Small Talk: Only 2 Ounces Of Commenting Allowed

[Carboncat]

Doot ta Doota yeah!  

[Londoner]

Just been catching up on the episodes 😁.... what food made by Satan are cheesy taquitos... I think it was Tiffany who was eating them ... didn’t half make me feel hungry 😋... I too am on a diet 😢

Talking about Mama Cass I always felt so sorry for her she had a beautiful voice and I always felt Michelle Phillips was a right cow to her 

[Carboncat]

14 hours ago, nokat said:

Yes, that was horrible. No one is getting fat sept Mama Cass. And what the hell was on his head? It wasn't even a Seinfeld worthy George Costanza rat fur thing.
 

I've just discovered the "Google Machine".It's dangerous.  I need to step away;  maybe I'm on it!

29 minutes ago, Londoner said:

Just been catching up on the episodes 😁.... what food made by Satan are cheesy taquitos... I think it was Tiffany who was eating them ... didn’t half make me feel hungry 😋... I too am on a diet 😢

Talking about Mama Cass I always felt so sorry for her she had a beautiful voice and I always felt Michelle Phillips was a right cow to her 

Michelle Phillips was beautiful in a 60's kind of way.  Mama Cass could sing though.

[Londoner]

30 minutes ago, Carboncat said:

I've just discovered the "Google Machine".It's dangerous.  I need to step away;  maybe I'm on it!

Michelle Phillips was beautiful in a 60's kind of way.  Mama Cass could sing though.

Yes it’s such a shame that Mama Cass’s weight was always the first thing that in the skinny 60’s people noticed first.

Michelle Phillips although pretty , I felt she played on being the typical beauty queen with the fat friend. But perhaps I’m being mean.

Im sorry your kitties didn’t work out ☹️.. x

[Carboncat]

1 minute ago, Londoner said:

Yes it’s such a shame that Mama Cass’s weight was always the first thing that in the skinny 60’s people noticed first.

Michelle Phillips although pretty , I felt she played on being the typical beauty queen with the fat friend. But perhaps I’m being mean.

Im sorry your kitties didn’t work out ☹️.. x

Have been crying all week about "Cobbs" and Leifa.  But it is good that they have a loving home, and there are always more felines waiting.  Thanks for this.

[Carboncat]

3 minutes ago, Carboncat said:

Have been crying all week about "Cobbs" and Leifa.  But it is good that they have a loving home, and there are always more felines waiting.  Thanks for this.

Michelle Phillips was an ideal.  I was always too short and too dark, but  I don't blame her.

[Londoner]

4 minutes ago, Carboncat said:

Have been crying all week about "Cobbs" and Leifa.  But it is good that they have a loving home, and there are always more felines waiting.  Thanks for this.

I would have felt exactly the same 😢..., because we picture them in our lives it’s almost  like a bereavement ☹️

But your kitty will soon find you xx

[Carboncat]

Am following up on ]post in "surgeon or savior" topic, but think this properly belongs in "small talk".  It's hard to tell about the character of Dr. Nowzaradan's office in Houston, but if there is a Whole Foods market across the street that's great.  So many fresh, healthy choices there.  Dr. ought to send patients over there with a diet list and a stipend from TLC to help.  I don't shop there, nor do we have one around here.  A couple of years ago I was in north Berkeley on work business. Across the street from my destination was a Whole Foods, so I went in to buy peaches.  The produce aisle was a temple to awe-inspiring perfect produce, so beautiful, and gently misted periodically.  Left, though, and had to call my husband immediately.

"Can you believe they want $ 6.99 a pound for peaches?  In July?"

Am finally up and dressed, feeling a little better.  Have Dr. appointment tomorrow, and back to work Monday.  I'm grateful my employer is so understanding.  Cheers, all!

[Hellga]

Wow, $6.99 a pound peaches?  Right now a local grocery store charges 68 cents per pound!  Though I went and picked some at a local orchard on Sunday instead - actually cost me more, but the fun factor, and the fact that I picked several different varieties far outweigh the extra cost.  

I am not normally a fan of white-flesh peaches, I like yellow ones better, but the small white ones I got are absolutely delicious.  Wish I remembered the name for future reference!

Edited August 15, 2019 by Hellga

[Carboncat]

2 hours ago, Hellga said:

Wow, $6.99 a pound peaches?  Right now a local grocery store charges 68 cents per pound!  Though I went and picked some at a local orchard on Sunday instead - actually cost me more, but the fun factor, and the fact that I picked several different varieties far outweigh the extra cost.  

I am not normally a fan of white-flesh peaches, I like yellow ones better, but the small white ones I got are absolutely delicious.  Wish I remembered the name for future reference!

Yes,normally fruit and vegetables are quite reasonable here--bell peppers 3/$1, grapes(!) 49  cents/a lb lettuce 3 for $1 etc, and available for a long time, as we are a warm-weather state and supply a lot of the nation's produce.  $6.99/lb for peaches, and yellow nectarines, which we prefer to white is ridiculous. My thought at the time was "Are they made of gold?" This is my personal recollective and mean no disrespect any person.  Healthy food, and education about how to prepare it should be available to everyone, especially those who struggle with obesity and seem bewildered how to change damaging eating habits.  I know some pounticipants we've watched don't seem to want dietician help ("Put it back!) but it seems a lot of folks could benefit from respectful education about how to prepare healthy and tasty food at home instead of relying on expensive and fattening fast food and being aware of portion sizes.  A whole pan of Tater Tot Casserole is not 1 serving.

Edited August 15, 2019 by Carboncat
remembered something

[Carboncat]

Also, along this line; boiling a sad boneless-skinless chicken breast in water and opening a can of green beans and looking like they are on punishment when they eat it is bizarre.  While I like the snark, one of the reasons I originally watched the show was the redemption and triumph of poundticipants.  How about seeing them learn a little more about healthy eating.  I know that would cheer and inspire me.  Let snark go where it belongs; after all pounticipants agree to be on reality T.V.  but I want to cheer those who are really trying.  It's the human condition writ "large".🤔

[CatherineM]

Peaches and grapes are $2.50 a pound here right now. With the exchange rate to US dollars that would be $1.89 back home. Of course fresh produce has to come by dog sled or Icelandic pony here. It might fall into the 30’sF here tonight. I’ve got to pick my pears this weekend before they freeze on the tree. 

[nokat]

I feel snarky again. Ate scrambled eggs and toast. Doesn't want to count the calories.

[OoogleEyes]

OMG 

Amazon Prime people please watch Penelope Keith's Village of the Year 

(Thinking about being in the Yorkshire dales and all that)

[toodles]

4 hours ago, OoogleEyes said:

OMG 

Amazon Prime people please watch Penelope Keith's Village of the Year 

(Thinking about being in the Yorkshire dales and all that)

Putting it on my watch list.😁😁

[fonfereksglen]

Last night while watching Terms of Endearment for the first time in years, there was a scene toward the end set outside a hospital in Houston.

My first thought was ..... I wonder if Dr. Now ever worked at this hospital?  🙄🙄🙄

Edited August 25, 2019 by fonfereksglen

[nokat]

I shouldn't laugh at this, but I was sitting on the end of one of those rows of attached chairs, like the ones in an airport. Very large gentleman (I'm guessing 500 lbs) plopped down on the other end and almost launched me.  My judgment of weight may be skewed because of watching this show.  Pretty sure he ate nothing but grapes and sugar free jam, and possibly an occasional orange. 
 

[CrazyInAlabama]

My last doctor had a lot of female patients, and many were kind of big.    Her waiting room chairs looked like Dr. Now's office chairs.   I really need to lose some weight, but I felt so skinny when I went in for an appointment, because I was a lot smaller than anyone in the place.  

[fonfereksglen]

On 8/26/2019 at 1:48 PM, CrazyInAlabama said:

My last doctor had a lot of female patients, and many were kind of big.    Her waiting room chairs looked like Dr. Now's office chairs.   I really need to lose some weight, but I felt so skinny when I went in for an appointment, because I was a lot smaller than anyone in the place.  

In early June, my husband, (after all he did helping care give my brother back to health) suddenly developed a plethora of medical issues.  While sitting in the waiting room during one of our early appointments,  I pointed out the double wide chairs and called them Dr. Now chairs.  Things have not been all that great since,  but while sitting in an endless series of rooms we do compete to be the first to find the Dr. Now loveseats.  😏😏

[nokat]

@fonfereksglen, I hope your husband is doing okay. I like that you make the doctor appointments somewhat fun by looking for the Dr. Now chairs.

I'll admit to waiting for the next elevator when two very large individuals get on, because I'm actually worried about the max weight limit. Does math in my head, okay these two have to be 1,000 lbs at least, there's the rest of us who aren't exactly dainty... I'll take the stairs.
 

[AZChristian]

4 hours ago, nokat said:

I'll admit to waiting for the next elevator when two very large individuals get on, because I'm actually worried about the max weight limit. Does math in my head, okay these two have to be 1,000 lbs at least, there's the rest of us who aren't exactly dainty... I'll take the stairs.
 

Game plan:  If you decide to not board that elevator, dig in your purse or pockets and grumble, "Oh NO . . . I left my phone in the doctor's office" as you turn and walk away.

[fonfereksglen]

On 9/3/2019 at 9:54 AM, nokat said:

@fonfereksglen, I hope your husband is doing okay. I like that you make the doctor appointments somewhat fun by looking for the Dr. Now chairs.

I'll admit to waiting for the next elevator when two very large individuals get on, because I'm actually worried about the max weight limit. Does math in my head, okay these two have to be 1,000 lbs at least, there's the rest of us who aren't exactly dainty... I'll take the stairs.
 

Today, we went for his first surgical consult for an entirely different issue from his surgery a month ago.  It was a new building for us and the waiting room was located in the same area where the bariatric clinic is located.  When we were escorted into the exam room, we started laughing.  There were two chairs for patients....one a normal chair and one a Dr. Now loveseat.  As the patient, my husband sat in the normal chair. My goodness, those loveseats are awkward to sit in when you are 400 lbs too light!  

You are not the only person noticing really heavy people.  We are often dealing with obese motorized scooter people in clinics and hospitals both in entrances and elevators.  Since my husband  is somewhat unstable and uses a cane, he has trouble quickly getting out of the way.  Scooter people don't care. They charge ahead without any manners.   

[nokat]

1 hour ago, fonfereksglen said:

Today, we went for his first surgical consult for an entirely different issue from his surgery a month ago.  It was a new building for us and the waiting room was located in the same area where the bariatric clinic is located.  When we were escorted into the exam room, we started laughing.  There were two chairs for patients....one a normal chair and one a Dr. Now loveseat.  As the patient, my husband sat in the normal chair. My goodness, those loveseats are awkward to sit in when you are 400 lbs too light! 

You are not the only person noticing really heavy people.  We are often dealing with obese motorized scooter people in clinics and hospitals both in entrances and elevators.  Since my husband  is somewhat unstable and uses a cane, he has trouble quickly getting out of the way.  Scooter people don't care. They charge ahead without any manners.  

You should have felt positively skinny. Needing a scooter though, that is no reason to forget your manners. I use a mobility devise occasionally, but I'm not usually a jerk. Not yet a scooter asswipe.
 

[Twopper]

just because I miss everyone so much I will mention my eating habit for tonight.  chicken parmesan with zucchini spirals and  Rao's marinara sauce.   Also an imported French baguette.  and a little wine

Mr Twopper had a birthday so over the the holiday weekend we have been indulging in caramel cake and Greek pastries. 

[ProTourist]

2 hours ago, Twopper said:

I miss everyone so much

Ditto. I was hoping the Perrio family revisit last night might be a lead-in to some new WATN episodes in September, but there's nothing listed for the next two Wednesday nights -- just other programming.

I'm still unemployed, fourteen months now. Still getting an occasional interview, but once they meet me in person and see how old I am and that I walk with a cane, they decide to proceed with other candidates. Can't say that I really blame them, in spite of the labor laws to the contrary.

Problem is I'm not quite old enough to retire and receive social security and medicare, so in another few months I'll be stuck -- unless someone decides to hire me before then. Well, I do have an interview coming up on Monday. And the third of my three IT classes coming up on Saturday. The classes are good, they get me out of the house and around technicians again; and the additional knowledge doesn't hurt.

P.S. My eating habit tonight has been a grilled chicken sandwich with lettuce and tomato, cole slaw, a side of onion rings, and iced coffee.

[nokat]

4 hours ago, Twopper said:

just because I miss everyone so much I will mention my eating habit for tonight.  chicken parmesan with zucchini spirals and  Rao's marinara sauce.   Also an imported French baguette.  and a little wine

Mr Twopper had a birthday so over the the holiday weekend we have been indulging in caramel cake and Greek pastries.

I miss the live threads too. Sounds like you had a healthy dinner.
 

[Twopper]

10 hours ago, nokat said:

Sounds like you had a healthy dinner.

Well, I  am sure the calories from the baguette, butter, and wine were not helpful as far as the waist line goes, but it was very yummy and we skipped dessert. 

Were the Perrios on again recently?   The last storm we had did a number on our satellite dish and it resulted it our not being able to get the channels I watch the most including TLC.  It is fixed as of yesterday morning.

[nokat]

11 hours ago, nokat said:

caramel cake

Is not going to ask what that is, because I think I gained a pound just reading that.

I quoted Twopper, not myself. 

 

Edited September 6, 2019 by nokat

[CrazyInAlabama]

This past Wednesday, the 4th, they reran the part I and II version of he One Ton Family/600 lb Life, putting the six hours on one night.     There is also a Starcasm (not a great source I know) article with the brother, Clarence?   The article hints at a follow up episode, and I'm hoping it's a good one for all three poundticipants.      They didn't have the best life, and it would be good if things could turn around for them.    

I did enjoy Roshonda's temper trantrums though.      

Edited September 6, 2019 by CrazyInAlabama

[Twopper]

21 hours ago, ProTourist said:

I'm still unemployed, fourteen months now. Still getting an occasional interview, but once they meet me in person and see how old I am and that I walk with a cane, they decide to proceed with other candidates. Can't say that I really blame them, in spite of the labor laws to the contrary.

That sounds so depressing.  I hope something good comes your way soon.   My 50ish year old cousin quit her job for about 5 years to take care of her mom and uncle.   She was living on the west coast and had to move back east to where they lived so she didn't look for work again until both of them died.  She ended up taking a job at a tourist office, then after 19 months finally got a job in banking which she had probably 10 years of work history in.   But it was a long slug for her to get that banking job. 

[Carboncat]

On ‎9‎/‎5‎/‎2019 at 7:09 PM, ProTourist said:

Ditto. I was hoping the Perrio family revisit last night might be a lead-in to some new WATN episodes in September, but there's nothing listed for the next two Wednesday nights -- just other programming.

I'm still unemployed, fourteen months now. Still getting an occasional interview, but once they meet me in person and see how old I am and that I walk with a cane, they decide to proceed with other candidates. Can't say that I really blame them, in spite of the labor laws to the contrary.

Problem is I'm not quite old enough to retire and receive social security and medicare, so in another few months I'll be stuck -- unless someone decides to hire me before then. Well, I do have an interview coming up on Monday. And the third of my three IT classes coming up on Saturday. The classes are good, they get me out of the house and around technicians again; and the additional knowledge doesn't hurt.

P.S. My eating habit tonight has been a grilled chicken sandwich with lettuce and tomato, cole slaw, a side of onion rings, and iced coffee.

Please don't despair, things have a way of working out, but maybe just not the way you intended. I was in the same situation:  I was a union carpenter (Shout-out Local 712!) until 2011, I helped build cookie cutter tech condos in San Jose and San Francisco.  I could run 400 linear feet of baseboard trim a day.  Then it all stopped.  I collected my 99 weeks of unemployment, and my husband was laid off from United Airlines after 37 years.  They went bankrupt.  It's outrageous:  "no pension"  but "can I get my 37 years back?"  No dice.

Anyway, after a harrowing 2010 when my unemployment ran out and I was walking daily to FoodMaxx to bring ice blocks to chill food in our failing fridge, things improved.

I always prided myself on my ability to get a job on a face-to-face interview.  I know the anguish of sending resumes into the internet void with no response at all.  but I was finding enthusiasm on the phone, only to find dismissal when they saw my older lady face.  It was unmistakable.  Unfortunately, although I'm not overweight, I get taken for older than I am.  Yes, this hurts.

I ended up getting the job I've had for 9 years now because as my son was working on his last-minute Eagle Scout prep I was bitching to the Scout Leader's wife in the kitchen on a rainy winter day.

2 days later she called me with a referral to her agency, and I've been there 9 years.  Beating my head against the wall for 2 years, and a word-of-mouth referral did it.  You just never know.

My husband wants to leave California and retire to Las Vegas area.  I'm thinking POOL! and a 20 hours a week job to keep me busy.  That's a few years off though.

Keep your head up, there are employers out there who value "life experience".

I use a cane too for low shelves at store.

[Carboncat]

Hi guys!  I've missed Live Chats.  I've been busy with 2 new 4 month old kittens, Sputnick and Amber and trying to socialize them.

Just gotta share this:

Thursday a truck carrying chickens smacked into overpass columns in San Pablo and burst into flames in early morning.  Crews spent 2 hours corralling chickens from all over the freeway.  They were taken to Animal Control;  go figure, since they were on the way to the slaughterhouse.  It snarled traffic all over the Bay Area all day.

Several dozen chickens "died"  i.e. "roasted" "charbroiled" PLEASE INSERT SNARK HERE.

Too bad the massive paper towel spill on 101 three weeks ago didn't happen simultaneously and closer to the action..... Bring your own bottle of BBQ sauce.

Love to you all!

Edited September 7, 2019 by Carboncat
misremembered dates was laid off 2008 was unemployeed till 2011

[nokat]

2 hours ago, Carboncat said:

I've been busy with 2 new 4 month old kittens, Sputnick and Amber and trying to socialize them.

Happy that you found your fur babies.

Edited to add: I was doing the casual talk to a stranger while waiting in line, and the subject of pets came up. He asks, "do you like dogs" and I said I like cats. He then tells me I look like a cat person. I wasn't wearing my space cat t-shirt and I wasn't covered in cat hair. So I'm then pondering what a cat person looks like. :)

 

Edited September 7, 2019 by nokat

[Londoner]

2 hours ago, Carboncat said:

Hi guys!  I've missed Live Chats.  I've been busy with 2 new 4 month old kittens, Sputnick and Amber and trying to socialize them.

Just gotta share this:

Thursday a truck carrying chickens smacked into overpass columns in San Pablo and burst into flames in early morning.  Crews spent 2 hours corralling chickens from all over the freeway.  They were taken to Animal Control;  go figure, since they were on the way to the slaughterhouse.  It snarled traffic all over the Bay Area all day.

Several dozen chickens "died"  i.e. "roasted" "charbroiled" PLEASE INSERT SNARK HERE.

Too bad the massive paper towel spill on 101 three weeks ago didn't happen simultaneously and closer to the action..... Bring your own bottle of BBQ sauce.

Love to you all!

Glad you found a couple of kitties ❤️

Okay I have got to ask this...

What on earth is chicken fried steak 😱

[Carboncat]

45 minutes ago, Londoner said:

Glad you found a couple of kitties ❤️

Okay I have got to ask this...

What on earth is chicken fried steak 😱

"Chicken fried steak" as I know it (and I'm sure there are many versions) is a beef steak tenderized with the meat hammer, breaded (as you would do with fried chicken) and pan-fried in a skillet.

It is often served with Country Gravy on top, the white sauce so beloved by so many pounticipants.

[CrazyInAlabama]

Around here it's called Chicken Fried Steak with the white gravy, but Country Fried Steak with the brown gravy.    It's always fried, tenderized beef though.  

Edited September 7, 2019 by CrazyInAlabama

[Hellga]

I wish I could remember with what gravy I had chicken fried steak... it's not a common dish in the Northeast.  I wouldn't mind it if I did encounter it more often.    I am pretty sure the last time I had it was somewhere in the middle of the Great Plains.  Maybe when I go visit my Mom in Nebraska at the end of the month I will get some!  

I am debating what to make for dinner.   I feel like I had just about everything recently.  Maybe lasagna, I haven't had either beef or pasta for a long time.  Though I never bother with making lasagna, it's too much work unless you are making a trayful, and if you are making a trayful, you have to eat the trayful and, not being Garfield, I will probably hate it for years.  When I overindulged on potato chips as an 11 year old (the train was badly delayed and there was nothing to do or to eat except potato chips) I haven't touched potato chips with a ten foot pole until I was in my late 20s.  Even in college, if a lunch was served and included chips, I gave them away.

Maybe I will let the Italian place next to the supermarket make it while I do my grocery shopping.  I have had their pizza but not their pasta before - when you live in a town with some 10 pizza/pasta shops within 3 mile radius, and some are more conveniently located than others, it's hard to try them all!  I do try to make an effort to branch out, though.

On 9/5/2019 at 10:09 PM, ProTourist said:

I'm still unemployed, fourteen months now. Still getting an occasional interview, but once they meet me in person and see how old I am and that I walk with a cane, they decide to proceed with other candidates. Can't say that I really blame them, in spite of the labor laws to the contrary.

Good luck!  Hope you get something soon!   

[nokat]

For me I've heard of (and eaten) country fried steak. Tenderized meat covered in batter.

Never developed a taste for the white gravy and grits. My northerner taste buds.

@Hellga, potato chips are my nemesis.

 

Edited September 7, 2019 by nokat

[Hellga]

I have read that the combination of starch, oil and salt in potato chips hits all the right spots to make them addictive for lots of people. 

Now I do eat chips, but very selectively and in small amounts - usually I will get some from our work cafeteria - they make awesome chips, everyone in the office loves them, and you get however many or few you want.   I make oven-baked chips at home sometimes too. 

The only supermarket kind I like are Cape Cod, and I haven't seen them in small bags.  If I buy a big bag, I eat maybe a quarter of it and the rest go stale and I end up throwing them out, which feels like such a waste...   I spent great many a birthday hoeing potatoes as a kid so throwing out potato products to me is almost as sacrilegious to me as throwing out bread (though not quite, the bread I will eat even stale, as long as it is not moldy, so as not to let it go to waste). 

[nokat]

25 minutes ago, Hellga said:

I spent great many a birthday hoeing potatoes as a kid

Picking off those potato beetles who left orange eggs. Ick.
 

[Carboncat]

1 hour ago, CrazyInAlabama said:

Around here it's called Chicken Fried Steak with the white gravy, but Country Fried Steak with the brown gravy.    It's always fried, tenderized beef though.  

Yes, there's a million versions, for sure.  I'm a Fresno Armenian, what do I really know, but have been married to a meat'n'potatoes guy for 30 years.  My understanding of the basis of "chicken fried steak" was a means to beat a cheap cut of meat into submission, bread and fry it and disguise it as something else.  Still delicious.!

[Hellga]

1 hour ago, nokat said:

Picking off those potato beetles who left orange eggs. Ick.
 

That too.  Very few actual beetles, but plenty of larvae.  Not nearly the grossest thing I had to deal with, though.  Some of the caterpillars still make me shudder when I remember them.   Huge and hairy and ugly...  

[nokat]

2 minutes ago, Hellga said:

That too.  Very few actual beetles, but plenty of larvae.  Not nearly the grossest thing I had to deal with, though.  Some of the caterpillars still make me shudder when I remember them.   Huge and hairy and ugly...

Those tomato hornworms. Big and squishy.
 

[Caoimhe]

3 hours ago, Hellga said:

I have read that the combination of starch, oil and salt in potato chips hits all the right spots to make them addictive for lots of people. 

The only supermarket kind I like are Cape Cod, and I haven't seen them in small bags.  

Cape Cod do make small bags.  Sweet mesquite BBQ is my weakness.

[Hellga]

4 hours ago, nokat said:

Those tomato hornworms. Big and squishy.
 

Those too, but one year - thankfully just one - there were crazy monstrous things feeding on dill.  I can't even remember what they looked like, my mind is blocking out that memory, but my Mom and I both just took one look and screamed, my Dad had to take care of them.  Or we may have just abandoned dill to them.    I can't remember and I don't want to.  Besides, I don't like dill.  I like dill pickles and I don't mind a bit of dill in salads or tsatsiki, but boy did I hate it when my parents would add dill to soups.  Especially in the winter, when it was dried dill... unappealing taste and unappealing look.  Yuck. 

3 hours ago, ThereButFor said:

Cape Cod do make small bags.  Sweet mesquite BBQ is my weakness.

I have never seen individual servings bags by them for sale at either of the three supermarkets in my area.... I will take another look.

Edited September 8, 2019 by Hellga

[Carboncat]

5 hours ago, nokat said:

Those tomato hornworms. Big and squishy.
 

Oh gosh, the hidden worms in steamed artichokes always freaked me out.  Aacckk!  Peaches too.  I will digress here in Small Chat... I'm a child of the 60's.  The promise of "better living through chemistry" seemed real then.  My cousins lived "5 minutes" from Disneyland in Anaheim as Southern Californians always put it.  I used to go there dozens of times in the 60's, all you needed was a b c d tickets, not an admission fee.  The Monsanto telescope ride was my fave "this is the world of 1977".....

My cousins fully abetted this;  I thought I was miniaturized on the way up.

Didn't know pesticides caused cancer etc.

Knew then that Agent Orange was killing people in Vietnam, but "compartmentalized" this thought.

"Compartmentalized" almost everything about Vietnam "war" then, didn't we?

Followed mosquito spray trucks on our Schwinn  bikes till the streetlights came on.

[Carboncat]

Just came back from quick cigarette and wine run. (Yes, I know this is bad) to find Mr. Carboncat placed sardines in water in carriers for newcats to acclimate them.  Antapollooza! Everywhere!  On the ironing board! Sprayed RAID everywhere. (Better Living Through Chemistry).  Older cats unperturbed in our bedroom.  No sardines for kittens, folks; stick to tuna or kitten food!

[nokat]

12 minutes ago, Carboncat said:

Just came back from quick cigarette and wine run. (Yes, I know this is bad) to find Mr. Carboncat placed sardines in water in carriers for newcats to acclimate them.  Antapollooza! Everywhere!  On the ironing board! Sprayed RAID everywhere. (Better Living Through Chemistry).  Older cats unperturbed in our bedroom.  No sardines for kittens, folks; stick to tuna or kitten food!

:D My favorite sentence there involved "older cats unperturbed in bedroom." You lived through chemicals, what's a bit of wine and cigarettes.

I am in southern California too. Waves.
 

[Londoner]

13 hours ago, CrazyInAlabama said:

Around here it's called Chicken Fried Steak with the white gravy, but Country Fried Steak with the brown gravy.    It's always fried, tenderized beef though.  

12 hours ago, nokat said:

For me I've heard of (and eaten) country fried steak. Tenderized meat covered in batter.

Never developed a taste for the white gravy and grits. My northerner taste buds.

@Hellga, potato chips are my nemesis.

 

11 hours ago, Carboncat said:

Yes, there's a million versions, for sure.  I'm a Fresno Armenian, what do I really know, but have been married to a meat'n'potatoes guy for 30 years.  My understanding of the basis of "chicken fried steak" was a means to beat a cheap cut of meat into submission, bread and fry it and disguise it as something else.  Still delicious.!

Thank you , Stephen King also refers to it in one of his novels and the concept always puzzled me 😊

why is it there is such comfort in bad food,  before I stopped eating meat one of my childhood comfort foods was a Fray Bentos pie (cooked in a tin) with chips 🍟. The pastry was to die for 

[nokat]

3 hours ago, Londoner said:

Fray Bentos pie (cooked in a tin)

Had to look this up, and they are still available. England is known for its meat pies. :)
Sorry, UK, they're based in Scotland.
 

Edited September 8, 2019 by nokat