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Post by wildfire2099 on Aug 15, 2014 10:49:21 GMT -5
Have noticed increasingly when I visit bookstores how empty the stores are of other people. I think that's true of ALL stores that aren't Walmart and Target.. people tend to buy things online more than anything else these days.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2014 10:57:45 GMT -5
Have noticed increasingly when I visit bookstores how empty the stores are of other people. I think that's true of ALL stores that aren't Walmart and Target.. people tend to buy things online more than anything else these days. Yeah. I have noticed that the sun rises in the east & sets in the west. It's the damnedest thing, I swear.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Aug 15, 2014 11:07:28 GMT -5
I do not like corn bread. You are a monster. Never had a problem with it, being a somewhat sane human being (culinarily speaking, anyway) & all, but it's clear from similar posts here & other places I frequent that a neurotic hatred of mayo & the like is both as deep-rooted & as pitiable as DE Sinclair's (& a few similarly impaired others') pathological loathing of bananas. At some point over the course of human evolution, I can only assume that a select few's synapses went badly awry. Maybe someday a cure will be available. I think it's safe to say he's not, in fact, a monster for not caring for corn bread. Personally, I prefer the tastier hush puppies, but will take corn bread whenever I can get it. I don't understand the mayo aversion thing, but very few understand my disfunctional relationship with bananas either, so I'm not surprised. I sometimes wonder if the taste buds are biologically hard wired in some people to dislike certain foods. After all, people can develop food aversions from a variety of sources. Sometimes it can be that you're forced to eat a certain thing so often that you can't abide it anymore (in my case, stuffed green peppers which was served far too often when I was aboard ship. I even had to make them when I did my time in the galley). And sometimes it's hate at first bite.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2014 11:25:08 GMT -5
I think it's safe to say he's not, in fact, a monster for not caring for corn bread. Your opinion here is worthless, given your own odd foibles. My own preferred form is sort of a cross between the two -- hot water cornbread. You never see it around here, though, not that my digestive system wants me to be eating fried food anyway. (I've seen recipes for baked hot water cornbread, but it's been too hot for me to venture into the kitchen for such purposes. Maybe this fall ...) The former seems far more common than the latter, but as noted I've encountered both in various forums. I wonder if any one individual experiences both. That possibility is actually what I was alluding to a few posts back.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Aug 15, 2014 11:31:03 GMT -5
I think it's safe to say he's not, in fact, a monster for not caring for corn bread. Your opinion here is worthless, given your own odd foibles. My own preferred form is sort of a cross between the two -- hot water cornbread. You never see it around here, though, not that my digestive system wants me to be eating fried food anyway. (I've seen recipes for baked hot water cornbread, but it's been too hot for me to venture into the kitchen for such purposes. Maybe this fall ...) The former seems far more common than the latter, but as noted I've encountered both in various forums. I wonder if any one individual experiences both. That possibility is actually what I was alluding to a few posts back. The dislike of mayo reminded me of the scene in the movie "Whole Nine Yards" where Bruce Willis plays a hit man who threatens a horrible fate to a waiter if he ever brings him a hamburger with mayo again.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2014 11:37:21 GMT -5
I'll eat an egg anyway one can make it. I've eaten them right out the shell at times. Not for culinary reasons, but I can take a whole egg down raw. I prefer fried or hard boiled, then scrambled. I have only not tried poached so far. My egg consumption of course disappeared during my 2-odd years of veganism, & it hasn't picked up a whole lot since then; I'm just out of the habit, I guess. (Same with meat, not surprisingly.) That said, along with the formats you listed, I've always liked soft-boiled, too. Poached is OK, but my mother did that too much when I was a kid, & it's not a favorite of mine. When I was a kid, my great-aunt (or maybe it was one of the ladies who helped her when she became infirm) fixed some kind of baked eggs in a half-shell (an eggshell, that is, not an oyster shell or whatever). I believe she referred to them as shirred, but the recipes I've seen for shirred eggs don't come particularly close to matching my memory. I usually have fried catfish every Friday at the restaurant across from the AFB. Skipping it this time, though, because (a) the co-worker I normally eat with is in Vegas for our employer's national conference & (b) this week's Crohn's flareup definitely means I need to keep fried stuff at arm's (but not fork's) length for the next little while. Not, unfortunately, that the proper trimmings (i.e. those common in the Ark-La-Tex, my place of origin) are ever served hereabouts. I'm talking pickled green tomatoes & slice of raw white onion, of course.
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Post by hondobrode on Aug 15, 2014 11:48:02 GMT -5
I've also grown to enjoy corn bread With or without sugar? This is crucial. I haven't thought about it and am ignorant on the subject, though my Oklahoma born wife says Yankees like me prefer the more "cake-like" cornbread that's sweeter. I suppose that's true, but I also like the light fluffy less sweet cornbread my mother-in-law Alice Faye makes. I swing either way cornbread-wise. Eggs aren't my favorite thing, but I love them with Denison Mustard from back home. It's made by a tiny company back in Iowa not far from my home town. I used to buy it wholesale and give it as gifts to my clients, who mostly loved it. My favorite application for it is on top of fried eggs, not unlike Tabasco or salsa. That's how the farmers back home eat it. For a while I took it to my favorite Saturday morning diner. One time I forgot to take it home with me and our regular waitress, Mary, kept it in the fridge for me there. She'd bring it to my table after I placed my order. One time she asked if she could try it and of course I obliged her. Next time I brought her a jar of her own which she said went well with brats on the grill. Also excellent with roast beef. I haven't had, but others have told me it's great on fish and chicken as well. I love it, it's distinctive and memorable, and I like supporting small business back home by giving it away. It's an old German recipe that actually got mixed up for commercial sale years ago a half mile west of our family farm.
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Post by Pharozonk on Aug 15, 2014 11:51:05 GMT -5
Have noticed increasingly when I visit bookstores how empty the stores are of other people. I still visit them regularly. I went to my used bookstore just yesterday in fact.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2014 11:53:56 GMT -5
I swing either way cornbread-wise. You have monster tendencies; your wife & mother-in-law are to be commended for doing God's work in trying to overcome your innate iniquity. Occasionally one will encounter a restaurant hereabouts that serves sweet cornbread. Only by the grace of the good manners with which Southerners are raised have these places escaped being burned to the ground.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Aug 15, 2014 11:57:07 GMT -5
The dislike of mayo reminded me of the scene in the movie "Whole Nine Yards" where Bruce Willis plays a hit man who threatens a horrible fate to a waiter if he ever brings him a hamburger with mayo again. I was remembering that exact scene when I tasted mayo on my sandwich. I guess I should have told the waitress multiple times as he did in the movie.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Aug 15, 2014 12:04:29 GMT -5
I swing either way cornbread-wise. I however DO NOT swing either way when it comes to gravy. If (and it took being in Oklahoma for it to happen, thereby strengthening the differences of southern folks and yankees) I have to be asked brown or white gravy when I order mashed potatoes at a restaurant, I am obviously in a hellish dimension in some event horizon.
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Post by hondobrode on Aug 15, 2014 12:09:27 GMT -5
I'm SO picky about gravy. I trust Mom's, my mother-in-law's, and mine. That's about it, and I hate white gravy unless it's heavily peppered, otherwise why would I eat wallpaper paste ?
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Post by hondobrode on Aug 15, 2014 12:10:15 GMT -5
I swing either way cornbread-wise. You have monster tendencies; your wife & mother-in-law are to be commended for doing God's work in trying to overcome your innate iniquity. Occasionally one will encounter a restaurant hereabouts that serves sweet cornbread. Only by the grace of the good manners with which Southerners are raised have these places escaped being burned to the ground. Are you talking about the wearing-goat-horns-during-sex thing, or ...
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Aug 15, 2014 12:34:47 GMT -5
I'm SO picky about gravy. I trust Mom's, my mother-in-law's, and mine. That's about it, and I hate white gravy unless it's heavily peppered, otherwise why would I eat wallpaper paste ? Yeah I can't stand the stuff. And the only reason that I had it was because at some restaurant here in my first year in Oklahoma, I ordered mash potatoes and the waitress, didn't ask (or they didn't serve brown gravy) and my plate came back with this horrible and gelatinous white stuff on potatoes. I tried to like it. But I couldn't do it. And to finish out my white sauce prejudice, I also do not like alfredo sauce or ranch dressing. In fact I think only white sauce that escapes my wrath is blue cheese dressing. Edit: I even go so far as to buy golden mushroom soup.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2014 12:46:10 GMT -5
In fact I think only white sauce that escapes my wrath is blue cheese dressing. Which is one of the few things I make a point of avoiding. Reminds me too much of penicillin, maybe, which I think is the only thing in the world I'm allergic to. Of course, too, they're both basically mold, & I can't say I'm a big fan of mold.
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