Subj : Re: Cooking To : Sean Dennis From : Daryl Stout Date : Sat Jan 30 2021 02:21:00 Sean, SD> Years ago when I lived in Carbondale, Illinois, (around the early SD> 2000s), I worked at a local McDonald's and one of my co-workers that I SD> got along with well was this tall, lanky black guy named ... oh, I just SD> had his name in my head and I forgot it already ... well, we'd joke a SD> lot. One cold December morning during breakfast, Jon (hah, SD> remembered!) had to go into the freezer to grab a box of sausage SD> patties. He came out, set the box on the assembly line for me to put SD> into my freezer next to me, and shivered. He said, "Man, that ain't no SD> place for a brother to be." We all laughed hard. I'll bet. There was this one black girl there that always referred to me as "the little virgin boy". Another lady I square danced with always told me "if you don't use it, it'll fall off". I've got news for her (yeah, I know...TMI ). But, it reminds me of the joke with the little boy and little girl in this small country town many years ago, when life was slower and simpler, and not so rushed...never mind you didn't have to worry about hurting someone else's feelings...let alone the pedophiles or perverts preying on young kids. The boy was Protestant and the girl was Catholic...and their churches were next to each other. They were good friends, and one Sunday, they were in their "Sunday duds", walking to church. During the respective church services, it came one heck of a thunderstorm. Afterwards, there is standing water practically everywhere. As they're walking home, they realize if they get their clothes dirty, they both will get the spanking of their lives. Panicked, the girl asks her friend what they can do. He thinks a minute, and says "I'll do like Sir Walter Raleigh. Let's strip butt naked, and I'll take our clothes across to where they don't get wet or muddy, then I'll carry you across". The girl thought that was a great idea. So, they strip butt naked, and as a pure gentleman, he carries the clothes, then her across to dry land, as it were. As they're standing there, looking at each others nude body, the girl says "I didn't know there was such a difference between Protestants and Catholics!!" There was another meme, showing the back sides of this little boy and girl...both naked, with their butt cheeks in all their glory (we're all the same from the back side). He is standing on top of her head, and he asks "OK, we took off all our clothes, and I got on top of you. When is it supposed to feel good??". She replies "I don't know...but, I've already got a headache". SD> Jon, myself, and others would get in trouble for making, uhm, SD> inappropriate jokes about many things back there on the grill. It was SD> a good time and we all had a good time doing a crappy job. If you're doing any task or job where it's not fun and enjoyable, then it's time to quit. That goes for hobbies as well...considering you and I have 2 things in common...BBSing and amateur radio. SD> I love BK's original chicken sandwich plain with cheese. I also love SD> BK's French fries right out of the fryer without salt. Yum. Not good SD> for me but darn good-tasting. I liked the original BK french fries...the McDonald's ones are better. Many of the places use "Sea Salt" now instead of regular table salt. Also, we'd have folks order french fries without salt, so they could get them hot. They brought salt packets from home to salt them with. Now, those with heart conditions are supposed to "take it easy" on the sodium. But, the processed foods (aka TV dinners) are drowning in it. When Janice and I ordered out for pizza, she'd tell them "I want every anchovy you have in the place!!", and I told her "You can have those nasty things"...talk about a salt lick!! After she died of a heart attack 3 weeks shy of our 4th anniversary nearly 14 years ago, her Mom and Dad asked why I didn't try to stop her on that...and I told them "You and I both tried that, telling her to take it easy on the salt...and she just gave us 'the stink eye'". She was also type 1 diabetic. SD> I remember some years ago when I was working at a BK here in Johnson SD> City on July 4. They had the original chicken sandwich for $1 ... we SD> sold over 5000 of those in an eight-hour span! I was working at the BK in Little Rock when they sold hamburgers for 25 cents, in celebration of their 25th anniversary. I was on the closing crew that night, and because I got out of there so late, I didn't go to my college class the next day, as I was exhausted. Ironically, the BK was right across the street from the college. SD> Like I said earlier in this packet, I gotta be careful with meats these SD> days though Canadian bacon isn't too bad. Something I do like very SD> much on pizza is chorizo but that is in very limited amounts these SD> days. I like pineapple on my pizza too but I guess that makes me weird SD> with some people (not that I'm not already). You're the one who's eating it...so the heck with what other folks think. :) SD> I haven't eaten yet and my stomach is yelling at me with the talk of SD> pizza ... Yours and mine both. I have these 3 minute microwave pizzas from Kroger, that are a quick fix. The main reasons I'm answering QWK Mail at this hour, are that I had to take an Ibuprofen, and with thunderstorms forecast later today (Saturday), I'm going to be offline later today. Plus, some of the storms may be severe, with tornadoes, large hail, damaging winds, flooding rain, and intense lightning. The 2021 tornado season is starting early, with that EF-3 tornado in Fultondale, Alabama (just north of Birmingham) that killed a young boy... and an EF-0 tornado that hit the airport in Tallahassee, barely missing the National Weather Service office and their Doppler radar. A series of recent thunderstorms knocked out the radar at the National Weather Service at the North Little Rock airport, when it got hit by lightning (that's at least the second time that has happened). Florida may be the lightning capitol of the world, but Arkansas has to be a close second. One series of storms years ago, in Pulaski County (Little Rock) there were over 500 lightning strikes in the county within an hour. That was nearly 9 strikes every second!! SD> Here's a pizza I could see Kurt making as it seems this would be right SD> up his alley ... him being a Californian nonwithstanding ... We won't hold that against him. As for Canadian bacon, it looks nothing like regular bacon. :P However, I saw a "redneck COVID-19 mask"...made out of bacon strips. And, speaking of "redneck COVID-19", here's a "proven test" (I've posted this in other echoes, so I apologize for any redundancy). 1) Get a bottle of your favorite wine. 2) Pour some in a glass. 3) Bring it up to your nose, and take a sniff. 4) If you can smell the fragrance, take a sip. If you can taste it, you still have your sense of smell and taste, so you're negative. Repeat as many times as needed. Daryl .... Does "MNP-5" mean "Modem needs a 5 topping pizza"?? === MultiMail/Win v0.52 --- SBBSecho 3.11-Win32 * Origin: The Thunderbolt BBS - tbolt.synchro.net (618:250/33) .