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Hairy Lime

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« Reply #2385 on: January 05, 2023, 05:19:56 PM »

On the issue of inflation, prices are coming down.

I just bought chicken for ninety nine cents per pound, but the price of the Kraft Mesquite Smoke Barbecue Sauce went up by a quarter. I bought ten pounds of chicken and a bottle of barbecue sauce for twelve dollars.

We have it made here in California, we have good food at low prices and we have lots of stores.

Carl's Jr sends me coupons for burgers.

I get coupons from CVS, tomorrow I get a free can of coffee thanks to coupons. I love coupons.

So, the price of food is coming down, and the stores all mail me coupons.

Fresh baked bread now costs two dollars for 4 rolls at the Mexican Market.

Prices are coming down.

Salute,

Tony V.

Gotta love coupons ('vouchers' in my world)...if only I could buy chicken at that price.
My chicken breast fillets are $4.80 a pound.

Buy a whole chicken and cut your own filets
Or better yet, thighs. Much better taste, and cheaper.
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« Reply #2386 on: January 05, 2023, 05:51:11 PM »

I cannot cook, as such. Yes, I know "you are a disgrace". :)
If a single man, I would not starve. I just wouldn't be buying chicken fillets and cooking them. Wouldn't be cooking on a stove. Wouldn't be cooking vegetables.
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« Reply #2387 on: January 05, 2023, 05:56:02 PM »

I cannot cook, as such. Yes, I know "you are a disgrace". :)
If a single man, I would not starve. I just wouldn't be buying chicken fillets and cooking them. Wouldn't be cooking on a stove. Wouldn't be cooking vegetables.
Why do I envision bambu wearing nothing but a red silk bathrobe yelling "Ma! Meatloaf!"?
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« Reply #2388 on: January 05, 2023, 06:20:23 PM »

"Funerals are nature's greatest aphrodisiac."

I see single Bambu buying precooked pasta spooning sauce onto it then puzzling why the parmesan cheese won't come out of the canister. 

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Mr. Hoover was an engineer. He knew that water trickles down... But he didnt know that money trickled up. Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will have it before night, anyhow. But it will at least have passed through the poor fellows hands.

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« Reply #2389 on: January 05, 2023, 07:01:54 PM »

On the issue of inflation, prices are coming down.

I just bought chicken for ninety nine cents per pound, but the price of the Kraft Mesquite Smoke Barbecue Sauce went up by a quarter. I bought ten pounds of chicken and a bottle of barbecue sauce for twelve dollars.

We have it made here in California, we have good food at low prices and we have lots of stores.

Carl's Jr sends me coupons for burgers.

I get coupons from CVS, tomorrow I get a free can of coffee thanks to coupons. I love coupons.

So, the price of food is coming down, and the stores all mail me coupons.

Fresh baked bread now costs two dollars for 4 rolls at the Mexican Market.

Prices are coming down.

Salute,

Tony V.

Gotta love coupons ('vouchers' in my world)...if only I could buy chicken at that price.
My chicken breast fillets are $4.80 a pound.

Buy a whole chicken and cut your own filets
Or better yet, thighs. Much better taste, and cheaper.

But he wanted breasts, right?

Thighs are better (I personally prefer them)
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« Reply #2390 on: January 05, 2023, 07:18:05 PM »

My Mother forced me to learn to cook at a young age, she was a single widow after my father died, and she used to work all of the time to pay the bills on our house and to buy food, so I had to cook. We ate lots of easy to cook stuff like potatoes, and eggs, and pancakes, and sandwiches, and tacos, and burritos, and spaghetti, etc, etc. And of course I cooked chicken in a variety of ways. Then, I worked in the kitchen at a YMCA summer camp, and I started as a dishwasher and I helped to cook, etc. Then, I ended up as a cook at a casino in Nevada, for 2 years I was a great cook and people paid a lot of money to eat food that I cooked. So my Mother made sure that I can cook, and then I ended up supporting myself with a job as a cook.

And someday if I want to open a night club in Rome, then I can cook for my customers, we can serve food at my club.

Meanwhile I am grateful to be able to cook and to be able to eat cheaply.

For Bambu there is always canned soup.

Salute,

Tony V.
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« Reply #2391 on: January 05, 2023, 07:58:37 PM »

Here in Anaheim sometimes some communities have free cooking classes at their community clubhouses. Some apartment complexes here have community centers and club houses where they have free cooking classes for the people of the community. I support free cooking classes here in Anaheim, it is a great idea to help the people. And they can do French cooking one week, and Italian cooking another week, and Mexican food another week, etc.

As a child I even learned how to cook wild rabbit over a camp fire like the Cowboys. We ate lots of wild rabbit and beans at that time. Now you could make a fortune selling wild rabbit and beans to people at the casinos in Nevada, they love that kind of food now at the casinos, and they like buffalo meat, and venison, and wild trout, etc, etc, etc. And every restaurant wants to serve something great that the other casinos do not serve.

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« Reply #2392 on: January 05, 2023, 09:41:14 PM »

During the Great Depression many people suffered from vitamin and mineral deficiencies, so the United States Food and Drug Administration made the bread companies put the necessary vitamins and minerals into the bread.

If all that you had for lunch was an Oscar Mayer Bologna sandwich made with Wonder Bread, then you were guaranteed to receive enough vitamins and minerals to survive.

https://www.sharecare.com/health/vitamin-b3-niacin/why-flour-products-enriched-niacin

We need to remember our lessons, and we need to make sure that the food that we eat will sustain us in a healthy way. We need to add vitamins and minerals to frozen pizza, etc. And we need to continue to make sure that a sandwich is healthy.

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« Reply #2393 on: January 06, 2023, 02:08:00 AM »

Is America still making white paper onshore?
A4 printing paper etc?
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« Reply #2394 on: January 06, 2023, 03:25:54 PM »

Is America still making white paper onshore?
A4 printing paper etc?

The mills have been closing...

https://youtu.be/u22gfDsI9PQ

As a child I lived by a paper mill in Albany, Oregon, Wah Chang owned it from what I remember, the mill used to stink real bad, they ran the mill 24 hours per day, they had 3 shifts all making paper.

I do not know if Oregon still makes paper or not.

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« Reply #2395 on: January 06, 2023, 06:01:49 PM »

Is America still making white paper onshore?
A4 printing paper etc?

The mills have been closing...

https://youtu.be/u22gfDsI9PQ

As a child I lived by a paper mill in Albany, Oregon, Wah Chang owned it from what I remember, the mill used to stink real bad, they ran the mill 24 hours per day, they had 3 shifts all making paper.

I do not know if Oregon still makes paper or not.

Salute,

Tony V.

Last mill in my world will be closing soon.
200 workers will lose their jobs.
So much for "becoming self-sufficient because of the lessons learnt from the pandemic".
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« Reply #2396 on: January 06, 2023, 06:19:37 PM »

Is America still making white paper onshore?
A4 printing paper etc?

The mills have been closing...

https://youtu.be/u22gfDsI9PQ

As a child I lived by a paper mill in Albany, Oregon, Wah Chang owned it from what I remember, the mill used to stink real bad, they ran the mill 24 hours per day, they had 3 shifts all making paper.

I do not know if Oregon still makes paper or not.

Salute,

Tony V.

Last mill in my world will be closing soon.
200 workers will lose their jobs.
So much for "becoming self-sufficient because of the lessons learnt from the pandemic".
Who cares? On the evidence of this forum no one from Australia is literate. No need for paper.
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bambu.

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« Reply #2397 on: January 06, 2023, 06:36:51 PM »

I cannot cook, as such. Yes, I know "you are a disgrace". :)
If a single man, I would not starve. I just wouldn't be buying chicken fillets and cooking them. Wouldn't be cooking on a stove. Wouldn't be cooking vegetables.
Why do I envision bambu wearing nothing but a red silk bathrobe yelling "Ma! Meatloaf!"?

Red silk bathrobe   lol.
Wife makes a mean meatloaf. :)

Born a year after WW2, I've always had a mother or wife who does the cooking.
In high school they taught girls to cook and boys to do woodwork and metalwork instead.
Bad idea, boys left school not knowing how to cook.
I moved from family home to marital home (via a small granny flat in family home's backyard for several years. Rent free was a blessing, able to make extra repayments on the marital home block of land.
Very small galley kitchen...just big enough for a camping stove, electric kettle and sink.
We mostly lived on "chops, chips and peas' at home...lunches from sandwich shops near workplaces.



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« Reply #2398 on: January 06, 2023, 06:42:30 PM »

Is America still making white paper onshore?
A4 printing paper etc?

The mills have been closing...

https://youtu.be/u22gfDsI9PQ

As a child I lived by a paper mill in Albany, Oregon, Wah Chang owned it from what I remember, the mill used to stink real bad, they ran the mill 24 hours per day, they had 3 shifts all making paper.

I do not know if Oregon still makes paper or not.

Salute,

Tony V.

Last mill in my world will be closing soon.
200 workers will lose their jobs.
So much for "becoming self-sufficient because of the lessons learnt from the pandemic".
Who cares? On the evidence of this forum no one from Australia is literate. No need for paper.

lol
If you can read the newspaper you're literate.
You're getting confused with 'tertiary education'.

America was supposed to become self-sufficient too, according to the politicians.
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« Reply #2399 on: January 06, 2023, 06:55:07 PM »

"Funerals are nature's greatest aphrodisiac."

I see single Bambu buying precooked pasta spooning sauce onto it then puzzling why the parmesan cheese won't come out of the canister.

lol
Don't like pasta, parmesan cheese, or any other Italian food except pizza.
Don't like noodles, spicy food of any type, coffee, tea...there's a long list of foods I don't like.
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