MisterBeasleyThe only German restaurant I ever ate at was in Huntsville, Alabama.
The only German restaurant I have been to is in Epcot Center! I do enjoy that restaurant a lot. It used to have the distinction of being the only place in the Walt Disney World Resort that you could buy beer! That has changed.
I went to a German bakery once.
French bakeries are so much better there is not a number big enough to describe the difference!
TOP OF THE PAGE! Everyone have a delicious French Pastry on me!
-Kevin
Living the dream.
SeeYou190Everyone have a delicious French Pastry on me!
No, thank you! If you ever come to Paris, go for a walk along Rue de Belville very early in the morning, just before the shops open. You will be able to get a view on French bakeries which will make you never enter one of them in your life.
Happy times!
Ulrich (aka The Tin Man)
"You´re never too old for a happy childhood!"
Tinplate ToddlerNo, thank you! If you ever come to Paris, go for a walk along Rue de Belville very early in the morning, just before the shops open. You will be able to get a view on French bakeries which will make you never enter one of them in your life.
I remember hearing that the same was true of sausage factories. I don't care, I love sausage, no matter what's in it.
York1 John
I asked my doctor if I gave up delicious food and all alcohol, would I live longer? He said, "No, but it will seem longer."
York1I remember hearing that the same was true of sausage factories. I don't care, I love sausage, no matter what's in it.
My travels took me into all 4 corners of the world and I had to eat things I didn´t how to pronounce, let alone know what it was or what was in it. Some of that stuff was really tasty and I wouldn´t let anybody spoil that taste by telling me what I just had.
Tinplate ToddlerMy travels took me into all 4 corners of the world and I had to eat things I didn´t how to pronounce, let alone know what it was or what was in it. Some of that stuff was really tasty and I wouldn´t let anybody spoil that taste by telling me what I just had.
The same was true of Louisiana "Gumbo". It tasted great, but if you didn't cook it, you didn't ask what was in it.
On a whole different topic, I wonder if you long-time diner patrons remember a diner forum that was already on its fourth page on the second day of the month?
York1I remember hearing thatthe same was true of sausage factories.
Someone who grew up in farm country told be the same thing about pickle (India) relish. I can't imagine why, nor understand the comments on French bakeries, but having only been in Paris once, I did not care for some of the street smells, which were definitely sewerage.
Now that I have ruined everyone's appetite, my wife made codfish croquets. They were good, but I grew up eating Coddies, a potato, salted fried codfish cake that was a Baltimore delicacy. I've looked at recipes that say they are not codfish cakes, but I don't see the difference. Codfish, mashed potatoes, spices, fried and served with mustard on saltine crackers.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Probably this one in one of its' former iterations.
The name and patrons change but the ambiance is the same.
We had a great German restauraunt in the town next to us. It was in the CFO's family home. One time we were there and she remarked that she was uncomfortalbe because we were eating dinner in her parents bedroom. Top that! It is closed now but would have been a great oppourtunity for Ulrich and Petra. We took one of my drivers there who had spent a ton of time in Germany and he said the food was authentic. Like Mr. Beasley we couldn't eat there often if we wanted to avoid becoming diabetic. They tore out all the paneling and a lot of the original house to make it a Tapas place but that went under in a couple of months.
So after 6 hours of Donald Duck did you become Daffy Ulrich?
Off to the basement and the sub station. No, not New London. Ciao, J.R.
German food
Gasthof Zur Gemutlicherkeit is simply the best German restaurant in the Minneapolis area.
My reaction the first time there was what's not to love. Surprisingly they are not overpriced, they have live accordion music playing and great German beers on tap.
German pastries
Edelweiss in my original hometown of Prior Lake. They opened not too long ago.
There German pastries are to-die-for, moist and melts in your mouth. I have never tasted better.
It might even be good they're closed for a while. We could'nt stay away, we were down there three times in one month.
They have inside seating and if you don't get there early in the morning the line goes out the door and down the sidewalk.
I am going through restaurant withdrawals
TF
Eveing Diners!
Flo, give the gang and I a , Ed a Crown Royal, Steve O what ever he wants and Drik half a dog treat!
Steve O sort of wish I was 55 again, but then I would not have SS.
Ed, you sort of missed read my post. While the couplers looked high on the GG1 it was just becaues where driffrent than my other engines. I all so stated "My fear was unfouned, I hooked a PRR Refer to the GG1 and it was not a problem". It tracks great and pulls great! It pulled all on my PRR Heavy Weight Pullmans Coaches and the PRR Refer you sent! Me Likes!
By the way, how do you raise the over head power pick up towers? I do know what they are called but no clue how to spell it?
Spent $235.00 Today! Not a train iteam in that total! Want to hunker down for the next 3 days and not leave the house till I go to work assuming the company is still open?"
Sat outside today with Dirk and he really enjoyed! Heck, he did not want to get out of his lawn chair when Sue and I went in!
Later, Ken and Dirk says "we sit outside more daddy, Woof, Woof?
I hate Rust
As a kid, growing up with a farm laborer step dad ( never actually adopted, so I maintained my birth last name), we made sausage every time we butchered a sow.
Knowing everything that went into it ( I did the grinding) I was hesitant to eat it. With pancakes, waffels, or french toast, I used a LOT of syrup. With eggs, any style, I used a LOT of ketchup.
Bitting into a chunk of gristle, was gross.
When we butchered, nothing went to waste, including rendering the lard. The kitchen would have a kind of greasy coating over everything, after boiling it all down. It took longer to clean up the kitchen, than it did to butcher up the meat.
I don't do my own butchering any more, but I used to process my own venison, along with other hunting delicacy treats such as squirrel, rabbit and pheasant, and I still clean my own fish.
Yummy!
Mike.
My You Tube
cudaken sort of wish I was 55 again, but then I would not have SS
I would pay it all back and pay what I am supposed to collect every year for the rest of my life if I could be 55 again. 60 was the roughest birthday. At 50 I could pretend I might live to 100 (both grandmothers lived to be 96 & 98, grandfathers didn't fare so well) and I was only 1/2 way there.
At 60 I was on the downhill slope. There was no pretending. In my life, after college, I have been fortunate in that only a few friends and family have passed away who are my age or younger. At 68 I read the obits and so far I haven't seen my name.
On the supernatural front, last night my wife came out of the shower and thought she saw me sneak in the closet, to scare her. I was downstairs watching youtube. Today I saw someone in pink, pass by the dining room window on the walkway to our front door. I thought maybe it was Amazon and opened the front door. There was no package and there was no one anywhere to be seen.
mbinsewi but I used to process my own venison
I'll bet you trimmed off all the fat and silver skin. Gristle I think it's gross too. Silver skin is the fascia, which in building and model railroading is pronounced:
Fay sha
and in medicine it is the covering of muscles and and pronounced
Fah sha.
BigDaddyI'll bet you trimmed off all the fat and silver skin.
Yes I did, as much as possible. With small game, it wasn't much of a factor. Rabbits seem to have more of it than squirrels. Game birds, I didn't notice it.
Hey Steven Otte!
Happy 55th!! I hope you can have some fun even if the party will be small.
Cheers!!
Dave
Edit: The photos of your comfort food made me hungry! I would rather have comfort food than a good steak. As for the last two, we rarely indulge in dessert but I can't say the same about the one on the right!
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Happy birthday Steve! I have 15 years on you. July of 2005 I had a serious back injury, construction site accident, while building the Klotsche Center, UWM. I was on the side lines untill Feb. 2006.
I'll take a double of the last of your treats. With the wife home, I have more than enough of the others!
York1On a whole different topic, I wonder if you long-time diner patrons remember a diner forum that was already on its fourth page on the second day of the month?
I suspect that it is because we are all stuck at home (or should be).
hon30critter York1 On a whole different topic, I wonder if you long-time diner patrons remember a diner forum that was already on its fourth page on the second day of the month? I suspect that it is because we are all stuck at home (or should be). Dave
York1 On a whole different topic, I wonder if you long-time diner patrons remember a diner forum that was already on its fourth page on the second day of the month?
Two full pages a day was not unusual, as the number of participants was quite a bit larger. We have lost quite a number of friends, others just left without a trace.
Ulrich ..... Donald Duck is my favorite Disney cartoon character, but it is unlikely I will watch 6 hours of cartoons all at once.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Tinplate ToddlerTwo full pages a day was not unusual, as the number of participants was quite a bit larger. We have lost quite a number of friends, others just left without a trace.
Ulrich,
That is not the response that I was hoping for! I was imagining numerous people praising me for the quality of my prose!
Seriously, several people have thanked me for opening the Diner and I am grateful for that. However, I'm a bit bothered by the prediction that the forums might come to an end. I see Kalmbach getting better at what they do, and in fact they are constantly trying to improve the forums (albeit not without a few glitches along the way). They are also starting to sell good quality modelling items like paint brush sets. I am still considering buying a set despite the fact that I upgraded my brush collection not too long ago.
I hope their retail endeavours are successful. Every bit counts, but that also would put them in direct conflict with some of their major sponsors. Life is never simple.
Without wishing to create a controversy, I will state that I would be willing to pay for participating in the forums. Of course, that's only me. Unfortunately, charging for the forums could have the opposite effect of killing them. A lot of online services, like Wikipedia for example, ask for voluntary contributions. I would be willing to do that.
Good Morning!
Another day braeking - I hope it isn´t as boring as yesterday was!
Garry - as much as I like Donald Duck I could by no means sit through 6 hours of watching the duck being close to a nervous breakdown each time things go in a different way than planned.
Dave - sorry for not showing my due appreciation Anyone in the print media business faces a hard time staying afloat these days and I am afraid the upcoming slump or even deprecession won´t allow for any improvement. I am convinced the world will be quite a different one once we have overcome the COVID-19 crisis and some of us will face significant material losses in the wake of it. Al Kalmbach founded the Model Railroader magazine in the height of the Great Depression, but our forefathers were a much hardier breed than we are, let alone our kids. We have to face it, that our generation has raised a generation of spoiled brats, who will struggle to stay afloat in the coming economically trying times. Facebook and Twitter "friends" are no substitute for rel friends supporting each other. I just hope it won´t be all doom and gloom, but better to be prepared for living a more humble life soon.
Tinplate Toddler We have to face it, that our generation has raised a generation of spoiled brats, who will struggle to stay afloat in the coming economically trying times.
I do not think so.
My children are doing great, it sounds like Brent's are on the way to doing well. Everybody else who has talked about their kids seem very proud of them.
In my previous life as an employed person, from 2012 through 2016 I was responsibel for hiring 12-18 new untrained people per year and bringing them up to speed. There is nothing wrong with the current generation at all.
Society should be just fine, the kids are alright.
Kevin - I won´t argue with you, but there is much more to the world than your micro cosmos!
Tinplate Toddler I won´t argue with you, but there is much more to the world than your micro cosmos!
Make that my micro cosmos too. My son and his wife are very responsible and are doing great as are all of their friends! All of our friends' children are also doing very well. In fact, I can't think of any young people who we know who are not responsible and doing well.
Ulrich, I think you paint with too broad a brush. There are certainly lots of trouble makers and irresponsible young people out there, but I don't think that they are in the majority (granted that your neighbourhood has more than its share of miscreants). I choose to believe that the younger generation is rising to the occassion just like all others have in the past in recent history. We did it. They will too. In fact, they might just do a better job of it than we have.
Glad that GG1 is working out well for you, Ken Sorry I didn't pick-up what you were saying about the coupler.
cudakenBy the way, how do you raise the over head power pick up towers? I do know what they are called but no clue how to spell it?
If you gently rock and pull up with your fingers holding the pantograph where the two green arrows point it will spring upward.
GG1_Pan by Edmund, on Flickr
You really should keep them down as they WILL snag on something and make a mess!
Push the contact bar back down and latch it to a little round-head pin that sticks up where the blue arrow is.
Have FUN!
This is worth a look while you enjoy your morning beverage:
I hope everyone is well. Still no Brent? Does anyone know his contact info? Really not like him to be AWOL
Cheers, Ed
hon30critterYork1 On a whole different topic, I wonder if you long-time diner patrons remember a diner forum that was already on its fourth page on the second day of the month?
Way back then, IIRC the forum only allowed 20 entries per page; now it is 30.
Gary
Good morning
Looks like a rain day. I like those sometimes, it makes you feel like you have a good reason to be inside.
It's just Judy and me these days but we find plenty to do. Spring cleaning and organization of every thing in the house.
We also are taking care of the pack rat thing. We have thrown away four boxes of junk and three boxes of drop off donation stuff.
We've never played so many board games. We could'nt find Yahtzee but all one needs is five dice, we remember the rest. Cribbage and even the childish game of Sorry is still fun.
Judy has her rug latch hooking craft while I work on MR stuff, working on laying some track and building some bents for my first wooden bridge.
There is plenty of things to do then to be bored. We're taking advantage of this time. We don't get it to often. In fact I don't ever remember getting it before at all.
Make it a great day everyone
I was born in Florida. My parents were born in Florida. Two of my grandparents were born there. Florida was a very different place before air-conditioning, and it was certainly different than it is now. For one thing, it was rural.
Hog butchering took place in the fall, if Florida had such a thing as a fall season. It usually took place around Thanksgiving when the weather had finally cooled. Summers were far too brutal.
There's a story about a big city feller who came to Florida to broadcast the weather on television. He was what in those days we would have called a New Yorker, whether he was from New York or not. Anyhow the story goes, one day someone asked him if it was cold enough to kill hogs. He replied, "Probably not cold enough to kill them but it might make them a little sick."
Nostalgia.
Robert
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Good Morning All,
Happy Birthday Steven Otte. At 55 your just a pup here in the diner.
I'll have a to go and a blueberry donut please Zoe. 41F and rainy this morning. Got the Shred-it stuff done yesterday and some preassembly for another gearbox. It isn't much different sheltering in place at home or here at the shop as we don't deal with the public and there is tons of room between each of us. We all agreed it is probably a ton safer here than going for groceries.
Good Morning Robert. When I was stationed in Pensacola,we used to get glimpses of the "old Florida" when we wandered further east. A more relaxed life style I think though the locals didn't have much use for us foreigners - especially a genuine Connecticut Yankee.
Stuff to do so we'll see y'all later. Ciao, J.R.
GMTRacing Good Morning Robert. When I was stationed in Pensacola,we used to get glimpses of the "old Florida" when we wandered further east. A more relaxed life style I think though the locals didn't have much use for us foreigners - especially a genuine Connecticut Yankee.
Hey J.R. -
Yeah. There were Yankees and there were Dayum Yankees. Yankees were those loud-mouth people who came down, stayed two weeks, spent a lot of money, and then went home. Dayum Yankees didn't go home.
There are native floridians? Everytime I am there seems like the whole state is full of refugees from the Northeast!
Joe Staten Island West