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Unilever? Man, those guys own everything. We all laughed in B school when they bought (uber-crunchy granola, philosophy-wise) Ben and Jerry's.

Do you have Deborah Madison's "Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone"? She has a recipe for fried spaghetti that is almost like a fritata. You could make pasta salad. Cut it up and use it for noodles in soup. Use it like lo mein noodles. Weigh it out in batches and just freeze it until someone has a great idea. Throw a spaghetti dinner for the neighbors? Honestly, now that it's cooked, I would batch it out and feeze it. Unless you can use that much pasta right away or in the next few days, short of freezing, I say let the chickens have some of it.

I've got to say that is a most unattractive name for a hamburger.

Can't you steep some hot whole dried peppers and use the strained liquid to make the candy? I'm not a candy maker, so ignore me if I'm in left field.

That's a great idea to pair the heart with beets. Nice earthy flavors.

What's the difference if the container is ultimately placed in the recycle bin? By reusing the containers, you ultimately use less of them, thereby reducing recycling and waste. Well, if your sports water bottles looked anything like mine, you wouldn't want to use it again. Sounds like my sports bottle. I actually grew out some agar plates with swabs from refilled water bottles a few years ago. Forget it. I also fill lots of big jugs with water like Shelby and Darienne since we have lost our power for up to 12 days before. No power, no pump. I buy gallons of distilled water for myself and to use in the steam iron all year round.

To the "I'd never buy bottled water" crowd. One of my sons is on the track team at high school. He takes bottled water in liter bottles with him to their meets. Many times the water fountains are broken or dirty and he doesn't like Gatorade. All of the schools here have recycling bins so I'm not understanding the problem. I'd rather he was hydrated when he's running several miles in 80-90 degree heat. As for coffee? I'm with Jackie Mason on that one. It's coffee. You get a cup at the diner for 50 cents with endless refills or you go to a "coffee bar" and pay $7 for a coffee with no refills? I'll take the diner.

That's a shame, andie. There was no reason to destroy her tree crop to get at those pigs. I hope she recovers her lose and decides not to move away. Hungry C: That's why I proposed a bounty. It stupid to destroy domestic livestock because one of them "may" be a feral hog. As usual, Southerners are more practical about these matters.

DMS, thanks for providing those documents. It still sounds as if the argument is framed very broadly and the pig farmers are right to be angry. If these feral pigs are being either found dead or killed outright (at least half of them from the first report), why doesn't the state department of fish and game just sell a boatload of wild pig tags and send the hunters after them? Or better, put a bounty on them since I imagine that they are too gamey for most people to eat? A photo of a scary tusky boar on a bounty poster would generate some income for the out of work and get rid of the pesky boars, too. Win-win!

Correct me if I am wrong, DMS, but were not these pigs penned at the farms referenced in the article? Most pigs bred for food are castrated as piglets and a farmer may or may not keep a boar of his own, but mostly a load of brood sows. Food pigs are also sent to slaughter at a regulation weight (I can't recall how heavy) and not allowed to grow as large as a Buick. If they were and they went feral, they would certainly be much easier to find and to kill. Did the regulators have evidence that all the pigs slaughtered were invasive species or heritage breeds? Who is driving this slaughter? Invasive species of pigs are in most states and, yes they are distructive.

Because it's Michigan. That wasn't nice, so I'll take it back. Michaela, I don't think you can divorce the politics from this matter. Even if the statute is revisited at a later date, it is still too late for the small farmers who have been directly effected by massive over-reach.

Pigs or no pigs, the DNR is violating these farmer's fourth amendment rights by illegally searching their farms even after being shown that the pigs have been slaughtered. Nothing like losing your livlihood to overzealous bureaucrats.

I'm not eating anything that's raw anymore. I will eat sushi in California, but anywhere else in the US? Nope. Chill out, New Yorkers. I'm sure yours is fine, I just don't go there anymore.

Buying and eating tuna rolls in DC that are made in California = bad idea.

I always salt, but am on again off again about fat. I like basmati for pilaf, but by itself? It's a snore.

I don't like Basmati rice. I like short-grained rice and I love my rice cooker. On orange-y cheeses: My youngest loves him some mac n cheese or shells and cheese. The Velveeta kind. He boils the pasta and mixes it up himself, so I figure he's cooking more than a lot of adults I know. I'm with Shelby on the Velveeta for homemade mac n cheese. I've probably tried one hundred baked mac n cheese recipes and decided that I just don't like my mac n cheese baked. I want it saucy, not slicable.

What Jaymes said about the cabinet doors, that or just take them off since you use the items all the time. Tap the door pins out with a slot screwdriver and a small hammer.

Well said Kim. We make queso dip with Velveeta and salsa or Rotel tomatoes during football season. I buy frozen vegetables quite a bit since the selection here is not that great and there are no farmer's markets. Of course, I don't do this when my own garden is producing, but last year all my plants just cooked in the sun despite watering and feeding. Your nieces sound like my SIL who had never had real mashed potatoes until she moved away from home. Her mother is a fan of instant foods, and it frosts my brother's butt to have to eat at her house when they visit.

I'm glad to see grits getting some respect! I used to roll my eyes when I lived in Pennsylvania and people would blanch at the thought of eating grits, but thought nothing of eating polenta or scrapple.

I like liquid detergents and bottled water. Our well is really mineral heavy and it doesn't taste good to me, so I buy distilled for me. Everyone else and the dogs get tap water since they don't mind it.

I thought Cool Whip was kosher?

Self-rising flour is stocked right next to the all-purpose flour here. I don't buy it often since I don't make a lot of hot breads.

Do you mean pasta sauce or plain tomato sauce such as would be used in a pasta sauce? I don't have a problem with people who like jarred pasta sauces; you can dress them up, toss in some meat and veg. My son uses them a lot since he works crazy hours. As for pre-chopped veg and fruit, I think that's okay too if you live alone or are arthritic or just have crappy knife skills or knives.

Were you sober? SlimJim's = Drunk food.

Of course they're blaming the negative publicity. Nothing like being hounded out of business to make one a tad bitter.