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Post by nana on Oct 11, 2018 16:05:58 GMT -5
I have been willing to try some organ meats, but I can honestly say well there's one thing I'll never eat!
Is the Nut Club nuts as in pecans and almonds or nuts as in a bit crazy? Either way, it gladdens me to know that even in this day and age of electronic and isolated entertainment that this kind of stuff still takes place!
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Post by pooka on Oct 12, 2018 2:14:29 GMT -5
Their logo is an acorn emblazoned with "West Side Nut Club". Their slogan is “From Small Acorns Large Oaks Grow.” Their Wikipedia page says, "The club began early in the 20th century as a noontime gathering of west side businessmen who lunched at West Franklin Street to discuss the topics of the day. The original name of the informal association was "West Side Epicures." In March 1914, feeling that the name "did not express anything to the layman," the men changed the name to "The Nut Club." In the same month, they proposed to the West Side Business Association that a fall festival be held in October. As a result of this proposal, the West Side's "First Annual Fall Festival" was staged on West Franklin Street. However, it was until 1921, when the Nut Club was formally organized with a much larger membership, that the festival began its tradition as a truly annual event. This festival is one of the larger festivals in the Midwestern United States." The west side is heavily German immigrants from the late 1800s & early 1900s. I always thought of the Fall Festival as a reinvented German harvest festival. A few weeks earlier, Germania Maennerchor has what they call "Volsfest". It's a bierstube featuring their own bratwurst or pigs knuckles. They go though more than 300 barrels of beer from Thursday till Saturday. They're a German men's choir formed in the teens to preserve their German heritage in song. There are other clubs like it elsewhere, but I believe ours is the largest in the country.
Here's one opinion of our local Brain Sandwich.
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Post by nana on Oct 12, 2018 15:35:21 GMT -5
I watched the video, and I notice while he talks a lot about the taste, he doesn't actually say what it tastes like! Creamy was one adjective that I wasn't expecting, however.
I still think I will not be trying this. Ever. But to each his own! Thanks for the video, anyway!
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Post by Chuckie on May 15, 2021 22:28:30 GMT -5
This site is FAST becoming that--- ZERO posts in over a WEEK!!!! Wassa matta you guys, cat get your tongues? You USED to be a mouthy bunch--present typist included!! No new recipes you've tried, no calamities have befallen anyone, just living in the same ho-hum world as I, or what?!!! Liven up a bit, and get CHATTY!!! CHEERS! Chuckie Bumping this post up. Falling back into the same rut--seems to be a calamity on BOTH sites!!! What gives? CHEERS! Chuckie
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Post by mach12 on May 16, 2021 1:31:33 GMT -5
I've been worried about it too. The Facebook sites are busy as can be so I suspect that's part of it. Not being able to post photos and links easily here is the biggest complaint that I hear.
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Post by pooka on May 16, 2021 2:04:39 GMT -5
I guess most people are otherwise occupied or in a torpor from inactivity. I've had nothing stove or food related to post about.
I got a couple of Seth Thomas tambour clocks not long ago. They're from the 40s or 50s & are nearly identical, but one is electric & the other is an eight day key wind. Only the electric one works. The other one needs a trip to the clock shop. I keep meaning to go get the proper key for my New Haven Art Deco tambour clock. The one I've got winds it, but the other end is suppose to adjust fast or slow, but it's the wrong size. I'd like to check to see what it'll cost to get my Seth Thomas weight driven ogee clock running. Some fool painted it, & I'm not going to blow any cash to refinish it, but I'd like to get it working. It cost me almost nothing, & looks good just sitting there. Clock repairs aren't the top of my to do list though. I do like hearing the ticking & the chimes on the hour & the half hour.
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Post by cinnabar on May 16, 2021 9:39:25 GMT -5
Gave the stove a mild cleaning, been going on trying to downsize and de clutter. A year before the DH retires so had the realtor do a once over on the house. He couldn't stop looking at the Stove, LOL. BTW, lots of Wearever will need to go*sigh*.
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Post by pooka on May 16, 2021 12:09:44 GMT -5
That realtor was probably was in disbelief that you actually use a stove that old. I don't envy your efforts to dispose of a lifetimes collection of Wear-Ever.
I need to do some serious de-cluttering myself, but this last year has stifled me so much, when I not working, I hardly do anything. The change oil indicator on my car started going off every time I start it. I did a quick calculation & figured I'm only driving about one hundred miles a week. Fifty of that is driving to work. Most of the other fifty is from thrift store trolling, but not with the zeal I once did. I look a lot, but I've collected so many things, it's rare I find anything of interest any more. I need to open an eBay store to clear out a lot of my excess clutter, but I just not motivated.
I just got my ten tear service award at work. It was a $30 stainless steel Yeti thermal cup. It's nice, but I already have two similar Starbucks ones I use regularly, plus one spare, all from thrift stores. This new one is just another thing I don't need. At this rate, the only way I get to retire is to die.
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Post by karitx on May 16, 2021 16:40:30 GMT -5
Gave the stove a mild cleaning, been going on trying to downsize and de clutter. A year before the DH retires so had the realtor do a once over on the house. He couldn't stop looking at the Stove, LOL. BTW, lots of Wearever will need to go*sigh*. Are you moving or just trying to free up some space in your home? I need to do some serious decluttering, but I just can't find the motivation.
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Post by nana on May 16, 2021 20:51:49 GMT -5
I’ve just been going flat out. They brought all the kids back to school 5 days a week instead of the hybrid two days on, three days remote deal we were doing. We still need to keep them 6 feet apart though, so each grade was split into three sections instead of two. They didn’t have enough actual teachers to go around so they put aides, including me, in charge of the extra sections, and we all rotate so each classroom has time with the actual teacher. I’m not certified so I’m not supposed to actually “teach” as in introducing new material, but after the teacher does the lesson, I can reinforce it and remind them of what they learned. The hard part is keeping track of the time for when they go to gym, library, recess, etc. All the years I sat in classrooms and watched the teacher say OK kids, pencils down, time for gym! It seemed so effortless. But punctuality is not my forte. I spend 6 1/2 hours every day in a constant sweat I will lose track of time and screw up everyone else’s schedule.
And in answer to the question everyone asks, no, my greater responsibility did not come with a greater paycheck. 😕😕😕
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Post by pooka on May 17, 2021 2:07:43 GMT -5
That sounds like a familiar reframe. Do more with less. Across the country, schools have been short changed for years. This pandemic has added to those woes. Sorry you got this foisted on you. Your only real option is to bite the bullet for now or give up. Neither are appealing alternatives, but what are you going to do? At least the summer break isn't too far off. As the old Persian adage says, "This too shall pass".
I hear lots of stories how the pandemic has turned peoples lives up side down. For me, life's changed little. I lost a few hour at the beginning of the shut down from a couple weeks of shortened hours, but I never lost a day of work. All this stuff people say they lost out on was meaningless to me. I don't travel, eat out, go to the movies or socialize. My life consists of working, sitting at home vegetating, or thrifting. I did miss out on thrifting for a couple of months, but that was no great loss as it's rare for me to find anything worth while anymore. I've been doing this so long, there's little I don't already have. It's just an excuse to get out for a couple of hours, & once in a great while I find a treasure or needed item.
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Post by Chuckie on May 17, 2021 17:29:07 GMT -5
Gave the stove a mild cleaning, been going on trying to downsize and de clutter. A year before the DH retires so had the realtor do a once over on the house. He couldn't stop looking at the Stove, LOL. BTW, lots of Wearever will need to go*sigh*. So you're MOVING? Aren't you taking Lady w/you? Just curious.... CHEERS! Chuckie
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Post by cinnabar on May 18, 2021 10:33:06 GMT -5
Moving at some point, going to take a while to unload the excess before we move. Closer to family is the plan, just not sure where. The stove does not go with the house.
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Post by Chuckie on May 18, 2021 13:26:34 GMT -5
Moving at some point, going to take a while to unload the excess before we move. Closer to family is the plan, just not sure where. The stove does not go with the house. YAY!!!! Could NOT imagine you w/o HER!!! CHEERS! Chuckie
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Post by pooka on May 18, 2021 15:46:54 GMT -5
Even if the stove did go with the house, I'd bet money it would be the first thing to get replaced by the new owner.
At least you've got a plan, but it's tough dispersing a life time of collecting. It's a chore that will relieve your heirs from having to.
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Post by nana on May 18, 2021 19:18:17 GMT -5
Speaking of heirs, my husband said he would leave my daughter ten thousand dollars in his will to take care of all our junk when we die. She said she’d pocket the ten grand and put a match to it. One man’s treasure is another man’s trash, as they say!😂😂😂
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Post by pooka on May 19, 2021 4:53:38 GMT -5
Isaac Asimov wrote a short story in 1941 called Nightfall that was later adapted into a book in 1990. The premise was a planet with multiple suns where it was always daylight to some degree. One day an amusement park ride opened, & many people who ride it go mad at it's end. It amounted to a short ride in total darkness. A journalist who investigates it discover a group of scientists who is predicting a coming nightfall where all six of their suns set for one night every two thousand years. In the ensuing darkness, all of society goes mad setting fires to everything to combat the dark, & in doing so cause a collapse of civilization. So every two millennia the planet must rebuild civilization from the ashes of that one night of insanity induced pyromania where everything burnable was consumed to begin again from nothing. The moral to that story is we can spend a lifetime building up what we value, but if we don't teach those values to the next generation, it all can be wiped away in one violent stroke when we're gone. William Shakespeare wrote, The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones. Some today may advocate for a modern day bonfire of the vanities as advocated by the Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola of 7 February 1497. That got him excommunicated, condemned, hanged, and burned with two other friars in the main square of Florence in 1498 . His idea that you can set fire to the unwanted parts of the past to create a purified tomorrow is a shortcut to nowhere. We have to face things squarely & resolve them, or forever be haunted by the what ifs, or would have, should have could haves, or have to refight the same fights over & over again. We're great at ignoring problems until the flames are licking at our heels. Then we have a conniption fit as to why we waited so long. It's a wonder we haven't killed ourselves off yet.
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Post by nana on May 19, 2021 20:33:24 GMT -5
Did they go mad because they couldn’t comprehend darkness, or because they thought it would never be light again? You would think if it happened every 2000 years some kind of oral tradition at the very least would have built up some kind of mythology about it! I guess I’ll have to read it myself one of these days...
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Post by pooka on May 20, 2021 10:13:56 GMT -5
It's a societal phobia of the dark reinforced by a doomsday cult. They have no concept of night or uncountable stars. Here's part of the plot summery from Wikipedia.
I've never been a big reader, but Isaac Asimov's books are an easy read, because he was a real scientist, so his books have a ring of truth. He didn't make up stuff to fit his story lines. His settings are based in real science & dialogs that seem plausible & not overly fanciful.
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