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Orange layer cake with orange frosting. I have a recipe and make it sometimes but have never seen it in stores.

For some time I have collected and restored old vending machines. Mostly gumball units with a few games and parking meters. I wish I had more room for larger fun items but they will have to wait until we get a bigger place. Some of the candy machines are for products that are no longer made. Like an Acorn vender for Wrigley’s tab gum. Short thick sticks of gum from back in the late 40’s. Most of the items are from the 30’s through early 70’s. On occasion I have done ornate silver filigree and stone faced units or custom painted and plated as gifts.

If only I where lucky enough to have lunch meetings. Too many times they want to spend time without interruptions. Most of them also want to be able to have an excuse to drink. Not always the most helpful thing when concepts are involved.

I don’t think there is such a place per se but north of Irving Park road around Clark and over towards Broadway has a good concentration of places.

All of those are great places and ones that I will pick if given the chance. The problem is I am not often the one doing the picking. For whatever reason people want to go to the places that they hear hyped. Having gone off on LEYE in another thread I will not digress here. I guess some buy in to the “ If its on Michigan ave. (or near.) it has to be good. Some of the guide books may also be to blame. At least I don’t have to suffer through to many meals at The Rain Forest Café or The Hard Rock.

I have found a few around the city that I like. Pastrami being one of the main draws for me. My personal favorite is Manny’s on Jefferson off of Roosevelt. Great selection of items, good specials and some of the best pastrami I have ever had. This is as close to NYC as you can get here!

Its been some time but I thought there where a couple of places in Red Bank. Up in the Maple and west front area.

Let's hear it for the Goy

Alas, I am limited to using it in the Kitchen. One of the down sides of apartment living and not being in a building with a porch or other ledge. Great advice though.

I thought that there was another in south NJ. Renault is one of the older ones and offers tours. Use ask.com quite a few listed.

Radio Shack?! Who'd of thunk? Is it their own brand? Yes it is. I was in the other week looking for some connectors and cables to finish a job and sitting on the new item wall with other “gift for dads’.” Ideas. It reads from 0 to 400 F.

Seems the same as what a few people Pmed me from Metromix and other local reviews. Part of the problem with meeting clients for meals is you seem to have them all want to go to the same sort of formula places. Magnum’s, The Cheese Cake Factory, Huston’s and like. With all the good places to go in the area it seems most people operate in a limited comfort zone. Then again the purpose is business and not what I like in a restaurant.

After reading the book Fast-food Nation you get a more sinister view of what goes on at the corporate level. Tax breaks for job training while dumbing down how work is done. Worth taking a look.

Dose anyone else think that the level of brand placement and other cobranding have gone a little over the top? Some shows and movies come off like infomercials. Remember the old days when people just drank beer and cola? Now it’s Coors Light and Pepsi. I guess ET changed things as M*A*S*H changed diolog.

I like to try it anyplace that pepper is called for. It is a nice change.

I just picked up one for of all places Radio Shack. This wireless unit has a 100’ range and seems to be fairly accurate. Under $40.00 and designed used on a grill works well in oven and broiler if the wire is kept from any hot surface.

It strikes me as silly and a bit strange that people will rant about the alleged health concerns about smoking in bars and miss the mark. Prolonged alcohol use will kill you faster than smoking ever will. People give up heroin and still smoke! Like the heroin user I don’t think most hardcore smokers ever started smoking to be addicted, I didn’t. Bars, offices and malls are not by strict definition public places. Parks, streets and government buildings are. OK, so you can’t smoke in court, big deal. You go out side and puff. Unless you are the presumed innocent defendant in a criminal mater; the Sheriff is not going to be accommodating even though you have the right to make the choice, you are in custody. I love the people that are quick to say how good the government is for enacting this legislation but still condemn them for other actions that they do not agree with. The taxes that smokers pay fund the coffers. A government wants you to be able to pay as much in taxes that you can without revolting. It will pick on “sin” as a way to levy tax on the sinner. My personal favorite is the person with one vice that deplores all other quote vices. Sure, drink like a fish but don’t smoke. In a place that will serve you a sandwich that contains enough fat, calories, nitrates and chemicals to feed a family of 4 and rework a boat. Be honest, how many well-meaning vegonazis won’t eat a grilled cheese sandwich but smoke some obscure brand with less additives? Nicotine is an addictive substance and yet the same people that fight for Marijuana reform or free speech are willing to throw smokers under the proverbial bus. So some single mother in Manhattan looses her job and we all think the worst. Some uninformed slut with a defective male. How do we know that? Could she have been an unconventional partner supporting a husband in medicine killed before he could draw a life insurance policy? Like most you choose to think the worst. It is not the government’s job to protect us from all ills; the left may try to make that claim. The government is there to perform the jobs illustrated in the documents that founded this nation. Or don’t you read that type of stuff?

Thanks to all that responded. Mass market waste of time, space and food.

Yes and it looked so good!

Appeltons Special Res. dark!

I would bet that you get more Aluminum from your Anti-Perspirant then cookware.

Cutting stone is not for the faint of heart. Having been involved with it as a hobby it can get expensive. Cutting stone under 10mm can be done with a rented wet tile saw. Anything thicker than that should be done by a professional. It is too easy to burn out a saw or shatter stone with heat. Stone fragments splatter everyplace. Breathing in the dust is also a problem not quite overcome with dousing the cut with water. Most rental wet saws are for sections les than 3 feet in any direction. You would have to build a jig for anything larger. The saving grace is if you live in or near a metropolitan area, scraps that may work can be had for cheap. 3X5’ as scrap is not uncommon to find.

I do a cold process garlic dill pickle. Also if I can get the right beets, a standard Harvard beet.

Soft shell crab is normally chilled live crab, batter dipped and deep-fried. No boiling water involved! That would dilute the meat and make it harder to fry. Remember water is Mr. Fryoils enemy? Along with time and contaminants of other types.

Sounds kind of like the butter versus margarine controversy. Depending on the study it seems to have gone 3 ways. Margarine is better because it’s not animal fat, then they both are about as bad to Hydrogenated oils are more of a problem. The introductions of some of the newer spreads on the market making claims like Smart Balance. I too would be interested in what the claims are based on. All I have is a few reports from the late 1990s and what I know about science from school.