I'm with you on this one always like to help out the small guy when I can
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Yep, like Goph said, still a few of them around. They tend to be ethnic grocery stores like La Michoacana and Quickly Indian, but they have too few organic products for regular visits. They tend to be interesting otherwise.Remember the small grocery stores, they are a thing of the past here, big box put them out
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Predatory pricing.
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they put small family businesses out of work, then automate their stores so they dont need workers and they want us to shop there!!! f... THEM.
I had a room just like this one once. But there was a 25" console color TV, an amber swag lamp hanging in one corner, and plants. Floor plants and hanging plants. Couldn't fit much more than that in there.
(That is almost my exact coffee table, too! Was, I don't have it anymore, but I have the end tables that went with it. Vintage 1977.)
Are you going to tell us what's missing?
I was reminiscing last night, and remembering some of the silly things my grandmother told me when I was little that (I think) she must have been joking about, but that I took literally.
1. Never swallow a cat hair, or it will turn into a worm in your stomach!
2. Never eat watermelon seeds (the black ones) because they would sprout in your stomach and start growing. The immature white seeds were OK to eat.
There were more, I'm sure, but those were the two that left marks on my psyche.
I can't figure it out. Why would she tell me (and my siblings) stuff like that? Maybe she was just a prankster. But one day, she was talking about a friend of hers who had "a growth" in her abdomen, and I pictured a little watermelon tree (I didn't know they were vines) growing in her stomach. She roont me for life, I tell you.
1. Never swallow a cat hair, or it will turn into a worm in your stomach!
2. Never eat watermelon seeds (the black ones) because they would sprout in your stomach and start growing. The immature white seeds were OK to eat.
There were more, I'm sure, but those were the two that left marks on my psyche.
I can't figure it out. Why would she tell me (and my siblings) stuff like that? Maybe she was just a prankster. But one day, she was talking about a friend of hers who had "a growth" in her abdomen, and I pictured a little watermelon tree (I didn't know they were vines) growing in her stomach. She roont me for life, I tell you.
This is what I was going to say/ask and also an Atari, Remote control to tv,, plants, tv trays, a doggie or kitty, pictures on the walls, a fireplace, coasters for drinks. Lol, all sorts of stuff I don't see.
It was TV and ash trays but there are many answers that would fit
Ashtray! Duh! The big decorative one that always sat in the middle of the coffee table. I don't know why I didn't notice that.
Oh, stop it. We still have those in the burger places here. How else would you make a milkshake? One place, which is only open from May to September, has 20 or 30 different available flavors of milkshake. I try to go at least once a summer and get my favorite, a Grasshopper (chocolate and mint).
How else WOULD someone make a milkshake, anyway?
Oh, stop it. We still have those in the burger places here. How else would you make a milkshake? One place, which is only open from May to September, has 20 or 30 different available flavors of milkshake. I try to go at least once a summer and get my favorite, a Grasshopper (chocolate and mint).
How else WOULD someone make a milkshake, anyway?
I had one of these in the early 90's, just as the CD market was beginning to explode. It's long gone, but if I did somehow find it, the cassette inside would probably be Public Image Limited, a favorite at the time.
...I have never heard of Public Image Limited.
John Lydon's post Sex Pistols project. Killer drumming from Ginger Baker on this piece, with also a guitar solo from Steve Vai, production from Bill Laswell:
I had the cassette, which was about the only thing ever in my Walkman before I got rid of the walkie.
For me, it would be either a mix tape, or one from Columbia House.
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I never bought pre-recorded tapes. My Walkman would have a tape that I recorded from one of my vinyl albums. Yes I had a Walkman, it's long gone now.
Now, I HAVE heard of the Sex Pistols, but the name kinda freaked me out and I was never a fan. I'm kind of stuck in the 70s and 80s as far as music tastes. I'm not even sure what kind of music they did. I liked the one you linked, though, that was an OK tune.
Good driving music, for sure!
Now, I HAVE heard of the Sex Pistols, but the name kinda freaked me out and I was never a fan. I'm kind of stuck in the 70s and 80s as far as music tastes. I'm not even sure what kind of music they did. I liked the one you linked, though, that was an OK tune.
Sex Pistols were before my time, didn't get radio air play, at least not in my region, so I was an oblivious kid when they came to San Antonio in the late 1970's. Public Image Limited was, in a way, a complete betrayal of the raw aggressive 3-chord punk rock ethos, with the adoption of a more highly produced, elaborate "progressive rock" sound so dissed by punk rockers such as the Sex Pistols, Iggy Pop, Ramones and others, and with bandmates who might never have expected to play alongside John Lydon (Johnny Rotten).
But I really liked the PIL sound, and when I got rid of the walkie, I bought the CD, still have it.
cheesieeeeeeee
then egg and lettuce
Tomato sandwich! I still eat them all the time.
My dad's Alabama relatives, where we visited summers in my childhood, had a small farm, or a large garden, nothing commercial, kind of like Jimi has. They always had enough tomatoes for themselves (a large family), for fresh eating, canning, cooking, enough to give all their neighbors, and tons of 'maters sitting on a table ripening, so tomato sandwiches were something they ate every day, just bread, mayo and tomatoes. I make them with lettuce, tomato, mayo and mustard. It's the best, freshest sandwich. From those relatives I also got the taste for tomatoes with breakfast.
Beautiful memories. They also grew corn, so we had lots of fresh sweet corn nine ways to Sunday, and nearby woods bursting with blueberries, and a clean creek for swimming and fishing.
I used to love mater sandwiches one of my faves but just can;t have the mayo
mayo is bottled vomitI used to love mater sandwiches one of my faves but just can;t have the mayo
Well, speaking again of Alabama, when my brothers and I were young but not really little when we might have been trained, my dad decided he wanted us to say "yes sir", "no sir", etc., and "ma'am" to mom. We wouldn't do it. It made him so mad. My mom would say "they're not your slaves and they don't work for you, so why should they call you "sir"?. If you wanted that you should have taught them when they first started to talk.
Mom thought the ma'am and sir stuff was an ignorant deep south styling.
I used to love mater sandwiches one of my faves but just can;t have the mayo
Not even vegan mayo? Some of it is pretty good, but it needs a little lemon juice added, or sometimes it tastes dull.
I love the taste but so bad for you
same as easiest job in the world would be an italian chef, no matter what you put on the plate all you can taste is 5 kilos of tomato! given they use that on everything they musy be crap chefs! its meant to give a little taste to a meal not drown it!
Nope, every time I eat it my numbers gp up
Ya know I do agree 100% buddy
look at his chin jimmi an upside down dogI can
I know holdin a bone
fill it with scotch, baby sleeps ok then!
looking at the picjimmi is it a sperm donation bottle lol
In western Europe, Italian is my second favorite cuisine to French. Germany, Switzerland, and northwards, have soggy dumplings and bland meats. England has mushy peas and bland everything. Eastern Europe, been to Czech Republic, Hungary and Austria, more soggy dumplings and bland meats, though Prague had good continental food in restaurants (and cheap!!). Scandinavia might be better, dunno, haven't been there.
Spain and Portugal are pretty good too, with lots of fresh produce and seafood, but after France, I'll take Italy any day, with happy food: pasta, pizza, Tuscan steak, ice cream.
I'll concede that I'm way too fond of having opinions, and of expressing them. Sorry.