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Hi,

OldGrunt said:
Where I grew up, there used to be a WWII veteran who had been a POW of the Japanese. In an interview of his experiences as a POW in the hometown local newspaper, he said one thing he will never eat again was rice. That, and bugs they caught were about all they had to eat.
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My experience wasn't nearly as horrowing, but I can understand a little. When I was a kid (circa 1967) we went through a spell of "food insecurity". We always grew big vegetable gardens, which helped. One day a black sharecropper who went to our church asked my Dad to borrow his kids to help dig his potato crop. There were four of us and two or three sharecropper kids. For three days we ran around behind his mule and plow as he turned the ground and dug the potatoes. We kids had a blast digging in the dirt and filling bushel baskets. At the time I did not realize we were digging sweet potatoes.

The farmer was so grateful that for months after he would drop off a bushel every couple of weeks. We never starved and Mom learned how to cook sweet potatoes every which way. We had sweet potatoes every meal, sweet potato pancakes for breakfast, mashed sweet potatoes for lunch, baked sweet potatoes for supper, sweet potato pie for desert.

After "the year of the sweet potato" I could not stomach any more. I did not eat any sweet potato for fifty years. Even to this day, I might have a spoonful of sweet potatoes with our traditional Thanksgiving meal, just to pay homage to that old sharecropper. The Lord provides. Even a black sharecropper can be an angel.

Thank you for your indulgence,

BassCliff
 
Retired Bum said:
You live in New Mexico, in Alamogordo, and you've never had Spanish rice?
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i had a relative that came over from Italy..he got drafted into the Army....in WWI.....in 1918

he was state side, they did not send many (if any) immigrants back overseas...

he was put into the kitchen and one of his many duties there was peeling potatoes....

when he was discharged, he and his wife became automatic US Citizens, since he served his "new country"

also, from that day on...??

he NEVER ate potatoes.....
 
My folks worked at a mission on the wrong side of the tracks here in Tucson and one summer, a Tyson chicken truck was wrecked on I-10. A full truck. Frozen chicken. Fully loaded with the frozen chicken. We got it. Every day, for lunch and supper, I had chicken and whatever, twice a day. I don't care how you cook it, but now I hate chicken.
 
papa said:
I buy Kroger's brand red beans and rice and cut up polish sausage and cook with it. Makes a good and quick meal.
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yes, rice can be quite filling...as a diabetic, i do have to watch the "starchy" foods.....

i prefer white rice, which is really not good for me, over brown rice.

the wife makes "rice croquet's" with left over rice, which once she makes those, i devour them as fast as her super fudgy brownies.....diabetes be dammned

nobody better eat my brownies or croquet's..............!!!!!!
 
Out of the blue, my son has just informed me that he has enlisted in the US Navy! Once my heart rate returned to a safe level, he gave me the details. Even though he has a Master's Degree, he is not going the officer route. He told me officer candidates are not given a choice of career fields. It is at the will of the Navy. My son scored incredibly high on the ASVAB test, and also on the DLAB ( testing for language abilities). Apparently after he completes Navy Boot Camp, he will be sent to Monterey CA linguist school for learning a foreign language. Depending on the language, that could take up to a year. And then after that, it's to San Angelo TX for Cryptologic Technician Interpretive school, about 6 more months. And then who knows where next. I think he realized his student loan debt was just to much to live with. He qualifies to get all that forgiven. All this after he just moved to Pittsburgh for his federal job! I told him to leave there on a good note, so he could always return to it once his enlistment is done, if he just doesn't go ahead and make it a career. There went the last hairs of my original blond head. It's all grey now!
 
BassCliff said:
Hi,

After my gig today I came home and got a little yard work done. Mrs. BassCliff bought this push type leaf sweeper.

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I was surprised. It doesn't do a bad job, getting most of the leaves, and it's quicker than raking.

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The leaves have just started falling. I wonder how this sweeper will do once the big oak really takes a dump.

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Fall is nice, except for all the leaves. :p


Thank you for your indulgence,

BassCliff
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