Oh, yeah - I eventually got your mail and thought
I'd responded to it with a brief answer that went
something like "no wiggle room in July, maybe in
the fall."
Never received, had you responded.... the fall might be more open here, too... ;)
Let's try again: gist, July, no. September before
the picnic or sometime in October, maybe.
That's the 1980s ... like last month to me.
Yes, probably 1984-5 or so... And that could explain a thing or
three... ;)
Might, but not the Volvo issue two decades later.
That was a different issue.... of needing higher octane than regular gas could provide... and still is the case today with the Volvos we
currently drive...
I wasn't imagining that a Volvo might be a
piece of citrus fruit.
The Aries was our only really bad experience with ChryslerCorp... and it was only a grapefruit, not quite a lemon....
One of your taglines, as I recall, says
something about that.
No, I think that was a pineapple.... different yellow fruit (and
potentially better)....
Someone had one that, paraphrased, said a grapefruit
is a lemon that took advantage of its opportunities.
Pretty much. It's hard to see where the summer will
go, and if the lowered ambient energies will mean a
less severe hurricane season, the way people are hoping.
That would actually be a nice thing.... especially after all the record floodings....
One might be trading winds for rain. Hard for
professionals to guess, much less us. The only
thing that's clear is that the disruptions are
getting bigger.
It must be a pretty big operation if it has separate
labels for the states its produce is grown in. A smaller
or cheaper operation would say simply USA.
Apparently.... The one for NC also says, as part of its banner, "got to
be NC produce", with a stylized map of NC.... and the NC shape balancing
on the other side of the words Blueberries Bluets...
So I just had some more berries from Mexico - Driscoll
strawberries that were giant and cottony like US ones of
this time of year but fairly sweet and semi-fragrant, so
a compromise between real and fake; also a new brand of
raspberries, Paradise, which were no good at all.
more smaller ones, some unripe. Okay flavor, not as good as
some of the Mexican and Peruvian Driscoll's ones we've had
in the winter, but certainly better than the strangely fibrous Mexican ones that Driscoll foisted off on us twice this year
so far.
What I got was a nice mix of sizes and more ripe than not... nice flavor from the ripe ones... :)
As I recall a fair number of redder ones,
which not only were sour but lacked much flavor.
This was much better balanced than that... maybe one redder one, if
that... Maybe NC produce is better than GA, ater all....? (G)
I wouldn't be the one to say.
American blueberries (product of USA) - a mixture of smallish
very sour berries and medium-to-large sweetish but tasteless
ones. These were inferior to most we've had, which made the "patriotic berry" nonsense on the box particularly irritating.
Oh, dear.....
+
... We're going right to the top to get to the bottom of this
Oh, dear ... but some percentage of buyers will be
swayed more by the flag on the package than the
quality inside. It would have been nice if the
berries were as good as the country they came from.
True...
There was a similarly patriotically-inspired brand
of tools, claimed to be made in USA, that were
notoriously brittle, not being forged. I don't
remember much about them except a broken-off wrench
whose exposed part showed telltale crystals and a
clear fault line. I hope they weren't exported
anyplace.
Michter's mint julep
categories: booze, railroad, horse racing, Kentucky
servings: 1
2 oz Michter's US*1 Bourbon
1/2 oz simple syrup
8 mint leaves
garnish - mint sprigs
Muddle mint until fragrant. Add Bourbon
and syrup and cobbled or shaved ice.
Swizzle until condensation formes on the
outside of the glass. Top off ice and
garnish with mint sprigs.
Michter's Distillery via National magazine 4-5/2019
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