Hump Day, Wednesday, July 19, 2023, Dinner?

[itsjoan...@webtv.net]

What are you enjoying for dinner tonight? Something elaborate,
simple, or heading out to eat?

It was air fryer, a bit on the thick side, steakhouse burgers here. A
large Vidalia onion also topped the burger along with wino beat off
smeared on the bun.

A diet ginger ale was the drink of choice to accompany the feast. I
just hope Bryan has the local ambulance service on speed dial when
he reads about my feast with leftover burgers to be enjoyed another
day.  😋

[GM]

I made some teriyaki salmon with cous - cous, with a cold wilted spinach salad with sesame dressy (via Kraft)...

Diet Cherry Coke to quaff...

--
GM

[Bryan Simmons]

On Wednesday, July 19, 2023 at 6:32:22 PM UTC-5, itsjoan...@webtv.net wrote:

It doesn't raise my blood pressure when Stupid Cunt #1
eats like White trash. Heck, I've eaten leftover burgers,
but *your* leftover burgers are "in the first degree." It's
one thing to have eyes bigger than the stomachs of the
folks you're cooking for, even if one is only cooking for
themselves. With you though, it's premeditated leftover
burgers because you are both lazy and little concerned
with quality.

The diet ginger ale sounds good though.

--Bryan

[itsjoan...@webtv.net]

On Wednesday, July 19, 2023 at 6:47:32 PM UTC-5, Bryan Simmons wrote:
> >
> It doesn't raise my blood pressure when Stupid Cunt #1
> eats like White trash.

> --Bryan
>
What number is Liz?

[Bruce]

Is Liz his wife?

[songbird]

itsjoan...@webtv.net wrote:
>
> What are you enjoying for dinner tonight? Something elaborate,
> simple, or heading out to eat?

simple, a cup of macaroni and tomato chunks with some
butter melted on top. pasta still firm just as i like
it the most. :) took a break for a bit and then did
some dishes. dessert was a square of chocolate and a
small handful of peanuts.


songbird

[Leonard Blaisdell]

On 2023-07-19, itsjoan...@webtv.net <itsjoan...@webtv.net> wrote:

> What are you enjoying for dinner tonight? Something elaborate,
> simple, or heading out to eat?

My wife had leftover beef stew and toasted English muffins. Later, I
will have <mumble>. ;)

[Bruce]

On 20 Jul 2023 01:24:37 GMT, Leonard Blaisdell

Beer and an ice cream?

[Leonard Blaisdell]

On 2023-07-20, Bruce <Br...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> On 20 Jul 2023 01:24:37 GMT, Leonard Blaisdell

>>My wife had leftover beef stew and toasted English muffins. Later, I
>>will have <mumble>. ;)

> Beer and an ice cream?

The first one's covered. I'm a creature of habit.

[Bruce]

On 20 Jul 2023 02:57:10 GMT, Leonard Blaisdell

Ok. The second one... a McD's hamburger?

[Cindy Hamilton]

On 2023-07-19, itsjoan...@webtv.net <itsjoan...@webtv.net> wrote:
>

> What are you enjoying for dinner tonight? Something elaborate,
> simple, or heading out to eat?

Always something simple for dinner. A salad topped by leftover
grilled salmon, dressed with lemon vinaigrette. Fresh bread from
the bakery, drizzled with EVOO and sprinkled with coarse salt.
Ice water.

--
Cindy Hamilton

[Sqwertz]

On Wed, 19 Jul 2023 16:32:18 -0700 (PDT),
itsjoan...@webtv.net wrote:

> What are you enjoying for dinner tonight? Something elaborate,
> simple, or heading out to eat?

A couple chicken thighs cooked in the cast iron pan and a pile of
flash-woked shishito peppers.

https://i.postimg.cc/t4kykSb5/Chicken-Thighs-and-Shashito-Peppers.jpg

So, I'm not in St. Louis, but John would never read this thread
and know otherwise.

Tomorrow night is a roasted half a pork butt that I thawed out and
forgot what I was gonna do with it. So roast it is.

-sw

[Sqwertz]

On Wed, 19 Jul 2023 16:47:27 -0700 (PDT), Bryan Simmons wrote:

> The diet ginger ale sounds good though.

Better than normal ginger ale? I don't THINK so! I had a quart
of home made REGULAR ginger ale today. No man-made chemicals and
"flavorings" required - just ginger sugar, water, and champagne
yeast. Got another one for tomorrow, too.

-sw

[Sqwertz]

Beer day?

-sw

[Ed P]

Could you elaborate a bit please? Is it crushed or cubed ice? Is the
water state of the art RO, or merely filtered?

[Cindy Hamilton]

Sorry, I'll be more specific next time.

Cubed ice. Ordinary tap water drawn from upstream of Detroit, treated
and chlorinated. The ice was made from the same water, but filtered:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000THKV4O

Our tap water is pretty good, provided you think "chlorinated" is
an appropriate component of its flavor. I've drunk Detroit water
almost all my life.

--
Cindy Hamilton

[Dave Smith]

On 2023-07-20 10:39 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:

> Sorry, I'll be more specific next time.
>
> Cubed ice. Ordinary tap water drawn from upstream of Detroit, treated
> and chlorinated. The ice was made from the same water, but filtered:
> https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000THKV4O
>
> Our tap water is pretty good, provided you think "chlorinated" is
> an appropriate component of its flavor. I've drunk Detroit water
> almost all my life.
>

It's funny how you get used to the taste of whatever water you get at
home. I ha tropical fish when I was young and knew you were supposed to
let the water sit for a few yours to let the chlorine disperse but I
always wondered about the need for that because I could not taste or
smell it. Then I ended up living in a rural area and got our water from
a well and a cistern. Now when I use city water I really notice the
smell and the taste.


We did have a purification system for a while. It had a filter and
chlorinator. I could smell the chlorine in the water that came through
that thing. It was kind of funny when my wife's cousin and her weird
partner came to visit. We made a big deal about the wonderful poor well
water and how it didn't stink of chlorine. At the time I had the
chlorine level cranked up and there was probably more chlorine in our
water than there was in his city water. He probably could not smell it
because he was so used to chlorine in his water.

[jmcquown]

On 7/19/2023 7:32 PM, itsjoan...@webtv.net wrote:
>
> What are you enjoying for dinner tonight? Something elaborate,
> simple, or heading out to eat?
>

Nothing special. I made a pseudo 'French Dip' sandwich using thinly
sliced roast beef & provolone cheese. The 'dip' was heated up canned
beef consomme.

Jill

[Bruce]

How far do you have to be detached from reality to think that?

[dsi1]

I cooked up deboned chicken thighs grilled in a rotisserie. It was okay if you like deboned chicken thighs grilled in a rotisserie.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/NUnhFBtiZoS7tmadA

[Michael Trew]

On 7/20/2023 10:39 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:.

>
> Our tap water is pretty good, provided you think "chlorinated" is
> an appropriate component of its flavor. I've drunk Detroit water
> almost all my life.

Good think you don't live in Flint ;)

I also drink tap water. You don't notice the chlorine when you drink it
regularly. I think that those water filter things are unsanitary.

[Cindy Hamilton]

On 2023-07-21, Michael Trew <michae...@att.net> wrote:
> On 7/20/2023 10:39 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:.
>>
>> Our tap water is pretty good, provided you think "chlorinated" is
>> an appropriate component of its flavor. I've drunk Detroit water
>> almost all my life.
>
> Good think you don't live in Flint ;)

That would be unlikely.

> I also drink tap water. You don't notice the chlorine when you drink it
> regularly. I think that those water filter things are unsanitary.

They're only unsanitary if they're neglected. People who change
their furnace filter every month are unlikely to neglect their
water filter.

--
Cindy Hamilton

[Graham]

I use one of those Brit jugs to filter the water for use in my bike
bottles. Occasionally, the city seems to up the Cl and for some reason
the taste seems to concentrate in those bottles, making them almost
undrinkable.

[Bruce]

I saw an item about that on TV. They work and improve your water if it
needs it. But only if you're very disciplined with them, otherwise
they only make things worse.

[Ed P]

My fridge has a filter so my drinking water and ice cubes are good.
Even the straight tap is good on the few times I drink it directly.

When I leave for a long trip, I freeze a few bottles and refrigerate a
few more to last me, as well as two insulated SS bottles I fill. I
really don't like buying bottled water but I like even less to buy it at
a stop on the road at 10X the price.

[jmcquown]

The tap water in my refrigerator is filtered. There's nothing
unsanitary about it if you change the filters.

Jill

[jmcquown]

I was at the store this afternoon and the man ahead of me was buying a
case of bottled water and two 12-packs of beer. The checkout clerk
observed the water cost more than the beer. Just sayin' :)

Jill

[Dave Smith]

We have well water and it's pretty hard. We have a distiller for
drinking water. It seems a bit extravagant to distill water for ice. We
use the kettle frequently for tea and coffee and there is always a
little extra water in the kettle, so I just leave it in the kettle to
cool and then use it to fill the ice cube tray.

[Dave Smith]

Bud Light? I keep reading reports about it being in sale most places.
It's on the internet so it has to be true.

[Hank Rogers]

Ayup, it's like a Kotex, your majesty.

[jmcquown]

I didn't notice the brand of the beer. Just heard the woman ringing it
up say the water cost more than the beer.

Jill

[Hank Rogers]

It was probably a shitty canadian beer.

Cue Bryan.

[Bryan Simmons]

No doubt that any beer that is cheaper than water is
going to be shitty, but hey, as long as shitty beer is
cheap, no problem. *I* wouldn't drink it anymore, but
I certainly used to. What is stupid is paying decent
beer prices for shitty beer. A 15 pack of Milwaukee's
Best for $7.99 makes a person look like a drunkard
who doesn't have a lot of money. A 12 pack of Bud
Light for $11.49 makes a person look like a mindless
sheep who drinks whatever the advertisers tell them
to drink.

--Bryan

[Cindy Hamilton]

On 2023-07-21, jmcquown <j_mc...@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> I was at the store this afternoon and the man ahead of me was buying a
> case of bottled water and two 12-packs of beer. The checkout clerk
> observed the water cost more than the beer. Just sayin' :)

Dude needs to buy better beer.

--
Cindy Hamilton

[jmcquown]

I'm not sure Family Dollar sells "better" beer. :) Then again, I've
never looked.

Jill

[Bryan Simmons]

They should, because really classy people shop there.
>
> Jill

--Bryan

[Michael Trew]

On 7/21/2023 12:29 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On 2023-07-21, Michael Trew<michae...@att.net> wrote:
>> On 7/20/2023 10:39 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:.
>>>
>>> Our tap water is pretty good, provided you think "chlorinated" is
>>> an appropriate component of its flavor. I've drunk Detroit water
>>> almost all my life.
>>
>> Good think you don't live in Flint ;)
>
> That would be unlikely.

*Thing (but you knew that).

>> I also drink tap water. You don't notice the chlorine when you drink it
>> regularly. I think that those water filter things are unsanitary.
>
> They're only unsanitary if they're neglected. People who change
> their furnace filter every month are unlikely to neglect their
> water filter.

I've never had a furnace filter to change, but I tend to get side
tracked and forget regular maintenance things. It would be wise of me
to make a sheet/schedule and follow it. Same for household chores. I
usually put off cleaning until I see visible dirt/hair on the floor or
cobwebs/dust layers, then I get "panic clean" for the next day or two
and get nothing else done.

[Michael Trew]

Family Dollar sells beer? Since when? Maybe that's a state-by-state
thing, but that sure doesn't happen around me. Liquor is only sold at
state stores, and not on Sunday. Just recently was Beer/Wine allowed
for sale at convenience stores, and only during certain hours, and at a
certain marked register.

[Bruce]

On Sun, 23 Jul 2023 23:51:15 -0400, Michael Trew
<michae...@att.net> wrote:

>> They're only unsanitary if they're neglected. People who change
>> their furnace filter every month are unlikely to neglect their
>> water filter.
>
>I've never had a furnace filter to change, but I tend to get side
>tracked and forget regular maintenance things. It would be wise of me
>to make a sheet/schedule and follow it. Same for household chores. I
>usually put off cleaning until I see visible dirt/hair on the floor or
>cobwebs/dust layers, then I get "panic clean" for the next day or two
>and get nothing else done.

You're a bachelor. You're excused.

[Cindy Hamilton]

On 2023-07-24, Michael Trew <michae...@att.net> wrote:
> On 7/21/2023 12:29 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>> On 2023-07-21, Michael Trew<michae...@att.net> wrote:
>>> On 7/20/2023 10:39 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:.
>>>>
>>>> Our tap water is pretty good, provided you think "chlorinated" is
>>>> an appropriate component of its flavor. I've drunk Detroit water
>>>> almost all my life.
>>>
>>> Good think you don't live in Flint ;)
>>
>> That would be unlikely.
>
> *Thing (but you knew that).
>
>>> I also drink tap water. You don't notice the chlorine when you drink it
>>> regularly. I think that those water filter things are unsanitary.
>>
>> They're only unsanitary if they're neglected. People who change
>> their furnace filter every month are unlikely to neglect their
>> water filter.
>
> I've never had a furnace filter to change, but I tend to get side
> tracked and forget regular maintenance things.

First of the month. Easy to remember. It's a matter of priorities.

> It would be wise of me
> to make a sheet/schedule and follow it. Same for household chores. I
> usually put off cleaning until I see visible dirt/hair on the floor or
> cobwebs/dust layers, then I get "panic clean" for the next day or two
> and get nothing else done.

My house is cleaned every other week. Not by me.

--
Cindy Hamilton

[Cindy Hamilton]

On 2023-07-24, Michael Trew <michae...@att.net> wrote:

That's Pennsylvania, not Ohio.

Blue laws vary. I can buy beer, wine, and liquor at the grocery store,
including Sundays, except between the hours of 2 and 7 am.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_laws_in_the_United_States

--
Cindy Hamilton

[Bruce]

On Mon, 24 Jul 2023 09:12:00 GMT, Cindy Hamilton
<hami...@invalid.com> wrote:

>On 2023-07-24, Michael Trew <michae...@att.net> wrote:
>> On 7/22/2023 7:53 AM, jmcquown wrote:
>>> On 7/22/2023 4:35 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>>> On 2023-07-21, jmcquown <j_mc...@comcast.net> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I was at the store this afternoon and the man ahead of me was buying a
>>>>> case of bottled water and two 12-packs of beer. The checkout clerk
>>>>> observed the water cost more than the beer. Just sayin' :)
>>>>
>>>> Dude needs to buy better beer.
>>>>
>>> I'm not sure Family Dollar sells "better" beer. :) Then again, I've
>>> never looked.
>>>
>>> Jill
>>
>> Family Dollar sells beer? Since when? Maybe that's a state-by-state
>> thing, but that sure doesn't happen around me. Liquor is only sold at
>> state stores, and not on Sunday.

I thought you lived in the Land of the Free. Are you allowed to
scratch your head on Sundays?

[bruce bowser]

Not entirely.
"A pop-up liquor store is selling small-batch spirits in Philly and bypassing the PLCB
BOTLD, a new store and e-commerce site, bypasses the PLCB's monopoly on wine and spirits sales ..."
Philadelphia Inquirer - Dec 6, 2022
-- https://www.inquirer.com/food/botld-distilled-spirits-plcb-liquor-store-20221206.html

[jmcquown]

Family Dollar here sells beer and wine, not hard liquor. We don't have
"state stores". No hard liquor is sold on Sundays but you can buy beer
& wine. State laws regarding selling booze vary widely.

Jill

[Ed P]

Your link is for subscribers only.

When I lived in PA that would never be done. Alcohol sales were rather
tightly controlled. It was cheaper in NJ so many people went there.

The original "state stores" were not even self service, they had a list
and the clerk went and retrieved it from the back. It was mid 1960s
when the first self serve opened. They did not card me when I bought my
first bottle of Seagram's 7 at age 20. Maybe it was the wedding ring
that got me by. That was 1966.

[Dave Smith]

It was only a couple years ago that they started letting some grocery
stores to sell beer and wine here in Ontario. There were only about 450
stores that signed on. Now a lot of them are getting out of the alcohol
sales business. The profit margins were too small and there was too much
theft.

[cshenk]

Interesting link! The only noticable Virgina one for most folks is
hard liquor is only available for carry out at ABC stores and military
beer/wine/liquor places. To get a hard liquor liscence (sp?) at a bar,
must sell food and can't just be a bag of chips.

Don likes Capones Bar and Grill. Menu off line as they are revamping
it but the Friday fish-n-chips was pretty good. Hopefully UK folks
won't mind that to us, that doesn't just mean cod. I loved the catfish
ones best though they had a good trout recipe and a few times they do a
sort of tempura fingerling handful with fries.

[Michael Trew]

I spend most of my time in Pennsylvania, and if I'm stopping at a
convenience store, it's in PA state after work. Other than in my house
and antique mall, I don't spend much time in Ohio.

[Michael Trew]

On 7/24/2023 5:04 PM, Ed P wrote:
>
> When I lived in PA that would never be done. Alcohol sales were rather
> tightly controlled. It was cheaper in NJ so many people went there.
>
> The original "state stores" were not even self service, they had a list
> and the clerk went and retrieved it from the back. It was mid 1960s when
> the first self serve opened. They did not card me when I bought my first
> bottle of Seagram's 7 at age 20. Maybe it was the wedding ring that got
> me by. That was 1966.

I don't drink, but not even a few months after I turned 21, I went to a
state store inside of a large grocery store to pick up a bottle of
liquor for my then girlfriends parents. The girl at the register hardly
looked older than me, and I wasn't carded. I had a beard at the time,
perhaps that was it.

[dsi1]

That must have been a revelation for you. I'd probably get carded if I ever bought alcohol. The stores here card everybody. That's pretty silly - or is it?

[Dave Smith]

On 2023-07-25 12:30 p.m., dsi1 wrote:

>
> That must have been a revelation for you. I'd probably get carded if
> I ever bought alcohol. The stores here card everybody. That's pretty
> silly - or is it?

Around here they have to card you if you appear to be less than 25, even
though the drinking age is 19.

[dsi1]

Around here, you get carded if you appear to be still breathing.

[Ed P]

Some businesses require it. People complained they were singled out and
such so they made it check everyone.

Some bars were tougher than others. There was one that seemed would
serve you only if you met two requirements. Have money and be able to
see over the top of the bar. It was not far from out high school and
some of the kids would go there.

[dsi1]

I can't say how things are in bars. I recently had a cashier ask me for my birthdate. My wife got some fireworks for some reason. The cashier said "now you're an adult, right?" I just thought she was being flirty. Ha ha, she probably was.

[Bruce]

Maybe they can sense how young of mind you are.

[jmcquown]

I stopped at Walmart after work today, to finalize an order at the
Vision Center for my new prescription eyeglasses. They were having some
computer problems yesterday. After taking care of that I walked over to
the "grocery" section to buy some toilet paper. There was a woman ahead
of me buying some beer. The clerk asked to see her ID. In SC it's the
law, if a store sells beverages that contain alcohol they have to ask
*everyone* for ID. They're not allowed to guess based on appearance
even if the person. (If I had to guess, the customer was at least 40.)

Jill

[Bruce]

On Tue, 25 Jul 2023 17:01:17 -0400, jmcquown <j_mc...@comcast.net>
wrote:

I've never in my life been asked for ID in a grog shop. Maybe I've
always looked old and wise.

[Leonard Blaisdell]

On 2023-07-25, dsi1 <dsi...@hawaiiantel.net> wrote:

> That must have been a revelation for you. I'd probably get carded if I ever bought alcohol. The stores here card everybody. That's pretty silly - or is it?

I got carded at fifty in a Seven-Eleven. I told the young clerk who
asked, "Thank you!"

[GM]

At 69 I am still carded...

I used to get liquor in my Amazon Fresh grocery deliveries, but there was such a hassle with them scanning
my state ID card - after the age of 65, there is on "expiration" date, the card expires when you die...

I tried explaining that, and the guys tried calling their Amazon supervisors, but still a "no - go"... the scanner
could not be over - ridden...

Now it's Target for my very occasional cheep wine purchases, lol...

--
GM

[Bruce]

On Tue, 25 Jul 2023 18:53:20 -0700 (PDT), GM
<gregorymorr...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Leonard Blaisdell wrote:
>
>> On 2023-07-25, dsi1 <dsi...@hawaiiantel.net> wrote:
>>
>> > That must have been a revelation for you. I'd probably get carded if I ever bought alcohol. The stores here card everybody. That's pretty silly - or is it?
>> I got carded at fifty in a Seven-Eleven. I told the young clerk who
>> asked, "Thank you!"
>
>
>At 69 I am still carded...

Well, you act like a child so...

[Michael Trew]

In da future, the stores will know how old you are when you walk in by
scanning you, and the AI will charge you automatically before you leave. ;)

[Ed P]

They don't recognize you coming in yet, the rest is already here,

https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=16008589011