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Can someone explain why Potato Chips are so expensive? How would another winter freeze affect the price of beer

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Posted by switch7frg on Saturday, November 1, 2014 3:59 PM

Beer  I have an  oid old bottle cap  opener from Griesedieck Bros.brewery in St. Louis , a light lager. The brewery shipped a lot by train.  In the Ault Haus in Ohio the thing to do for fun was to  slip the water soaked lable off the bottle by hand and flip it to the celing.  The celing got well covered over time. Funny how some things never get forgotten.

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Posted by Victrola1 on Friday, October 31, 2014 3:16 PM

Do you want a lid on your coffee? 

Red solo cups of suds on Amtrak on bad track are a bad idea. While beer does burn like hot coffee, arriving at your destination smelling like a frat house is not desirible. 

The gyroscopic bar car may make draft beer is solo cups socially acceptable. 

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Posted by 54light15 on Friday, October 31, 2014 2:43 PM

I recently had Guinness flavoured potato chips. Really! They were pretty good. I just can't figure out what beer to have with them.

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Posted by railtrail on Thursday, October 30, 2014 6:59 PM

Beer Flavored Potato Chips!

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Posted by railtrail on Thursday, October 30, 2014 6:55 PM

The fact that some products cost more then the package bothers me. I do have the option of refilling my growlers of beer and have considered installing my own keg system. I think that Amtraks Snack car would go to Red Solo Cups and a draft system that might be better,

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Posted by Victrola1 on Tuesday, October 28, 2014 12:28 PM

Cornbelt beer is no longer an option. Sorry. Hope springs eternal. 

http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/clinton-iowa-wood-beer-case-corn-belt-beer

There has been no early frost in the tall potato state. The solution to the potato chip crises is a superior substitute in good supply. 

Popcorn!

Product density is not a great freight rate issue. Popcorn comes condensed. It transports in bulk for bagging. If a hopper car is lost for a few weeks crossing Chicago, spoilage is not as crucial as chips.

Pour the kernels into a pan of heated to liquid lard and popcorn expands light and fluffy. Apply salt and melted butter to taste.  

With what one saves with popcorn versus chips, nothing foul must you sip. Budweiser be banished. Make way for Michelob.  

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Posted by Overmod on Tuesday, October 28, 2014 11:47 AM

tree68
There was an episode on one of those food shows a while back concerning a burger place that does exactly that, and apparently hasn't changed said grease in years. They just keep adding as needed...

Unless I am mistaken, that would have been Dyer's (here in Memphis).  Just google "Memphis burger grease" and look what pops up...

 

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Posted by tree68 on Tuesday, October 28, 2014 9:56 AM

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On the other hand, one of the best ways to cook hamburgers is to immerse them in very hot grease.  Flash-cooks them with most of the juice sealed inside, and most of the grease just drains off when you take the burgers out ...

There was an episode on one of those food shows a while back concerning a burger place that does exactly that, and apparently hasn't changed said grease in years.  They just keep adding as needed...

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Posted by Murphy Siding on Monday, October 27, 2014 10:46 PM

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An oldtimer once explained to me that if you wanted really flaky pie crusts, you need to use lard.

 

But that's lard in the pie-crust DOUGH, not what you prepare the crust in.

On the other hand, one of the best ways to cook hamburgers is to immerse them in very hot grease.  Flash-cooks them with most of the juice sealed inside, and most of the grease just drains off when you take the burgers out ...

 

Lard is the glue that holds a good, flaky pie crust together.

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Posted by Overmod on Saturday, October 25, 2014 8:36 PM

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An oldtimer once explained to me that if you wanted really flaky pie crusts, you need to use lard.

But that's lard in the pie-crust DOUGH, not what you prepare the crust in.

On the other hand, one of the best ways to cook hamburgers is to immerse them in very hot grease.  Flash-cooks them with most of the juice sealed inside, and most of the grease just drains off when you take the burgers out ...

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Posted by CSSHEGEWISCH on Friday, October 24, 2014 7:19 AM

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I'm disappointed, nobody has an opener for Atlas Prager Beer. 

 

 

 
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Posted by schlimm on Thursday, October 23, 2014 10:12 PM

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Real potato chips are fried in lard.

 Real food is fried in lard Thumbs UpThumbs Up 

 

 

When I was looking around for recipes for "railroad French toast," several of the recipes called for lard for frying it.

 

An oldtimer once explained to me that if you wanted really flaky pie crusts, you need to use lard.  I think the same would be true of french toast.   The traditional English diner-ype breakfast included fried bread.

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Posted by tree68 on Thursday, October 23, 2014 10:03 PM

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zugmann

Real potato chips are fried in lard.

 Real food is fried in lard Thumbs UpThumbs Up 

When I was looking around for recipes for "railroad French toast," several of the recipes called for lard for frying it.

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Posted by Lake on Thursday, October 23, 2014 9:14 PM

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15% of the people drink 85% of the beer.

I don't know about potato chips.

I believe that it is; Around 20% of the people that drink 80% of the potato chipsDinner

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Posted by Rader Sidetrack on Thursday, October 23, 2014 8:29 PM

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I'm disappointed, nobody has an opener for Atlas Prager Beer. 

 

 
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Posted by 54light15 on Thursday, October 23, 2014 7:31 PM

If it ain't fried, it ain't food!

 

Barley is malted in North America, but it seems the majority of malting is done in Germany, the Czech republic and Britain. I've been in smaller operations around Guelph, Ontario but they weren't large enough to supply any of the major breweries. Barley is grown here, malted there, shipped back and turned into beer here. And remember, what's good for Milo Minderbinder is good for America and everyone has a share!

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Posted by Geared Steam on Thursday, October 23, 2014 7:14 PM

zugmann

Real potato chips are fried in lard. 

Real food is fried in lard Thumbs UpThumbs Up

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Posted by schlimm on Thursday, October 23, 2014 6:37 PM

CSSHEGEWISCH

I'm disappointed, nobody has an opener for Atlas Prager Beer.  Dad used to keep one in the silverware drawer in the kitchen.

 

 
"Atlas Prager get it.
 Atlas Prager got it!"
 
With a slogan like that, no wonder they went out of business.

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Posted by BaltACD on Thursday, October 23, 2014 6:14 PM

railtrail

 "How do they get the chips into the aluminum cans?  It seems like the opening in the top of the can would be too small for chips of any decent size."

Beer Can Potato Chips I think U are on to something.

 

They call them 'Pringles'.

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Posted by railtrail on Thursday, October 23, 2014 6:08 PM

FX Matt in Utica makes Saranac and Utica Club and gets grain via SUZYQ

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Posted by railtrail on Thursday, October 23, 2014 6:07 PM

We cant malt grain here?

A large proportion of barley used for beer production is malted at the Weyermann plant in Bamberg, Germany

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Posted by railtrail on Thursday, October 23, 2014 6:04 PM

 "How do they get the chips into the aluminum cans?  It seems like the opening in the top of the can would be too small for chips of any decent size."

Beer Can Potato Chips I think U are on to something.

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Posted by Norm48327 on Thursday, October 23, 2014 4:43 PM

Moose Drool = great beer.

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Posted by 54light15 on Thursday, October 23, 2014 3:18 PM

You like Black & Tan from Yuengling's? You are a gentleman of good taste! I'm not familiar with Black Douglas and Broughton, they sound English. Are they? As an aside, this weekend is Cask Days in Toronto- look it up on your googler. There'll be real ale from Britain and California and I sure could use some Sierra Nevada Torpedo on cask and that's a fact! 

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Posted by Wizlish on Thursday, October 23, 2014 2:40 PM

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A really great inexpensive beer? Yuengling's!

If I may make a suggestion -- their Black & Tans are ambrosia!  Almost as good as the New Amsterdam Black & Tans, which are right at the top of the list for me.

I'll also put in a plug here for Black Douglas, the official steam technologists' drink.  (Broughton also does IPA, and probably does it quite well...)

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Posted by 54light15 on Thursday, October 23, 2014 2:19 PM

Ballantines' IPA is coming back? That to me was one of the benchmarks of the American IPA style and for the price, you couldn't beat it! Sure, there's better beer around these days, but I sure have fond memories of it. A really great inexpensive beer? Yuengling's! Not that I want to turn a train column into one about beer but beer and trains go together like beer and hell, anything! 

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Posted by Wizlish on Thursday, October 23, 2014 8:50 AM

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I sure miss Ballantine's India Pale Ale, though.

You do know that in August they brought it back, trying to re-create the original formula.

I honestly don't know whether this was a New Coke sort of situation.  I had only peripheral exposure to 'true' Ballantine before they changed the formula, and if memory serves it was kind of like the Laphroaig of brews -- 'it takes a verra determined laddie to get that stoof doon' ...

The 'revised standard version' has been available all these years (if you don't mind that its brewing has been outsourced to Miller 'and it shows' ... ;-} )

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Posted by CSSHEGEWISCH on Thursday, October 23, 2014 7:23 AM

I'm disappointed, nobody has an opener for Atlas Prager Beer.  Dad used to keep one in the silverware drawer in the kitchen.

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Posted by greyhounds on Wednesday, October 22, 2014 11:57 PM

15% of the people drink 85% of the beer.

I don't know about potato chips.

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