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Posted by mudchicken on Thursday, May 13, 2004 11:06 PM
55 Gallon Drum of Diet Coke (Vanilla, Plain, Lemon or Lime - I don't care) please....I-V Drip! Keeps those veins well carbonated....

Our Guy Kozz:...You had it right on Jelly & Jam, the metaphors just get discombobulated up here in the northern hemisphere ....local wierdism?, something to do with that darned peanut butter?

Ed: Do those "reduced fat" ribs equate to less messy somehow?

Maybe a gyro and onion rings for lunch (How I miss Skyline, Gold Star, Uncle Steves or anyplace else that serves Greek Chili - 5 Way and a cheese coney, please!!!!!) And it is almost impossible to find Vernors out here too! (Carl, CW & Loco, JoeKoh and maybe Nora are so lucky...Matt will just have to wait on the Vernors....Kozzie, the only way to explain this is "local vittles" - somehow I don't think this stuff would travel well in the mails)

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Posted by edblysard on Thursday, May 13, 2004 10:54 PM
Kozzie,
You got it, jam is fruit perserve(fruit conserve).
Jelly is, (besides just gross) jellied fruit juice concentrates, mixed with keritian(sp?) gelatin, a thickening agent.

In my opinion, jelly is just this side of dog snot, not worth wasting a biscut on, for that matter, not even a slice of toast.

Jam is also know as fruit perserves down south.


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Posted by krump on Thursday, May 13, 2004 10:33 PM
whew!, been a long week already, lots of driving, busy with court and arrests, and tons of subsequent paperwork, meeting with the model r/r club, and bible study. Tonight is family night here and we're enjoying that. In all the busyness of the day, I unfortunately missed the Hudson 2816 Steam Engine as it rolled through town. (saw it last week though)
Extra large mocha to go with a cinnamon bun please...

tip of the day: for better pictures, remove lens cap

thanks for the coffee time.

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Posted by Kozzie on Thursday, May 13, 2004 7:47 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by espeefoamer

Favorite drinks:Raspberry ice tea,lemonade,Sierra Mist,root beer.
I'll have Belgian waffles,crisp bacon,scrambled eggs.
I love peanut butter,and think Reeses Peanut Butter Cups are great![:)]
Apricot pinapple jam on the toast,please.


Help help crew! [:0]
Now I'm really confused. [:(]

I thought what we "down under' called jam (fruit conserve), you lot called jelly? And what we called jelly, you lot called jello.... Have I got that wrong, or maybe not all areas of the States say jelly for jam???[;)] [:)]
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Posted by edblysard on Thursday, May 13, 2004 6:28 PM
All that hard work Juan Valdez and all the other Colmbians do, and all that coffee those poor old donkeys carry down from the mountain tops, and you guys pollute it with sugar and cream?

Thats like "reduced fat" barbeque ribs....sorta one of those "why would you want too?" things.

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Posted by JoeKoh on Thursday, May 13, 2004 5:59 PM
ive had pb&J pizza but chocolate?ahhh no thanks.Nothing wrong with peanut butter cups.where are the fries Mookie? Matts getting antsy.
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Posted by Willy2 on Thursday, May 13, 2004 3:55 PM
I'll have chocolate ice cream with chocolate cake while I ask this question for Mookie.
So Mookie - you always say how much you love chocolate cake. What about something like chocolate chunk brownies or something like that? You have to like chocolate brownies don't you?!

What about chocolate pizza? Something like melted chocolate for the sauce and then some chocolate cheese and chocolate Canadian bacon (I did Canadian Bacon for you Kevin since you're from Canada!). All chocolate pizza, sounds good to me!

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Posted by espeefoamer on Thursday, May 13, 2004 1:21 PM
Favorite drinks:Raspberry ice tea,lemonade,Sierra Mist,root beer.
I'll have Belgian waffles,crisp bacon,scrambled eggs.
I love peanut butter,and think Reeses Peanut Butter Cups are great![:)]
Apricot pinapple jam on the toast,please.
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Posted by locomutt on Thursday, May 13, 2004 12:44 PM
Okay,
My drink of choice:
water,iced tea,hot tea,coffee,beer.
Not necessarily in that order.

I don't do soft drinks very often,but my favorites would be;
Serria Mist, Mountain Dew,Sprite

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Posted by Mookie on Thursday, May 13, 2004 12:21 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by CShaveRR

We could set aside a table for those wishing to play Mexican Train. That's a popular pastime at our family reunions each year. Perhaps surprisingly, I don't participate. The dominoes don't have to go as high as 15, but I suspect that it's a case of the higher, the better.

(I suspect the management frowns on bringing pizza from the "outside" in here.)

No coffee here, thanks!

Just heard on the news that drinking a can of sugared soft drink is like eating four Peanut Butter Cups (which I also can't stand). I'm a heavy drinker of soft drinks, so cutting back by the equivalent of dozens of those things is probably significant. Which is why you'll see this fairly big guy ordering diet sodas with his burgers (and a super-sized drink is anywhere from two to three twelve-ounce cans).
Well score another one for family traits - PB cups - ugh! I don't want my chocolate mixed up with no darn peanut butter!

But being a true desert animal (cat) I don't drink much of anything - mostly milk, no water, small bits of coffee and diet pop. Driver drinks lots of water - ugh....I know what fish do in water, so no thanks. [xx(]

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Posted by locomutt on Thursday, May 13, 2004 11:53 AM
Carl,
You and C.W. would get along just fine;SHE Loves peanut butter!

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Posted by locomutt on Thursday, May 13, 2004 11:52 AM
Along with the black coffee,I'd like to order
"Home Fries,Bacon,Scrambled eggs,Wheat toast"
Don't forget the jelly,Grape ,if you have it!

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Posted by CShaveRR on Thursday, May 13, 2004 11:37 AM
We could set aside a table for those wishing to play Mexican Train. That's a popular pastime at our family reunions each year. Perhaps surprisingly, I don't participate. The dominoes don't have to go as high as 15, but I suspect that it's a case of the higher, the better.

(I suspect the management frowns on bringing pizza from the "outside" in here.)

No coffee here, thanks!

Just heard on the news that drinking a can of sugared soft drink is like eating four Peanut Butter Cups (which I also can't stand). I'm a heavy drinker of soft drinks, so cutting back by the equivalent of dozens of those things is probably significant. Which is why you'll see this fairly big guy ordering diet sodas with his burgers (and a super-sized drink is anywhere from two to three twelve-ounce cans).

Carl

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Posted by dharmon on Thursday, May 13, 2004 10:46 AM
Okay...nother 3.5 miles on the body's odometer. Coffee please, black. And a GREAT BIG water. What's the breakfast special today?

Orange Blossom special ......I'll take that.
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Posted by locomutt on Thursday, May 13, 2004 10:28 AM
Coffee please,

No Ma'am,please just black.[:)]

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, May 13, 2004 8:02 AM
Lard is number 1 when it coms to weight watchers...

I checked it up!

oh.. I was holding the lsit upside down.
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Posted by Mookie on Thursday, May 13, 2004 7:55 AM
Nora and Kevin - yuck! Probably not exactly a weight watchers item!

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Posted by Mookie on Thursday, May 13, 2004 7:54 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by cherokee woman

When I first started drinking coffee (around age 4), Mama would put sugar & milk in it for me. I grew up on a farm, so we also had the cream, but the only way I EVER liked cream was ICE CREAM. Hey, anybody ready for homemade ice cream: real thing, not
store-bought?
Men can eat all they want of it, but we ladies must apply it directly to our hips! It ain't fair!

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, May 13, 2004 7:50 AM
Like eating Lard...
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Posted by Nora on Thursday, May 13, 2004 7:42 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie

And for the English - what is clotted cream? It sounds not so edible, but hear it is good in things. Any comments?



I hear that too (my husband likes it) but I wouldn't know because I could never get past the name. "Not so edible" is pretty much how it sounded to me. [:)] It is exactly what it says...very thick, clotted cream, almost solid, kind of paste-like in texture.
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Posted by cherokee woman on Thursday, May 13, 2004 7:20 AM
When I first started drinking coffee (around age 4), Mama would put sugar & milk in it for me. I grew up on a farm, so we also had the cream, but the only way I EVER liked cream was ICE CREAM. Hey, anybody ready for homemade ice cream: real thing, not
store-bought?
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, May 13, 2004 7:10 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by macguy

QUOTE: Originally posted by Kozzie

Hey Willy, sorry for the delay in gettign back, but thanks for the info on LOL and all the other acronyms.

While we are talking about "diet" type drinks, I'm always amused by the people that grab a bottle of Diet Coke, but then proceed to order hot chips. Hmmm...on a diet??[%-)]


Is it just my imagination or does something seem strange when you see those 350lb people sitting in a resturant drinking a diet coke....

You're gonna have to do a little more than just switching to diet pop folks.


as a cartoon character would say:

"ain't it the truth?"

Very good observation Macguy.
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Posted by Mookie on Thursday, May 13, 2004 6:27 AM
Jim - you will get better response if you talk about food. You can't eat dominos - unless it's PIZZA! See we are back to food again!

Anyone from back east (US) want to comment on the way they, at least used to, serve coffee. It came with cream automatically? (this was in the 60's) And for the English - what is clotted cream? It sounds not so edible, but hear it is good in things. Any comments?

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, May 13, 2004 1:41 AM
Now who started all this talk about diet drinks and coffee, cream and sugar, < Jim snickers >. [8D] [;)] [:D]

Hey here is a good one. Some years ago some people taught me to play a domino game called "Mexican Train". You use a double set of dominoes with 15 (I think) being the largest number. Have any of you played this game? I thought it was fun. It is a good game for all ages. [:)] [:p] [:D]
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Posted by Kozzie on Wednesday, May 12, 2004 8:02 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by jeaton

Kozzie
We sometimes use "heavy cream"-36% milk fat- or maybe more often "Half and Half"-18% I think- also some non-dairy creamers are popular, soy based I think. Whole milk is sold with 4% milk fat, Milk is also sold at 2%, 1%, and non-fat, the last be just about slightly whiter than water. Common comment with an offer of coffee-"I don't have cream, is Milk OK?

A lot of Wisconsin produced milk is made into those stupid hats worn by Packer Fans, (Green Bay's NFL football team-you are excused if you didn't know that). No, I just checked and I'm wrong-they are foam rubber.

Jay


Hey Jay [:)] Thanks for that. [:)][;)][;)]

So it's basically been an American tradition to use cream in coffee rather than milk, but milk is starting to become popular.

If we wanted cream in our coffee here down under , we would ask for a Vienna Coffee, and they skilfully pour the cream so that it sits on top. If one stirs it in, it's still quite a dark color.

We have a range of milk here too. Sounds very similar to the range you have in the States, and they have so-called catchy names like Shape, Trim, etc etc...

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Posted by M636C on Wednesday, May 12, 2004 6:52 PM
Jay,

I sometimes drop by Exeter in Devon, England to talk to Andrew Burnham, editor of Continental Modeller magazine (now distributed by Kalmbach). Once for afternoon tea, I was offered a choice of creams to have with scones and jam. It varied from a strange, cream coloured, solid block of milk fat to something that would pour with difficulty. This is a feature, apparently of "Devonshire Tea". It all tasted really good and unbelievable smooth, but you wouldn't want to live on it!

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Posted by jeaton on Wednesday, May 12, 2004 6:08 PM
Kozzie
We sometimes use "heavy cream"-36% milk fat- or maybe more often "Half and Half"-18% I think- also some non-dairy creamers are popular, soy based I think. Whole milk is sold with 4% milk fat, Milk is also sold at 2%, 1%, and non-fat, the last be just about slightly whiter than water. Common comment with an offer of coffee-"I don't have cream, is Milk OK?

A lot of Wisconsin produced milk is made into those stupid hats worn by Packer Fans, (Green Bay's NFL football team-you are excused if you didn't know that). No, I just checked and I'm wrong-they are foam rubber.

Jay

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Posted by UPTRAIN on Wednesday, May 12, 2004 5:20 PM
Nothing diet will pass through MY mouth unless I'm being force-fed!!!! LOL...just my thinking!!! I'll shut up now...[:D]

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Posted by Kozzie on Wednesday, May 12, 2004 5:08 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie

QUOTE: Originally posted by jhhtrainsplanes

OK, people [:p]

I drink diet drinks because I actually like them, except Diet Pepsi. I was on a diet years ago and could drink coffee or tea without sugar and all the diet drinks I wanted. Once you actually get used to a diet soda you just can't go back and drink a "regular" one. If you are use to a diet soda a real soda is like drinking a bottle of pancake syrup. I can drink tea with or without sugar, but with is much better. Now coffee is a different story. Black, no sugar, no cream. Just the way God intended it to be consumed. [;)]

Well I worked another 10 hour shift so I am going to walk the dog and take my nap soon. Yall have a good day. [:)]
I agree with Jim - I drink diet vanilla Coke, eat no sugar on my cereal and drink my coffee black. If you get away from sugar for awhile - you can't go back. It is like skim vs whole milk. We have way too much sugar and salt in our food today - and if you get away from both - you would be surprised at how horrible it tastes when it is oversugared/oversalted. Mookie likes to eat too well to diet, but don't use sugar or salt for those reasons. Plus her teef hurt if she gets too much sugar - except chocolate cake.

[:I]


Hey Mookie, good to see chocolate cake is an exception! Very hard to beat [:p][:p]

Maybe with a some vailla ise cream?[:D]

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Posted by Kozzie on Wednesday, May 12, 2004 5:05 PM
Here's a question from downunder that's had me curious for a loooong time, but never had the chance to ask.

now we have the depot diner so I can ask you up over lot heh heh...

We add milk to our coffee here "down under", but the "up over" folk seem to usually refer to "cream"? Cream for us is what's separated from the milk.

So when you say coffee and "cream" up over, does that mean milk?

Cheers
Dave

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