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MaryIsobel

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1 hour ago, blue_dolphin said:

 

A while back, I received this large wine glass which is also large enough to hold an entire 750 ml bottle of wine. 

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Pretty sure it was taller than 9 1/2 inches!

My kind of wine glass - why keep gettin up to refill when you know that eventually you will drink the whole bottle?!

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JoNorvelleWalker

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4 hours ago, blue_dolphin said:


We need a photo of this one!

 

I've not been up to many photographs these days.  But since you asked...

 

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Haut Brion water goblet (left).  Haut Brion magnum wine (right).

 

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palo

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4 hours ago, MaryIsobel said:

My kind of wine glass - why keep gettin up to refill when you know that eventually you will drink the whole bottle?!

Who needs a glass?

 

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JoNorvelleWalker

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19 minutes ago, palo said:

Who needs a glass?

 

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In New Jersey they no longer give out brown bags at the liquor store.

 

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MaryIsobel

MaryIsobel

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53 minutes ago, JoNorvelleWalker said:

 

In New Jersey they no longer give out brown bags at the liquor store.

 

I believe that one of my first profound thoughts was when as a child of about 5 or 6, I wondered why "hobos" in ther vernacular of the day, drank from bottles in brown paper bags. I asked my Mom and she said "I guess they think it looks nicer." That woman never uttered a mean word about anyone in the 45 years that I knew her.

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liuzhou

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I was given this. It's sold as a garlic crusher but I'm having fun thinking of other uses. Knuckle duster is my favourite, so far.

 

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jedovaty

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On 8/13/2023 at 4:41 AM, liuzhou said:

I was given this. It's sold as a garlic crusher but I'm having fun thinking of other uses. Knuckle duster is my favourite, so far.

Looks like it would be... grate... for the heels as well.

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MaryIsobel

MaryIsobel

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On 8/13/2023 at 4:41 AM, liuzhou said:

I was given this. It's sold as a garlic crusher but I'm having fun thinking of other uses. Knuckle duster is my favourite, so far.

 

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Hopefully it works better for it's intended use than the one that I bought did. Piece of crap - I sent it to the thrift store after one use.

weinoo

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Finally broke down after using a water boiler this past weekend, and reading some good reviews.  Don't really have the space for it to sit on the counter, so I'm playing around with that. Works great (so far), holds a liter (as opposed to the cool looking Fellow units), and comes with that nice 3-year warranty.  

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Kim Shook

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On 8/12/2023 at 3:32 PM, JoNorvelleWalker said:

In addition to a Penzeys order, today's deliveries included a large box from Replacements Ltd.

 

When I was a young thing of twenty one, I chose Baccarat Haut Brion as my stemware pattern.  Over the decades I am down to the last of the original pieces.  However from time to time when I see inventory on replacements.com I place an order.  Recently I saw a piece in my pattern that I had never come upon before.  It stands 9 1/2 inches tall and holds 26 ounces/750 ml.  Perfect for those worknights when one feels like only a single glass of wine.

 

Love Replacements.  They've ID'd old silver pieces for me and found missing pieces of china and silver.  Mr. Kim and I went down there in July to take some silver pieces to be repaired.  It was my first in-person visit.  It's an incredible place with a HUGE showroom, museum of the history of china/silver/crystal, a Christmas shop, and a clearance section.  We could have spent hours wandering around.  I took a precious family piece down for them to try to find a replacement for - it's my MIL's childhood plate that she gave me and which I managed to knock off a wall and smash into about 10 pieces.  I can't find anyone to fix it, so Replacements has registered it and will let me know if they find it.  I just pray that happens before she asks me where I've got it displayed.  

 

My shameful deed:

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lindag

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40 minutes ago, weinoo said:

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Finally broke down after using a water boiler this past weekend, and reading some good reviews.  Don't really have the space for it to sit on the counter, so I'm playing around with that. Works great (so far), holds a liter (as opposed to the cool looking Fellow units), and comes with that nice 3-year warranty.  

I have the Fellowes and, indeed, it is cool looking.

It is white and is stunning sitting next to my Fellowes burr grinder.

(That grinder is the best!)

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MaryIsobel

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How fortunate. I have been looking for one Denby Baroque pedestal mug to replace one of mine that is chipped. I plan to leave my Denby to my daughter that loves it but don't want to leave her a chipped mug. I have seen prices, that when shipping is included, top 100.00 Cdn for that mug. I keep hoping to find one for about 1/2 that price!

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Porthos

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I got a Traeger Series 22 smoker.  This is my patio cooking area:

 

 

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Smithy

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13 minutes ago, Porthos said:

I got a Traeger Series 22 smoker.  This is my patio cooking area:

 

 

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Congrats! I'm looking forward to seeing what you do with it. 🙂

 

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heidih

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1 hour ago, Porthos said:

I got a Traeger Series 22 smoker.  This is my patio cooking area:

 

Son and roomates got a similar one and are having fun with it. Never thought Ild hear the sentence "smoked beets are  good" some out of his mouth The neighbors hwever are not overly appreciative of the smells. 

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MaryIsobel

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1 hour ago, heidih said:

Son and roomates got a similar one and are having fun with it. Never thought Ild hear the sentence "smoked beets are  good" some out of his mouth The neighbors hwever are not overly appreciative of the smells. 

The smell is the tough part about smokers for me. It's fabulous if you are driving by but if the smell is making it's way into one's house for several hours, that's a different story. Husband likes to smoke fish, chicken, cheese, brisket , ribs... We keep all the doors and windows closed but I swear I can still smell it upon entering the house a couple of days later.

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heidih

heidih

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5 minutes ago, MaryIsobel said:

The smell is the tough part about smokers for me. It's fabulous if you are driving by but if the smell is making it's way into one's house for several hours, that's a different story. Husband likes to smoke fish, chicken, cheese, brisket , ribs... We keep all the doors and windows closed but I swear I can still smell it upon entering the house a couple of days later.

It is probably also on his clothes and in his hair. Agree on the momentary "yum" on a drive-by. 

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liuzhou

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I decided my chopsticks needed an upgrade. Bought ten pairs of Japanese sticks; much prefer them to Chinese.

 

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...your dancing child with his Chinese suit.

 

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Kim Shook

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RE: the smell of smoking.  I adore it.  Both Mr. Kim and our next door neighbor are smoking guys and on some mornings I wake up and one of the other of them has been smoking for a couple of hours already and I wake up HUNGRY and love how my house (and neighborhood) smell all day.

 

I got the plate and, to me, I think it's a good match.  There is a chip in the old, broken one and I can't remember if that was already there or if it was the result of it breaking.  Anyway, I will tuck it away and hope my MIL never asks to see it again.  I will NOT be hanging it up on the wall again.  

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heidih

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40 minutes ago, Kim Shook said:

RE: the smell of smoking.  I adore it.  Both Mr. Kim and our next door neighbor are smoking guys and on some mornings I wake up and one of the other of them has been smoking for a couple of hours already and I wake up HUNGRY and love how my house (and neighborhood) smell all day.

 

I got the plate and, to me, I think it's a good match.  There is a chip in the old, broken one and I can't remember if that was already there or if it was the result of it breaking.  Anyway, I will tuck it away and hope my MIL never asks to see it again.  I will NOT be hanging it up on the wall again.  

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Sweet but now I have "Mary had a little lamb whose fleece was white as snow" stuck in my head

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JoNorvelleWalker

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I had ordered a cobalt Le Creuset utensil crock to match my salt pig.  The crock arrived smashed.  And since cobalt is a long since discontinued color, that was the end of it.

 

However imagine my good fortune.  I was browsing replacements.com for pieces in my stoneware pattern, Blue Ridge by Iron Mountain.  They had a recent addition of the pitcher in my pattern:

 

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weinoo

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Random buys:

 

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I remember this stuff from my formative years...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Taffy#History

 

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Turkish Taffy was originally sold in large sheets to Woolworth's stores, where pieces were broken off with a ball-peen hammer at the counter and sold by weight. In the late 1940s, the company released a version in candy-bar size which the purchaser could whack against a hard surface to break into bite-sized pieces. This property of being shattered or broken by sudden shock but still pliable and soft when chewed is possible because the candy is a non-Newtonian fluid.[citation needed] Since the pieces were both chewy and slow-melting in the mouth, it was a favorite for the frugal customer.[3] A bar still cost 5¢ in the 1960s. By that time, it was marketed by Gold Medal Candy Corporation of Brooklyn, New York.

In 1949, Turkish Taffy became one of the first forms of candy advertised and marketed on television when Bonomo created and sponsored The Magic Clown on NBC Television. Tico Bonomo specifically cited the decision to use television as instrumental in the popularity of the candy-bar sized taffys.[4]

In 1980, the candy became part of the Tootsie Roll Industries of Chicago line of candies. It was discontinued in 1989.

 

 

 

And this, which doesn't have quite the same backstory as the above...

 

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But I'd not seen it with the Hatch chilies, which are evidently all the rage at this moment in time.  OK - there's a bit of a backstory:

 

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Way back in 1943, Carl Roettele had an idea—marry the richness of delicious vine-ripened tomatoes to the zestiness of green chili peppers. The result was legendary, and the rest is history.

 

https://www.ro-tel.com/about-us

 

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