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

"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.

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.

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

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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.

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"
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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.

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

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

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

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.

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