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On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 08:54:57 -0500, "Eisboch"
wrote:


"HK" wrote in message
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Eisboch wrote:

"HK" wrote in message
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I don't recall my mother ever serving powdered milk. We did try powdered
eggs...once.


When a gallon of whole milk climbed up to about 80 cents a gallon, my
mother tried to save by using the powdered junk. With three kids in the
house, we went through quite a bit of milk.

Eisboch


I was the only kid in the house and not much of a milk drinker, so a quart
lasted a week at home. Besides, in those days, in grammar school, a
container of milk was served each day, along with two graham crackers, to
every kid in public school. Whether they liked it or not. We kids who
could pay a few pennies a day for the milk did so, and it was free of
charge to kids who couldn't pay. I seem to recall a significant number of
foods supplied at cost to the public schools back then through various
farm subsidy programs. A complete hot lunch at junior high was only 20 or
25 cents. That included an appetizer of soup, salad or jello, a hot meal
with some sort of beef, chicken or fish, two veggies and a dessert. The
fish was always served on Fridays, naturally, and typically was fish
sticks. Not bad, though. Still, a lot of kids brought their lunch to
school.

I wouldn't trade growing up then for growing up now. The world I grew up
in was much better than the one we have today. Well, except for "Duck and
Cover."




I recall costs of school lunches as being about the same. 25 cents for a
full meal and 3 cents for an extra milk.

Go to a modern high school cafeteria now. It would blow you away. Several
choices of hot meals or sandwiches, pizza, salad bars, and, in some towns, a
McDonald's.

Eisboch

If I'm there when they take it out of the rotisserie, OK. Costco's has
the best rotisserie chicken, and they go through it fast, so it's
always fresh. Safeway will sell the stuff that's been under the lamp
for six hours.

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"Richard Casady" wrote in message
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On Sun, 8 Feb 2009 18:45:25 -0800 (PST), tim
wrote:

However, is it one of those items like rope, it's rope until it goes
on a boat then it is called line.

Yes. When I was a kid the summer camp had some X-boats. They had
lengths of line sown to the edges of the sails, instead of slides or
whatever. These were called " Boltropes ". There were tunnels for them
in the mast and boom.

Casady

All the small sailboats I owned had the bolt rope system on the main.
Even my 19 foot mini-cruiser had that system until I took my main to a
sailmaker and had him sew on slides every 16" along the luff.
The slides made the sail much easier to raise or drop, which seemed a good
idea if I planned to sail singlehanded.

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On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 09:09:46 -0500, Eisboch wrote:


Sure case of food poisoning. Anyone who has never
experienced a case of severe food poisoning can't understand how bad it
is.

When your body tells an unwanted guest to get out, it means it. I've had
that unfortunate experience twice. Impressive, isn't it?

Moral: Never, ever buy one of those pre-cooked chickens again.

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On Feb 9, 9:11*am, Vic Smith wrote:
On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 08:50:37 -0500, "Eisboch"
wrote:







"John H" wrote in message
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Ketchup -- blech!

Tobasco -- yumm.

I never tried Tobasco on eggs until I met my father-in-law. * He used to
cover eggs with the stuff.
I tried it, liked it and still use it, but not to the extent he used it.

I recently bought some Tobasco sauce and mistakenly got the "Habanero"
version.

Whew!

A buddy from Tennessee fed me fried eggs with sliced tomatoes once.
Good, but not enough to change my habits.
Eggs are best with bacon or pork sausage, and hash browns.
Pancakes if no hash browns available.
IMO of course.
I don't tell nobody what to eat.
One of my kids had to put hot sauce on everything.
Even celery.
That's over though. *Acid reflux or something, so the doc told him to
lay off and he has.

--Vic * *- Hide quoted text -

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Mmm, Tennessee breakfast! Had a friend who's dad was a retired coal
miner, and they had a huge breakfast every morning. bisquits and
sausage gravy, eggs, tomatoes, etc. Loved it! Also really like
homemade corned beef hash and eggs.

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On Feb 9, 9:03*am, Vic Smith wrote:
On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:17:12 GMT, Zombie of Woodstock





wrote:
On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 07:55:22 -0500, "Eisboch"
wrote:

I used to like the powdered eggs. *Pour enough ketchup on them and they were
not bad.

Love powdered eggs. *You just can't explain the attraction to them for
some reason. *More guys I know that served during our era have said
that to me more than once.

Some didn't care for them admittedly, but most couldn't get enough.

I also developed a taste for chipped beef on toast for some reason -
in particular if they used bacon drippings for the sauce.

I've noticed how my taste and - and stomach tolerance - has changed
quite a bit. *Reminds me of when I was about 15 and doing some lawn
chores for a couple of grandmas. *They insisted on feeding me a
breakfast of fried eggs, and they fried them in butter.
I had a hard time being polite and gulping them down. *Thought they
were gross. *That's because I was raised on eggs fried in bacon fat,
and had never had butter-fried.
Now I'm opposite, and only like them butter-fried.
Favorite meal used to be a rolled pork loin. *With asparagus/spuds.
When I got in my thirties I couldn't take the pork loin. *Made my
stomach queasy.
Ever get sick pigging out on something and never want it again?
When I was a kid I made a bunch of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches
- my favorite food then - and got sick.
It still turns my stomach if I get a hint of peanut butter in my
jelly. *But I still like each so long as they're not combined.
Sort of the same happened when I ate a jar of dill pickles. *Couldn't
touch a dill pickle for about 15 years. *Got over that aversion
though.

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Canned spinach. I will never eat that stuff again. I had a can in the
cupboard, warmed it, ate it, got sick as a dog. That was probably 25
years ago.

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On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 08:03:32 -0600, Vic Smith
wrote:

Ever get sick pigging out on something and never want it again?

Not really. My food dislike comes from smell. I don't eat a lot of
meat, red or white, and in general when it's cooking in the house (as
opposed to on the outdoor grill) I get a little queasy from the smell.

I love bacon, for instance, but I can't be in the house when it's
cooked - I literally get sick to my stomach.

I won't eat in any establishment that has the grill in the same room
as the seating.

Weird I know.

--

When I want your opinion, I'll beat it out of you

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On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 08:50:37 -0500, "Eisboch"
wrote:


I never tried Tobasco on eggs until I met my father-in-law. He used to
cover eggs with the stuff.

Heh - when I worked for Texaco in New Orleans I struck up a long time
friendship with one of the engineers I used to work with. A few years
ago, they came up for a ski vacation in New Hampshire and stayed over
here for a couple of days. His wife was from New Hampshire and wnated
to have a real home made fish chowder, so Mrs. Wave cooked one up -
typical New England chowdah.

First thing my friend did was ask for tobasco sauce and used a liberal
portion in his chowder.

Mrs. Wave was ****ed along with his wife - neither one of them talked
to him the entire evening. :)

Speaking of hot, one of the strangest things I ever saw was a Master
Sergeant who used to use two heaping table spoons of cayenne pepper
poweder on everything he ate.

I never figured that one out.

--

"Aim well, shoot fast then scram"

Henri Cartier-Bresson

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On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:17:12 GMT, Zombie of Woodstock
wrote:

Nothing like a hearty breakfast - pile of powered eggs, two servings
of SOS.

It may be twenty years, a while anyway, but I understand the military
got rid of SOS because it was expensive and unpopular.

Casady

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Jim Willemin wrote in
7.131:

What is the difference between a floor and a deck? Is the floor in
the cockpit or cabin and the deck 'outside'? I understand the
'floors' in boatbuilding are transverse members in the frames, but
does anyone know the 'proper' usages of floor and deck? Does a
deckhouse have a floor or a deck?

You've basically answered your own question...... the only "floors" are
verticle transverse members.....everything else you are mentioning, is a
deck.

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On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:48:37 GMT, (Richard
Casady) wrote:

On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:17:12 GMT, Zombie of Woodstock
wrote:

Nothing like a hearty breakfast - pile of powered eggs, two servings
of SOS.

It may be twenty years, a while anyway, but I understand the military
got rid of SOS because it was expensive and unpopular.

Perhaps, but more likely, gormets are now eating it in high end
resturants. :)

Plus, it's kinda hard to put into a MRE. :)

--

"I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great
many things, and I have succeeded fairly well."

Robert Benchley

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On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 08:31:51 -0600, Vic Smith
wrote:

Chicken seems to cause more than it's share of FP.

For FP, potato salad has a well earned reputation. beat. Eggs most
often come with salmonella. OK if hard boiled.

Casady

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"Richard Casady" wrote in message
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On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 08:31:51 -0600, Vic Smith
wrote:

Chicken seems to cause more than it's share of FP.

For FP, potato salad has a well earned reputation. beat. Eggs most
often come with salmonella. OK if hard boiled.

Casady


Yup. I don't order or have eggs often anymore but when I do I order them
"over hard".
No more of the liquid yolk.

Eisboch

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"Zombie of Woodstock" wrote in message
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On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 07:55:22 -0500, "Eisboch"
wrote:

I used to like the powdered eggs. Pour enough ketchup on them and they
were
not bad.

Love powdered eggs. You just can't explain the attraction to them for
some reason. More guys I know that served during our era have said
that to me more than once.

Some didn't care for them admittedly, but most couldn't get enough.

I also developed a taste for chipped beef on toast for some reason -
in particular if they used bacon drippings for the sauce.

Nothing like a hearty breakfast - pile of powered eggs, two servings
of SOS.

That is gormet man - gormet.


--

"I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great
many things, and I have succeeded fairly well."

Robert Benchley

At Keesler AFB the SOS was hamburger in flour sauce. Really bad flour
sauce. Never could be called gravy. We drank a lot of powdered milk as
kids. If you made it a day ahead it tasted a lot better. My kids were
pretty much raised on powdered milk, which we still use. Mix and let set 12
hours and it is a lot better. Plus the powdered stuff has improved over the
years.

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"Zombie of Woodstock" wrote in message
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On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 08:50:37 -0500, "Eisboch"
wrote:


I never tried Tobasco on eggs until I met my father-in-law. He used to
cover eggs with the stuff.

Heh - when I worked for Texaco in New Orleans I struck up a long time
friendship with one of the engineers I used to work with. A few years
ago, they came up for a ski vacation in New Hampshire and stayed over
here for a couple of days. His wife was from New Hampshire and wnated
to have a real home made fish chowder, so Mrs. Wave cooked one up -
typical New England chowdah.

First thing my friend did was ask for tobasco sauce and used a liberal
portion in his chowder.

Mrs. Wave was ****ed along with his wife - neither one of them talked
to him the entire evening. :)

Speaking of hot, one of the strangest things I ever saw was a Master
Sergeant who used to use two heaping table spoons of cayenne pepper
poweder on everything he ate.

I never figured that one out.

--

"Aim well, shoot fast then scram"

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Chowdah needs Tabasco.

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On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 11:14:32 -0800, "Calif Bill"
wrote:

At Keesler AFB the SOS was hamburger in flour sauce. Really bad flour
sauce. Never could be called gravy.

SOS is made with chipped dried been. Not burger.

Casady

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"Richard Casady" wrote in message
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On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 11:14:32 -0800, "Calif Bill"
wrote:

At Keesler AFB the SOS was hamburger in flour sauce. Really bad flour
sauce. Never could be called gravy.

SOS is made with chipped dried been. Not burger.

Casady


I think there are all kinds of versions of SOS. Another I remember is
ground beef fried up in a pan with a little water added to create a sauce or
gravy. It was then mixed into mashed potatoes.

Not too bad, stick to your ribs type cheap meal.

Eisboch

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On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 11:19:08 -0800, "Calif Bill"
wrote:


"Zombie of Woodstock" wrote in message
.. .
On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 08:50:37 -0500, "Eisboch"
wrote:


I never tried Tobasco on eggs until I met my father-in-law. He used to
cover eggs with the stuff.

Heh - when I worked for Texaco in New Orleans I struck up a long time
friendship with one of the engineers I used to work with. A few years
ago, they came up for a ski vacation in New Hampshire and stayed over
here for a couple of days. His wife was from New Hampshire and wnated
to have a real home made fish chowder, so Mrs. Wave cooked one up -
typical New England chowdah.

First thing my friend did was ask for tobasco sauce and used a liberal
portion in his chowder.

Mrs. Wave was ****ed along with his wife - neither one of them talked
to him the entire evening. :)

Speaking of hot, one of the strangest things I ever saw was a Master
Sergeant who used to use two heaping table spoons of cayenne pepper
poweder on everything he ate.

I never figured that one out.

Chowdah needs Tabasco.

Philistine.

--

"I intend to live forever. So far, so good."

Steven Wright

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Richard Casady wrote:
On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 11:14:32 -0800, "Calif Bill"
wrote:

At Keesler AFB the SOS was hamburger in flour sauce. Really bad flour
sauce. Never could be called gravy.

SOS is made with chipped dried been. Not burger.

Casady


The one time I ate "authentic" SOS, I puked.

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"HK" wrote in message
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Richard Casady wrote:
On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 11:14:32 -0800, "Calif Bill"
wrote:

At Keesler AFB the SOS was hamburger in flour sauce. Really bad flour
sauce. Never could be called gravy.

SOS is made with chipped dried been. Not burger.

Casady


The one time I ate "authentic" SOS, I puked.




What the hell is "authentic" SOS?

The possibility makes me want to puke now.

Eisboch

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"Richard Casady" wrote in message
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On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 11:14:32 -0800, "Calif Bill"
wrote:

At Keesler AFB the SOS was hamburger in flour sauce. Really bad flour
sauce. Never could be called gravy.

SOS is made with chipped dried been. Not burger.

Casady

That is real SOS. But you got all kinds of SOS in the service. Dried beef
not dried beans / beens.

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"Zombie of Woodstock" wrote in message
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On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 11:19:08 -0800, "Calif Bill"
wrote:


"Zombie of Woodstock" wrote in message
. ..
On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 08:50:37 -0500, "Eisboch"
wrote:


I never tried Tobasco on eggs until I met my father-in-law. He used to
cover eggs with the stuff.

Heh - when I worked for Texaco in New Orleans I struck up a long time
friendship with one of the engineers I used to work with. A few years
ago, they came up for a ski vacation in New Hampshire and stayed over
here for a couple of days. His wife was from New Hampshire and wnated
to have a real home made fish chowder, so Mrs. Wave cooked one up -
typical New England chowdah.

First thing my friend did was ask for tobasco sauce and used a liberal
portion in his chowder.

Mrs. Wave was ****ed along with his wife - neither one of them talked
to him the entire evening. :)

Speaking of hot, one of the strangest things I ever saw was a Master
Sergeant who used to use two heaping table spoons of cayenne pepper
poweder on everything he ate.

I never figured that one out.

Chowdah needs Tabasco.

Philistine.

--

"I intend to live forever. So far, so good."

Steven Wright

Grew up with Mexicans. But my best buddy from childhood is Chinese. 2nd
generation.

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Eisboch wrote:

"HK" wrote in message
...
Richard Casady wrote:
On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 11:14:32 -0800, "Calif Bill"
wrote:

At Keesler AFB the SOS was hamburger in flour sauce. Really bad
flour sauce. Never could be called gravy.

SOS is made with chipped dried been. Not burger.

Casady


The one time I ate "authentic" SOS, I puked.




What the hell is "authentic" SOS?

The possibility makes me want to puke now.

Eisboch


The S.O.S. with chipped dried beef. The dorm served it at breakfast once
in a while. The guys told me the cook at the dorm made it the proper
way, and it was pretty good. Hell, I'll eat almost anything once. So I
scooped some on my plate, went to our table, took a bite, and felt it
coming right back up. Got to the head and puked out my guts. I have no
idea what there was about it that got me ill in a hurry.

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"HK" wrote in message
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Richard Casady wrote:
On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 11:14:32 -0800, "Calif Bill"
wrote:

At Keesler AFB the SOS was hamburger in flour sauce. Really bad flour
sauce. Never could be called gravy.

SOS is made with chipped dried been. Not burger.

Casady


The one time I ate "authentic" SOS, I puked.

No taste for the good stuff in life I guess. Probably you also do not eat
bisquits and gravy.

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Calif Bill wrote:
"HK" wrote in message
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Richard Casady wrote:
On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 11:14:32 -0800, "Calif Bill"
wrote:

At Keesler AFB the SOS was hamburger in flour sauce. Really bad flour
sauce. Never could be called gravy.
SOS is made with chipped dried been. Not burger.

Casady

The one time I ate "authentic" SOS, I puked.

No taste for the good stuff in life I guess. Probably you also do not eat
bisquits and gravy.



I like biscuits, but I don't like the greasy gravy that makes up the
biscuits and gravy dish.

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On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:17:04 -0500, HK wrote:

Calif Bill wrote:
"HK" wrote in message
...
Richard Casady wrote:
On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 11:14:32 -0800, "Calif Bill"
wrote:

At Keesler AFB the SOS was hamburger in flour sauce. Really bad flour
sauce. Never could be called gravy.
SOS is made with chipped dried been. Not burger.

Casady

The one time I ate "authentic" SOS, I puked.

No taste for the good stuff in life I guess. Probably you also do not eat
bisquits and gravy.



I like biscuits, but I don't like the greasy gravy that makes up the
biscuits and gravy dish.

Biscuits have a lot of shortening in them.
Those Browns Chicken biscuits turn into lumps of lard when they cool
off. But they're mighty tasty when warm!
You might switch to muffins if you're concened about too much grease.

--Vic

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Vic Smith wrote:
On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:17:04 -0500, HK wrote:

Calif Bill wrote:
"HK" wrote in message
...
Richard Casady wrote:
On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 11:14:32 -0800, "Calif Bill"
wrote:

At Keesler AFB the SOS was hamburger in flour sauce. Really bad flour
sauce. Never could be called gravy.
SOS is made with chipped dried been. Not burger.

Casady
The one time I ate "authentic" SOS, I puked.
No taste for the good stuff in life I guess. Probably you also do not eat
bisquits and gravy.


I like biscuits, but I don't like the greasy gravy that makes up the
biscuits and gravy dish.

Biscuits have a lot of shortening in them.
Those Browns Chicken biscuits turn into lumps of lard when they cool
off. But they're mighty tasty when warm!
You might switch to muffins if you're concened about too much grease.

--Vic

I don't eat biscuits very often, but when I do, I like them. It's the
floating liquid fat in biscuit gravy I don't like.

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On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:36:49 -0500, HK wrote:



I don't eat biscuits very often, but when I do, I like them. It's the
floating liquid fat in biscuit gravy I don't like.

None of that in my wife's pork sausage gravy. Gravy's white, except
for the chunks of sausage. Not to say there's no fat in it.
There's different ways of making it.

--Vic

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Vic Smith wrote:
On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:36:49 -0500, HK wrote:


I don't eat biscuits very often, but when I do, I like them. It's the
floating liquid fat in biscuit gravy I don't like.

None of that in my wife's pork sausage gravy. Gravy's white, except
for the chunks of sausage. Not to say there's no fat in it.
There's different ways of making it.

--Vic

Don't eat pork sausage or pork sausage gravy, either. I do eat gravy I
make from a roasted turkey or chicken. Don't eat bacon. Eat lean ham or
pork, though. I try to avoid too many nitrates, and processed meat and
pork usually is loaded with 'em.

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"Vic Smith" wrote in message
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On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:36:49 -0500, HK wrote:



I don't eat biscuits very often, but when I do, I like them. It's the
floating liquid fat in biscuit gravy I don't like.

None of that in my wife's pork sausage gravy. Gravy's white, except
for the chunks of sausage. Not to say there's no fat in it.
There's different ways of making it.

--Vic

I made Bisquick bisquits this morning. did not look or taste fatty. Cooked
up some bacon pieces and used a packaged pepper gravy mix that we like and
had them this morning. B&G are good once in a while. Tasty change from the
healthy oatmeal breakfast.

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"HK" wrote in message
...
Vic Smith wrote:
On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:36:49 -0500, HK wrote:


I don't eat biscuits very often, but when I do, I like them. It's the
floating liquid fat in biscuit gravy I don't like.

None of that in my wife's pork sausage gravy. Gravy's white, except
for the chunks of sausage. Not to say there's no fat in it.
There's different ways of making it.

--Vic

Don't eat pork sausage or pork sausage gravy, either. I do eat gravy I
make from a roasted turkey or chicken. Don't eat bacon. Eat lean ham or
pork, though. I try to avoid too many nitrates, and processed meat and
pork usually is loaded with 'em.


Most added nitrates / nitrites to pork are very reduced in amount of the
past 10 years. You can even get nitrate free hotdogs and lunchmeat. Funny
thing is Turkey bacon normally has more nitrates than pig bacon.

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On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 18:06:47 -0500, "Eisboch"
wrote:


"HK" wrote in message
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Richard Casady wrote:
On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 11:14:32 -0800, "Calif Bill"
wrote:

At Keesler AFB the SOS was hamburger in flour sauce. Really bad flour
sauce. Never could be called gravy.

SOS is made with chipped dried been. Not burger.

Casady


The one time I ate "authentic" SOS, I puked.

What the hell is "authentic" SOS?

The possibility makes me want to puke now.

~ cough - sputter - gag - spoolph ~~

Oh - thanks a lot - I just hocked up half a lung laughing.

Kind of makes you believe that Wonder Boy has no freakin' idea what
SOS stands for.

--

"I intend to live forever. So far, so good."

Steven Wright

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On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 15:15:43 -0800, "Calif Bill"
wrote:


"HK" wrote in message
...
Richard Casady wrote:
On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 11:14:32 -0800, "Calif Bill"
wrote:

At Keesler AFB the SOS was hamburger in flour sauce. Really bad flour
sauce. Never could be called gravy.

SOS is made with chipped dried been. Not burger.

Casady


The one time I ate "authentic" SOS, I puked.

No taste for the good stuff in life I guess. Probably you also do not eat
bisquits and gravy.

um...authentic?

SOS?

--

When I want your opinion, I'll beat it out of you

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On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 15:58:46 -0800, "Calif Bill"
wrote:


I made Bisquick bisquits this morning. did not look or taste fatty. Cooked
up some bacon pieces and used a packaged pepper gravy mix that we like and
had them this morning. B&G are good once in a while. Tasty change from the
healthy oatmeal breakfast.

My oatmeal (Quaker old fashioned) has some butter and milk mixed in
toward the end of its cooking, then some brown sugar sprinkled on top.
Then a milk moat around the castle.
Too healthy can be bad for your health.

--Vic

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On Feb 9, 6:50*pm, Vic Smith wrote:
On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:36:49 -0500, HK wrote:

I don't eat biscuits very often, but when I do, I like them. It's the
floating liquid fat in biscuit gravy I don't like.

None of that in my wife's pork sausage gravy. *Gravy's white, except
for the chunks of sausage. *Not to say there's no fat in it.
There's different ways of making it.

--Vic *

Well, when I was hitchin' around our great land I had Biscuits and
Gravy at the truck stops... Served properly over a good 1/2' thick
slice of onion and a pepper shaker on the side... My other greazy
favorite is Fried Green 'Maters, ummmmm

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On Feb 9, 7:13*pm, Vic Smith wrote:
On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 15:58:46 -0800, "Calif Bill"

wrote:

I made Bisquick bisquits this morning. *did not look or taste fatty. *Cooked
up some bacon pieces and used a packaged pepper gravy mix that we like and
had them this morning. *B&G are good once in a while. *Tasty change from the
healthy oatmeal breakfast.

My oatmeal (Quaker old fashioned) has some butter and milk mixed in
toward the end of its cooking, then some brown sugar sprinkled on top.
Then a milk moat around the castle.
Too healthy can be bad for your health.

--Vic

I eat mine now with about a quarter tsp sugar and a spoonful of
cinnamon..

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On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 16:28:05 -0800 (PST),
wrote:


Well, when I was hitchin' around our great land I had Biscuits and
Gravy at the truck stops... Served properly over a good 1/2' thick
slice of onion and a pepper shaker on the side... My other greazy
favorite is Fried Green 'Maters, ummmmm

Don't care for onion on it, but I turn that gravy black with pepper.
Grind it thick, so I'm picking it out of my teeth fro an hour.
Ever have fried eggplant, sliced thin?
Got to mention that to my wife. Been a while.

--Vic

Boat terminology question
 

Zombie of Woodstock wrote:
On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 18:06:47 -0500, "Eisboch"
wrote:

"HK" wrote in message
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Richard Casady wrote:
On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 11:14:32 -0800, "Calif Bill"
wrote:

At Keesler AFB the SOS was hamburger in flour sauce. Really bad flour
sauce. Never could be called gravy.
SOS is made with chipped dried been. Not burger.

Casady

The one time I ate "authentic" SOS, I puked.
What the hell is "authentic" SOS?

The possibility makes me want to puke now.

~ cough - sputter - gag - spoolph ~~

Oh - thanks a lot - I just hocked up half a lung laughing.

Kind of makes you believe that Wonder Boy has no freakin' idea what
SOS stands for.

--

"I intend to live forever. So far, so good."

Steven Wright


Schitt on a Shingle, of course.

Boat terminology question
 

Don White wrote:
"HK" wrote in message
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Eisboch wrote:
"Vic Smith" wrote in message
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On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 02:01:01 -0500, "Eisboch"
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I became addicted to Bug Juice.

Bug juice, powdered eggs, fried bologna, and mystery meat were among
the food items introduced to me by the Navy.
The bug juice tasted a bit different than the others.
I left them behind when I left the Navy behind.
The only thing the Navy addicted me to was a good shoe shine.
Still need my Kiwi, an old tooth brush, and a soft cotton cloth.
Don't do the spit shine though.
When bug juice showed up in the milk dispensers at breakfast, that
meant one thing to me. No more milk until replenishment.
And that meant my favorite meal, from the good kitchens of Kellogg's
and Elsie the cow, would disappear for a while.
Even a bowl full of frantically swimming weevils once didn't kill my
appetite for Kellogg's.
Three-four days out was as long as the milk lasted.
I don't recall Navy powdered milk for some reason. Might be because
time is merciful. Maybe the Navy was. Same effect.
I do recall my ma making that crap when money was tight.
All us kids hated it, so she gave up.

--Vic

I used to like the powdered eggs. Pour enough ketchup on them and they
were not bad.
Ditto on the milk. A little 315' DE didn't store a lot of milk.
Like you said, 3 or 4 days out and it was gone.

We had an old Coke machine though. Not the kind that dispenses cans or
bottles however.
It mixed syrup with carbonated water into a cup. 5 cents per cup until
it also ran out.
That usually happened right after an underway replenishment or refueling
when the Captain would order the corpsman to issue all involved a shot of
bourbon to warm up. To make it last many would pour it into a cup of the
syrup Coke mix.

"Swiss Steak" about every other day. I never really knew why it was
called Swiss steak.
More like cooked grizzle.

My mother tried the powdered milk thing also. There was a
rebellion among us kids. Then she tried mixing it 50/50 with whole milk.
Still didn't hack it. We finally made my father drink a big glass of
the crap.
Never had powdered milk again.

Eisboch
I don't recall my mother ever serving powdered milk. We did try powdered
eggs...once.

I can remember our mother trying it as an economy measure. In the mid
fifties, the newly opened St. Lawrence Seaway really cut into dads working
hours as a longshoreman in Halifax. Thank God the thing froze over in the
winter.
I believe the powered milk came in a blue box and we all hated it...didn't
taste right and there always seemed to be lumps in it.
No one around here had a blender in those days.



The dummy has "my dad" stories, too! Unlike WAFA's, they might actually
be true.

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"HK" wrote in message
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Vic Smith wrote:
On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:17:04 -0500, HK wrote:

Calif Bill wrote:
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Richard Casady wrote:
On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 11:14:32 -0800, "Calif Bill"
wrote:

At Keesler AFB the SOS was hamburger in flour sauce. Really bad
flour sauce. Never could be called gravy.
SOS is made with chipped dried been. Not burger.

Casady
The one time I ate "authentic" SOS, I puked.
No taste for the good stuff in life I guess. Probably you also do not
eat bisquits and gravy.

I like biscuits, but I don't like the greasy gravy that makes up the
biscuits and gravy dish.

Biscuits have a lot of shortening in them.
Those Browns Chicken biscuits turn into lumps of lard when they cool
off. But they're mighty tasty when warm!
You might switch to muffins if you're concened about too much grease.

--Vic

I don't eat biscuits very often, but when I do, I like them. It's the
floating liquid fat in biscuit gravy I don't like.

Who'd want gravy on a biscuit?
A tad of butter.... and maybe a dab of strawberry jam is all that's
required.

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On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 15:13:43 -0800, "Calif Bill"
wrote:


"Richard Casady" wrote in message
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On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 11:14:32 -0800, "Calif Bill"
wrote:

At Keesler AFB the SOS was hamburger in flour sauce. Really bad flour
sauce. Never could be called gravy.

SOS is made with chipped dried been. Not burger.

Casady

That is real SOS. But you got all kinds of SOS in the service. Dried beef
not dried beans / beens.

Good of you to point that out. Did you know typo flames are lame?

Casady