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     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HAFFLY
Ärende: fruitcake was: Sunday din
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-=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Nancy Backus on 11-28-14  20:54 <=-

 NB>>>> The Claxton seem to be ubiquitous...  :)   They aren't
 NB>>>> horrible, just not as nice as one would like...  :)
 RH>>> Too sticky sweet for my tastes--makes my teeth itch. (G)
 NB>>> A read of the ingredients turned up, among all the sugars,
 NB>>> HFCS...
 RH>> BLEURGH! It won't enter my house!
 NB>> That's the reaction I was expecting... (G)  If you do get a chance to
 NB>> try the Wegmans' premium one, though, that is a lot better...

 RH> Don't know when/if we will, quite doubtful for this year. I think
 RH> we're going to hold out till warmer weather (if we can) before making
 RH> a trip up north. By then, the fruit cakes will be long gone.
 
Undoubtedly.  They don't always even last until Christmas, and are gone
shortly after if they should happen to...  :)   Another year....  ;)

 NB>> I don't think it has the suspect ingredients in it... they've been
 NB>> pulling back from using a lot of the bad stuff in their own baking.
 NB>> Just came out with a new line of pastries without any trans fats...
 NB>> still lots of sugar and carbs, of course, but somewhat healthier
 NB>> for you...  :)

 RH> Trying to keep up with Whole Foods, and sounds like they're doing a
 RH> good job in their own right. Wish one were closer to us but we do
 RH> have Whole Foods relatively close.

Dunno if they are taking their cues from Whole Foods, or if they are
just coming up with things on their own... could be getting ideas from
other places, but might well have done it even if nobody else was.

 RH>> I've been wearing a light support on the left one almost constantly
 RH>> the past couple of weeks, may have to go with the heavier duty one
 RH>> soon. The right one is fine but it don't break as badly.
 NB>> That was good planning...  When you go to the heavier duty one for
 NB>> the left, the right might appreciate the light support, too..  :)

 RH> Probably so. I didn't get as many boxes packed today (doing other
 RH> stuff) but beginning to see sizeable gaps in the cabinet/cupboard
 RH> shelves. Most of my ceramic & pyrex is packed up, a good bit of the
 RH> pantry is as well. 

That's when you start to realize you are making some progress... ;)

 RH>> Yes, and it gets them done sooner, rather than later. He said it
 RH>> looked like the oven had never been cleaned, dishwasher was almost
 RH>> as bad and fridge was bad, but not as bad as the first 2.
 NB>> Yeah, harder to get to them quite so quickly once you start using
 NB>> them... or when you are busy trying to figure out where to put other
 NB>> things away...  :)   Those sound like they really did need doing
 NB>> before you tried to use them, though...!   :)

 RH> It was amazing how much certain things had been neglected. Maybe we
 RH> were expecting more but we knew what standard military quarters had
 RH> to be cleaned to before the next tenants moved in so we were expecting
 RH> better than what we saw. This place (Pearce Ave) will be cleaned to
 RH> the military standard.
 
Not everybody has even learned the military standard... and lots of
people don't really care what shape they leave things in... or have
other factors that make dealing with it difficult...  The people that
move in after you leave places will certainly benefit from what's
become, I'm sure, second nature to you... to clean to that standard. :) 
And, you did get a new stove out of their slovenliness... ;)

 RH>>> night or so, then the boxes will go over as fast as we can load
 RH>>> the car, drive over, unload the car, return and repeat until
 RH>>> finished.  
 NB>>> Probably over the course of a a few days...  :)
 RH>> Yes, and it'll free up space here to continue packing.
 NB>> Otherwise, after a while, one runs out of staging areas... ;)
 RH>> That's why Steve is taking them over now. We've so many boxes waiting
 RH>> to be filled, we're lacking room to put the filled ones. He just took
 RH>> the ones I filled earlier today.
 
Fill the box, load it in the car, fill the box, load it in the car...
when the car is full drive it over, unload into the house, return,
repeat...  (G)  Has a certain rhythm to it...  (G)

 RH>>> Always. but we're closed now. Got a nice kitchen knife as a
 RH>>> present from our realter--a serrated utility one.
 NB>>> That's nice.  :)   Did he know you were into cooking, or is that
 NB>>> his standard gift...?
 RH>> In this case, she knew we like to cook. She's also a friend, and
 RH>> member of our church.
 NB>> Ah.  That makes plenty of sense, then...  And probably she got you
 NB>> a fairly good quality one, too, then... :)

 RH> Yes, it's one that will probably outlast us. (G)

And you'll think of her every time you use it, like as not...  ;)  Have
to make sure your girls know where you got that one from...  :)

ttyl       neb

... Light Year: regular year with less calories.

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