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Skriven 2014-10-24 13:41:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HAFFLY
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-=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Nancy Backus on 10-22-14  21:15 <=-

 NB>>>> He had no choice.  ;)  I think Grandmother made an effort to
 NB>>>> give some stability despite all the moves, though...  :)
 RH>>> Good for her! She sounds like she was quite a remarkable lady.
 NB>>> She was.  She was, indeed.   :)
 RH>> I've forgotten, did you ever meet her?
 NB>> Yes, and got to know her pretty well..  She's the one that was in
 NB>> the nursing home at the end, regressing to babyhood....  Before she
 NB>> started that, though, she was one of my most trusted confidantes...
 NB>> :)

 RH> And you miss her, don't you?

Of course.  :)
 
 NB>>> And she said, no, but her dad works at the newspaper...?  ;)
 RH>> Just a "no" probably but Dad used to buy the NY Times every day so I
 RH>> grew up with a major daily paper in the house. I'd read parts of it
 NB>> Ah, that would explain things too... :)

 RH> He stopped buying it only a relatively few years ago, when the price
 RH> went up too much for him.
 
A familiar tale....
 
 RH>> too; that's probably why I still like to subscribe to a local daily
 RH>> (print copy please) newspaper. I'll read on line if the carrier can't
 RH>> get thru but prefer the paper paper.
 NB>> I prefer the paper paper, too... but got soured on our local when
 NB>> they started putting most of the content online, and then raised
 NB>> the price of the paper subscription to reflect all the bonuses
 NB>> (unusable by me) of the online...  If they'd had a reduced price
 NB>> for paper only, or even not raised it, I'd probably still be
 NB>> getting it. 

 RH> The Raleigh paper is pushing their electronic editions more too.
 RH> I'm not giving in yet--I still like the paper. 

Yeah... that's how it happened here... I held out until the price rise
that was just too much...

 RH> The other day they showed a picture of one of the huge pumpkins at the
 RH> state fair going on the scale; the winner was over 1,000 pounds. Lots
 RH> of potential pies but I wouldn't want one from a pumpkin that big.
 
I'd expect that it might not be as tasty as one from a smaller
pumpkin...  That's some big pumpkin, though.... ;)  One could use it to
make a monster big pie to break Guiness records, maybe...  ;)
 
 NB>>> Yeah...  something like that...  :)  And no need to rile people by
 NB>>> disagreeing openly on things when it's not going to matter really.
 RH>> I've bit my tongue on a number of occaisions. (G)
 NB>> Yup... and I refer to "hamburger tongue" for those occasions when
 NB>> one has to bite hard and often...  (G)

 RH> Good choice of words, I'll have to remember that.
 
It came to mind as appropriate...  ;)
 
 RH>>> Could be, and thinking of the money to be made by selling it as
 RH>>> a diet food. (G)
 NB>>> Apparently enough gets sold that they figure it's a viable
 NB>>> product...
 RH>> I guess so; I'll buy the reduced fat cream cheese from time to time
 RH>> but never the fat free. I might have made the mistake once, but not
 RH>> repeated it.
 NB>> Some of us have taste...  ;)  Obviously there are enough that
 NB>> don't... ;)

 RH> True, especially when it comes to seeing words like "diet", "light",
 RH> "low (whatever)" and so on. They see those words, think the product is
 RH> good for them, and buy it, regardless of actual taste. Why waste money
 RH> on food that doesn't taste good when all you have to do is eat a
 RH> smaller portion of something that tastes good?

What's worse, often it isn't even any better for them, having other
things added in that are worse for them than the items taken out...
Smaller portions of a wide variety of foods are much better all
around...  ;)

ttyl         neb

... "Another plate of steamers all around!" Tom clamored.

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