Happy Birthday, Bobby
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No pic seen from here, HamMan.
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I heard on both fox news and am700 this morning that in response to the movie American Sniper, Michael Moore stated that snipers were cowards.
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The mystery blaze on the night of Jan. 18, 1915 marked the beginning of a series of 200 fires and explosions that terrified Americans and were centered in industrially-powerful New Jersey, bringing World War I home to America.
The state was the front line in an undeclared war that would burn for more than two years. It included explosions in Pompton Lakes, Carneys Point and Jersey City, a munitions plant in Lyndhurst and, most famously, the massive detonation of the Black Tom munitions depot on the New Jersey side of New York Harbor.
“New Jersey was the center for so much spy activity, from the cells in Hoboken to Black Tom to the boarding houses where schemes were plotted,” said Howard Blum, a writer and historian who published the bestselling “Dark Invasion” about German wartime espionage last year.
“Everything came through New Jersey ports,” added Jules Witcover, a journalist who wrote “Sabotage at Black Tom” about the terror campaign. “Everything.”
The Germans were trying to blow everything up well before America actually joined the fighting.
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#1 I see Robert E Lee. My Alabama Parks and Wildlife calendar lists today as the Robert E Lee and Martin Luther King holiday.
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This is one of those depressing days when the light traffic shows just how many people work for the government. How much better life would be if they took the whole year off.
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GTO – what’s the deal with the sudden saturation of IBEW ads on TV?
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No pic seen from here, HamMan.
Hmmm. Is it just you?
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It might have been too big. I decreased the file size.
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More info on “the hottest year in the history of the world” idiocy:
the NASA press release failed to mention…that the alleged ‘record’ amounted to an increase over 2010, the previous ‘warmest year’, of just two-hundredths of a degree—or 0.02C. The margin of error is said by scientists to be approximately 0.1C—several times as much.
Pause for a moment to digest that. The margin of error was plus or minus one tenth of a degree. The difference supposedly being measured here is two hundredths of a degree—five times smaller than the margin of error. The Daily Mail continues:
As a result, GISS’s director Gavin Schmidt has now admitted NASA thinks the likelihood that 2014 was the warmest year since 1880 is just 38 per cent. However, when asked by this newspaper whether he regretted that the news release did not mention this, he did not respond.
This is not exactly a high point in the employment of the scientific method.
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#9 Hamous : It does, however, mark a high point in propaganda.
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Well, I got back from Corpus yesterday and I had mentioned the great Barbacoa breakfast I had at a hole-in-the-wall Mexican restaurant, Corpus Christi, so as I passed through Refugio about 9:15, I decided to stop at ole KatFish’s haunt, La Riviera Taqueria and have REAL Barbacoa one more time because it’s hard to find around here. I must say it was great, both places were real good but I’d rate the place in Refugio a little better, since the Barbacoa was real moist and their homemade sauce was great, the green stuff was just a little warm. 😉
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Daverino, I had never heard of barbacoa, so I looked it up. Are you telling us you ate the head of a cow that was steamed and smoked until the meat was tender enough to scrape off of the skull?
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Good morning Hamsterville. http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/syria-israel-kills-irans-revolutionary-guard-general-mohammed-allahdadi-killed-golan-heights-1484092
Israeli airstrike kills Iranian general and some heZbollah terds to boot.
GO JUICE
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#12 M42: It is a delicacy which can hardly be described. An intense but not overpowering beef flavor, very tender and juicy and when fashioned into a taco, the very angels themselves whine in jealousy that they are not eating the same thing.
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I don’t know what is up with Local 716. I have noticed the ads have gone from ‘we only have the best’ to ‘C’mon, we’ll hire anybody’.
Pretty much the only gringos on a jobsite are electricians and those are disappearing, too. The speakers of other than English tend to not join unions. I suppose the IBEW might be having recruiting problems.
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Another holiday? Where are we now, in France?
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Barbacoa, way too greasy for me. The place I used to stop at in Refugio was on the west side of 77 just after you went under the railroad bridge going south. Maybe it is the same place. One thing I remember unique to south Texas grocery stores was lard. You could buy the stuff in five gallon buckets.
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#11 – SD! I wasn’t sure if You saw my post – our 1 stop there was the only time I’ve been – I had chorizo & eggs and it was OUTstanding for sure!
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I had never heard of barbacoa, so I looked it up.
Are you sure you’re a native Texan? I think there’s a Yankee in the wood pile.
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No pic seen from here, HamMan.
Hmmm. Is it just you?
Not sure. If anyone else is using an iPhone I’m curious to know if they too are having a problem seeing the photo.
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gtotracker says:
JANUARY 19, 2015 AT 7:44 AM
This is one of those depressing days when the light traffic shows just how many people work for the government. How much better life would be if they took the whole year off.Might have something to do with the number of High School and College Students not hitting the road this morning too, doncha think?
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#20 Shannon, No problemo using the Samsung Galaxy note3.
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Since I’m a cheapskate and also don’t care about TV much anyway, I don’t have any cable or over the air TV access out here in the wilderness. However, I do have Amazon Prime which includes a film library comparable to Netflix, but also includes some HBO stuff. Anyway, many of you may have seen an HBO series a while back call “The Wire” which basically includes the police versus drug dealers (and others) in Baltimore. Somehow, I suspect that the series actually captures life in the “hood” more realistically than most of us would like to imagine, and after a slow start, I finally began to comprehend what was going on and wound up watching the whole series over a period of a few weeks. The language is pretty rough, but the stories are captivating. Anyway, I found it interesting to watch during the run of cold, wet weather. NSFW or around kids.
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Are you telling us you ate the head of a cow that was steamed and smoked until the meat was tender enough to scrape off of the skull?
Oh YES!!! The best dayaam Messican food that they make, but it’s hard to find the real stuff, Lupe’s makes a fair fake version using brisket and beef stock. Like Bones said the beef flavor is enhanced because the face and especially the tongue has soo much flavor, the heart is he same way.
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Are you sure you’re a native Texan? I think there’s a Yankee in the wood pile.
Good point since I’m a red-headed stepchild with Scotch/Irish roots, and I do love it.
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mharper42, Whatever you do, don’t look up another favorite of mine, “Menudo”.
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I think the grocery store LA Michoacana has genuine barbacoa.
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Machine Gun America. One tourist attraction in Flowrita that might well be worth a visit.
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#26 – Yanno SD – I’ve never been a fan of menudo (the tripe was always pretty rubbery) – I do like the broth and the hominy though.
UNTIL – our BACA Chapter President’s Mom & Pop usually visit once or twice a year – Lordy his Mom makes the BEST home made menudo EVER! It’s reminiscent of beef stew and nothing rubbery at ALL – the first time I tried hers I ate 3 large bowls DELICIOUS!!
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“Menudo”………………yummmmm
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The best Menudo I have ever eaten was in a family owned city cafe’ in Falfurrias. I worked one summer as a plumbers helper building low rent housing. With me that cafe has the dubious honor of being the only restaurant I can say I have tried every menu item.
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I stayed at a motel down south there somewhere once that offered a complimentary “authentic Mexican breakfast” as a part of the package. I got up the next morning and went into the restaurant anxiously expecting the authentic Mexican breakfast – what they offered were a cigarette and a cup of black coffee. About as authentic as you can get I suppose.
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#29 #30 A buddy of mine who’s family came here in the 30’s, (fruit pickers), makes some FINE Meundo, the secret is cooking it a loong time. He uses a crock pot but some folks use a pressure cooker, he doesn’t because he says that if you’re not careful, you’ll cook it too much.
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I’ll stick to hagus. That stuff sounds awful.
On another note calling Robert E. Lee, Bobby somehow seems disrespectful.
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Love me some menudo.
I had a coworker down from Cincinnati for a meeting back in September. He is supposedly originally from central Texas. For breakfast one morning I had kolaches catered in. He asked what they were. When I told him “kolaches” he said he never heard of them. I unilaterally and permanently revoked his Texas credentials to the cheers of a few native Texans present.
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On another note calling Robert E. Lee, Bobby somehow seems disrespectful.
He nicknamed his eldest son Boo. I don’t think he’d mind 😉
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Heh. From his Wiki page:
Nickname(s) Bobby Lee (never to his face), Uncle Robert, Marse Robert, Granny Lee, the King of Spades, the Old Man, the Marble Man
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Hamous says:
JANUARY 19, 2015 AT 10:45 AM
On another note calling Robert E. Lee, Bobby somehow seems disrespectful.He nicknamed his eldest son Boo. I don’t think he’d mind 😉
I dunno.
Bubba seems more apropos along with being more respectful.
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Bobby Lee Another affectionate name the Troops used for Lee.
I think he’s cool with it so I’ll let it stand.
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Tedtam, are you still planting your own lettuce? Got some bad news for you… 🙂
http://joeforamerica.com/2015/01/grow-food-obama-says-youre-extremist-enemies-state/ -
#14 #19 #26
Are you sure you’re a native Texan? I think there’s a Yankee in the wood pile.
In West Texas, we did not eat the inedible parts of a cow.
Closest thing to a Yankee in my wood pile was a maternal great-grandmother from Pennsylvania. As a child, I was told she was descended from William Penn. I hated to visit her on Sundays because she wouldn’t let the children use our coloring books or play with any toys or do crafts. The only activity allowed on Sunday was reading the Bible.
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#40 Uh oh.
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we did not eat the inedible parts of a cow.
Well, I think you have several folks here that can testify to the fact that they’re quite edible.
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Bobby Lee (never to his face)
So maybe he didn’t like Bobby.
My ex-neighbor has the same name and always goes by Robert.
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I just saw one of those portable DPS flashing road signs on 59 inbound at about Weslayan that said “right lanes be closed”
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iPhone here, no pic.
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#35 Hammy
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Never heard of barbacoa OR kolaches??? I wanna see your bona fides 😉
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I don’t know who Farrah Abraham is but she gots some biscuit lips.
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49: Looks like she should be the star on the Simpsons.
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Kolaches brought in by Czech/Moravian immigrants who settled across the black land plains of central Texas.
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When you were growing up in a West Texas, harper, how much of a Mexican population was there?
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I did see a cow’s head in saran wrap in the meat department of a Safeway in Austin, circa 1970. Now I think about it, that store may have been on the east side of I-35. 🙂
When I took a job at the US Geological Survey in downtown Austin, and found a place to live between downtown and the UT campus, it took a while to figure out where to shop.
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We have a real Czech working here. She tells me the “pig-in-a-blanket” we call a kolache is not a kolache, but the pastries we call kolaches that you can get in any roadside bakery between here and Austin are kolaches.
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#52 ShanMan
I knew 2 mexicans in any of my classes, and 2 more who rode the same bus and lived close enough to me to visit their home. Otherwise I have no info. When I helped the alumni committee in 2012 locate missing classmates — by that scary online searching that I do 🙂 — I saw a lot more hispanic names than I was aware of at the time. -
No doubt a German improved on the too-sweet kolache by rolling up some sausage in dough.
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Yep, the first time I had a kolache it was a dessert item — fruit compote wrapped up in a dough. But that was here in Houston.
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I did know some Czech and Germanic origin people in Austin. None ever brought in any ethnic food that I recall.
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You musta been well-to-do. We ate pretty much everything from a cow and pig. A lot of it I don’t eat now. Don’t care for chitlins. Never did eat nuts. I do like hog head cheese.
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RE: no picture issue
I don’t know about “no images” but Lovely was informing me that the warning notice about Firefox really screws with her ability to navigate the blog on her phone. It covers up some of the necessary items she needs to click and such.
BTW – Have we decided on a name for the new baby yet? Has Mharper given her blessing to any of the suggestions?
Sunshine is becoming more accepting of the interloper of Mommy’s attention. She’s starting to use the word “Sister” and is wanting to touch her more often. Once I called the baby by her given name, and Sunshine turned to me and said “No, SISTER!” We’re all getting used to the new balance in the household. Of course, with Noona here, she’s not lacking for loving…
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Revoke my Texas card right now I guess I ain’t eating cow cheeks or whatever they won’t say that’s in menudo although my dad and uncles got together some Sunday mornings for brains and eggs.
We moved to Hereford, Tx for a short period in the late ’60’s, there was a heavy “Spanish” population there I’m assuming working in the feed lots. We called them Spanish then not Hispanic. Not sure if they were Mexican or not, they didn’t wear pointy boots.
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I have relatives who come from a family of six siblings – one girl and five boys. To the boys she is still “Sister” and some of them are in their 70s now.
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Revoke my Texas card right now I guess I ain’t eating cow cheeks
Didn’t say you have to eat it, but you should at least have heard of it.
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lol
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#54 #57 Yup, I worked with a guy from Shiner who said the same thing, a real Kolache is a fruit filled tart thingy.
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54 – the Czech is right as I understand it. Kolaches were the fruit in the square biscuit and pig’s in a blanket were just that. Had a Mikeska’s (sp?) in Wharton 30+ yrs ago that used to make the best ones. Not sure if it’s still around.
Dad grew up the German son of a sharecropper and picking cotton when he was 8 yrs. old – not much he hadn’t eaten from a cow/pig or whatever. Cast Iron stomach . Talk about pickled heart/tongue and most people will not believe that’s real. And I’ve had almost all of it also. But I’m not crazy about Menudo…at all.
Shannon – my iphone shows the photo.
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2 iPhones without.
1 with.
Go figure.
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See if you can get a picture of barbacoa to show up
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#59 Hammy
You musta been well-to-do.
Total opposite, LOL! Family raised one or two cows for slaughter every year, and had a large vegetable garden, living on 5 acres south of Midland proper. That’s why I rode the school bus.
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Barbacoa
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My mother’s family was well-to-do in a “big frog in a small pond” sense. Her father owned the cotton gin in a small town near Sweetwater. That’s probably why we didn’t eat the hooves and colon of any animals. Mom wasn’t raised that way and she didn’t have any recipes for using a cow’s head.
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#60 TT
Has Mharper given her blessing to any of the suggestions?
I think I responded to your idea last night; Little Darling and LD2 are fine. It will be fun for them to have sisters close enough in age to be BFFs.
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Lovely was informing me that the warning notice about Firefox really screws with her ability to navigate the blog on her phone. It covers up some of the necessary items she needs to click and such.
That is what usually happens when amateurs decide to protest or boycott something. The innocent folks always get hurt.
Live and let live
Can’t we all just get along
You can’t judge me
COEXIST
We are family
One big happy family
We are the world
Where have all the flowers gone
KhumbayaDuck you sucker
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*Perk* Did someone say Shiner?
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And the mome raths outgrabe.
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Little Darlin’ it is.
Finally, we have a name!
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Lil Darren?
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But she has two baby arms.
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Oh man that is soooo wrong. 🙂
On so many levels.
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Howdy gang!! Ya, I’ve been peekin in occasionally to make sure the couch was still secure. Just gonna add to the iPhone survey and let neighbor Shannon know mine gots da PICTURE but I’m using the Safari browser on my iPhone thangy.
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Heya Cbr.
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Send my regards to the rest of the FBers.
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Running safari here too, but it’s an old iPhone that doesn’t play well with others.
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84 GJT
Mine is a 4s running 7.0.2 I believe.
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I’ll stick to hagus. That stuff sounds awful.
That’s funny right there, I don’t care who you are! 😉
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Now all we need is Doood to jump in with the magical healing properties of Scrapple.
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Hey, do we have anyone here that likes Lutefisk?
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I tried lutefisk once. Once.
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I’ll stick with my original description: It’s kinda like eating a putrefied rat that’s been packed in Comet cleanser for about 100 years.
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Free Spin balance and rotate at Discount Tire wound up costing dang near $400, due to shoulder wear. The car never pulled but was wearing the inside shoulders -DAMMIT
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Sarge, traffic on my commute on a winter Federal holiday is far lighter than any given summer day when schools are out.
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I would like to add liver to the ranks of hagus, Lutefisk and beluga whale anus.
I’d rather eat fried rat than liver.
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beluga whale anus.
ONce you’ve had it you never go back . . . .
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I consume no offal meats, period.
But I accidentally bought Fish Steaks instead of Sardines and now think it will be a permanent switch. (With green chiles, of course)
Mmmmm.
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Many if not most carnivores prefer the viscera as it is more nutritious than any other portion of the body.
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Generally I take the position that it is not a good idea to eat the filter. I make an exception for the kidney of the chicken. When the bird is baked and that is left in place, yum yum.
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Higher order carnivores can be more selective.
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I just want to know what to do with this Spam LITE in the pantry??
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And who put it there, am I on a diet??
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Spam LITE
EWWWWWWWW
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I guess that LITE has about 20% less hair, claws, and gravel than the regular kind.
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Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/virginia-gov-terry-mcauliffe-hospitalized-after-he-was-thrown-from-horse-in-africa/2015/01/19/793f9b62-a004-11e4-b146-577832eafcb4_story.html
Terry “the punk” McAuliffe falls off his horse and breaks 7 ribs. Let me cry a few crocodIle tears for him.NOT!
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Hey! There ain’t no gravel in Spam now.
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Was he implying road kill in da can?
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I think he was implying Spam is not one of the greatest things mankind has ever come up with. Right next to the Jack in the Box taco.
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I hate to publicly admit it, but since Spam is carb and sugar free, it is included periodically in my diet. The hot and spicy kind is almost tolerable. Please don’t tell anyone though.
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Any gravel in the hot & spicy Spam?
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#106 – GJT cmonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn man – them Jack tacos are the bomb! (tough to go wrong at 2 fer a dollar!)
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Disparaging the noble Jack Taco might get your Texan card pulled, too.
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I agree!
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#108 – Everything except the squeal.
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