Text 10410, 89 rader
Skriven 2014-02-28 16:10:10 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
  Kommentar till text 10358 av RUTH HANSCHKA (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: egg-planting
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-=> Quoting RUTH HANSCHKA to NANCY BACKUS on 27 Feb 14  17:24:40 <=-

 ->  -> than just pulling it.  :)  Besides, maybe they'll get you to taste
 ->  -> it that way, and then maybe even buy it at full price...  ;)
 ->  RH> Dream on, oh retailer. :-)  
 -> It works on some people... ;) 
 -> 
 RH> Antique textiles and jewelry work on me.  Food samples of prefab food
 RH> don't have much impact.  I can walk past your salty mozzerela sticks,
 RH> but not the 1940s Mexican sterling.

Remember we were talking expensive (and theoretically tasty) cheeses
being put on greatly reduced sale, though, not food samples of mozz
sticks... ;)  They hope that you'll be hooked into buying full price
later... (G)  I know... it's still quite the dream...  ;)   But it's
more like the knowing the quality of the product being shown...  ;)

 ->  -> Makes sense... and canny shoppers can use that to their own 
 ->  -> advantage... presuming, of course, that it is something fit for
 ->  -> eating...  (G) 
 ->  RH> Some of it wasn't; I read the ingredient list.  
 -> Even for free, some things aren't worth it... ;)

 RH> I've eaten some of them. :-)  Most of that stuff gets donated.

Or left behind... some stuff no one would want...  :)
 
 ->  ->  RH> Total no-brainer.  Besides, Mom likes hermits too. 
 ->  -> So she wouldn't complain about them showing up in the house... ;)
 ->  RH> She had a package open pretty quickly, so no. :-)
 -> Figured.. :)

 RH> She didn't complain about the chocolate-covered Speculatus I snagged
 RH> today either.  It's a small package of chocolate-backed spice cookies.
 RH> The local job lot turns up some interesting imports.
 
Where was that one from...?   It does sound intriguingly interesting. ;)

 ->  -> way to heat things either... so it had to taste at least edible 
 ->  -> cold... and be fairly shelf stable... oh, and be something he
 ->  -> was willing to eat...  (G)
 ->  RH> That last could have been the tough one.  Not everyone eats canned
 ->  RH> tuna. 
 -> Exactly... :)

 RH> I'm probably doing a crab mac and cheese for a church group on Sunday.
 RH> I just hope the guys in the group will eat seafood.  Then again, some
 RH> guys will eat anything if it has enough cheese in it!

Is that going to be real crab, or Krab...?  But you are correct, enough
cheese can camoflauge almost anything...  :)
 
 ->  ->  RH> It makes for interesting stuff in the grocery store.
 ->  -> That, too...  :)
 ->  RH> It fits in well with the Jamaican stuff.
 -> We have such a diverse population that most of the major stores do carry
 -> a selection of all sorts of ethnic foods... not as wide a selection as a
 -> particular ethnic store might have, but certainly the basics and a bit
 -> beyond...  One local chain, TOPS, was touting some of its stores as
 -> "International", but Wegmans was quietly just carrying the stuff... ;)

 RH> Stop&Shop does that, touts it that is.  The others just have it
 RH> around.  The local job lot store is known for attracting oddities.
 RH> They also carry the entire line of Bob's Red Mill or close to it.  
 
I haven't paid enough attention to our local job lot stores... they
aren't quite enough in my regular path to remind me of their existence
when actually out and about... and I'm not that much of a shopper... But
it might be worth a check I suppose... :)

 ->  ->  -> It could make an interesting school field trip, though... ;)  
 ->  ->  RH> Most definitely.
 ->  -> Another lesson for the kids in where food really comes from... :)
 ->  RH> Now there's a way to get parents mad - watch a real butcher
 ->  RH> take the bird from clucked to plucked.  Some kids would run
 ->  RH> screaming, and a few might want to help.(LOL)
 -> Some parents would think it a very useful lesson... :)
 -> 
 RH> My grandmother would have wondered what the big deal was.  She killed
 RH> her own all the time growing up.

Exactly...  once upon a time, one knew where the food came from, and did
a lot of that "gruesome" prep work without a second thought..  ;)

ttyl        neb

... No need to worry, apparently it's only prices going up, not inflation
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