Text 32055, 94 rader
Skriven 2015-10-15 20:59:41 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 31893 av Dave Drum (1:261/38.0)
Ärende: Discounts                                                [1]
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Hi Dave,

 DD> Popeyes (no apostrophe) sells excellent chicken at a good price. The
 DD> Indian owners of the local franchise hire local workers, pay a decent
 DD> wage, offer scholarships to their workers, pay their taxes and
 DD> contribute to the community. IOW, my favourite business model.

 RH> Sounds like the owners know what to do, and do it well. Steve stopped
 RH> at the local Hardee's tonight to pick up some supper--asked about a
 RH> military discount but no go there. He forgot to ask about a senior
 RH> discount but what we ordered wasn't that much so no great loss there.

 DD> My friend Les and I were discussing discounts at breakfast yesterday.
 DD> Mostly about Denny's 15% AARP spiff. I mentioned that it was only
 DD> during certain (slack business) hours and excluded some of the menu
 DD> items. Brother Leslie maintains a couple of databases - one for
 DD> breakfast places within easy driving distance and the other for senior
 DD> and/or military/uniformed services discounts. He emailed me the
 DD> updated discount sheet - and I note that the senior discount for
 DD> Hardee's is chain wide but the military discount is "local option" and
 DD> may vary from franchisee to franchisee. Rally's/Checkers locally has
 DD> been re-acquired by the parent company - and the senior discount done
 DD> away with. I don't go there as often as I used to - partly because of
 DD> that.

OK, so we'll ask for a Senior's discount at Hardee's (G)


 DD>   +++ MORE TRIMS +++

 DD> I got nothing against white flour.  Bv)= If I need to up my whole
 DD> grain/bran intake I'll have a bowl of Grape Nuts (if it's still being
 DD> made).

 RH> It is still being made; I've bought it from time to time. I've also got
 RH> a recipe in my "More With Less" cookbook for home made "grape nuts".
 RH> BTW, the Pillsbury rye bread is the one I remember; it is close to (but
 RH> not quite) a pumpernickel. Now I'll try some of the others, to find a
 RH> lighter, "Jewish" rye. The rye I made yesterday had a nice texture,
 RH> good taste, again, thanks for hunting it down.

 DD> That's good. Glad to h'ep

 DD> Is this the same Grape-Nutz recipe? I got mine from Taste of Home


 DD>       Title: Grape Nuts Cereal
 DD>  Categories: Grains, Dairy
 DD>       Yield: 5 quarts


 RH> Looks similar but I don't have the cook book in front of me. I'll have
 RH> to get back to you on that.

 DD>   * NOT at my house - UDD

 RH> You don't like maple, or don't like maple extract? I'd probably cut
 RH> some of the sugar and sub in the Stevia for baking with a bit of
 RH> molasses to give it the brown sugar taste. Save me some carbs and
 RH> calories.

 DD> I'm not a fan of the maple flavour - except possibly as a smoking
 DD> wood. When I was in primary school we used to do field trips to see
 DD> the trees being tapped and the sap being cooked down. Then we'd each
 DD> get a sample of either maple sirup (local spelling) or something made
 DD> of maple sugar. Even at the age of six or seven I never could see the
 DD> attraction in maple flavouring.

OTOH, I grew up with maple, the school trips to the sugar shacks and
such like, even getting the candy at the end. I still like real maple in
any way, shape or form--including the creemees we got this past summer
in Vermont.


 RH> That's a good sized serving for Grape Nuts; I think the commercial one
 RH> suggests a 1/4 cup serving.

 DD> Huh? That's a teeny-tiny amount - even with milk and fruit in a cereal
 DD> bowl it wouldn't make a very filling breakfast. I do remember that the
 DD> Grape Nuts cereal boxes were *much* smaller than the flaked cereals -
 DD> as the flakes took up more volume for equal weights.

Takes less to fill me up than you.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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