Hi Michael,

 ML> >  ML> > It was not a trait looked upon with favor by my parents. I do
 ML> recall >  ML> If one is stubborn enough, one doesn't care.
 ML> > I think the sister below me had more of that kind of stubborness.

 ML> Depending on the situation it too is one of those
 ML> seldom appreciated traits that can come in useful.

It can be useful at times, other time, downright bothersome. Also
depends on if you're the stubborn party or the one being stubborned
against. (G)

 ML> >  ML> Why a fireball - whose idea was that in the
 ML> >  ML> first place?
 ML> > It was part of a bag of candy treats--don't remember if it was a
 ML> > birthday party take home or what but it was my first experience with

 ML> That's peculiar.

Not really for my time and place.

 ML> > that candy. Years later, I had another one and wondered "WHy did I
 ML> think > these were so hot?". (G)

 ML> As I recall, there was a sag in spiciness - when I
 ML> rediscovered them in the '70s they had become smaller
 ML> and less hot; apparently the manufacturer (Ferrara I
 ML> think) just didn't bother to add the outer layers,
 ML> which were the hottest ones. More recently, the heat
 ML> has returned somewhat.

I've not bought any in years--probably since the 2nd time I had one.
That was before I married Steve so it's been decades since I've had one.
Chocolate in most forms is my sweet of choice.


 ML> > I'll buy canned tomatoes and beans, sometimes mushrooms, but not
 ML> corn. > Beans are usually the kidney or other ones good in chili type
 ML> dishes and > garbanzoes for making hummus (I'll also buy the dried and
 ML> cook those) or > Moroccan chicken.

 ML> To clarify: I meant beany beans, not green beans,
 ML> the canned version which is an abomination.

I figured as much. Sometimes I'll buy the canned green and wax beans to
make a bean salad but that is a maybe once every 10 years sort of thing.
I did make an alternative one once, with garbanzoes, black and navy
beans. (G)

 ML> Mushrooms, a big waste of money.

Handy for things like a spur of the moment decision to have pizza or
some of my odds and ends of this and that meals. A can of mushrooms
helps stretch whatever's being mixed together.


 ML> Green Giant offered a very good corn product at
 ML> one time. It was a solid-packed Niblets that
 ML> actually tasted like food. Also, I use canned
 ML> creamed corn for fritters.

We don't do corn here, remember? If I do use it, as I did before we
realised Steve's problem with it, I'll use frozen corn.

 ML> >  ML> Onions need something to jazz them up.
 ML> > Agreed; she may have done something (maybe a cream sauce?) but I
 ML> just > don't remember.

 ML> Even plain boiled onions were usually served
 ML> with some kind of sauce. Better to have them
 ML> cooked in it.

And, she may have cooked them in some sort of sauce but I just don't
remember it.

 ML> >  ML> > Depends on if you want people to know what they're eating or
 ML> not. >  ML> Exactly, but I almost always want them to know.
 ML> > If you're trying to get a child to eat a disliked food, disguising
 ML> it > and incorporating it into something else usually works. If you
 ML> don't
 ML> > disclose what was in the dish, the child (or adult) is none the
 ML> wiser.

 ML> But doesn't learn!

They may, with enough exposure. OTOH, they may not, like me and my
siblings with candied sweet potatoes.

 ML> > True, tho when he was up in his years (I think 80s) my dad wrote to
 ML> the > governor asking that all WWII vets get handicap tags. He figured
 ML> that > all the vets were in their 80s or 90s and would appreciate
 ML> having the > tag. I don't recall what came of it tho, different state
 ML> than I lived > in.

 ML> Nothing wrong with the current system, which is
 ML> if you need it you get it. In most of the states
 ML> I've lived in (all the ones I paid any attention
 ML> in), veterans were issued V or DV plates that
 ML> gave them extra privileges.

They still don't get the handicap parking priviledge unless they have
that tag to the best of my knowledge. Our younger daughter has a V
plate, doesn't get anything out of it that we know of.


 ML> >  ML> > Almost need full time parking lot cops to enforce it.
 ML> >  ML> I'm surprised there hasn't been a shaming industry
 ML> >  ML> established, the way there is with so many things.
 ML> > It may develop as our generation ages.

 ML> It may develop as the next generation ages. Ours
 ML> is by and large and present company perhaps
 ML> excepted too technologically backward to sustain
 ML> such a movement.

I'd say that our generation is a mix of technologically capable and
backwards. Don't know what the split would be but there is a definate
divide in technological competence.

 ML> > I saw checkers a number of times in Berlin; we rode public
 ML> transpotation > for free under a SOFA agreement with the
 ML> German/American gvernments.
 ML> > Just had to show our ID card.

 ML> I've seen them, just not often, mostly as I
 ML> recall on the x00 series buses.

I rode buses, U-bahns and S-bahns, depending on where I was going.

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