Going for the "Major League" movie connection!
Same me, different spelling!
pennytrainsDon't look at me, I'm just a kid from Cleveland!
From Cleveland and you are overlooking Herb Score?
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
Don't look at me, I'm just a kid from Cleveland!
I'm not knocking Bob, but Scooter was the poet!
http://brothersjudd.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/reviews.detail/book_id/122
And that retires the side.
Juuuust a bit outside!
https://quotesgram.com/bob-uecker-major-league-quotes/
pennytrainsA spicy baseball announcer who's really good at poker?
Oh man, HOW could I forget Bob Uecker?
Can I hijack a thread or what?
Overmod As someone who has always loved refrigerator pickle (which is really just white vinegar, salt, pepper, and a lot of strategically-applied cold for ingredients),
I can empathise, I'm a pickle junkie myself!
Vlasic, Mount Olive, Boar's Head, B&G, you name it. Even the late, lamented Manhattan Brand pickles.
Some days a pickle is the only green vegetable I eat!
A spicy baseball announcer who's really good at poker?
https://www.google.com/search?q=bob+uecker&client=ms-android-att-us-revc&source=android-browser&prmd=nvi&sxsrf=ALiCzsbwm4z18ZdjTWkGd-HgO0mk40rqmQ:1651961652609&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjczPHbtM73AhUUomoFHdooBHwQ_AUoA3oECAIQAw&biw=412&bih=668&dpr=1.75#imgrc=t9KHYBkeVXB93M
I am pretty sure that 'euchred' is a phonetic spelling of a cooking technique from Alsace-Lorraine or another 'not-quite-German' immigrant community -- the original perhaps being 'juker' or 'jucker' in contemporary English spelling.
'Euchre' does have the semantic connotation of cheating someone by being seemingly sweet or charming; the phrase 'sweet-talking' might be related.
Since we did Lobster Newburg, dirty water dogs, and the alloy formulation for High Dynamic steel, perhaps we can recreate the spices and techniques for euchring fruits or vegetables. As someone who has always loved refrigerator pickle (which is really just white vinegar, salt, pepper, and a lot of strategically-applied cold for ingredients), I have to wonder what the technique might produce with the right admixture of spices and perhaps alcohol...
OvermodEuchred figs? Did somebody say euchred figs?
Great stuff you uncovered Mod-man! Wanswheel would be proud of you!
A master's thesis on date pasteurization? Imagine that. Well, as long as it got him his MS good for him!
I wonder if he managed to work it up to a doctoral dissertation?
pennytrains So....nothing to do with baseball or playing cards then?
So....nothing to do with baseball or playing cards then?
Nope. Part of my research was calling up people who were old enough to possibly remember the product. Mom and Dad never heard of euchered figs, but Dad knew about the baseball term and the card game. Lady Firestorm's Mom never heard of the things at all. I even asked some old-timers at train shows selling model billboard cars and they never heard of them either! None of the veteran members of the train club knew. Talk about an obsolete term!
Overmod Euchred figs? Did somebody say euchred figs? http://www.adclassix.com/images02heinz.jpg Apparently the etymology says to preserve something by enhancing its acidity, but Heinz did it with sugar syrup and spices. (I am still checking on how much ethyl alcohol was involved. Also this: https://dygtyjqp7pi0m.cloudfront.net/i/4760/6892746_1.jpg?v=8C95FB7F4D837D0 Pasteurized dates: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2532&context=theses
Euchred figs? Did somebody say euchred figs?
http://www.adclassix.com/images02heinz.jpg
Apparently the etymology says to preserve something by enhancing its acidity, but Heinz did it with sugar syrup and spices. (I am still checking on how much ethyl alcohol was involved.
Also this:
https://dygtyjqp7pi0m.cloudfront.net/i/4760/6892746_1.jpg?v=8C95FB7F4D837D0
Pasteurized dates:
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2532&context=theses
That was interesting about Pasteurised Figs...
I had envisaged something like boiling them in water, but that would remove the "dried" status. Hot humid air must work, I guess.
Someone borrowed the thesis in 1992...
Peter
54light15 So, what did you find out about euchered figs?
So, what did you find out about euchered figs?
I KNEW somebody would ask!
Long story short, it's a Midwestern thing, figs reduced to a compote. After buying a book on the history of billboard reefer cars and seeing a photo of the real thing I e-mailed the author, who very graciously responded and told me the story. Apparantly no-one else in the country used the term "euchering" for compoting.
The name of the book by the way is "Billboard Refrigerator Cars," published by Signature Press. A complete and fascinating history of those cars and worth having if you're interested in that part of railroad history.
M636CLooking at the camel's speech bubble, how do you pasteurise dates?
I have no idea!
Hey, several years ago I bought a K-Line O Gauge Heinz reefer car that said "Pickles, Onions, Euchered Figs" on the side. It took me almost a year to find out what a euchered fig was!
Overmod By special permission of the DAR! But did they serve it on George Washington's railroad?
By special permission of the DAR!
But did they serve it on George Washington's railroad?
Here's the DAR story:
https://livesandlegaciesblog.org/2015/10/28/kenmores-famed-gingerbread
Did they serve it on George Washington's railroad? They SHOULD have!
By the way, I like the artist's rendition of General Washington in the ad. How often do you see a picture of the general smiling? He WAS human after all!
Looking at the camel's speech bubble, how do you pasteurise dates?
Dromedaries? Did someone say dromedaries?
https://i.redd.it/pffmigs8gxo61.jpg
Sounds better than "a herd of dromidaries" (sp?)
Would a roundhouse full of those things be called a "pack of Camels?"
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Overmod That is not a Winans Camel. Here is a discussion of those locomotives. What you have there is a 4-6-0, probably one of the engines that so incensed Winans 'back in the day'. While you have that daguerrotype at hand, this might be of interest...
That is not a Winans Camel. Here is a discussion of those locomotives.
What you have there is a 4-6-0, probably one of the engines that so incensed Winans 'back in the day'. While you have that daguerrotype at hand, this might be of interest...
I hadn't looked at the Camelback 4-6-0 end on before. It looks very tall and narrow. It was good that they had a diesel with a "hump", a B&O GP30 to do the switching. The GP30 "hump" covered a very tall electrical cabinet. By the time they designed the GP35, they had made the electrical cabinet more compact. EMD even mentioned this in their early publicity.
Those old glass-plate cameras and even the daguerreotype cameras were a lot better than people today give them credit for. In fact, if the photographs are reproduced correctly it's amazing just how good they are.
Beautiful clear picture - amazing what they could do with glass plates
Look like the engine is just out of the shops while the tender has had years of abuse
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