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So what do you think of the behemoth beans? Flavor? Texture? Would you/will you grow 'em again?

One of the greatest of all, in fact, the "Pirate Admiral" Peter Easton. He was handsome and well-connected, more or less born to be played onscreen by someone like Errol Flynn. On one occasion a French fleet trapped Easton and his vessels in Harbour Grace, but despite the wind being against him Easton succeeded in winning the engagement, capturing a few of the French ships and driving off the rest. He even blockaded Bristol, one of Britain's most important trading points, until he was bought off with a ransom. In the end he bought a pardon, a title and a grand estate with his ill-gotten gains, married a noblewoman, and retired to a life of wealth and ease.

I guess the advantage of settling into the whole "stocky, balding, bearded" thing at a young age is being able to rock the same look for 30+ years without anyone really noticing my slow deterioration...

Further to my previous, similar post about Google (and driving home the point that this is inherent, not vendor-specific): https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/07/siri-records-fights-doctors-appointments-and-sex-and-contractors-hear-it/

A farmer's market vendor of my acquaintance used short lengths of PVC pipe as a makeshift extender for his folding table's legs. Worked quite well.

Yeah, I buy most of my bananas from the clearance rack. I like 'em dead ripe and leopard-spotted. Today was a red-letter day...omw home from dropping grandkids, I passed by a produce wholesaler and saw a stack of banana boxes in the parking lot, with a sign that said "free bananas - help yourself." So I got a big bunch of the least-overripe ones for myself, and another for my neighbour who runs a day home, and one for grandkids. Then when I got home I thought "well that was stupid..." so I went back and grabbed a whole case. The ones that haven't gone to neighbours (there are a lot kids, and a lot of single moms, in my building) will go into my deep freeze and be used for a summer's worth of banana "ice cream" and baked goods.

Hmm. The "patio chips" they speak of in that article are similar to something offered by one of our local chip-makers, Covered Bridge. They were originally marketed as "storm chips" after anchors on a popular regional news program sheepishly confessed that "picking up a few things at the store before the storm hits" meant, basically, potato chips. In the summer they're called "weekend chips."

I like that idea. My two existing canisters are a bit over-full, and a graduated set would probably fit nicely in the same space. Something to keep an eye open for...

I had a cab driver once tell me "Screw that organic stuff, I WANT my veggies sprayed. No bugs for me, thank you very much!" I told him "You don't get it...the bugs are always there, the sprays just kill them so they can't crawl back out." The look on his face was priceless.

The link you posted is mashed up with the link for this thread. Clean link is here: https://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/dining/restaurants/reviews/at-bulrush-rob-connoley-fashions-a-vital-modern-restaurant-from/article_3b65410d-fb08-5755-8191-14725471ef81.html

Listeria in Ryki brand gouda slices, affects Ontario only. https://www.inspection.gc.ca/about-the-cfia/newsroom/food-recall-warnings/complete-listing/2019-07-23/eng/1563935884356/1563935886615

My sister and my late wife were cut from the same cloth. We were all together in the same place on the occasion of my parents' 50th anniversary, and in a spirit of pure scientific curiosity I was keen to see who the bloodsuckers would favor when they were in close proximity. My wife "won" that particular popularity contest, if "won" is the correct word.

I will never again wander off for an hours' leisurely browse through Ars Technica immediately after putting mozza sticks in the oven for 15 minutes (my new oven has no timer so I went to my desk to get the phone, saw a new email in my inbox, got distracted....). On the upside, I can tell you that mozza sticks baked until hard and crunchy throughout and then dipped in marinara sauce taste surprisingly like the crunchy edges of the lasagna, though not enough so to merit repeating the experiment (they'd have been better if *only* cooked twice as long as necessary). Wasn't quite what my sweetie had been jonesing for, alas.

Salmonella in Gaia Garden Herbal Dispensary's "balancing tea," BC only. https://www.inspection.gc.ca/about-the-cfia/newsroom/food-recall-warnings/complete-listing/2019-07-23/eng/1563924738546/1563924740655

Yeah, that's not even a judgement call. Any chucklehead can make a lobster roll, but good fried clams are a rarity.

Looks good. I'll have to see if I still have some in the freezer.

Made me think of the old Bobby Bare song: "I've been lost in Austin, juiced in Houston/don't remember Dallas But Dallas won't be soon forgetting me..."

Nope, just the local dairies. In some places you'll see Baxter's or Farmer's or Scotsburn, with Scotsburn being the most common alternative to Chapman's in my part of the province.

With electronics, you just never know. I used to work for Radio Shack Canada for a lot of years, back in the day, and - because we repaired what we sold, in-house - we had a better read than most store staff on what was reliable and what wasn't. There are some major brands that I still won't buy, to this day, as a result (though realistically that was a LONG time ago...). But it was pretty random. You'd get one person who's had nothing but grief with major, well-respected brands (in my case anything Sony I ever touched turned to crap) while other people might have nothing but rock-solid reliability from a make and model that had a hideous return rate. After a while you just shrug and fill out the repair ticket, and stop trying to figure it out.

The corresponding place here in New Brunswick is Ossie's Lunch, also founded in 1957 and also unprepossessing. Ossie's is purely takeout, though, so you eat in your car or at picnic tables outside (depending on the mosquito population at a given moment). Unfortunately the new highway barges along parallel to the old road, so you have to know it's there or you'll miss it. If any eGers' plans for the summer include crossing the border at Calais, PM me and I'll let you know which turnoff to watch for.

I remember it being around for a year or two in my childhood. Frozen concentrated orange juice hadn't quite made it to my neck of the woods yet, so the options were either canned or fresh-squeezed, and the latter was only an occasional extravagance (served in very small glasses which, IIRC, were the deliberately-reusable jars from a brand of mustard or something). I didn't mind it, as a kid, but once the frozen stuff arrived it was all over for Tang.

In my neck of the woods, alas, Chapman's is the better option. A lot of local venues have switched to Nestle, which is just awful.

Today's Facebook facepalm, spotted by my daughter: "If you boil a funnybone, it becomes a laughing stock."

They're hardy and very low-maintenance once established, so you could certainly have some of your own with minimal effort.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/07/21/743549993/50-years-after-apollo-11-heres-what-and-how-astronauts-are-eating