Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 02-12-19 12:20 <=-

Heh, I might have labeled mine also-ran chili
(not very good) whether it was or not, to ensure
some would be left for me to have later.

Like perhaps you might have done with your meatballs for the church
brunch, last picnic...? (G) Trouble is that once someone tastes it,
all bets are off.... ;) always tastes pretty great.... :)

Yeah, I hoped there would have been enough
for me to get a second tasting, but if they
liked it, all the better.

They were very nice... Had you made more, they'd probably still all
been eaten... or at least mostly so.... ;)

... RTFM: Read The Fact-filled Manual.

"Fun-filled," perhaps?

Sometimes, I suppose.... :)

Worse, the product has changed. I broke a
Corningware pot that should have been stove-
safe but turned out to be some kind of cheap
reformulated Chinese product (but stiil, so
far as anyone knows, legally Corningware).

That's sad.... Do you mean that one can't cook with the new "Corningware"....?

One can't cook on the stove with it. Corning-
labeled cookware used to be made from lab glass,
borosilicate to you, and could take a lot of
thermal abuse. Now Corningware is plain glass.

That sounds like the Pyrex dishes.... when I think of Corningware, it's
the white dishes (with or without nice patterns on the outside of the
pot)...

Consumer Reports and various other testing
agencies missed the point when they said the
loss of thermal elasticity and the gain of
drop-shatter strength cancelled out. Myself, I
think the brand should return to its roots, but
that won't happen; it's too expensive.

And that's sad....

Of course, who thought that Sears would go away?

They failed to adapt. Between the Internet and Walmart they were
doomed, just like so many other old time dept. store chains.

I suppose, and unlikely survivors remain,
thanks to luck or corporate forsight. I am
still wondering why Barnes & Noble survived
and Borders didn't. Perhaps it was because
of the reverse Midas touch of Kmart.

Barnes & Noble were forethoughtful enough to get the college
franchises (or maybe just locations).... Both RIT and UR have their own
B&N stores on or just off campus.... dunno about the other colleges....
But for RIT and UR, B&N is _the_ campus bookstore....

I'm pretty sure Boston University Bookstore
was affiliated with Barnes & Noble as well,
though Harvard of course always had its Coop,
which returns the profits to its membership at
the end of the fiscal year.

We used to have just a campus bookstore, back when I was in college, but somewhere along the way, Barnes & Noble took it over.... The Coop
sounds like a nice way to handle things.... :)

ttyl neb

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