Post by: Rush on October 17, 2021, 11:13:55 AM
Post by: President in Exile YOLT on October 17, 2021, 11:51:04 AM
Post by: nddons on October 18, 2021, 10:51:32 AM
That guy nails it!(https://media2.giphy.com/media/duM6JZemPlOjUyqmxd/giphy.gif)
Post by: Mr Pou on October 19, 2021, 05:01:08 AM
She gave up in disgust...
Post by: Rush on October 19, 2021, 05:42:43 AM
My wife tried to order groceries last night and gave up. Pretty much anything she wanted to get this week is unavailable. Tilapia? Nope. Salmon? Uhuh. Chicken? Flown the coop. Apples? Yeah right...
She gave up in disgust...
I’m going to the store tomorrow morning, I wonder what it will be like. Last week most stuff was fine, the only thing I wanted that wasn’t there was SmartWater. Well shit. I just found out SmartWater is owned by Coca-Cola.
Post by: EppyGA - White Christian Domestic Terrorist on October 19, 2021, 08:49:02 AM
Post by: Ron22 on October 19, 2021, 10:12:08 AM
Not ready to buy yet, but really thinking maybe I should by earlier and overflows he freezers before prices go sky high.
Post by: Rush on October 19, 2021, 10:25:43 AM
I have been buying either a pig or 1/2 a cow every year for a local farmer that has it butchered. I switch between the 2 as what to buy.
Not ready to buy yet, but really thinking maybe I should by earlier and overflows he freezers before prices go sky high.
Do you have a generator for when the blackouts come so all your meat doesn’t rot? Do you have an endless supply of fuel for the generator?
I can’t believe all the unnecessary economic catastrophe the covidians and the Biden administration are causing.
Post by: nddons on October 19, 2021, 12:08:30 PM
I have been buying either a pig or 1/2 a cow every year for a local farmer that has it butchered. I switch between the 2 as what to buy.We do that too, but not the full hog. Lately we’ve been buying strictly Berkshire pork.
Not ready to buy yet, but really thinking maybe I should by earlier and overflows he freezers before prices go sky high.
I can’t tell the difference between “certified black Angus” beef and any other beef, but Berkshire pork is unbelievably tender.
Post by: Ron22 on October 19, 2021, 12:50:42 PM
Do you have a generator for when the blackouts come so all your meat doesn’t rot? Do you have an endless supply of fuel for the generator?
No, I am not set up for total disaster just minor.
Post by: Rush on October 19, 2021, 12:59:17 PM
No, I am not set up for total disaster just minor.
We have a generator powered by natural gas but if that went down, and it could in a hurricane or anything, we’d be sool too. We were pretty well stocked up in the mountains but since we moved not so much. I did buy more long term emergency food last week. Supplies are selling out and prices are up but most of my food is 15 years old although it is good for 30. Just probably doesn’t taste quite as good. And it isn’t health food, it’s high carb, lots of rice and pasta. You can get paleo/carnivore type dehydrated emergency food. I have some of that but it’s more expensive and quite frankly doesn’t taste quite the same. But then I’m a carb addict so there’s that.
Post by: Anthony on October 19, 2021, 02:49:10 PM
Post by: President-Elect Bob Noel on October 19, 2021, 03:01:34 PM
I'll trade ammo for food when the time comes. Yes, that way.
or lead for food.
Post by: Mr Pou on October 20, 2021, 05:58:06 AM
or lead for food.
Or lead to protect your food...
Post by: Ron22 on October 20, 2021, 09:59:41 AM
Or lead to protect your food...Don’t worry government will protect you food for you
Sent from my iPad . Squirrel!!
Post by: Rush on October 20, 2021, 10:08:42 AM
It is actually much better than last year and even this spring when there were sporadic shortages of random things. I’m not sure why other than HEB seems really proactive about the situation. I don’t know what Wal-Mart is like, been a while since I went there.
Post by: EppyGA - White Christian Domestic Terrorist on October 20, 2021, 10:14:00 AM
https://notthebee.com/article/joe-biden-confused-jill-biden-look-at-me
Post by: Lucifer on October 20, 2021, 10:33:02 AM
Just got back from HEB. That’s a grocery store for those of you not from Texas. No shortages. There was a small section of one freezer case bare, looked like normally it had frozen breakfast meals. That was it. Tons of produce, meat cases all packed, center aisle shelves all crammed with the usual poison: chips, bread, pasta, processed boxes of crap, candy, canned meats and vegetables, spices, dairy cases all full, personal care items no empty shelves, paper products out the wazoo.
It is actually much better than last year and even this spring when there were sporadic shortages of random things. I’m not sure why other than HEB seems really proactive about the situation. I don’t know what Wal-Mart is like, been a while since I went there.
HEB has it's own warehousing and trucking network. Plus HEB uses many vendors from Texas and surrounding states as well as Mexico. They may take a few hits from national vendors, but as far as most everyday items and food they shouldn't be hit too hard by the bare shelves syndrome brought on by the Biden Administration.
Post by: Bamaflyer on October 20, 2021, 06:30:00 PM
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2021/10/20/record-number-of-ships-now-backed-up-under-biden-but-desantis-is-coming-to-the-rescue-n459824
Post by: Rush on October 20, 2021, 07:24:45 PM
Florida Governor DeSantis to the rescue!
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2021/10/20/record-number-of-ships-now-backed-up-under-biden-but-desantis-is-coming-to-the-rescue-n459824
I’m really liking DeSantis. I wonder what Biden will come up with to try to block this free exercise of trade.
Post by: Anthony on October 21, 2021, 03:05:19 AM
Post by: bflynn on October 21, 2021, 04:27:18 AM
It takes about 2.5 weeks to go from California to Jacksonville, FL, IF you could get an appointment through the panama canal. It's good press, but unlikely anyone is going to ship from china to florida. More likely is vancouver or mexico where people care about working and want a job.
Post by: jb1842 on October 21, 2021, 06:40:08 AM
I don't remember where - but I heard the other day that the problem in long beach is the crane operators not working quickly. They're just taking their sweet time doing whatever they want. There's a report that one operator took 3 hours to offload a single container.
It takes about 2.5 weeks to go from California to Jacksonville, FL, IF you could get an appointment through the panama canal. It's good press, but unlikely anyone is going to ship from china to florida. More likely is vancouver or mexico where people care about working and want a job.
No doubt at the orders from the union.
Post by: Rush on October 21, 2021, 07:02:12 AM
I don't remember where - but I heard the other day that the problem in long beach is the crane operators not working quickly. They're just taking their sweet time doing whatever they want. There's a report that one operator took 3 hours to offload a single container.
It takes about 2.5 weeks to go from California to Jacksonville, FL, IF you could get an appointment through the panama canal. It's good press, but unlikely anyone is going to ship from china to florida. More likely is vancouver or mexico where people care about working and want a job.
You have to schedule appointments to go through that thing?
Post by: Little Joe on October 21, 2021, 07:49:13 AM
Don’t worry government will protect you food for youAnd they will give you what you need (to subsist)
Sent from my iPad . Squirrel!!
Post by: jb1842 on October 21, 2021, 07:54:55 AM
And they will give you what you need (to subsist)
After they steal it from you.
Post by: Steingar on October 21, 2021, 01:11:46 PM
Post by: Lucifer on October 21, 2021, 01:14:06 PM
Of course you guys all loved Trump while the shelves ran bare while he was POTUS.
Which shelves were those?
BTW, looks like you're back in the bottle again. Class later?
Post by: nddons on October 21, 2021, 02:09:46 PM
Of course you guys all loved Trump while the shelves ran bare while he was POTUS.Hoarding toilet paper was a result of irrational human behavior brought on my government-induced fear, and didn’t involve hundreds of container ships sitting offshore waiting to be unloaded.
Please try to keep up.
Glad to see Trump is still living rent-free in your brain.
Post by: Lucifer on October 21, 2021, 02:20:17 PM
Glad to see Trump is still living rent-free in your brain.
There's a lot of empty space up there, so................
Post by: Anthony on October 21, 2021, 02:41:54 PM
Hoarding toilet paper was a result of irrational human behavior brought on my government-induced fear, and didn’t involve hundreds of container ships sitting offshore waiting to be unloaded.
Please try to keep up.
Glad to see Trump is still living rent-free in your brain.
Government and Government MEDIA which is most of MEDIA today. Total shit show as evidenced by those still wearing masks.
Post by: Becky (My pronouns are Assigned/By/God) on October 22, 2021, 01:55:02 PM
Post by: Rush on October 22, 2021, 02:03:59 PM
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What the hell is that?! Fake plastic breastfeeding boobs?
Post by: nddons on October 22, 2021, 02:19:24 PM
What the hell is that?! Fake plastic breastfeeding boobs?https://youtu.be/FXI21S4ZWJU
Post by: Rush on November 04, 2021, 09:46:45 AM
At checkout I asked the clerk if they’ve noticed supply shortages and she said, “yes, like what’s in the dairy case right now is all there is, there’s no more in the back.” I was there early in the morning, does that mean later in the day they will be sold out of milk? Surely we have dairy cows in Texas… trucker shortage?
Post by: President-Elect Bob Noel on November 04, 2021, 10:04:52 AM
...… trucker shortage?
worker shortage
Post by: Mr Pou on November 04, 2021, 10:23:59 AM
worker shortage
What I want to know is HTF are these people not working paying their bills?
Post by: elwood blues on November 04, 2021, 10:30:06 AM
What I want to know is [how] are these people not working paying their bills?
We all know how.
Post by: President-Elect Bob Noel on November 04, 2021, 10:32:41 AM
What I want to know is HTF are these people not working paying their bills?
are they in fact paying bills?
Post by: Mr Pou on November 04, 2021, 10:39:08 AM
are they in fact paying bills?
Most are still stiffing their landlords no doubt. Are there any evictions going on, or are people still allowed to freeload?
Post by: Rush on November 04, 2021, 10:44:42 AM
Post by: nddons on November 04, 2021, 10:50:08 AM
A lot of them are collecting unemployment. But that isn’t unlimited right?Depends on who’s in charge in DC.
Post by: EppyGA - White Christian Domestic Terrorist on November 04, 2021, 05:22:33 PM
It’s finally hitting here. This morning the store had lots of empty shelves. Not a major percent of them, but obvious holes in supplies. For example a brand would be missing, or a size of a brand, like laundry detergent. Only the biggest dispenser of All Free and Clear was there, the regular size was missing and the shelf was empty.My son pulled into a Chik-Fil-A one morning this week and asked for Egg Biscuits. Nope, no eggs.
At checkout I asked the clerk if they’ve noticed supply shortages and she said, “yes, like what’s in the dairy case right now is all there is, there’s no more in the back.” I was there early in the morning, does that mean later in the day they will be sold out of milk? Surely we have dairy cows in Texas… trucker shortage?
Post by: Number7 on November 04, 2021, 05:55:31 PM
Post by: bflynn on November 06, 2021, 02:37:19 PM
Someone going to hell for that one?
Post by: Rush on January 14, 2022, 01:21:30 PM
Post by: Mr Pou on January 14, 2022, 01:24:14 PM
Just got back from shopping. No cream at the grocery store. I had to buy half and half instead of heavy cream and they didn’t have much of that. OTC meds had lots of empty sections. There was lots of meat but really expensive.
Elections have consequences...so I've heard.
Post by: Number7 on January 14, 2022, 01:29:15 PM
Elections have consequences...so I've heard.
STOLEN elections even more so.
Post by: Becky (My pronouns are Assigned/By/God) on January 14, 2022, 01:36:04 PM
Just got back from shopping. No cream at the grocery store. I had to buy half and half instead of heavy cream and they didn’t have much of that. OTC meds had lots of empty sections. There was lots of meat but really expensive.
Here in Washington state we’ve been missing cream since before Christmas. Dairy shelves in general are sparsely stocked. Also pharmacy items too. And jugged water.
Is this a slow, frog-in-the-pot plan to get us used to having less?
Post by: EppyGA - White Christian Domestic Terrorist on January 14, 2022, 03:53:49 PM
Calling for crappy weather here in Georgia Saturday night into Sunday. I have a load of firewood and a full propane tank for the grill, bring it on. While in Publix I overheard a lady telling a guy that the Kroger had people lined up out the door.
Post by: Becky (My pronouns are Assigned/By/God) on January 14, 2022, 06:07:14 PM
Haha? Or possible reality? Never before in my life have our minds gone in directions like this.
But now we have a major railroad on strike.
If you need critical items for health and well being, stock up.
Hunger causes rebellions. And they want us to get violent.
Post by: jb1842 on January 14, 2022, 06:34:54 PM
Ran to get a couple of things and to exchange an empty propane tank. Several section of shelves were quite empty. Propane exchange used to be $17.99, now $21.99 up 22%. All these things ups 20% or more yet official inflation is 7.2%, give me a fucking break.
Calling for crappy weather here in Georgia Saturday night into Sunday. I have a load of firewood and a full propane tank for the grill, bring it on. While in Publix I overheard a lady telling a guy that the Kroger had people lined up out the door.
I take my propane tanks to be filled. $4.19 gallon at the local farm store. Around $35 for 2 tanks. I don't do the exchange anymore. Don't know how beat up/old the tanks you are getting.
Post by: EppyGA - White Christian Domestic Terrorist on January 14, 2022, 07:03:13 PM
I take my propane tanks to be filled. $4.19 gallon at the local farm store. Around $35 for 2 tanks. I don't do the exchange anymore. Don't know how beat up/old the tanks you are getting.
We do have an ACE hardware in the area that fills. Haven't used them in a while.
Post by: nddons on January 14, 2022, 07:10:49 PM
I take my propane tanks to be filled. $4.19 gallon at the local farm store. Around $35 for 2 tanks. I don't do the exchange anymore. Don't know how beat up/old the tanks you are getting.I once went through an entire Blue Rhino rack to find a single tank I thought was safe, with no rust. That was the last time I exchanged tanks.
Post by: Bamaflyer on January 14, 2022, 07:55:17 PM
Just got back from shopping. No cream at the grocery store. I had to buy half and half instead of heavy cream and they didn’t have much of that. OTC meds had lots of empty sections. There was lots of meat but really expensive.
May they choke on their overpriced meat! 8)
Uh man, that could taken another way lol…so don’t take it way. I better quit while I’m behind.
Post by: Anthony on January 15, 2022, 04:20:56 AM
Just got back from shopping. No cream at the grocery store. I had to buy half and half instead of heavy cream and they didn’t have much of that. OTC meds had lots of empty sections. There was lots of meat but really expensive.
Why are you buying heavy cream???
Post by: Little Joe on January 15, 2022, 05:09:55 AM
We do have an ACE hardware in the area that fills. Haven't used them in a while.I find that the refill stations around here cost about half what Blue Rhino charges, but I used them (BR) once because they were about a mile away instead of three miles to the refill station. But when I found out that they not only cost twice as much, they only provide 15 pounds instead of 20 pounds of fuel I vowed never to use them again. Besides the cost, they aren't any faster because you have to drop them off outside and go inside to pay and have someone come out and unlock the cage for you. My refill station gets the tank out of my truck, fills it up, returns it and collects payment right there.
Post by: Rush on January 15, 2022, 06:21:00 AM
Why are you buying heavy cream???
Why not? What’s wrong with heavy cream?
I put it in my coffee. When they say “cream” with respect to coffee, and then use half and half, or milk, or artificial powdered crap, it’s wrong. The word “cream” means exactly that.
Post by: EppyGA - White Christian Domestic Terrorist on January 15, 2022, 07:23:07 AM
Post by: Becky (My pronouns are Assigned/By/God) on January 15, 2022, 10:25:30 AM
Julia Child famously said that if you’re afraid of cream, use butter instead.
She lived to be well over 90 if I recall correctly.
Post by: Anthony on January 15, 2022, 10:31:40 AM
Why not? What’s wrong with heavy cream?
I put it in my coffee. When they say “cream” with respect to coffee, and then use half and half, or milk, or artificial powdered crap, it’s wrong. The word “cream” means exactly that.
Milk fat is da debil......
Post by: Rush on January 15, 2022, 10:39:52 AM
Milk fat is da debil......
Medical misinformation.
Post by: Anthony on January 15, 2022, 10:40:58 AM
Medical misinformation.
Little touchy, aren't we.
Post by: Rush on January 15, 2022, 11:34:32 AM
Little touchy, aren't we.
Not at all, if I have my coffee and my cream.
Speaking of coffee supply, my subscription took 9 days to arrive when it normally takes 3. Late coffee, no cream in the stores, yeah I’m more than a little touchy.
Post by: Jim Logajan on January 15, 2022, 12:15:44 PM
Little touchy, aren't we.
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Post by: bflynn on January 16, 2022, 05:16:48 AM
Coffee, blond and sweet is the way to have your coffee. I never understood the people who wanted things black and bitter.
Post by: Little Joe on January 16, 2022, 05:38:05 AM
When I was in France, it was next to impossible to get cream for coffee. Every time I'd ask for it - du cafe avec du creme SVP. Pas du lait, du creme - the waiter would get this look on his face like I'd just asked for a glass of ketchup. Then he would relax and walk away and I knew I wasn't getting creme. Sure enough, he brought me some nice milk. That happened probably 90% of the time.Black doesn't have to be bitter. I get coffee from a local roaster that has a very smooth chocolatey flavor and is delicious without cream or sugar.
Coffee, blond and sweet is the way to have your coffee. I never understood the people who wanted things black and bitter.
Post by: jb1842 on January 16, 2022, 06:02:10 AM
When I was in France, it was next to impossible to get cream for coffee. Every time I'd ask for it - du cafe avec du creme SVP. Pas du lait, du creme - the waiter would get this look on his face like I'd just asked for a glass of ketchup. Then he would relax and walk away and I knew I wasn't getting creme. Sure enough, he brought me some nice milk. That happened probably 90% of the time.
Coffee, blond and sweet is the way to have your coffee. I never understood the people who wanted things black and bitter.
It matches my soul and attitude.
Post by: Lucifer on January 16, 2022, 06:19:26 AM
It matches my soul and attitude.
Post by: Rush on January 16, 2022, 06:34:20 AM
When I was in France, it was next to impossible to get cream for coffee. Every time I'd ask for it - du cafe avec du creme SVP. Pas du lait, du creme - the waiter would get this look on his face like I'd just asked for a glass of ketchup. Then he would relax and walk away and I knew I wasn't getting creme. Sure enough, he brought me some nice milk. That happened probably 90% of the time.
Coffee, blond and sweet is the way to have your coffee. I never understood the people who wanted things black and bitter.
Bitterness isn’t caused by dark roasting or drinking it without cream or sugar. It’s caused by bad brewing, old, rancid beans, and not keeping your equipment clean.
Post by: Little Joe on January 16, 2022, 06:43:36 AM
Bitterness isn’t caused by dark roasting or drinking it without cream or sugar. It’s caused by bad brewing, old, rancid beans, and not keeping your equipment clean.And buying cheap coffee.
Post by: Rush on January 16, 2022, 07:26:48 AM
And buying cheap coffee.
Yeah, inferior beans like Robusta instead of Arabica.
Post by: Username on January 16, 2022, 07:48:00 AM
Post by: Lucifer on January 16, 2022, 07:53:24 AM
Yeah, inferior beans like Robusta instead of Arabica.
OK, Sea Story time:
Many, many years ago at NAF Atsugi there was a young airman who was having a very troubled time with the Navy. This young airman found himself on midnight hangar watches.
One function of the midnight hangar watch was to prepare the coffee pot for the incoming 7am crew. So one morning in wanders the maintenance officers who draw their morning cup to prepare for the day. As they start their first cup, they are amazed at how wonderful the coffee is! By golly this has to be the best coffee ever!
In comes the maintenance Chief who gets his first cup and before he drinks, starts smelling the cup. WTF?? Something ain't right! Then the Chief proclaims "Hey, someone pissed in this coffee!"
Immediately everyone begins dumping their coffee in the sink! Needless to say, the troubled young airman is removed from hangar watch duty (it was never proven he was the pisser) and assigned elsewhere. ;)
Post by: Rush on January 16, 2022, 08:04:25 AM
OK, Sea Story time:
Many, many years ago at NAF Atsugi there was a young airman who was having a very troubled time with the Navy. This young airman found himself on midnight hangar watches.
One function of the midnight hangar watch was to prepare the coffee pot for the incoming 7am crew. So one morning in wanders the maintenance officers who draw their morning cup to prepare for the day. As they start their first cup, they are amazed at how wonderful the coffee is! By golly this has to be the best coffee ever!
In comes the maintenance Chief who gets his first cup and before he drinks, starts smelling the cup. WTF?? Something ain't right! Then the Chief proclaims "Hey, someone pissed in this coffee!"
Immediately everyone begins dumping their coffee in the sink! Needless to say, the troubled young airman is removed from hangar watch duty (it was never proven he was the pisser) and assigned elsewhere. ;)
That must have been some pretty bad coffee if putting piss in it made it better.
Post by: jb1842 on January 16, 2022, 08:15:13 AM
OK, Sea Story time:
Many, many years ago at NAF Atsugi there was a young airman who was having a very troubled time with the Navy. This young airman found himself on midnight hangar watches.
One function of the midnight hangar watch was to prepare the coffee pot for the incoming 7am crew. So one morning in wanders the maintenance officers who draw their morning cup to prepare for the day. As they start their first cup, they are amazed at how wonderful the coffee is! By golly this has to be the best coffee ever!
In comes the maintenance Chief who gets his first cup and before he drinks, starts smelling the cup. WTF?? Something ain't right! Then the Chief proclaims "Hey, someone pissed in this coffee!"
Immediately everyone begins dumping their coffee in the sink! Needless to say, the troubled young airman is removed from hangar watch duty (it was never proven he was the pisser) and assigned elsewhere. ;)
When I was a Marine, a SSgt in my shop used to brew his own coffee in his own percolator, which he never cleaned. Before he transfered to another unit, me and another salty E-3 cleaned it for him. Cardinal sin for some people. He was not happy to say the least. A week later I let him pin Cpl stripes on me, and he made sure they stuck. They did not have the clips on the back of them and blood might have been drawn. Good times.
Supposedly an old navy trick was to add salt to coffee to cut the bitterness.
Post by: Jim Logajan on January 16, 2022, 10:17:36 AM
I don't understand coffee. It smells great, but to me it tastes like it is... burnt beans. Can't ever get past that. My sister has a coffee farm on the Big Island. Nope. Still burnt beans.
It is an acquired taste, I think. I only got into it because early in my career I worked at an office that offered water, tea bags, and coffee as beverages. Water gets boring and tea took longer than I cared to steep (and wasn't that different from coffee anyway) so with plenty of sugar and fake creamer I learned to enjoy coffee. I can now drink coffee black and mostly enjoy it. Otherwise I add a teaspoon or so of sugar and some heavy whipping cream to my one cup of morning coffee.
Actually I think beer and wine are acquired tastes, too. Definitely recall thinking WTF in my youth when I first tried them. But you couldn't be cool or part of the crowd unless you joined in.
Post by: bflynn on January 16, 2022, 10:42:36 AM
Actually I think beer and wine are acquired tastes, too. Definitely recall thinking WTF in my youth when I first tried them.
Me too, but I think that first beer was something like PBR or Beast (Milwaukee's Best). It was cheap, mass produced and pretty awful.
Post by: bflynn on January 16, 2022, 10:45:54 AM
Immediately everyone begins dumping their coffee in the sink! Needless to say, the troubled young airman is removed from hangar watch duty (it was never proven he was the pisser) and assigned elsewhere.
That young airman was lucky. They could have kept him on and there are far, far worse things than hangar duty at the midwatch.
Post by: jb1842 on January 16, 2022, 10:47:27 AM
Me too, but I think that first beer was something like PBR or Beast (Milwaukee's Best). It was cheap, mass produced and pretty awful.
The Beast! Many a friday afternoon after high school was spent driving 45 minutes to my older cousins college so he would buy us $8 cases of Beast before the football games.
Post by: Rush on January 16, 2022, 10:52:52 AM
It is an acquired taste, I think. I only got into it because early in my career I worked at an office that offered water, tea bags, and coffee as beverages. Water gets boring and tea took longer than I cared to steep (and wasn't that different from coffee anyway) so with plenty of sugar and fake creamer I learned to enjoy coffee. I can now drink coffee black and mostly enjoy it. Otherwise I add a teaspoon or so of sugar and some heavy whipping cream to my one cup of morning coffee.
Actually I think beer and wine are acquired tastes, too. Definitely recall thinking WTF in my youth when I first tried them. But you couldn't be cool or part of the crowd unless you joined in.
Agree with this. A lot of things are acquired tastes and it’s much easier to acquire if you start young. There are some foods that unless you were exposed to them as a child, you would have great difficulty ever liking them or even being able to eat them at all. I had not seen or tasted an avocado until I was well into adulthood. It took me a long time to get accustomed to the weird taste and finally come to like avocados. On the other hand I was regularly fed okra as a child and not the fried kind, just the slimy boiled kind, so boiled okra to me is a normal delicious food.
Really exotic stuff like bugs, I would never, ever get used to. But if fed them as a child they’re normal. I’m sure it can work in reverse too. My husband doesn’t like Brussels sprouts because he was fed them as a child. But I argue that his mother didn’t cook them right. Overcooked Brussels sprouts are disgusting but if you roast them with the right seasoning they’re delicious.
I didn’t start drinking coffee until I was in college and my friends would sit in the restaurant and drink coffee all afternoon so I followed suit. It was disgusting horrible coffee but I learned to appreciate the caffeine kick which was useful when staying up late to study or getting up to go to an early class. When I got out into the working world, everybody at the office would drink coffee that was kept in a big pot in the break room. It was horrible tasting stuff but again, the caffeine kick was the point. The coffee itself was just a delivery vehicle for the drug.
It wasn’t until later when I started roasting my own that I finally tasted really good coffee and now it’s the taste more than the caffeine that I’m after.
Post by: EppyGA - White Christian Domestic Terrorist on January 16, 2022, 11:15:28 AM
Post by: Username on January 16, 2022, 05:58:24 PM
Actually I think beer and wine are acquired tastes, too. Definitely recall thinking WTF in my youth when I first tried them. But you couldn't be cool or part of the crowd unless you joined in.Long ago when I was a kid I had gastroenteritis, causing me to barf a LOT. Got put in a Navy hospital. They cleaned out my barf pan with alcohol. That did it. Now every time I smell alcohol my stomach turns, so never had a drink. Ever. Made me very popular at parties as I was always ready to be their designated driver.
Post by: Number7 on January 16, 2022, 06:01:58 PM
Long ago when I was a kid I had gastroenteritis, causing me to barf a LOT. Got put in a Navy hospital. They cleaned out my barf pan with alcohol. That did it. Now every time I smell alcohol my stomach turns, so never had a drink. Ever. Made me very popular at parties as I was always ready to be their designated driver.
I HATE alcohol. Can't drink it, no matter what.
I've always thought of being the designated driver as an honor.
It gives me peace knowing I helped get people home safe. Those I drive and those that never crossed paths with those who were drunk and got a ride with me.
Post by: Rush on January 16, 2022, 06:18:31 PM
Post by: EppyGA - White Christian Domestic Terrorist on January 16, 2022, 06:44:04 PM
Post by: Little Joe on January 16, 2022, 06:50:15 PM
Post by: jb1842 on January 16, 2022, 08:07:36 PM
Post by: Rush on January 16, 2022, 08:27:14 PM
I do the majority of my drinking on vacations. 82 days until my next cruise.
When we owned a house on Ocracoke I’d get a beer at Howard’s Pub along with oysters on the half shell. Anchor Steam draft. It was so good. It was a case of conditions being just right. I might have 7 in a year if we vacationed there for a week.
Post by: Jim Logajan on January 16, 2022, 08:51:35 PM
Long ago when I was a kid I had gastroenteritis, causing me to barf a LOT. Got put in a Navy hospital. They cleaned out my barf pan with alcohol. That did it. Now every time I smell alcohol my stomach turns, so never had a drink. Ever. Made me very popular at parties as I was always ready to be their designated driver.
Bummer.
All I can say is I had the most memorable delicious Long Island Iced Tea once while lazing outside on a warm sunny day at a beach hotel at Myrtle Beach, SC. Mind you, I was a teetotaler up till my mid-twenties when I fell in with a "bad crowd" when I returned to college. Resumed being a mostly teetotaler when I was diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis and went on Methotrexate - my "no soup for you!" doc said I should abstain from alcohol lest the combo of drug and alcohol damage my liver. The damage being proportional to the exposure I do have a few sips of wine once in a while.
Post by: nddons on January 17, 2022, 12:36:49 AM
That's OK if you guys don't drink. I don't mind picking up your slack.I’m with you Joe. I don’t trust people who don’t drink.
Post by: President-Elect Bob Noel on January 17, 2022, 07:03:20 AM
Not drinking makes it easy to know when you can drive, fly, or shoot... no worrying about how long it's been.