>  ML> I just checked my singles supply anticipating
>  ML> such a run in the near future.
> When we went to the RV in the fall one of the first things we did on
arrival
> was to go find $20 in quarters, which would be replenished a couple of
times

For me quarters used to suffice for hotel and
bar tips and were my "ticket to ride" on public 
trans. Now, it's dollar bills for everything,
sometimes multiples. I am hoping that inflation
doesn't creep things up to fivers everywhere 
until after I die.

Once in high school I wrote a story that 
predicted the end of the cent coin. I don't
remember much about it except that it quoted
a fictional Treasury official as saying
"pretty soon the penny won't be worth a
plugged nickel."

> over the next 5 months.  Naturally for the laundromat, buy the local
paper out
> of machines, but it's amazing how many quarters you can go through.  I
still do
> it when I hit Arizona.  Then I have a nice, easily carried, lidded
plastic tub
> of quarters.

I don't know what it's like now, but a
couple years ago New York City buses took
only the swipe cards or coins - no bills.
That meant that tourists who were unprepared
had to put nine quarters into the machine.

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.02

      Title: Cooked Lettuce
 Categories: Side dish, Vegetables, Hungarian
      Yield: 6 servings

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     12    Lettuces
      9 oz Bacon
      1 c  Wine vinegar
           Salt
           Sugar
           Garlic

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     12    Lettuces
    250 g  Bacon
    220 ml Wine vinegar
           Salt
           Sugar
           Garlic

  Throw away the outer leaves, wash the heads well and quarter
  them. Cook them in water with vinegar, salt and sugar.
  Cut some bacon in tiny cubes and fry it in a saucepan. Lift
  the cubes of bacon out of the fat and pour as much as is
  thought necessary of the melted fat over the salad. Mix well,
  replace lid for about half a minute and serve.
  Scatter the cubes of bacon over the salad before serving.

  Recipe Karoly Gundel "Hungarian Cookery Book"
  MMed IMH Georges' Home BBS 2:323/4.4

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