General Discussion, Thursday, April 21, 2016

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  1. Stella's avatar stella says:

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  2. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

    When residents at the Central Park Zoo were asked about their opinions on Cruz’s chances of winning the state’s primary, this pair said they didn’t want to stick their necks out but…

    It’s late folks, the good stuff doesn’t come on until the last show.

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  3. Stella's avatar stella says:

    If anyone is interested, the entire Trump family will be doing a Townhall tomorrow morning on the Today Show….

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  4. Col.(R) Ken's avatar Col.(R) Ken says:

    It’s the Queen’s Birthday today……

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  5. WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:

    Mornin’ y’all!

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    • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:

      😡 ARGGGG!

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    • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

      Obama showing hiw well he can tap dance on sand. Saudis agenda includes pushing back on the Iranians as the Iranians try to expand their influence (via thinly veiled military threats) in the Gulf while Obama’s agenda is to disengage and let Iran do what it wants to in tne area.
      Saudis have hinted they might start selling off $750-billion in US assets but that’s largely a threat though it shows how hard they want soneone other than Captain Wrongway Peachfuzz at the international helm.

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  6. nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:

    Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Long Island Iced Tea)
    Mornin’ WeeWeed! (Master Mixologist Extrodinare) 😎 🍸 (Old Fashioned)
    Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎 |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| (Jack Daniels)
    Mornin’ Ad rem! (Queen Felis catus) 🐱 🍸 (Flaming Lamborghini)
    Mornin’ Sharon! 😎 🍸 (earthquake)
    Mornin’ ytz4mee! 😎 🍸 (cosmopolitan)
    Mornin’ partyzantski! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ texan59! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ ZurichMike! 🙂 🍸 (fuzzy navel)
    Mornin’ Col.(R) Ken! (hand salute) 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ czarowniczy! 🙂 |_| ( and Czarina 🙂 🍸 )
    Mornin’ letjusticeprevail2014! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ ctdar! 🙂 🍸 (grasshopper)
    Mornin’ tessa50! 🙂 🍸 (flaming volcano)
    Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (sidecar)
    Mornin’ varsityward! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ MaryfromMarin! 😀 |_| (Mortlach)
    Mornin’ Wooly Phlox! (aka “taqiyyologist”) 🙂 |_| (Roy Rogers)
    Mornin’ Howie! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ Sha! 🙂 🍸 (Lemon Drop)
    Mornin’ BigMamaTEA! 🙂 🍸 (Harvey Wallbanger)
    Mornin’ cetera5! (aka “Cetera”) 🙂 |_| (Classic Daiquiri)
    Mornin’ The Tundra PA! 🙂 🍸 (bailey irish cream on the rocks)
    Mornin’ lovely! 🙂 🍸 (Tom and Jerry)
    Mornin’ michellc! 🙂 🍸 (Salty dog)
    Mornin’ auscitizenmom! 🙂 🍸 (Kiss on the Lips)
    Mornin’ Margaret-Ann! 🙂 🍸 (White Russian)
    Mornin’ Auntie Lib! 🙂 🍸
    Mornin’ holly100! 🙂 🍸
    Mornin’ ImpeachEmAll 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ Monroe! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ Les! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ shiloh1973! 🙂 |_| (Jack Daniels)
    Mornin’ TexasRanger! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ Ziiggii! 🙂 |_| (B52)
    Mornin’ oldiadguy! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ smiley! (“stuck in spambucket”) 🙂 🍸 (Spanish coffee)
    Mornin’ derk! (“Stellars”) 🙂 🍸 (Mudslide)
    Mornin’ Jacqueline Taylor Robson 🙂 🍸 (Shirley Temple)
    Mornin’ facebkwallflower! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ Ms. Cindy! (aka “Ms Cynlynn” aka “ms cynlynn”) 🙂 🍸
    Mornin’ sandandsea2015! 🙂 🍸
    Mornin’ whiners and complainers! ⭐ 😛 (No drink for you!)
    Mornin’ to people posting that I missed. 😳
    Mornin’ to all you lurkers! 😕

    Also just in case someday; mornin’ to Elvis Chupacabra and F.D.R. in Hell! :mrgreen:

    Breakfast!

    NEW and IMPROVED breakfast with extra bacon for ZurichMike!

    Pastries for coffee!

    = Unprintable phallic symbol

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  7. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

    Morning all, slept in but sarcasm-o-meter’s pegging in the high 80s. Late nite, Chinese food, good vodka (no, not North Korean) all feeds into active retiree ennui. Onward and upward to beet planting…

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  8. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

    I do declare it looks like we done run outta space fo’ re-plies. It’s alookin’ like we need a new thread for root vegetable and legume responses.

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  9. WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:

    OK. SOME of us like lima (butter) beans. SOME of us will not give a beet the time ‘a day.
    Discuss.

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    • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:

      And some of us love beets AND Lima beans. However, I share nyet’s fate. The husband does not like Lima beans, so I never bother to make them.

      He loves pickled beets, but not my beet salad too much, which baffles me because it is just delicious, and kind of like picked beets. He probably would love the smoothies too. He has learned to drink them and not ask too many questions. 😀

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    • michellc's avatar michellc says:

      My daughter loves them, but she’s the only one of us that do, so when she was younger I’d buy a 15 bean mix and cook them with ham and she’d pick out all the nasty beans for herself. lol

      Both of my sons liked broccoli and cauliflower raw or cooked, the rest of us hated it. So I’d buy it for them, but it rarely got cooked because they’d eat all of it before I had a chance to cook it. They always called it green trees and white trees and would ask every time we went to the grocery store if they could have some green and white trees.

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    • lovely's avatar lovely says:

      I do not like lima beans or beets. In fact I don’t like any beans 😕 not in a boat not with a goat, and never with a Canadian.

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      • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:

        Good lord almighty. I had heard there were people in the world who live without regular helpings of pinto beans, mashed taters, squash relish, maters and cornbread, but I never knew one before. At least a time or two during summer we have all that, which is fairly frequent for us, but add fried squash and fried okra to it as well. I think it is my favorite meal all year.

        We always fell back on beans, potatoes, and cornbread as our cheap meals to eat and keep th grocery bill down, but honestly my husband prefers no meat other than a little pork cooked in with the beans when we have it. It’s one of his favorite meals.

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        • lovely's avatar lovely says:

          That would be me. No beans, none not hidden in other things, nope, no, 🙄and beets they seem to be some mutation of cranberries only in a fouler mood 😇.

          Heck it took me until I was in my 20’s to try gravy and then I went vegetarian. Now I am back to eating some meat but not a lot.

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        • Stella's avatar stella says:

          I adore potatoes, any way you cook them. The rest of those things on your list are good too – except maybe the okra.

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          • michellc's avatar michellc says:

            I love fried okra. Pickled okra is disgusting and boiled okra is a slimy mess, but I can make a meal out of fresh green beans with new potatoes, fried okra, fried squash and sliced maters. I could almost be vegetarian in the summer if it wasn’t for the fact that I like pork in my green beans and like to fry my okra and squash in bacon fat.
            Add in some fresh peas and fried fresh corn and it’s a feast fit for a king.
            Summertime is also when I eat a lot of salad, fresh leaf lettuce from the garden with fresh maters, cucumbers, green onions, peas, boiled eggs and bacon.

            I’m making myself hungry.

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          • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:

            My ex was a Yankee and had never had fried okra. He said he would not eat anything that was filled with snot. I fried up some for him and I was lucky to get even a small helping of it. I couldn’t fry up enough at a time to get more than one small helping for myself when I made it for my son and my ex.

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          • BigMamaTEA's avatar BigMamaTEA says:

            Okra, only fried or pickled. Once a friend served me Okra which had been boiled. Looked like snot-goo all over my plate. Yuk!

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        • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

          We start talking beans here and we’re gonna run outta space like we did in the root veggie post. Primary dried beans in our pantry are pinto (even som Anazazi), pink, red and black. We keep canned beans of various types for 3/4/5 bean salads, split peas and dall for soup but keep only frozen limas.

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        • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

          Put in okra yesterday, will replant weekly to ensure a full crop, if I don’t my Mississippi driver’s licence will be revoked. So far looking at about 150 feet of squashes. Many will be given away, some will be eaten by critters and some frozen but you can bet a lot will be roasted and eaten on the bach porch where we can spit the seeds out into the lawn.
          We eat squash, mice eat seeds, cats eat mice, all part of that great circle of dining/life.

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        • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:

          Growing up, we had pinto beans and cornbread at least three times a week.

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          • WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:

            We had Great Northern beans a lot. I’m happy to say that since I reached adulthood not ONE Great Northern bean has graced my maw unless it was in someone else’s soup.

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  10. texan59's avatar texan59 says:

    Enough with teh vegan lifestyle. I’ma hungry for some liver and onions with mashed potato’s. Like a fat kid on an ice cream cone, I am. 😆

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    • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:

      I am trying very hard not to order room service.

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    • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:

      Okay, y’all finally got something I hate. I cook it very rarely, but I do fix it for my husband.

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      • texan59's avatar texan59 says:

        Have been eatin’ it since I was an ankle-biter. My MIL would call the house every time she made it. Almost as good as my momma made. Almost. 😉

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      • Stella's avatar stella says:

        I eat it, but I never cook it.

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      • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:

        The Mrs. has been a picky eater since childhood and according to her, drove her mother crazy by refusing to eat almost everything she made.
        Even today she will not touch pork or beef. She’ll cook and have lamb or rabbit once in awhile, but mostly birds or fish as far as meat goes.

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        • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

          My steak and kidney pie is something that makes the kitchen smell like a hog barn when it’s being prepared but comes out of the oven a dream. Czarina sort of cashed in when I was sautéing the vinegar out of the kidneys I’d cleaned but now just leaves the house until the product’s final. We also bulk-buy chicken gizzards, another guilty treat.

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          • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:

            Years ago, before “hot wings” became a thing, I remember ordering a basket of deep fried chicken gizzards and a pitcher of beer.

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          • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:

            LOL My mother refused to cook kidneys so my father decided to do it himself. I guess he didn’t get them clean enough and they stank so bad the whole family evacuated the house and was standing at the far edges of the property until he finally was able to smell it ( he had lost his sense of smell from smoking so much). He tried to feed them to the cat who proceeded to try to bury them, then he gave them to the hound dog from next door, who also tried to bury them, so he finally dug a hole in the grapefruit grove behind the house and buried them himself.

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            • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

              Grandmother taught me to cook them along with ‘lights’, sweetbreads and brains. After you trim the white stuff out of them you soak them overnight in vinegar water. When you cook them the smell’s something to behold, it rivals badly done asafoetida, but they end up tasting great.

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        • lovely's avatar lovely says:

          The good thing about being a picky eater as a child was all my cousins wanted to sit with me at dinner time because they knew they could have almost anything they wanted off of my plate.

          Though I did nearly drive my mom mad. I didn’t eat potatoes, beans, gravy, any seafood other than deep fried shrimp, ice cream, any pizza other than cheese pizza and the list goes on and on. My grandfather had a garden and I did enjoy fresh tomatoes. I existed mainly on cheese, grapes, burgers (ketchup only) and macaroni and cheese.

          I have since expanded my food likings quite a bit 🙄.

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          • michellc's avatar michellc says:

            I wasn’t born yet, but apparently one of my older brothers was a picky eater and the doctor told my mom to put food in front of him and not let him have what he wanted and when he got hungry he’d eat it. Mom took that to heart with all of us kids, so we either ate or went hungry.

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            • lovely's avatar lovely says:

              My parents were not big into discipline. I wonder if I would have a larger palette if they had forced me to eat some things I didn’t like. I did try almost everything, not because I had to, but because I was curious. Some things I flat out refused to even try, duck blood soup at my cousins house, ox tail soup at home and any fish other than blue gill and salmon.

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              • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

                DUCK BLOOD SOUP!!! Soneonecwas dining at a Slavic home. I can remember it being made with fresh ingredients drawn from a duck thst had been tied from a clothesline. As for oxtail soup, I mske thatvregularly, I get the tails from a custom abattoir at a great price, the large number of immigrants from south of the border have driven their prices up in the stores to that of meat.
                If you’d have said duck/chicken/pig bloid so I’d have guessed a Chinese household (love those soups too). Can’t find those in a can at Wally World.

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            • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:

              My mom did that. Didn’t work with me. I am a picky eater. When I had my son, I made him taste everything on the table. But only one small bite. Then he was free to eat it or not. He learned to like everything. I don’t think there is anything he won’t try. I am very proud of myself. 🙂

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              • michellc's avatar michellc says:

                I always made my kids eat at least one bite, but I never allowed them to have anything different than was on the table. If they couldn’t find something to eat from what they had to choose from then they knew they’d go hungry and no dessert.

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                • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:

                  That was exactly what I did. Or, at least the plan. Actually, my son ate almost anything I put in his plate. Sometimes I was surprised that he didn’t eat the plate, too. One of the few things he wouldn’t eat was sweet potatoes, since his dad told him they were terrible. When he was about 12, my mother brought some baked sweet potatoes over and sat one in front of him (not realizing he wouldn’t even try it) and I saw him make a face when she had her back turned. But, bless his heart, he was too polite to tell her, so he tried it and loved it. The really weird thing was I always knew he would like them because he absolutely loved pumpkin and I can’t tell the difference unless they are right there together.

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                  • michellc's avatar michellc says:

                    I have to disagree about pumpkin, it makes me want to puke, but I love sweet potatoes.

                    I always gag when I make pumpkin pies and tell my family that is how much I love them. 🙂

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      • BigMamaTEA's avatar BigMamaTEA says:

        My hubbie likes that too. And chicken livers. I refuse to even cook them. He goes out to some dive to get his fix.

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        • I learned to make chicken liver pate. I add mushrooms, butter, garlic, thyme, black pepper, Onion, cream and a little brandy. Whisk it up in the blender ’til smooth, put it in a pretty dish and put in the fridge ’til cold. It’s great on toast or fancy crackers. This is one of my favorite dishes to whip up at Christmas!

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    • michellc's avatar michellc says:

      I’ve not the biggest fan of beef liver, but my DH likes it so I cook it for him sometimes. I do like chicken liver though, my kids all hate it and have always told me it’s gross to eat catfish bait. lol

      How about some beef tongue? If you can get over the fact that it’s a tongue, it’s some of the most tender and flavorful meat you can eat. My problem is I’m the one who has to cook it, so there’s no pretending I don’t know what it is and it makes it hard for me to eat it.

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    • WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:

      O.M.G. Youse ‘n teh Momma woulda got on well. I’m divorcing all y’all liver bastages…….

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  11. lovely's avatar lovely says:

    On a happy note our Farmers Market opens the first Saturday in May.

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  12. I always have trouble posting photos! Sometimes it works, and others, well…

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