Text 13635, 128 rader
Skriven 2014-05-25 20:58:57 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 13594 av Dave Drum (76623.cooking)
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Hi Dave,

 DD> the editor sees when standing on Wednesday looking both ways for
 DD> Sunday - which is pretty much all there is to do in small town America
 DD> these days.

 RH> Births, deaths, and so forth. The paper I grew up with had been going
 RH> so long that it ran a 10-20-50 years ago column. Overall, tho, very
 RH> little editorialising except when big issues came up.

 DD> In my grandparents' town there were two weeklies - the Macoupin County
 DD> Enquirer and the Carlinville Democrat. Oddly the Enquirer was the
 DD> Democratic party leaning paper and the Democrat favoured mostly
 DD> Republican and right-wing positions. AFAIK

Probably a bigger town than the one I grew up in. Average census was
(and is still) around 800 people. At one time it supposted 3 grocery
stores--2 chain and one private. Now it's down to one chain and a
conveience store connected to a gas station. The Dollar General carries
a few more groceries than the average DG, thanks to the flooding from
Hurricane Irene. The chain store was flooded and took about 10 months to
reopen so DG added a cooler for milk & eggs, also started carrying
bread.

 DD> A quick trip to Saint Google tells me that the name of the only paper
 DD> in Carlinville is the Macoupin County Enquirer-Democrat. It's located
 DD> at the original editorial offices of the Enquirer ... so, I am going
 DD> to assume that the Enquirer took over the Democrat (and, yes, I know
 DD> about assuming). The title-piece (often mis-called the masthead) brags
 DD> "Since 1852".

 DD> http://enquirerdemocrat.com/

How often do you check it out? I sometimes see the local papers when
we're at my folks but didn't this last time. Didn't really have the time
to look.


 DD> I read the occasional local news item on out on-line edition of the
 DD> local bird-cage liner. But, it's painfully hard to get to what one is
 DD> looking for. Much harder than opening a physical paper and flipping
 DD> through the pages, scanning for items of interest. Wednesday and

 RH> It's easier to pick up and put down a paper copy when you're juggling
 RH> loads of laundry between washer and dryer, cooking/clean up from a
 RH> meal, etc. Sometimes if I don't get the morning paper read until
 RH> evening, I tell Steve I want to get it read before it turns into
 RH> yesterday's news.

 DD> The Macoupin County weekly paper has a *much* more attractive web site
 DD> than my metro-area daily the, State Journal-Register.

I've not checked out the NandO site; I think Steve has. I'd rather read
the paper than the computer paper.


 DD> Sunday papers have the bulk of the grocery adverts - and other than

 RH> We get them on Wednesday here. Kroger used to do theirs on Sunday but a
 RH> while back, fell in line with the other stores. They only do a back of
 RH> a section ad whereas Harris Teeter, Lowe's, Food Lion and Aldi's do a
 RH> separate flyer.

 DD> I am waiting to see where (Wednesday or Sunday) that the new Hy-Vee
 DD> flyers get published. The one for their We're Open! Ain't We Great?
 DD> was in a Sunday paper. Humphrey's (an important market to me) has a
 DD> weekly quarter-page and Meijer has their flyer insert in the Sunday
 DD> editions. Also China-Mart, K-Mart, Target, etc. County Market/Cub
 DD> Foods, Shop & Save, Schnuk's, ALDI, etc. all put their flyers in the
 DD> Wednesday edition. I wish we had a Kroger again. What we have is Ruler
 DD> Foods (a Kroger brand) that is a poor imitation of Sav-A-Lot and would
 DD> like to be compared to ALDI. As if.   Bv)=

We get Aldi's, Harris Teeter, Lowe's and Food Lion on Wednesdays, the
others on Sundays. Aldi's built their store within eye shot of W-M and
for a while, took a lot of their business. I think that's slacked off
now since folks can't do the one store for everything at Aldi's.

 DD> thru Sunday "trial" subscription. WOW! Talk about a full-court press
 DD> to get me to re-subscribe. Snail mail, e-mail, phone calls, etc. They
 DD> simply won't accept my SCROOM! attitude over their rag.

 RH> We canceled Sirius recently and they've started coming at us to renew.
 RH> I'm going to drop "Cooking Light" when it expires in a few months; I
 RH> know I'll get innindated by offers to renew. It has some interesting
 RH> recipes but a most of them are not low carb. Lower calorie is even
 RH> debatable, low carb is more of a joke.

 DD>  You're not the only one they publish the rag for, though. Both my
 DD> satellite radios are XM (same company). I can't see myself cancelling
 DD> anytime soon. Even though the parent company does raw crap like
 DD> preempting the Savoy Express (40s on 4) to turn it into the Billy Joel
 DD> channel for 4 months. When I emailed them to complain I asked them not
 DD> to try to "spin" me if they bothered to reply. So, guess what I got in
 DD> reply?

We got tired of most of their advertising. Not the kind of stuff we like
to hear about. Did appreciate the traffic reports and that we could
listen to a show like Sean Hannity without having to change stations as
we moved out of range on one station/into another's range.

 DD>       Title: Ropa Vieja *
 DD>  Categories: Latino, Beef, Chilies, Sauces, Wine
 DD>       Yield: 10 Servings

 RH> I've done similar, but without the wine.

 DD> I didn't even think about/notice the wine. I have a lot of recipes
 DD> that call for wine - but I usually wind up with a substitute ... not
 DD> for religious principles, rather for frugality. I won't open a whole
 DD> jug of wine for a quarter or half cup. I already have plenty of
 DD> vinegar, thank you very much.

Let's see-- I've got cheap cider, "natural" cider, white, balsamic,
ehite balsamic, rice, malt, red wine.......................think that
covers them all. (G)


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Ruth
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