A trip to the deli counter.....

[catnhatnh]

...first off,I committed the cardinal sin of not reading a coupon carefully enough....On the counter was a dollar off coupon on a name brand muenster cheese that was already on sale at $3.99 lb. .The coupon was good for "any purchase 8 oz or larger. So I ordered a pound.The girl on the counter sliced up .51 lb and packaged it and when I started to protest that I wanted a pound she winked and said "go grab another coupon..." Result was 2 packs weighing just over 1 pound of cheese and 2 valid dollar off coupons-total cost $2.00 and my very red face....I had somehow committed brainlock.
Second lesson of the day....I consider cold cuts a bit of a luxury,being as pricey as they are.I watch for the sales and usually stick to my favorites when they are on sale.But yesterday I saw a fairly common item on sale-chopped ham at .99lb. As I said,I normally consider cold cuts a luxury and tend to by a premium ham when it is on sale...yesterday I decided that ANYTHING edible at .99lb had to be worth checking out and bought a pound.Guess what? It's edible!!! And not even in a bad way-you wouldn't confuse it with a fine polish brand but it was serviceable and tasty ham-I had forgotten that at one time we ate cold cuts because they were CHEAP.And next week I'll go back and order every other cheap variety (bologna,turkey pastrami,etc.) and rediscover my cold cut roots....
So there was my lesson-And here's how it sorts out...a pound of cheese-$2...a pound of chopped ham-$1...A loaf of cheap white bread-.50....and a bit of mayonnaise,an onion,and a bit of leftover diced tomato from my fridge-let's say .50 just to round it off.Net results-8 quarter pound sandwiches for .50 each.I think I could get to like this....

[Stinky The Clown]

1. So much of what was once 'cheap eats' for the kids of ordinary

factory workers is now priced like Beluga Caviar.

Yes, cold cuts (a term now replaced by 'deli meats') is a supreme treat. Although cheap when we were kids, they evoke wonderful memories and, by gosh, they taste good, too!

[babylonsister]

2. My husband calls all that deli meat stuff

"horse cock". Might be a New England expression?:hide:

[Stinky The Clown]

9. The first time I heard that was

in the Navy. It was used to refer lovingly to bologna.

The etymology of the term should be obvious. :)

[babylonsister]

14. He was in the CG, so that's probably where he found that

quaint expression. :)

[Stinky The Clown]

18. There was a time in my brief but lackluster Navy career .....

... when we were assigned as 'fire watch' on a ship I was stationed on that had been decommissioned. They offloaded all supplies and much of the equipment, but the 'Officer's Country' (wardroom, galley, mess deck, and semi-private cabins) was mostly untouched. We were supposed to move to nearby barracks and just stay on the ship for our watches. We chose to stay on the ship because, compared to what we normally had, living in Officer's Country was palatial.

I was a Storkeeper (meaning the supply guy). Our ship was a repair ship that supported Minesweepers. I knew what the Sweep guys coveted and we had some of that sort of stuff on our ship that hadn't been offloaded. We traded it for food. In the first few weeks, we ate a LOT of steaks and lobster and such. (One metal chair = 2 cases of frozen steaks). When got low on trade fodder, we were reduced to begging.

We learned to make sandwiches of eggs and fried bologna ... and to BYGAWD LIKE it. No bread, mind you. Fried Horse C**k on the bottom, a fried egg in the middle, another slice of HC on the top. If our begging had been particularly luicky, we had some salt, pepper, and mooseturd to make it all 'special'.

Even after that, I still like bologna every now and again. :)

[babylonsister]

19. I just asked my husband, and yes, the CG made him say it.

I forgot this little gem: filet of mule tool. Sigh.
I'm not familiar with mooseturd, but it surely does sound 'special'!
During the late 70s, Rick was involved in the Mariel Boat Lift off of Cuba. HAd to spend weeks in Key West at a time, poor baby. He'd bring coolers of fresh shrimp home to MA (not to me, sadly; the first wife benefitted from that!).


Being stationed on a ship, I imagine you became familiar with Spam? We lived on Guam for a year and, believe it or not, it was almost considered a delicacy there! :rofl:

[catnhatnh]

29. Yep,the military utilizes many interesting euphemisms....

I remember certain rations being called "ham and MFer's" (ham and lima beans)...On a related note (slightly) I recently bought a few packs of mre's to try them out and laughed when I saw one meal labeled "Bean Component-Not for Flight Crew Use"....

[babylonsister]

40. That's a riot! I l used to work in purchasing at a military base;

the description of anything was way beyond what made sense. For instance, a zipper was called 'an interlocking device' and that's all I remember, but it went on and on! :crazy:

[Gormy Cuss]

42. Not Yankee, but it sounds like the colorful food names that

the men in my father's family would let slip occasionally (they were all Navy or CG.)

I grew up eating a dish that we kids called "that stuff on a shingle" because we knew that we couldn't call it by the name my father used.;-)

[babylonsister]

44. Ironic that, as my dad's very favorite meal is 'that stuff on

a shingle'! I don't think he owns any taste buds any longer. x(

[grasswire]

3. I can't eat bologna anymore...

...for some reason. But on the topic of deli meats, I sure try to avoid that pressed turkey stuff that is wet. And I don't like the way some meats get a metallic sheen -- usually corned beef. I don't know what makes that colorization happen. But I do like salamis and buy a pound whenever the genoa is on sale. I get it sliced #1 on the machine so it is really thin. In fact, I think I'll have salami on extra-sour rye for lunch. Plochman's mustard, too.

[The empressof all]

5. About once a year I need a bologna fix

It has to be on white bread with white American Cheese and butter. Thank god it's just a once a year passion because no one else around me will eat the stuff. I do like salami and eggs quite a bit but quite frankly the deli meat out here in PNW is pretty awful. I can't get a decent deli roast beef unless I go to the "yuppie" store and pay over 12.99lb. I can get fairly decent turkey and ham but it's usually the premium brand and never ever under 5 bucks a pound. I grew up in NJ so I'm really choosie about my deli.

[SoCalDem]

11. With an RC in a bottle & some chips?

That's you inner-child saying.."Take me back"...:)

[grasswire]

22. Fred Meyer (do you have it up there on the Sound?)..

...which is a Kroger store, has a new "all natural" premium line of deli meats. I'll try it when they are on sale this week. It occurs to me that QFC is a Krogers store; perhaps you have those up there.

[The empressof all]

25. Both Fred Meyer and QFC have decent ham and turkey

But I think it's on the pricey side. You can only get decent roast beef at Central Market or Larry's but it's very expensive and still not the same as you can get in any corner deli back east. The Deli Roast beef in NY/NJ is blood rare and sliced very thin. It's really amazing---especially when you don't have access to it.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

4. Lunch meat

Eating this is flirting with death these days. They taste good because of all the salt and fat. Preservatives, too, although I don't know what they use. I don't want to know.

Stuff scares me, so I avoid it, but the longing for a fried bologna sandwich on white bread with mayonnaise is something that will never leave me. Or an olive loaf (remember that stuff?) sandwich on rye bread with "sandwich spread." Or Lebanon bologna, which was almost like a good salami if you didn't know any better, and it was cheaper. All those things, they were part of my childhood life, and they were wonderful.

That said, who cares what's in them?

They taste good, they're affordable, and you're not gonna hurt anything unless you do it every day and we end up watching Maury Povich sending in a crew of workers to remove your 800-lb. self from your bed where you refuse to give up your Cheetos as they take you to the liposuction/psychiatric hospital.

If that happens, though, let me know what time the show is on, OK?

Hmmmmm. Fried bologna .................

[The empressof all]

6. Olive Loaf........God.....Liverwurst!

My family had a passion for the stuff. I remember my sister eating it every day for lunch. I couldn't choak down that stuff.

We ate the fried bologna sandwiches as well. Sometimes with a fried egg on top. Sometimes mom made it in a grilled cheese sandwich.


Liverwurst is another story. That I loved....On rye bread with a slice of raw onion...... I don't think I've eaten liverwurst for over 10 years.

From Olive Loaf to Liverwurst.......Darn you OLL Now I gotta go shopping.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

8. I once wrote a short story

for an obscure literary review that got so much reader response, it turned into a running joke.

The reason for all the mail?

A dying man, who had run a deli all his life, confided in someone his favorite food:

It was a big fat beef hot dog, cut half-way through down the middle, stuffed with jalapenos, Muenster cheese, and shredded fried bologna, wrapped in crisp bacon and then deep fried, served on a traditional hot dog bun with brown mustard, sauerkraut, chopped onions, green relish, celery salt, and fried garlic.

People actually tried to fix this imaginary item. They wrote because it never worked.

I just ate four McDonald's burgers with Vidalia onion slices on them. Thick. Large fries.

I feel great.

[catnhatnh]

30. Four???

What the HELL are we CELEBRATING?The indictments aren't till later this week....

[OldLeftieLawyer]

32. I had no choice

We ran out of Cheetos.

There are indictments? With Vidalias?

[Ecumenist]

50. OldLeftieLawyer...

You make my day!!:rofl: :rofl: :applause: That being said...How can you eat anything that once walked, flew or swam from McDonald's, even with Vidalias? Mickey D's is just downright frightening to me.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

52. It's seriously a long story,

involving some really bad personal trauma and stuff that took place a couple of months ago, and it was a situation where something needed to be done on Sunday, and I had to be the one to do it. It took all my energy - all of it - and when I was finally finished and on my way home, the only thing I could think of was how hungry and exhausted I was.

There was a McDonalds, I drove through, I gobbled them down, I felt like crap afterwards, but I was fed, and then - seriously - I could rest.

Well, collapse.

It's never just about eating ground worms, which I think is what they're made of, those burgers. I'll never do it again.

There is always a backstory, I've learned, and it's usually a whole lot more interesting than what is obvious. Sort of like an iceberg.

Cheetos, on the other hand, have been permanently banished from thiis home. Do you know how fast you can eat a two-and-one-half-foot high ($2.99 at BJ's) bag of those things ALL BY YOURSELF?

Use tongs. That orange is a bitch to get out from under your fingernails. Just so's ya know.......................

[Ecumenist]

55. Sorry to hear about the traumatic situation.....

sincerely hope that things have gotten smoother. I have had alot of trauma lately and know how that can be. I tend to stop eating when stressed. Cheetoh's, on the other hand, never see the light of day in my huse. Hate em....JUST BECAUSE OF THE ORANGE STUFF!! Frankly, I believe that it a far more tenancious substance than that dye they put into money bags that explode and mark fleeing felons, their vehicles and the direction they flee into.

I've got thing about indelible substances on my body.:hi:

[catnhatnh]

38. By the Bye...

They are wrong! I have all of this AND a deep far fryer..

[OldLeftieLawyer]

39. Then you are charged,

when the mood might be upon you, to be the Chosen One who will make this literary imagining of mine a reality.

Seriously. I'll pay for the fixings if you dare it.

I'll pay for the medications if you eat it.

[kestrel91316]

20. I LOVE liverwurst, but I am watching my waistline so i have to stay away

from that sort of thing...........

[Stinky The Clown]

10. Olive loaf

was a real treat in our house when I was a kid.

I liked the little tasty green and red morsels in what was, otherwise, square bologna.

Our staples in the way of cold cuts, all from Tony Tedesco's meat market, were genoa salami, pruiscitino (pru-JEH-teen), coppacola(cobba-GHAWL), and mortadella with pistachios.

And fresh Italian bread.

Warm.

From Meyer Zwerdling's bakery on Stratford Avenue. In Bridgeport. Connecticut. Where I grew up.

I'm hungry.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

12. Those pronunciations,

they're funny.

My grandfather owned an Italian store. All the Italian food you wanted. He imported it all, including those awful Parodi cigars. I learned how to count by making change, and when I was hungry, I chose the cheese I wanted to eat grated out of a small brown paper bag - Locatelli, Parmesan, Romano, whatever I felt like - and sat on the concrete front steps with the old men in the sun, eating my grated cheese and listening to their stories.

There were so many different kinds of salamis and pepperonis and the real mortadella with pistachios and capicola and the different prosciutti and soprasetta and cacciatorini, and, of course, the private stash of macerated peaches and cherries from the garden, tucked away where the women of the family couldn't find them, the Four Roses bottles artfully taken to the dump in big brown paper bags by yours truly, who was all of five or six years old, and would do - even then - pretty much anything for a quarter.

Those were the meats. Those were the days. Everything else pales, but we still get hungry.

Check out A. Litteri in the City Market on North Capitol Street in NE DC sometime. Still the only place in this country I've ever found that gives off the same smells as my Nonno's store.

On edit: Here's the Litteri link - it's such a great place: http://www.litteris.com/

[Stinky The Clown]

13. In Baltimore, there's Trinarcria's

In the same place since 1906. Same family.

And that smell?

Yeah.

*That* smell.

I can be there in twenny minnits.

One of my kids can just about walk there. The other is 10 minutes away.

They both love cold cuts.

By the way, Trinacria's owns the building they're in. In fcat, they own that city block and one adjoining block. They're worth brazillians. The food they sell is cheap. Like half what our Gucci Safeway sells things with the same name but half the quality for twice as much.

Pruscito de Parma for seven bux a pound.

Reggiano for six bucks .... a pound.

Prices like that.

And of course ..... 'the smell'.

It don't get much better.

Never been to Litteri's Next time I'm in that neighborhood, I'll stop. I always stop at places like that when I'm in the neighborhood.

My partner lived in Philadelphia a haffa block from the (Rocky movies) Italian Market before she moved to Old Town. I always went there. Cuz I was in the neighborhood.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

15. I guess I didn't write it well,

but the smell doesn't come just from the foodstuffs.

It comes from the closeness and the people and the intimacy of the people who love the foodstuffs. That's why big places might smell good, but that wasn't what I grew up with or what anyplace besides Litteri has inspired in me so far. My grandpop's store was as wide as our house, because we lived in the back and upstairs.

Litteri doesn't own any property in the Market - it's a narrow little store - I mean, it's tiny - that really cannot tolerate two carts side by side, so people are pushed together and we talk to each other and compare and talk about foods and recipes and that's where the smell comes from.

It's about the people.

There used to be some places in South Philly, but they're long gone now, alas. They almost had the smell. But almost only counts in horseshoes, and speaking of horses ......... oh, never mind.

[Stinky The Clown]

17. That describes Trinacria's to a 'tee'

'T' being the first leter of 'tiny'. While they own two blocks, that's just real estate. And I mention it only to convey a sense of why their prices are so low. They have no overhead and the store really doesn't need to pay for itself. The store itself is one rowhouse wide in the middle of a block. At holidays, the wait for service can be well over an hour. And if that holiday is Cristmas, and you're there on a Saturday, rest assured you'll make new friends. People are there solely for the food and the heritage associated with it. I know that's why I started shopping there around 1980, when I moved to Baltimore. It was really and truly a touch of home .... a place very much like you describe your grandfather's store. Everyone behond the counter, to this day, is family. I enjoy going there on weekday mornings when they're slow and we can talk. Its like the barber shop with the chairs and the hair on the floor.

The review below talks about places to each a cheap lunch, so it only begins to hint at the place's larger purpose .... purveying great imported Italian foods.

http://www.citypaper.com/eat/review.asp?id=3158

[catnhatnh]

23. Hey there East Side Clowny....

Remember Hollister Heights and the two Italian stores there???One was Crudo's Market and I forget the name of the other.....As late as '88 I would stop and buy a chunk of their sharp provolone to take to work....One time on a night shift I forgot the cheese in the car,and then forgot that I forgot it in the car....On the pike on the way home the next morning,as the sun came up and the heat came on,I found myself looking at the soles of my shoes to see if I had accidentally "stepped in something"....My brother loved it but referring to the smell,he called it Walkalone cheese....Damn,I wish I could find some now.....

[Stinky The Clown]

27. Hollister Heights ......

as in Stratford?

There is a Hollister Ave in Bridgeport, in the East End. Not a mile east, but across the line in Straftford, just north of the railroad tracks across from St Michael's Cemetery, is Hollister Street. We used to call that area Hollister Heights. There was, indeed, a Crudo's Market. The other one may be the store run by my friend's family, Licata's Maket.

[catnhatnh]

28. Bingo.....

That was the best provolone I ever tasted...I think they have closed but I will never forget it....very dry and crumbly for a provolone (extremely hard to slice) and sharper than an ex-wifes tongue....Thanks for your great memory!

[Stinky The Clown]

34. Licata's closed many years ago

Neither of their kids (boy and girl twins, my age) wanted the business. Gus died in the 70s I think. Ginsey ran it for a few years more than she stopped, too.

They like second parents to me.

[grasswire]

41. I love to hear your recollections of childhood

Because if my mother's family hadn't decided to head West in 1924 after nearly 400 years in Connecticut, I'd probably have grown up in Stratford or Middletown or Bridgeport or Meriden. Those roots are lost to me. My great grandfather and great-great grandfather owned a grocery store in Meriden.

[Stinky The Clown]

47. Sweet 'if onlys' ......

Thank you for your kind words ....... and the reminder of the ':::sigh::: ... if only' thoughts we all get from time to time.

At about the time your mother's family headed west, my father's father was finally fully settled into life in Bridgeport. By then he had four kids (my Dad, the youngest, was born in 1919) and was a foreman at the GE Plant in Bridgeport, supervising one of two all-Italian crews. He'd been to seminary in Italy before emigrating and by 1920s standards was considered 'educated'. The 'if only' is that one of his bosses put him on to a lead to buy large parcels of land in what is now the Lordship section of Stratford. The land, then, was considered far from the city (about 5 miles) and therefore of low value. But the land is also all waterfront and today is worth ...... well ... a LOT.

Grampa passed on the deal ......

:::sigh::: ... if only ........

(I'm 100% certain catnhatnh knows the place I'm talking about and the value of it today!)

[grasswire]

48. when I look back at the land family members owned,

I, too groan with great sorrow. I often think of the Connecticut River as "my" river. Ha!

I haven't yet gotten to Stratford or Bridgeport in my forays to New England. My favorite ancestor was the first parson in Stratford. Izrahiah Wetmore, Yale 1748. The Shakespeare theatre there is on property that was once owned by my family.

[catnhatnh]

49. Sure do....

....my Mom and Dad sold out 2 years back and got about 170K for an absolute wreck of a 100 year old house....purchaser knocked it down, put up a modest garrison/colonial and put it on the market at 569K....The area I grew up in is now so "upscale" I would most likey be arrested for "loitering" there.....

[Ecumenist]

51. I send DH off everyday with a lunch

of Mortadella with pistachios, (Hallal, full of garlic and delish), sliced colby jack cheese, Fresh sliced ciabatta, sliced bell pepper, Carrot, cucumber and fruit. We really don't eat coldcuts unless they're from a small kosher, hallal or organic butcher who make their own onsite. Every now and then for a treat, I make my own Pastrami, smoked and wonderful and dried, smoked hungarian sausage with TONS of paprika.

[anitar1]

16. You are one step ahead of me , OLL.

Was just going to post my passion for fried bologna sandwiches, white bread and mayo. About twice a year, I have to have one. Also bologna on crackers once in a great while. Another is fried egg on a piece of toast. uummmm.

[yy4me]

7. Re-mortgage the house for a pound of Boars Head meats.

I've got to admit their Oven Gold turkey is great. It is not that slimy, wet salty stuff that sometimes is called turkey by the fine deli folks. Their Virginia ham is good too but both retail for as much per pound as a good steak. Once in a blue moon I buy the Turkey for club sandwiches, a half a pound sliced thin goes a long way. I'd rather pay a little more and be able to eat it than pretend I can taste anything with some of the other brands that are out there. The smoked turkey is good too but the Oven Gold is the best. Good lesson to all of us on the coupon. I would have done just as you did. Nice of the clerk to bring it to your attention.

[kestrel91316]

21. Speaking of cold cuts: WHAT ON EARTH are those chunks of white

stuff in mortadella????

[catnhatnh]

24. You may be missing the point of the post...

...the second half of which is to buy the cheapest item on sale and see if you like it....

[The empressof all]

26. We're not paying attention to that part....

I'm only thinking of liverwurst. I just got back from the store and I forgot about it until I signed back on to DU again.

[catnhatnh]

31. Bless you and your liverwurst.....

I'll take mine in real thick slices on white bread with a ton of ketchup.....I'm noticing a trend here....all my "childhood" favorites feature white bread-and normally I don't use it.....go figure....

[OldLeftieLawyer]

33. White bread

If I could eat it every day, I would. Honestly. With mayo or Miracle Whip of that wonderful Southern thing called "dressing."

This whole thread should be condemned as a toxic, you know, thing.

Liverwurst????

[Stinky The Clown]

35. Toxic?

Were you here for the 'sausage' thread?

That stuff is truly toxic.

I love all sausages.

Imagine ... a foodstuff whose curative element is the same bugs that can cause food poisoning. And we eat it.

[The empressof all]

36. We had sausage with peppers and onions for dinner tonight

Both Hot and Sweet Italians. It was yummy. SO had is Parmed on bagutte with lots of Barilla Sauce with olives. Mine was just plain on the plate with a side of Romaine with Parm shavings and Paul Newman dressing. Yummmm-O!

[OldLeftieLawyer]

37. Imagine........

White bread, Genoa salami, and dressing.

Read it and weep:

NGREDIENTS:

* 1/4 teaspoon salt
* dash white pepper
* 1/4 teaspoon paprika
* 1/4 teaspoon sugar
* 1/8 teaspoon garlic powder
* 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
* 1 tablespoon cider vinegar
* 1/4 cup sour cream

PREPARATION:
Whisk together the salt, pepper, paprika, sugar, garlic powder, oil, and vinegar until sugar is dissolved. Add sour cream; whisk briskly to combine. Cover and refrigerate.



Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...................................

[babylonsister]

45. Liverwurst and ... KETCHUP? I've

never heard of that combo! Mayo or mustard, yes, but...KETCHUP?
I too loves me some liverwurst and will indulge 3-4 times a year. It's not the healthiest, but oh so good!

[politicat]

43. What a deal on the cheese!!! Where are you?

I love muenster. I've been ignoring the deli, too, because it's just usually a money trap, and there's no such thing as a local deli in this area.

When I was a kid, summer's best lunch was shaved (cheap) ham on store-bought wheat with mayo (if mom was shopping) or miracle whip (if dad was shopping) and mustard with potato salad and a soda. Only one soda a week, and it was ALWAYS at Saturday lunch. (Okay, I'm hungry again, even though I just had some of the best pizza in the area. Damn you, Cat!)

I miss cold cuts. I love braunschweiger (is this the same as liverwurst) when it's whipped up in the food processor with cream cheese and spread on rolls with tomatoes and mustard. But that way lies the ruination of my cholesterol scores and I have yet to find a local sausage maker who makes it. I may have to get the grinder for the stand mixer so I can make my own, now that I have a source of liver that I trust.

Turkey pastrami is amazingly good, as is the turkey "ham". But on the bread front -- don't buy the white stuff. Go to the back of the store and get the day old rolls that are made on site. Spritz with water and toast in the oven or the toaster to crisp. Cheaper and MUCH tastier.

[catnhatnh]

46. Southern New Hampshire, Y'all....

...Though I lived in Colorado Springs a while and love your state....both the supermarkets in the area (Market Basket and Hannaford's) use cold cuts as a loss leader in their weekly circulars....this week one has Carolina Skinless turkey breast at 2.99lb while the other is pushing store brand american cheese at $1.99lb,Carando salami at $2.99lb and a nice turkey pastrami at $2.39lb.....Things really are relatively cheap here...store 1-center cut pork chops @ $1.69lb vs store 2-Perdue whole chickens @ .69lb....gasoline most recently (yesterday) $2.83 per gallon.....Your right about the white bread,but if your doing comfort food it is a must-have...Your liverwurst/cream cheese spread sounds like something I'll be trying soon-Thanks.

[Rhiannon12866]

54. I loved liverwurst sandwiches, as a kid, too.

My mother made them on rye, with Hellman's mayo and chopped scallions (much milder than onion). I could still probably go for that now, if the mood hit me.:9

And I believe that the two are the same, liverwurst and braunschweiger, that what it's called depends on where you live, but I'll accept corrections. There are many regional name differences for kinds of food, such as subs or heroes or hoagies, or soda and pop. My little cousin, also from Colorado, once asked "what kinds of pop do you have?" when we were out, and the waiter looked at her like she was speaking a foreign language, LOL! We call it "soda" in my part of NY.:-)

As for cheese and other dairy products, I learned a lesson about this when I was shopping and cooking for my grandmother in NC. I was having a hell of a time just finding a pint of heavy cream, which I can find everywhere here. But my friend explained that NY is a dairy state, while NC is not, so certain things aren't as prevalent, and I would imagine that the prices would be higher, too.:shrug:

And I agree about the bread. I don't use all that much, and certainly not a loaf in one day, so I have no problem with day-old. I like it soft, but it usually sits for much more than a day at my house, so I can't see the difference. My favorite is sourdough.:D

[politicat]

56. I dunno what my fizzy water + flavorings name is ...

I'm so a-regional it's not even funny. (Yes, exactly where are you from? By birth certificate? By longest residence? By preference? I lived in 30 houses in 6 states, five countries and 2 continents before I turned 16. If I have a regionalism in my body, it's Military.)

Colorado is not much of an agriculture state, to be perfectly honest. Thin soil, high altitude, unpredictable weather, short growing season. Coal's cheap. Oil should be cheaper, but isn't. (How is it I'm paying $3 a gallon for gas when there's an oil well 300 yards from my back door and the refinery 15 miles away is running at 70% capacity?) Natural gas should be cheap, but is outrageous. Water's expensive. Wood's sometimes cheap, sometimes expensive. Beef should be cheap because there's all this grass and there's no reason to put them on grain, but that is logical and logic should not interfere with a healthy bidness envirerment.

[Rhiannon12866]

57. I drink Vichy water.

I once mentioned this to my friend, whose Dad was also military, and he had no idea what I was talking about, and that's when I realized that I too depend on regionalisms. It's just carbonated mineral water, and it's what we call what is bottled in the place I candider my hometown, Saratoga Springs, NY. The supposed benefits of the waters there put them on the map a century ago. I also moved quite a bit, attended 10 schools in my life, but they were all in the Northeast. And I thought that I was unfortunate to have moved way too much.:-)

I have family in Colorado and they all love it there and remain close to home. I'm in Northern NY, closer to Canada than NYC. It's somewhat rural, very agricultural, lots of farms, many of them dairy, and wood is prevalent, but gas is also over $3 a gallon here. And it doesn't appear that recent drop in cost per barrel of oil will affect this, anywhere. As Greg Palast pointed out, this country is being run by oil people and, despite what they say, they planned his and are getting exactly what they wanted all along.:-(

[Rhiannon12866]

53. Muenster cheese is also my favorite. Though I have to admit that I usually

buy it to get pills into my little dog. When he was so sick, last year, and on several meds, I tried absolutely everything, and he's usually a nut for cheese, but Muenster was the only thing that worked for me then. But I have to admit, I was so desperate, I probably would have tried caviar, if I thought that would work...:eyes:

I just bought another half pound of Muenster, sliced thin, since I like to have some on hand. It keeps in the fridge and my little guy doesn't require much, LOL! And I'll snag a slice to top off a tuna or egg salad sandwich, my two favorites, but cheese is good on anything, in my world.:D

I checked, and I paid $5.99 a pound for mine, so you got an excellent deal, even without the coupon. :-) It's often on sale at my favorite corner grocery, but I hate to run out, so I didn't wait.:shrug: