Text 16798, 126 rader
Skriven 2014-09-09 07:12:02 av Dave Drum (1:18/200.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Ruth Haffly
Ärende: farmers
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-=> Ruth Haffly wrote to Dave Drum <=-

 RH> Hi Dave,

 DD> I didn't know that - I *NEVER* shop at China-Mart for anything.

 RH> Some things we can only get there--filters for the heating/cooking
 RH> system for example. Others, we can get the name brand for a few pennies
 RH> less than at other stores.

 DD> Been my actual experience that there is *nothing* that can be bought
 DD> at Wally-World (except their own house-brand) that cannot be gotten

 RH> I don't buy a lot of their house brand but they do sell brand names for
 RH> a bit less than other stores in the area. Also, as I said, some things
 RH> we can get locally only at W-M. Saves hunting all over Raleigh or
 RH> beyond, and no, we don't have a K-Mart or anything like that in WF.

Without getting into the politics of it - I do not care for the way they treat
their workers, the 800 pound gorilla way they drive local businesses under,
their business practices in general including the way they treat their
suppliers. This has all been on a downhill slide since Sam Walton snuffed it.
If I *must* pay a few pennies more for something (which has not happened that I
am aware of) I will regard it as striking a blow for liberty.

 DD> elsewhere, often for le$$. Won a fairly sizable bet with my S-I-L's
 DD> daughter on that very subject. She made a list of 10 items that she
 DD> buys "all the time" at China-Mart and set off to the nearest example.
 DD> I took a copy of the list, went to my place(s) and was home with all
 DD> items 30 minutes before her, having spent almost $3 less. And got
 DD> everything that was on her list. The Bentonville Bums were out of one
 DD> of her items. Even so, I was about three bucks under what she spent.

 RH> Depends on what was on the list, how much run around you had to do
 RH> elsewise.

It was *her* list. It was a mix of snack/grocery items and cleaning supplies.
IIRC I made three stops - one at Shop & Save (stupormarkup), one at Dollar
General and the last at Menard's (where the prices on many grocery items are
less than even S(c)am's Club). As the stores were all located right in a (long)
row, with Menard's being the furthest away (and right across the road from the
China-Mart Stupor Center) it wasn't a big run around. Nor did I have to trudge
all over a 60 acre store building to find what was on the list.
 
 DD> do Parson's. But, they do well - as well as supplying other road-side
 DD> stands. I note "Seaney Farms (tomatoes/cucumbers/etc) on some of those
 DD> places along with the melons and sweet corn from their own fields.

 RH> Sounds like you have a nice variety there. Instead of going to various
 RH> road side stands, we do a lot of our produce shopping this time of year
 RH> at the farmer's market. There are also several vendors that sell meats
 RH> (beef, pork, chicken, rabbit, goat) but the seafood vendor didn't sign
 RH> on this year.

 DD> We have two farmer's markets - one is in the downtown area and parking
 DD> is problematic. The other is in the parking lot of a strip mall on the
 DD> far, far, other side of town from me. Both are open during hours when
 DD> I am normally at my job anyway. So, the roadside stands or
 DD> stupormarkups with locally sourced grub are my sources.

 RH> Have to go with what you can get, where you can get. I don't see
 RH> roadside stands in our area (probably if we roamed the back roads we'd
 RH> see them), so I go with the farmer's market. We're in a very urban area
 RH> but there are several weekly farmer's markets besides the daily state
 RH> market in Raleigh.

 DD> We had a truck farmer (Sutil's Gardens) here in town. But, he has
 DD> contracted his entire output to a couple local grocery stores. Many
 DD> people understand why that was done - but, are still somewhat miffed
 DD> that they cannot but from Sutil's directly.

 RH> I'd probably be put out a bit too, but in the long run, glad for them
 RH> that they could land the big contract.

I note that they have set up on their (former) usual corner with jack-o-lantern
pumpkins and squash. Apparently those were not all snapped up by their
commercial accounts.

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06
 
      Title: Mother's Squash Pie *
 Categories: Pies, Squash, Desserts, Pastry
      Yield: 6 Servings
 
      1 c  Milk
  1 1/2 c  Mashed, cooked, butternut
           - squash
    3/4 c  Sugar
      1 tb Flour
    1/2 ts Salt
    1/2 ts Ground ginger
    1/2 ts Ground nutmeg
    1/2 ts Ground cinnamon
      2 lg Eggs
      1    9" pie shell
 
  * Not my mother -- UDD
  
  Because of its Thanksgiving associations, pumpkin has
  become the pre-eminent squash for pie-making. Many 19th
  century connoisseurs, however, insisted that other winter
  squashes had a more refined flavor. This recipe (Mabel
  Gray's from "Yankee Magazine's Great New England Recipes,"
  1983) would also work with acorn and other squashes.
  
  Heat milk and squash together in double boiler. In bowl,
  mix sugar, flour, salt, ginger, nutmeg and cinnamon. Then
  add eggs. Beat well with rotary beater. Add mixture to
  milk and squash in double boiler. Stir together well. Do
  not boil.
  
  Pour warm filling into pie shell. Bake at 400oF/205oC. 10
  minutes, then reduce heat to 350oF/175oC. and bake until
  pie sets, about 15-20 minutes.
  
  Makes 6-8 servings.
  
  Uncle Dirty Dave's Archives
 
MMMMM

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