Text 16648, 74 rader
Skriven 2008-11-20 14:08:31 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 16596 av RUTH HANSCHKA (1:123/140)
Ärende: smoking chocolate chowder (G)
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Hi Ruth,

-> -> done meats.  Having an instruction book made a big difference.

->  RH> It will do that....

-> Yes, and when all else fails, it can be read. (G)

 RH> Or when all else really fails, used as fire starter.

Could be that the previous owner of the smoker had already done so.

->  RH> They turned up here in my local Waldbaum's, owned by A&P.

-> I guess they're hitting the mass markets now.  I suspect tho, I could go
-> into quite a few grocery stores and not find any.

 RH> Me too.  I can get odd things here sometimes, but some standards are
 RH> vanishing.  I had a hard time finding My-T-Fine lemon pudding
 RH> recently; both the Waldbaum's and Stop&Shop don't have shelf slots for
 RH> it any more. Weird.  I had to hit two stores to find a lemon cake mix
 RH> for my mother, and then it turned up as a store brand.  I guess no one
 RH> around here works from even a box mix any more.

I know, you find something you like and then it disappears. We've had
that happen more times than I'd care to think about.  But no cake mixes
at all or just the lemon one?  All the stores we go to have them, even
the natural foods store.  Of course the ones there are different from
the run of the mill super market ones. (G)

->  RH> I don't think I've seen marzipan, but then I haven't looked.

-> One you would buy if you could find it?

 RH> I'll eat just about anything once, and I like marzipan.  I like
 RH> peppermint with my chocolate too.

I'd take the peppermint over the marzipan in a heart beat.

->  RH> That wouldn't surprise me.  The Banks have had settlers since the
->  RH> early 18th century that I'm sure of.

-> They've been settled off and on since the 17th century--remember the
-> Lost Colony?  I suspect those folks had plenty of chowder before they
-> disappeared.

 RH> Wasn't that Roanoke?  17th century doesn't surprise me.

Yes, it was Roanoke. (mental digression--Steve and I will be able to see
"The Lost Colony" pageant again, saw it twice when we lived in NC.)  All
kinds of theories why they disappeared, nothing was ever fully proven
out.


 Given the way
 RH> hurricanes pound those islands, what surprises me is that people keep
 RH> trying to live there.

I know; last year when we went up to Swansboro, we went over to Emerald
Isle for a bit.  Lots of empty lots, same as when we visited the Mobile
area with friends in 2006.  Lots of empty lots there too that had
houses on just the year before.  And yet people keep rebuilding.


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Catch you later,
Ruth
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