On Jun 12, 9:31*pm, spamtrap1888 > wrote:

> My mother used this aluminum "dutch oven" that her mother had bought
> from a door-to-door salesman in Canada, during the depression. I think
> it was the Canadian version of waterless cooking. It was massively
> thick. I'd be using it now except it is badly pitted.


God, I hate to give the impression I'm crying for the past as
really there are many new things I like, but there were some things in
the past that have disappeared and don't seem to be replaced by
anything better, only something more expensive, and cheaper made to
boot. I can't tell you the number of things I bought in the past that
are no longer available and for which I have found no decent
substitute. Shopping for sneakers (athletic shoes), is a very
stressful hunt/chore for me. I hate it. They take something really
practical off the shelves for a decade or two, make it impossible to
find anything like it - then years later they come out with something
designed to look like the very thing they took away, and it's just a
hunk of garbage with a very high price tag on it. I wish I had that
dutch oven you're talking about. But I don't like keeping a lot of
things. I'm telling you, with the fast paced marketing going on these
days you better buy more than one of whatever it is you like because
you know it's not going to be there next time you look for it. It's
like you need to buy a locker to keep well loved shoes in so you never
need to go to the store again. I knew a guy in L.A. who did that. I
thought he was nuts. Not anymore.

TJ