Text 12144, 75 rader
Skriven 2014-04-14 15:39:24 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
  Kommentar till text 11956 av Dave Drum (1:18/200.0)
Ärende: Re: Rolling Farmer's Market
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-=> Quoting Dave Drum to Nancy Backus on 09 Apr 14  17:42:00 <=-

 DD> This year I am raising two type of chile - some Hontaka (japone)
 DD> chilies from Dr. Bosland at the Chile Pepper Institute at the U of NM.
 DD> And some (promised to be) extra zippy serranos to see if I can match
 DD> what Michael got from his supplier in Louisiana - the seed was sent to
 DD> me by Knox Bill of Midwest Chileheads after I mentioned I was looking
 DD> for a source on the Chile-heads ist.

They probably won't be ready even for an early first-fruits harvest
before the picnic this year... otherwise you could bring some along.  :)
They do indeed sound interesting, and promising...  :)
 
 NB>> Were you settled on a corner, or did you go door-to-door...?  The cute
 NB>> 10-year-old might have been a selling point for the veggies, too... ;)

 DD> I was a push-cart peddler with a two wheel (high, spoked, iron wheels)
 DD> that rumbled as it went down the sidewalk, announcing my presence.

So, the ladies would hear you coming and come out to grab some fresh
veggies and all from you.  :)

 DD> Carlinville, IL was then, and is now, small town America and if someone
 DD> on the west side passes gas the folks on the east side soon know what
 DD> he had for dinner. So I had a good rephewtation and the ladies who
 DD> bought from me knew that I had raised and picked the produce personally
 DD> and that it was fresh-from-the-garden. Also that my prices were
 DD> reasonable. 

And that you were a home-town kid that was worthy of support... ;)  When
we were kids, we'd make potholders on those loop looms, and then sell
them door-to-door in our neighborhood or just a little ways out, still
walking distance from home...  :)  Made single thick or double thick...
and would custom make for a particular color scheme, for our regulars,
anyway...  :)

 NB>>> I remember that when we lived in the Philly area, the backyard already
 NB>>> had some fruit trees planted, so we did harvest apples and cherries
 NB>>> from them in season...  :)
 DD>> And you allergic to apples. Or did that develop later in your life?
 NB>> That developed later... after I was already married, actually... maybe
 NB>> shortly after the kid started school...

 DD> Like gestational diabetes that doesn't go away?

Maybe similar...  :)   It started out rather mild, where I was getting a
reaction to eating fresh apples, but if I was eating it with, say,
cheese, it didn't give me any problems, at least in small quantities. 
Then it got so any apple anything gave the reaction, in any quantity,
not to be mitigated by anything...  sigh...  I was probably in my early
30's when it started... probably full-blown reaction within a couple of
years... long time ago now...  
 
 DD>> mid-90s) to Hunt-Wesson whose masters CON-Agra (owners of La Choy)
 DD>> closed down the factories and phased out the brand. So, you're (sorta)
 DD>> right about La Choy and Chun King being under the same umbrella.
 NB>> Oh, ok... ;)  We may well have had both at various times... and since
 NB>> they looked and tasted about the same, easy to conflate them anyway..
 NB>> :)

 DD> Well, yeah. Sort of the old form-follows-function meme. As I remember
 DD> (over 60 years ago) both were heavy on celery, thick sauce and skimpy
 DD> on meat of any sort - even mystery meat.

Wasn't it usually chicken...?   Daddy would make our usual white rice to
serve it over...  It's probably more like only 50 years ago for me... I
was still home then... ;)  About the time I was moving towards being on
my own, I discovered slightly more authentic Chinese food (one from
column A, two from column B) and shortly after, truly authentic...  ;)

ttyl        neb

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