicken ripple ice cream
Remember standing next to the TV, holding the antenna high off to one side, to try to get reasonable picture quality? And all for a local channel! 😂 Oh, those were the days.
I might have told this story here before, but when I was a graduate student and had to economize on food (it was a period of high inflation; meat, fish and store-bought bread had become simply too expensive), I one day noticed canned mackerel in the pet food section of the neighborhood grocery where I normally shopped. Looking at the label, I saw no indication that it was intended as pet food, and bought a can. It made really good tasting "meatloaf," and I continued to buy it. Then one day it was missing from the pet food section--even its place on the shelf was gone. After thinking about it for a bit, I went around the corner to the canned fish section--canned tuna, sardines etc. There was the mackerel, for (as I recall) about three times the price it had been--no longer affordable.
Having read the book "How to Get Rid of the Poisons in Your Body" by Gary and Steve Null, back in the mid-70's, I wouldn't have chanced it, since pet grade meat, especially back then, could be dangerous. But perhaps the shop keeper simply misplaced it on their shelves when it first arrived and finally fixed their error? Too bad they figured it out. In our college years we went vegetarian, and remained so for about 20 years, until local meats including grass-fed beef became available and our budget was better.
Or it might be most useful to convert the Boomers to the opinions held by their parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents--the Populists, Progressives, and New Dealers. (And Socialists, for that matter.)
No, I am an old Progressive and things HAVE to change. The American people cannot survive Capitalism run amok. Democrats started going wrong with Bill Clinton and "The Third Way" and The Blue Dog Democrats, NAFTA, "the end of Welfare as we know it" and on and on. I want to go back to the ways of FDR, or even Eisenhower, the Last Good Republican.
"You ain't done nothin' if you ain't been called a red if you've marched or agitated, then you're bound to hear it said so you might as well ignore it, or love the word instead cause you ain't been doin' nothin' if you ain't been called a red"
What I remember from the Eisenhower tax rates was the marginal tax rate was about 90%. Not that anyone paid that--but it encouraged those who would have been subject to it to invest in municipal bonds, which built infrastructure with significantly lower interest rates than any bank would have required.
"I don't care what your politics are, it is illegal to cut a cinnamon roll into pieces with a knife and then eat it like a chicken wing," one person tweeted.
"Why does pete buttigieg look like an overly aggressive snapping turtle in any picture of him eating??" another commented. So, @PeteButtigieg always looks like Hannibal Lecter biting into someone’s face when he’s eating.
It's true. He makes the most horrible faces when he eats. Looks like he's mad at the food and killing it with his teeth.
Nutso out there--fifty degrees and snowing.
ReplyDeleteHow silly! You must have a very cold air mass above your warm air mass, and some of that snow is getting through the warm layer.
DeleteApparently, some people never sleep. :)
ReplyDeleteI’ve decided to get back to baking instead of calendar making. I could contribute a picture of a blueberry pie with an octopus on top. And, yes, the baked pie is never quite as neat as the raw dough.
An octopus? Ummm...
DeleteSend it along!!
DeleteBlueberry Octopus Pie makes me think of this tune from Neil Diamond:
DeletePorcupine Pie
Porcupine pie, porcupine pie, porcupine pie
Vanilla soup, a double scoop please
No, maybe I won't, maybe I won't, maybe I will
The tutti fruit with fruity blue cheese
Ah, but porcupine pie, porcupine pie, porcupine pie
Don't let any get on your jeans
And though it sounds a little strange
Well, you gotta eat it with gloves
Or your hands will turn green
Ah, but porcupine pie, porcupine pie, porcupine pie
It easy, straight from a dream.
And I do believe I'm gonna get one
And leave enough room for dessert
Chicken ripple ice cream
That cartoon is a hoot. Yes, rabbit ears and being the human remote control, "Susan, put on Channel 2". And tinfoil balls on the antenna, etc. Etc.
ReplyDeleteRemember standing next to the TV, holding the antenna high off to one side, to try to get reasonable picture quality? And all for a local channel! 😂 Oh, those were the days.
DeleteAmericans take fish antibiotics because it's cheaper than a visit to the doctor [Click] This goes well beyond eating Alpo. Which makes me wonder if there are recipes online for Alpo hash, meatloaf, meatballs etc.
ReplyDeleteA quick search turned up this thread… [Click]
DeleteI might have told this story here before, but when I was a graduate student and had to economize on food (it was a period of high inflation; meat, fish and store-bought bread had become simply too expensive), I one day noticed canned mackerel in the pet food section of the neighborhood grocery where I normally shopped. Looking at the label, I saw no indication that it was intended as pet food, and bought a can. It made really good tasting "meatloaf," and I continued to buy it. Then one day it was missing from the pet food section--even its place on the shelf was gone. After thinking about it for a bit, I went around the corner to the canned fish section--canned tuna, sardines etc. There was the mackerel, for (as I recall) about three times the price it had been--no longer affordable.
DeleteHaving read the book "How to Get Rid of the Poisons in Your Body" by Gary and Steve Null, back in the mid-70's, I wouldn't have chanced it, since pet grade meat, especially back then, could be dangerous. But perhaps the shop keeper simply misplaced it on their shelves when it first arrived and finally fixed their error? Too bad they figured it out. In our college years we went vegetarian, and remained so for about 20 years, until local meats including grass-fed beef became available and our budget was better.
DeleteButigieg on his work for McKinsey [Click] OK, he’s put that to bed.
ReplyDeleteThe End of Cheap Shipping From China[?] [Click]
Stop Believing in Free Shipping [Click] “How retailers hide the costs of delivery—and why we’re such suckers for their ploys.”
The Startling Secret of an “Invincible” Virus [Click] “A phage that resists all [common] forms of the antiviral defense known as CRISPR has an unusual means of survival.”
Boris Johnson 'hides in a fridge' to avoid Piers Morgan interview [Click]
ReplyDeleteIt might be most useful to think about young progressives as a third party trapped in a two-party system. Radicalized by America’s political sclerosis and economic and social inequality, they are a powerful movement politically domiciled within a larger coalition of moderate older minorities and educated suburbanites… [Click]
ReplyDeleteOr it might be most useful to convert the Boomers to the opinions held by their parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents--the Populists, Progressives, and New Dealers. (And Socialists, for that matter.)
DeleteEarliest known cave art by modern humans found in Indonesia [Click]
ReplyDeleteTwo from the UK:
Peter Oborne: Boris Johnson wants to destroy the Britain I love. I cannot vote Conservative [Click]
James Mitchinson: My paper reported the story of the boy on a hospital floor. Then online lies took over. [Click]
Opinion
ReplyDeleteAmerica’s Public Restrooms Are Kind of Great Now [Click] Has our Dear Leader heard about this? A great opportunity to take credit for an accomplishment, no?
No, I am an old Progressive and things HAVE to change. The American people cannot survive Capitalism run amok. Democrats started going wrong with Bill Clinton and "The Third Way" and The Blue Dog Democrats, NAFTA, "the end of Welfare as we know it" and on and on. I want to go back to the ways of FDR, or even Eisenhower, the Last Good Republican.
ReplyDeleteIf you’re this kind of old Progressive, [Click] we’re on the same wavelength, Susan.
DeleteCount me in! What shall we name ourselves? "Old Progressives" may sound dottery.
DeleteReds?
DeleteYou Ain’t Done Nothin’ If You Ain’t Been Called a Red [Click]
Chorus:
"You ain't done nothin' if you ain't been called a red
if you've marched or agitated, then you're bound to hear it said
so you might as well ignore it, or love the word instead
cause you ain't been doin' nothin' if you ain't been called a red"
I'd almost settle for Eisenhower tax rates. . . .
ReplyDeleteWhat I remember from the Eisenhower tax rates was the marginal tax rate was about 90%. Not that anyone paid that--but it encouraged those who would have been subject to it to invest in municipal bonds, which built infrastructure with significantly lower interest rates than any bank would have required.
DeleteEISENHOWER’S TAX POLICIES INVESTED IN THE FUTURE, NOT THE FEW [Click]
DeleteCloser looks at a couple of Pete’s McKinsey clients and the work he did for them [Click]
ReplyDeletehttps://www.yahoo.com/now/pete-buttigieg-cinnamon-rol-photo-chicken-wing-2020-election-iowa-205632080.html
ReplyDelete"I don't care what your politics are, it is illegal to cut a cinnamon roll into pieces with a knife and then eat it like a chicken wing," one person tweeted.
"Why does pete buttigieg look like an overly aggressive snapping turtle in any picture of him eating??" another commented. So, @PeteButtigieg always looks like Hannibal Lecter biting into someone’s face when he’s eating.
It's true. He makes the most horrible faces when he eats. Looks like he's mad at the food and killing it with his teeth.
An interesting tweet posted on FB which encapsulates the main reason I despise Hillary.
ReplyDelete"Let's be clear about something. @BernieSanders is a Democratic frontrunner and @HillaryClinton is attacking him in the press, not @realDonald Trump.
She does not have the best interests of the nation, the planet, the party or even the human race at heart."