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Category Archives: Food
Mind Your Peas
Have a bad year and are wishing for better luck next year? Try eating some black-eyed peas. Black-eyed peas on New Year’s Day are a southern tradition. There seems to be little agreement on how this custom began, though, or … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Holidays, Humor, Southern Humor
Tagged Black-eyed Peas, Comfort Food, Cowpeas, Good Luck, Happy New Year, Lucky Foods, New Year's, Soul Food, Southern traditions, Superstition, Traditional foods
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The Fried Turkey Tale
Dear Mom, I hope you and dad are having a Happy Thanksgiving. This year we decided to do something a bit different and fry our turkey whole. I am in a newsgroup on the Internet that could not say enough … Continue reading
Plan Ahead for a Smooth Turkey Day
I saw an article somewhere with a lot of suggestions about how to plan ahead for Thanksgiving to make things go smoothly . It seemed like a great idea, but the following is about how my planning ahead usually goes. … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Food, Holidays, Humor
Tagged Celebrate, cooking, Dinner, Planning, Preparation, Sweet potato casserole, Thanksgiving, Traditions, Turkey
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Turkeys Unite!
Turkeys unite! It’s time to panic! They are killing us by the millions. We must run while there is still time! Look around you – do you see any turkeys that you knew a year ago? They are breeding us … Continue reading
Posted in Creatures, Food, Humor
Tagged Breeding of turkeys, Domestic birds, Food, Fowl, Low fat, Meat, Meat consumption, Meat packing industry, Poultry, Thanksgiving, Turkey Products, Turkeys
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Jimbo’s Famous Baked Potato
Jimbo’s is a place like no other. They sell baked potatoes. Well, actually, they sell “fixings,” the baked potato is almost incidental. Jimbo’s is really a hot dog joint. It seems as if it should be named “Jumbo’s,” but it … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Humor
Tagged Baked Potato, Fixings, Food to go, Loaded potato, Mom & Pop Shop, Ordering food, Potato, Small businesses, Special order, Spud
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Who Burned the Popcorn?
With the advent of modern technology, a new convenience has come to the office along with computers, printers, copiers, and fax machines. This new convenience is the office microwave. Most offices have one hidden someplace where employees can sneak in … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Humor, Work Humor
Tagged Aroma, Bad smells, Burned Food, Burned Popcorn, Burnt Popcorn, Microwave, Odor, Office, Popcorn, Smoke, Stench, Stink
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We All Scream for Ice Cream
A local dairy company has come up with some wonderful flavors of ice cream. I just finished a bowl of Banana Pudding flavor. Yes, it did taste like banana pudding, and I love banana pudding. It is ice cream, crunched … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Humor
Tagged banana pudding, chocolate, Dreamcicles, ice cream, ice cream flavors, Moose Tracks, Turtle Tracks
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The Farmers’ Market
What is it about an outdoor produce market that makes everything seem so much fresher and better than when brought from the clean, air-conditioned, misted produce counters of the super market? Perhaps it is the variety and the large quantities, or perhaps … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Plants/Gardening, Shopping
Tagged farmers' market, Food, food vendors, fresh produce, fruits, market, produce, simple life, Strawberries, supermarkets, tomatoes, Vegetables
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