• 134 overflowxn, oddities cotd

    From MICHAEL LOO@1:123/140 to RUTH HAFFLY on Tuesday, October 22, 2019 08:28:10
    The relation between support staff and professional is
    a ticklish thing, and perhaps worthy of scholarly study.
    Scholars, supported by underlings? (G)

    Well, yeah, but the underlings themselves have a
    culture, which seems to be a potential subject for
    study, and some of the roles morph into professions of
    their own. Q.V. hospital and university administrators.

    manufacturing leaving places like Minnesota and going to Asia
    and South America and to some extent Africa, and our
    universities > ML> being the great influencers worldwide at this
    time.
    All depending on each other in one way or another.
    It would be hard to explain that to some people.
    Undoubtedly so. A hunter/gatherer converted to a factory line worker
    would be one of many who did not understand the "why" of it all.

    I figure that even people well into the process may
    not see the big picture.

    It would have been nice to get Wegman's first, instead of Lidl, but that's the breaks.
    Eh, you get what you get and make the most of it. I wish
    that I had better eyesight and perhaps just a bit less of
    a sense of hearing. But I got only a Lidl.
    And overall, content with what you have. We stopped into the new
    Wegman's last night about 5 pm--crowded as all get out. Found what we
    wanted, did some wandering (picking up other odds & ends) and were on
    the road home by 5:40.

    I hope that place keeps living up to its reputation.

    I've never dug into the comparing.
    One might want to to evaluate the claims of the various stores.
    One might, but don't know if I'd want to be that one at this time. I know there are some things I won't buy at certain stores, but will
    at > others.
    I wasn't meaning you necessarily, but perhaps the Observer
    or someone like that.
    They might, or one of the local tv stations might.

    It's as likely to be news as any of the news.

    Others here have and have touched on their experiences.
    Probably not worth the time/money involved sort of experience.
    ? We're talking doing this as part of a job, i.e.,
    presumably making money at it.
    I earn my pin money by sewing.

    I don't have an ATM card and thus don't get pin money!

    But let, say, Sean speak up on the subject.

    The main reason for social institutions.
    There are a good number of those. (G)
    Public, private, profit and nonprofit. A whole lot.
    Some worthy, others not so, many in between.
    All in between, unless there's real fraud involved.
    Could be, who knows?

    There is periodically.

    I'd prefer it if we were given each day our daily beefteak.
    I know, but you're probably in the minority, world wide.
    For those who can, I might be in the minority. For
    those who can't, I bet a preponderance of them dream
    of animal protein.
    Possibly, or they may dream of other things. A mile high mountain of
    cheese, perhaps?

    A mountain of sugar candy, a moon made of green cheese
    (ugh!). all sorts of things. Beef tehds to dominate my
    food dreams, even though I've gone from once a summer
    when in school to almost every day when I'm with Lilli.

    To me, tomatoes seem hardly a vegetable.
    Technically it's a fruit tho most of us treat it as a vegetable. A
    good
    The definitions of vegetable are more arbitrary than
    instructive. If you leave out fruits, you're cutting
    squash, eggplant, beans of all sorts, capsicums, okra,
    cucumbers, and so on, as well as tomatoes.
    Basically all things we eat.

    We shouldn't give fruits short shrift when talking about
    veggies, but in any case to me, tomatoes hardly seem one.

    For a long time, crappy tomatoes were better for me
    than good ones, as my mouth was very sensitive to
    the acidy spicy goodness of real ones.
    My dad raised tomatoes, Mom canned them. The fresh tomatoes were good;
    canned tomatoes as a supper time "vegetable" weren't so great. I don't
    think I've ever served them that way but instead, used them as part of another dish.

    Canned tomatoes never gave me mouth problems the way
    good fresh ones did; neither did lousy pink baseballs.

    Stewed tomatoes and corn
    categories: from my past, vegetable
    servings: 4 to 6

    1 pt stewed tomatoes
    10 oz pk frozen corn, more to stretch
    s,p
    croutons to taste to stretch

    Heat tomatoes over medium heat until just at the
    boil. Break up large clods of tomato. Add corn
    and heat until steaming. Season and stir in crisp
    croutons. Serve hot.

    Source: what my mother did in the 1950s and '60s
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  • From Ruth Haffly@1:396/45.28 to MICHAEL LOO on Tuesday, October 22, 2019 16:18:02
    Hi Michael,

    The relation between support staff and professional is
    a ticklish thing, and perhaps worthy of scholarly study.
    Scholars, supported by underlings? (G)

    Well, yeah, but the underlings themselves have a
    culture, which seems to be a potential subject for
    study, and some of the roles morph into professions of
    their own. Q.V. hospital and university administrators.

    Going round and round in circles then.


    manufacturing leaving places like Minnesota and going to
    Asia > ML> > ML> and South America and to some extent Africa, and
    our
    universities > ML> being the great influencers worldwide at
    this > ML> time.
    All depending on each other in one way or another.
    It would be hard to explain that to some people.
    Undoubtedly so. A hunter/gatherer converted to a factory line worker would be one of many who did not understand the "why" of it all.

    I figure that even people well into the process may
    not see the big picture.

    Probably so. OTOH, you'll have people that see it and try to figure out
    a way to get out of the cycle. Some may do so successfully, others will
    stay in the same role forever.


    It would have been nice to get Wegman's first, instead of
    Lidl, but > ML> > that's the breaks.
    Eh, you get what you get and make the most of it. I wish
    that I had better eyesight and perhaps just a bit less of
    a sense of hearing. But I got only a Lidl.
    And overall, content with what you have. We stopped into the new Wegman's last night about 5 pm--crowded as all get out. Found what
    we > wanted, did some wandering (picking up other odds & ends) and
    were on > the road home by 5:40.

    I hope that place keeps living up to its reputation.

    If the first 3 weeks have been any indicator, it's a permanent plant in
    the area. Enough people from areas served by Wegman's now living in this
    area will keep it going.

    I've never dug into the comparing.
    One might want to to evaluate the claims of the various
    stores. > ML> > One might, but don't know if I'd want to be that one
    at this time. I > ML> > know there are some things I won't buy at
    certain stores, but will > ML> at > others.
    I wasn't meaning you necessarily, but perhaps the Observer
    or someone like that.
    They might, or one of the local tv stations might.

    It's as likely to be news as any of the news.

    See my note to Nancy about the price comparing. They didn't take into
    account sales, house brands, etc which probably would have lowered
    totals more so. Now they need to do a follow up rating of various
    store's house brands. (G)


    Others here have and have touched on their experiences.
    Probably not worth the time/money involved sort of
    experience. > ML> ? We're talking doing this as part of a job, i.e.,
    presumably making money at it.
    I earn my pin money by sewing.

    I don't have an ATM card and thus don't get pin money!

    But let, say, Sean speak up on the subject.

    OK with me. Figured you might catch the sewing/pin relationship tho.
    The definitions of vegetable are more arbitrary than
    instructive. If you leave out fruits, you're cutting
    squash, eggplant, beans of all sorts, capsicums, okra,
    cucumbers, and so on, as well as tomatoes.
    Basically all things we eat.

    We shouldn't give fruits short shrift when talking about
    veggies, but in any case to me, tomatoes hardly seem one.

    For a long time, crappy tomatoes were better for me
    than good ones, as my mouth was very sensitive to
    the acidy spicy goodness of real ones.
    My dad raised tomatoes, Mom canned them. The fresh tomatoes were
    good; > canned tomatoes as a supper time "vegetable" weren't so great.
    I don't > think I've ever served them that way but instead, used them
    as part of > another dish.

    Canned tomatoes never gave me mouth problems the way
    good fresh ones did; neither did lousy pink baseballs.

    Stewed tomatoes and corn
    categories: from my past, vegetable
    servings: 4 to 6

    1 pt stewed tomatoes
    10 oz pk frozen corn, more to stretch
    s,p
    croutons to taste to stretch

    Heat tomatoes over medium heat until just at the
    boil. Break up large clods of tomato. Add corn
    and heat until steaming. Season and stir in crisp
    croutons. Serve hot.

    Source: what my mother did in the 1950s and '60s

    My mom's stewed tomato recipe:

    Send child to cellar to get a quart jar of home canned tomatoes. Heat
    contents of said jar to boiling. Set table (or have child do so) to
    include small bowl (only at Dad's place, for his tomatoes), serve in
    larger bowl. Serves 7--2 adults, 5 children of various ages.

    Source: what my mom did in 50s thru early 70s. Mid to late 70s fewer
    served as children left home for various reasons but Mom continued to
    can tomatoes until about 2008. For all I know, there might still be some
    jars on the shelves in the cellar.

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    Ruth
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