Barbecued Basketballs with Chocolate Sauce

[Silvar Beitel]

Dinner last night 5/1/20. Served with grilled Alaskan salmon fillets and steamed broccoli.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/ojShDSbvK4sdLagU6

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[Bruce]

On Sat, 2 May 2020 04:37:28 -0700 (PDT), Silvar Beitel
<silver...@charter.net> wrote:

>Dinner last night 5/1/20. Served with grilled Alaskan salmon fillets and steamed broccoli.
>
>https://photos.app.goo.gl/ojShDSbvK4sdLagU6

The food in the pictures looks good. I'm not so sure about the topic
title.

[Taxed and Spent]

On 5/2/2020 4:37 AM, Silvar Beitel wrote:
> Dinner last night 5/1/20. Served with grilled Alaskan salmon fillets and steamed broccoli.
>
> https://photos.app.goo.gl/ojShDSbvK4sdLagU6
>

What are you doing with my dishes?

[Silvar Beitel]

Had to ask Mrs. B. Corelle, Old Town Blue pattern. She bought them back in the early 70s when she moved out of her parents' house and got her own apartment. And here we are nearly 50 years later, still using them. I suspect you and I are not the only ones.

You can still find them.

<https://www.replacements.com/webquote/coroltb.htm>

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Silvar Beitel

[jmcquown]

Oh goody! Corelle! The unbreakable ones? Not a pattern I would know.
I like the name "blue onion". :)

My mother bought a set of the original Harvest Gold pattern unbreakable
Corelle when it first came out. She was fascinated by the claim they
wouldn't break. I'm not kidding, she literally threw a plate on the
kitchen floor to try to break it. Nope, didn't break, didn't crack.
She was thrilled! (Don't try this at home, when they do break they
shatter into tiny slivers.)

I honestly don't know why she was so thrilled. She wasn't in the habit
of dropping or breaking dishes. None of us were. I still have the full
set of Franciscan Ware she used for her every day dishes from the
1950's. Nary a broken plate, bowl, tea cup or serving platter. Dessert
Rose pattern. It was very popular at the time. I still use them
occasionally. :)

Jill

[Gary]

jmcquown wrote:
>
> My mother bought a set of the original Harvest Gold pattern unbreakable
> Corelle when it first came out. She was fascinated by the claim they
> wouldn't break. I'm not kidding, she literally threw a plate on the
> kitchen floor to try to break it. Nope, didn't break, didn't crack.
> She was thrilled! (Don't try this at home, when they do break they
> shatter into tiny slivers.)

I have and still use a set of the Spring Blossom plus many
extras including 2 serving plates and 2 different serving bowls.
Also a newer basic set from the 1980's with a nicer pattern.
You are right about the almost indestructible but I have
broken a few (falling on floor) as they got older. Lots of
pent up energy in them and they do shatter into so many
shards. (They almost explode when they do break)

When I was married, that happened to my wife. Plate fell on
floor and shattered and the pieces cut her ankle very badly.
That ended dinner and we went to the emergency room where she
got a few stitches.

I also have a heavy set of plain white stoneware dishes, bowls,
etc but only use them now for company or holiday dinners.

It is kind of dumb to have so many things like this that
I rarely use.

I also have a very nice (and expensive) set of Oneida
stainless 5-piece place settings...2 forks, 2 spoons,
and a butter knife. The 5-piece settings cost about
$50 thirty years ago. Also rarely used and also dumb
to own them when so rarely used.

I just use cheap "silverware" now that I bought
from the grocery store many years ago. 20 pieces
for about $12 back then.

And yes, Sheldon, I could post pics of these if you
don't believe me.

[Gary]

Gary wrote:
>
> I have and still use a set of the Spring Blossom plus many
> extras including 2 serving plates and 2 different serving bowls.

I forgot to post a pic of this old pattern I have, the
spring blossom:

http://img1.etsystatic.com/000/0/5566271/il_fullxfull.291291401.jpg

Just in case anyone wondered. Old ugly set but I use them
myself most of the time. I don't care what they look like.
They work well.

[dsi1]

We have a plate like that. Just one. Beats me where it come from. It's totally retro, which is kind of cool. My daughter has a way with clay and made a totally awesome plate. I think that perhaps we shouldn't be eating off of it.

https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/KPQORED9TtOYs8D4u5uYkg.IQxFFh4uS-ZRHR9-0JAu7X

https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/5v_qGQS9SVKYJjrEyDkkEQ.EiObpM0wuMrr9F95FpJEOc

[Cindy Hamilton]

My mother has Corelle. I never saw the attraction.

I have these:

<https://www.ebay.com/i/163420926748>

Not those exact pieces.

Been using them for about 30 years. They don't look markedly different
from the day I got them, and I think I've only broken one or two--and
I _am_ pretty clumsy in the kitchen.

Cindy Hamilton

[jmcquown]

Hey, that's cool. Sort of diner ware. :)

This is an example of my everyday dinnerware:

https://www.replacements.com/p/international-lattice-dinner-plate/intlat/2651701

I bought the entire set of 12 everything from plates and bowls and cups
and saucers online for $99 about 20 years ago. They want $19.99 to
replace a single dinner plate? Wow. Guess I got a deal. :)

I've yet to break any of them.

Jill

[Cindy Hamilton]

Those are quite pretty. I only have everyday dinnerware. I've never
seen the need for anything else.

Cindy Hamilton

[itsjoan...@webtv.net]

Here's mine.

https://i.postimg.cc/6qWXbqyT/Spring-Floral.jpg

At least 35 years ago my bank was offering a 5-piece place setting for
around $5 with every $25 deposit a customer made. My brother was picking
me up a place setting every week and I was also getting a place setting.
I was able to get service for 12 along with four platters, several serving
bowls, a covered casserole, creamer, and sugar bowl as well as a covered
butter dish.

The bank offered two patterns but for the life of me I cannot remember what
the other pattern looked like.

[jmcquown]

I get what you're saying. I mostly don't use the other dinnerware I
have. I honestly don't know why my mother had so many sets of
dinnerware. It's not as if she entertained or had big family dinners.
I gladly gave my oldest brother the Noritake bamboo pattern china after
she died. No one wanted what we grew up with as her everyday Desert Rose
Franciscan ware so it's in the kitchen cabinet. Then there is her
"good" china that no one ever saw except on holidays. Oh well. I use
the stuff I bought. I like the simple lattice pattern. :)

Jill

[jmcquown]

Wow! A giveaway from the bank! It's pretty. :)

Jill

[jmcquown]

One of my brothers had that green flowered set. :)

Jill

[graham]

On 2020-05-02 2:44 p.m., jmcquown wrote:

>>
> I get what you're saying.  I mostly don't use the other dinnerware I
> have.  I honestly don't know why my mother had so many sets of
> dinnerware.  It's not as if she entertained or had big family dinners. I
> gladly gave my oldest brother the Noritake bamboo pattern china after
> she died. No one wanted what we grew up with as her everyday Desert Rose
> Franciscan ware so it's in the kitchen cabinet.  Then there is her
> "good" china that no one ever saw except on holidays.  Oh well.  I use
> the stuff I bought.  I like the simple lattice pattern. :)
>
> Jill

I have Corelle plates and cereal bowls that are for daily use. Most of
them are at least 40years old.
For "best", i.e., for dinner parties, I have a Thomas dinner service
that my Dad bought for me as a wedding present almost 50 years ago. I
kept it when dividing property during my divorce.

[dsi1]

I like those Corelle plates because they can be used in a microwave oven without getting hot. I hate grabbing hot plates out of the microwave.

[Hank Rogers]

Amen. Popeye lives nearby, and his 75 year old wife golfs 18 holes,
carrying her own golf bag, no electric cart, with artificial knees.

Then to top it off, the old woman comes home and blows Popeye!

It takes a lot of dedication.

[Hank Rogers]

Your mother needed good dinnerware, just in case. She was the wife
of a high ranking military field grade officer. Popeye says they
are all faggots, but I believe they still deserve some respect.

Your dad would have shit if a general officer came to dinner and
mom only had paper plates.

[Bruce]

On Sat, 2 May 2020 20:16:25 -0500, Hank Rogers <Nos...@invalid.com>
wrote:

Ah, Skankie Hankie masters the art of sucking up.

[Hank Rogers]

I admit I have not mastered the fine art of ass sniffing and licking.

Would you be able to give tutoring in the science of dutch assplay?

[Ophelia]

"dsi1" wrote in message
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Lovely plate and and lovely food on it:)))

https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/5v_qGQS9SVKYJjrEyDkkEQ.EiObpM0wuMrr9F95FpJEOc


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[dsi1]

I can't say how she achieved the color. It looks like a glaze on top of another glaze.

[Thomas]

My everyday is Red Vanilla.

I do have Corelle too.

[Ophelia]

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Well it is lovely:) She is a clever lassie:)))