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What....no coffee???

3K views 21 replies 6 participants last post by  PaintedLady 
#1 ·
I stopped by hear earlier today, looking for a fresh cup of java.
Couldn't find any, darnit!
Shumbuddy's slippin....
 
#2 ·
***Whooo Hoooo Painted OVER HERE*** I have French Vanilla Java left over from this morning if you want some. I don't drink the brew but I had to put on a pot for the first time in years this morning. Bill's Dad (my FIL) is a coffee-aholic and all we had was the girlie brew. He didn't seem to mind. I've got some cinnamon toast crunch cereal if your hungry. :D

I do hope that Vic (the FIL) leaves soon...He broke the cardinal rule of all that is holy and used the same knife in the peanut better AND jelly.....Cross contamination is forbidden under this roof... GAH. (perhaps I need to lighten up a bit but MAN that drives me crazy...well that and he flew all the way from Alaska to Arkansas and it would be rather harsh to bump his butt to the curb when he hasn't been here for even 24 hours.....I'm gonna hide the peanut butter instead.)

Hope your day is going well and I can always throw on a fresh pot if ya want!!!!
 
#4 ·
ROTFL..... I didn't say anything to him or the hubby... I just gritted my teeth a bit and fished the jelly out of the peanut butter. I only have 2 pet peeves, one is a cheating spouse and the other is cross-contamination.... :lol: Ya, I know...I'm odd.

Anyways, the FIL went to work with the hubby today and all seems to be going really well. We had a great visit with him last night....He didn't raise my hubby in fact they hadn't seen each other for almost 20 years when the hubby tracked him down in 2002. So this relationship is only about 6yrs old and they are more like friends than father and son so it makes for great conversations, especially since the FIL is such an old hippie. A couple hours spent with him and you'll see a WHOLE new perspective on this world!!! :roll: :lol: :shock:

I'm glad to have him as it makes the hubby happy.
 
#5 ·
That's great Amy! Donuts for everyone (except me - Mrs. iride put me on a diet, I had to ask "diet, why? What color is it?")
 
#12 ·
I love you old hippies!!!!! :lol:

Jen- Squeezable Jelly.....My GOD woman....You're a genius!!!!!!!!! :D
 
#13 ·
Squeezable Jelly???!! That's like peanut butter in a tube :shock:
 
#14 ·
LOL! Bill, that's brilliant! Now that the jelly dilemma is solved at our house, my new pet peeve is when the girls make their own sandwiches and they get peanut butter all over the outside of the jar, lid, counter, microwave, sink (whatever is nearby) and the lid is put back on crooked. Yes, peanut butter in a tube...do you think you could patent that?
 
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skippy's new Squeez It tube of peanut butter

DOWN THE TUBES Nutrition loses out in a squeeze play with peanut butter

BY DAVID HINCKLEY
Sunday, January 11th 2004, 1:30AM

Mommy and Daddy have been telling us for years, with varying degrees of ­irritation, not to play with our food.
Now the food industry is telling us Mommy and Daddy don't know what they're talking about.
On the contrary, the food industry is saying, that's what food is for.
It's certainly hard to get any other message from Skippy's new "Squeez' It" tube of peanut butter.
The unnamed cartoon character pictured on the tube is maybe 10 years old, with spiky blond hair and purple aviator shades. He looks like a refugee from ­Avril Lavigne's "Sk8er Boi" video.
"Lose the knife!" he's advising his audience. "Squeeze the fun!"
Nothing about how kids love the good taste of Skippy. What this fellow sells is "fun," and clearly there are more fun possibilities in a fat squeeze tube than a plain old plastic jar.
For the record, the peanut butter still tastes like Skippy, which is good. The texture also seems comparable - that is, Skippy was able to keep the peanut butter firm and still have it flow easily through an opening that's probably a quarter inch by three quarters of an inch.
Of course, you pay a nutritional price for this ideal consistency, as we usually do with peanut butter. Two tablespoons of Skippy Squeez' It contain 17 grams of fat, a significant chunk of which comes from partially hydrogenated oils. That's the kind that produce trans fats, which at the moment are thought to have the worst effect on our cholesterol.
The problem for Skippy is that without the partially hydrogenated oils, the peanut butter would not hold together. It would separate, like homemade peanut butters do, and that's not a big selling point among consumers.
Therefore, while food engineers work feverishly to find nonhydrogenated oils that deliver the same flavor, we either buy organic and boutique brands that use different oils, or we get what we get.
Which is peanut butter, icon of the American lunch.
I suspect that if you asked manufacturers about squeezable packaging for products like jellies, ketchups, horseradishes and mustards, they would say they're simply trying to get an edge in the marketplace. If a kid can squeeze your jelly out of a tube and the other guy's jelly requires a messy spoon, some percentage of parents and kids will reach for yours.
So manufacturers see squeezable tubes as "functional utilities," which is true.
I would simply argue they are also "weapons."
Maybe you can envision three or four preteens sitting around a lunch table with tubes of peanut butter and jelly, responsibly squeezing just the proper amount onto their bread.
Me, I see at least one of them leaning over and squirting their tube into someone's milk or onto someone's shirt. It won't happen every time, perhaps, but it will happen, just as surely as some of those kids won't eat the crusts.
I also wonder if it's just a matter of time before restaurants stop putting out crayons for the kids and start letting them amuse themselves with their food.
Then the restaurants can install those huge car-wash brushes and just run the kids through them when they leave.
And if parents buy enough squeezable peanut butter and jelly, we might want to do the same thing at home.
 
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HI All! **waving***
This Old Hippie is back again today looking for more coffee. Heheheh. Haven't gotten to read anything yet, tho, so maybe I just don't know where to look!
LOVED the diet response! I think I'll have to take on that credo meself!
Hmmmm...squeeze Peanut Butter. Now why didn't I think of that???
 
#17 ·
Coffee sounds good right now. I just came in from feeding and the wind is blowing at ~35 - 40 mpg making it tough to be outside.

Squeezable Jelly, Peanut Butter in a tube ... just give me a bagel with a schmear.
 
#21 ·
I was raised in NY just above NYC. When we wanted a bagel with some cream cheese, the correct way of asking for it, the Jewish way (many of our friends were, and still are, Jewish), was "Gimme an egg bagel mit a schmear".

Down south, we can't get a decent bagel let alone "mit a schmear".
 
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