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On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:17:12 -0400, "D.Duck" wrote:


"Eisboch" wrote in message
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"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:28:57 -0400, DownTime
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RPSIII wrote:
When I was a kid we used to eat liver at least once a month. Beef
liver
sucked, but chicken liver was tasty.

To this day, just the smell of liver brings back a bad childhood memory
and the ole gag reflex kicks in.

I. HATE. LIVER.


My mother, sticking to the conventional wisdom of the time that liver was
good for you, made bold attempts every once in a while to serve liver.
She'd disguise it as steak or something but nothing fooled me. I hated
it.

But, to my surprise, I now enjoy it, if prepared well. Usually like it
with the conventional onions.
Another gagger of youth that I grew to really like is yogurt.

The only way to do beef liver is get the calves version. It's only cooked in
the frying pan for a minute or two on each side, otherwise it gets tough. A
little blood is OK also. 8)

There isn't a way to cook liver to make it palatable.

Olyimpics ... wow
 

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Did you visit Cutler's Record Shop next to the Co-op? I don't know if it
is still there, either. I had an afterschool job there for about six
months. At the time, it was a pretty big record store.


Wow. I had forgotten all about Cutler's. Yes, went there fairly often.
At one time I think they advertised that they had a copy of every 45 rpm
record ever produced and released. Don't know it was true, but I recall
that you could find anything you were looking for, regardless of how obscure
the recording was.

Eisboch

Olyimpics ... wow
 

On Aug 25, 6:36*pm, hk wrote:
Eisboch wrote:
"hk" wrote in message
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Eisboch wrote:
"hk" wrote in message
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D.Duck wrote:

In the late 40s ~ early 50's I went to the Y on Keeler and Central.
Went there most every Saturday during the winter months.
When I was a young boy in grammar school in New Haven, I'd take the bus
with a couple of buddies on winter Saturdays to the "Y" downtown to mess
around in the pool, the gym, and on the b'ball courts. It was a great
place in those days, might still be.

That "Y" is where I took the basic Scuba course in the middle of one
winter and got my original certification. *Still have the card. *I was 16
yo, and the dive club giving the instructions was called "The Yankee
Paddlers".

Eisboch

Do you recall Hull's Hobbies a block down the street toward the Yale
Campus? And there was some sort of diner right across from the "Y" that I
remember. I think it became a Chinese restaurant.

I don't. * I didn't spend a heck of a lot of time in downtown New Haven,
although we'd go for an occasional concert or to shop at the Yale Co-op..

Eisboch

The Co-Op used to sell button down Gant shirts for $7.95. Same shirts
are now about $100, and the funny thing is they cost less to make now
than they did when I was a schoolboy buying them.

Unfortunately, my display choice does not put the author right up
front.. but I usually don't even get this far and realize is is one of
your "I hate this or that, posts" so I hit the "next" button.....

Not like I don't know where it's going;)

Olyimpics ... wow
 

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:03:58 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:


"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:28:57 -0400, DownTime
wrote:

RPSIII wrote:
When I was a kid we used to eat liver at least once a month. Beef
liver
sucked, but chicken liver was tasty.

To this day, just the smell of liver brings back a bad childhood memory
and the ole gag reflex kicks in.

I. HATE. LIVER.


My mother, sticking to the conventional wisdom of the time that liver was
good for you, made bold attempts every once in a while to serve liver.
She'd disguise it as steak or something but nothing fooled me. I hated
it.

But, to my surprise, I now enjoy it, if prepared well. Usually like it
with
the conventional onions.

My mother, God Bless her, was a brilliant woman, but couldn't cook
worth a fig - only person I know who thought boiling hamburger was a
good thing. Consider that I went into the service at 6'3", 142 pounds
- I never ate anything she made - couldn't. I was the only recruit
who actually gained weight during Boot instead of losing weight.

Absoutely true by the way.

Anyway, she would have liver every Thursday - shoe leather and no
amount of carmalized onions could save it.

Another gagger of youth that I grew to really like is yogurt.

My Uncle Dave the dairy farmer made his own yogurt and I loved it from
the get go. In particualr with real strawberries, blueberries or,
oddly, cranberries.

Reminds me of liver or the occasional steak at our home. We lived in a 2nd
story flat downtown in a house that was later declared historic.
The oil burning kitchen stove was relied upon for heating water and the
living space besides meals.
You can imagine how tough the meal was if we didn't arrive home shortly
after dad came. (stove running full blast all day in the winter)
I did get to like liver with onions and some bacon, complete with mashed
potatoes and peas.
haven't had that meal in years.

Olyimpics ... wow
 

Olyimpics ... wow
 

2008 18:03:58 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:

Another gagger of youth that I grew to really like is yogurt.

When I was young the only brocolli around was boiled to pulp. I was
thiry or more before I got the good stuff.

Casady

Olyimpics ... wow
 

On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:36:13 -0400, hk wrote:

he Co-Op used to sell button down Gant shirts for $7.95. Same shirts
are now about $100, and the funny thing is they cost less to make now
than they did when I was a schoolboy buying them.

You do realize that a ordinary wood baseball bat costs a hundred
bucks? A major league glove costs about only about 160, somewhat
surprising.

Casady

Olyimpics ... wow
 

Richard Casady wrote:
On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:36:13 -0400, hk wrote:

he Co-Op used to sell button down Gant shirts for $7.95. Same shirts
are now about $100, and the funny thing is they cost less to make now
than they did when I was a schoolboy buying them.

You do realize that a ordinary wood baseball bat costs a hundred
bucks? A major league glove costs about only about 160, somewhat
surprising.

Casady


What's your point, that we're being gouged by corporations?

Olyimpics ... wow
 

"hk" wrote in message
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Richard Casady wrote:
On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:36:13 -0400, hk wrote:

he Co-Op used to sell button down Gant shirts for $7.95. Same shirts are
now about $100, and the funny thing is they cost less to make now than
they did when I was a schoolboy buying them.

You do realize that a ordinary wood baseball bat costs a hundred
bucks? A major league glove costs about only about 160, somewhat
surprising.

Casady


What's your point, that we're being gouged by corporations?


There you go again ..... those pesky corporations. You are starting to
sound like my Swedish grandfather who used to recite to us the prices for
everything in 1916 and how we were all getting ripped off in the 1980's.

BTW .... caught a few of the speeches tonight. Pelosi didn't seem to know
where she was, but Mrs.O. just finished delivering a very powerful and
moving message. Highlight of day one, IMO.

If you missed it, it's ok. You wouldn't have wanted to see his kids being
exploited anyway.

Eisboch

Olyimpics ... wow
 

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On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:17:12 -0400, "D.Duck" wrote:


"Eisboch" wrote in message
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On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:28:57 -0400, DownTime
wrote:

RPSIII wrote:
When I was a kid we used to eat liver at least once a month. Beef
liver
sucked, but chicken liver was tasty.

To this day, just the smell of liver brings back a bad childhood memory
and the ole gag reflex kicks in.

I. HATE. LIVER.


My mother, sticking to the conventional wisdom of the time that liver
was
good for you, made bold attempts every once in a while to serve liver.
She'd disguise it as steak or something but nothing fooled me. I hated
it.

But, to my surprise, I now enjoy it, if prepared well. Usually like it
with the conventional onions.
Another gagger of youth that I grew to really like is yogurt.

The only way to do beef liver is get the calves version. It's only cooked
in
the frying pan for a minute or two on each side, otherwise it gets tough.
A
little blood is OK also. 8)

There isn't a way to cook liver to make it palatable.

Was fun cooking liver at my last job. Is a decent substitute for Collagen.
Except a lot of fat that is not in the part of the body that we were using
RF to treat. But we could see how the RF heated. Did not get the smell
most of the time as we were only cooking it about 6mm deep. A whole cows
liver is huge.