Martin Fisher

Yep!

You obviously haven't been to my area.

This is very interesting. Have you grown them before?

I was there the other day for heavy cream, mostly. They did have the pork belly, but the price is unreasonable, IMHO. They also had a heck of a lot of the brie in stock.

Yeah! That!

Over regulation, taxation etc. is unnecessary and it is EVIL. Federal regulation, State regulation, local regulation, licensing fees, etc. Federal taxation. State taxation, local taxation, miscellaneous taxation. The professional help required o sort it all out. The burden of it all is overwhelming, especially for small farmers who often work 16-18 hour days for a pittance. It's destroying the soul of this country. Examples of SOME of the regulations and resulting complications facing farmers: Regulatory System Impacting Farmers and Ranchers

Exactly!!!

What exactly did she steal? And are you sure her videos are monetized? Not all are.

Do you/have you farmed? Do you know my situation?

Why? https://www.starbucks.com/menu/food/hot-breakfast/sous-vide-egg-bites-bacon-gruyere https://anovaculinary.com/easy-homemade-sous-vide-egg-bites/

Any business benefits by limiting competition. I think such schemes (or potential schemes) happen a lot behind the scenes. Not milk related, but food related, and something I know a bit about. Back in the 1980s Ralph Gamber who ran Dutch Gold Honey in Lancaster,PA....which mostly packed shitty Chinese honey....attempted to spark legislation that would outlaw hand capping of honey bottles by small producers, effectively eliminating a lot of competiton because automatic capping equipment is so expensive. There isn't a DAMN thing wrong with hand capping a bottle of honey. That's just ONE example. Greedy! Greedy! Greedy!

Yeah, the rules started many years ago — many of them were just plain stupid. My maternal grandfather ran a small creamery for 35+ years. When the 'bulk tank' requirement came along (rather than benign milk cans), my paternal grandfather would have been out of luck with his small dairy if it hadn't been for my maternal grandfather accepting the milk via a 'grandfather clause,' Anyway, it's just a part of the BULLSHIT that led to destruction of smaller farms and the expansion of mega-farms. Butz played a HUGE part in destroying quality agriculture in this country, Raw milk!? Raw milk cheese!? Ain't nobody's effing business but my own if I partake!!!!!!

That's too neat!

May be a bad batch of jars. I use Ball jars too. I don't think quality control is as good as it used to be. I bought a case of new jars a couple years ago which contained a jar with an obvious factory defect — the blemish was on the inside of the jar. I complained to Ball and they sent me a coupon for $4.00 off a new case.

Out of control, control-freaks gone wild. Too much regulation, taxation, meddling, etc. It's why I got out of farming.

I'm surprised. I do many different projects with canning jars and shock them in different ways with very few failures. Anyway, I think I'll try the 'eggbites' soon.

FWIW, here are a couple of the most recent FDA cheese import alerts: Import Alert 12-03, Published Date: 11/30/2016, "Detention Without Physical Examination of Imported Soft Cheese and Soft Ripened Cheese from France" Import Alert 12-10, Published Date: 08/22/2016, ""Detention Without Physical Examination of Cheese Due to Microbiological Contamination"

Did you make them or are they a commercial product? So many commercial low-carb tortillas and such suck but I've found the Mission Carb Balance tortillas to be reasonably good.

Yeah! No doubt!

Yeah, and Wilton makes a straight angel food cake pan with the leg thingies. I have one. My mom and grandmothers always presented round angel food cakes upside down (narrow base up.)

Yeah! I still watch the shows now and again. I would have loved to have met them both, but especially Jennifer — I bet she would have been fun to party with!

"the company’s limited partners [...] have “suffered millions of dollars in damages.”" Awwwwwww! Poor souls!!!!!

FWIW.... A Hoagie By Any Other Name —Dave Wilton “I wanna shake off the dust of this one-horse town. I wanna explore the world. I wanna watch TV in a different time zone. I wanna visit strange, exotic malls. I’m sick of eating hoagies! I want a grinder, a sub, a foot-long hero! I want to live, Marge! Won’t you let me live? Won’t you, please?” —Homer Simpson "And Homer is just scratching the surface of the lexical diversity of the sandwich. In addition to the names he cites there are: poor boy, torpedo, Italian sandwich, rocket, zeppelin or zep, blimpie, garibaldi, bomber, wedge, muffuletta, Cuban sandwich, and spuckie. Most of these names are associated with a particular region of the United States. The names also fall into several distinct patterns of origin, from the shape (sub, torpedo, rocket, zeppelin, blimpie, and bomber), from the size (hero, hoagie), from ethnic association (Italian sandwich, Cuban sandwich), from the type of bread used (muffuletta, spuckie), or from the fact that the sandwich is a cheap meal (poor boy)"

Good goin'! That's my kind of dessert!

Ask WMF. If it's not openly toted as American, Canadian, French, German or Italian made — I bet it's made in China.