OK, it's official. I am losing my mind....

Made some roast chicken and veggies for dinner last night, but we only
ate half the chicken. I dutifully packed the leftover chicken away in
one of those plastic containers with a lid after dinner and put it in
the 'big' fridge... or so I thought.

Decided that a bit of chicken salad would go down nicely, about an hour
ago, so I started looking in the 'big' fridge for the container with the
chicken in it. Not in there. Looked in the 'small' fridge, not there
either... At that point I thought "Oh no, I must have put it in the
freezer..." Nope. Not there either. Now what? I looked all over the
kitchen working surfaces - no chicken. Eventually I opened all the
cupboards ... Aha! Found it (at last!) back in the "container" cupboard....

<Cathy sighs> Getting older is not as much fun as I thought it would be.

BTW, for the record: I had two glasses (size: 240ml/8oz) of white wine
last night, one while I was cooking and one with dinner, (just in case
any members of the RfcAASG [1] are reading this post).

[1] Rec.food.cooking Alcoholics Anonymous Support Group
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Chatty Cathy - sipping a glass of soda pop at the moment

Garlic: the element without which life as we know it would be impossible

ChattyCathy wrote on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 14:12:01 +0200:


C> <Cathy sighs> Getting older is not as much fun as I thought
C> it would be.

C> BTW, for the record: I had two glasses (size: 240ml/8oz) of
white
C> wine last night, one while I was cooking and one with
C> dinner, (just in case any members of the RfcAASG [1] are
C> reading this post).

C> [1] Rec.food.cooking Alcoholics Anonymous Support Group

One of the more unpleasant things is accidentally not putting
something in the freezer but in the back of a cupboard. The
initial bad smell of warning, the panic and then the clean up
are not life's great moments, especially if meat is uncooked :-)

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

E-mail, with obvious alterations:
not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

"James Silverton" > wrote

> ChattyCathy wrote on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 14:12:01 +0200:

> C> <Cathy sighs> Getting older is not as much fun as I thought
> C> it would be.

> One of the more unpleasant things is accidentally not putting something in
> the freezer but in the back of a cupboard. The initial bad smell of
> warning, the panic and then the clean up are not life's great moments,
> especially if meat is uncooked :-)

Oh, what a memory. Once, long ago and far away, my ex and I
lived in an apartment complex next to a municiple softball field.
We got a permit to use it for a day and invited a bunch of friends
for a softball party. That sets up the scenario, lots of people in and
out of my apartment moving food around.

Days later, what is that smell. Next day, what is that horrible smell?
Did everything I could think of to clean away the stench.

Then my ex moved a stack of bowls on top of the refrigerator.
In the middle of this nest of bowls, a raw steak. A decomposing
steak. Gag! But, hey, someone had made room in the freezer for
those leftover hotdogs!

nancy

Nancy Young wrote:

>
> Days later, what is that smell. Next day, what is that horrible smell?
> Did everything I could think of to clean away the stench.
>
> Then my ex moved a stack of bowls on top of the refrigerator.
> In the middle of this nest of bowls, a raw steak. A decomposing
> steak. Gag! But, hey, someone had made room in the freezer for
> those leftover hotdogs!

<Cathy also gags> Yup.

Heh. Friend of mine went fishing.... caught his quota and took his catch
home in the boot (trunk) of his car. Forgot one in there - same sorta
thing as above...<more gagging>
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Garlic: the element without which life as we know it would be impossible

"James Silverton" > wrote in message
news:MGZti.8705$J13.592@trnddc02...
> ChattyCathy wrote on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 14:12:01 +0200:
>
>
> C> <Cathy sighs> Getting older is not as much fun as I thought
> C> it would be.
>
>
>
> One of the more unpleasant things is accidentally not putting something in
> the freezer but in the back of a cupboard. The initial bad smell of
> warning, the panic and then the clean up are not life's great moments,
> especially if meat is uncooked :-)
>
> James Silverton

Not too many weeks ago found a zip-lock package of 3 cooked pork loin chops
behind the freezer. Can only surmise how they got there. I hadn't cooked
them that week, so I must've taken them out, put them on the lid ..... who
knows?

We thought we smelled something amiss, finally we found it. Luckily, it was
well wrapped.

I'm in the "got older" stage, but things like this happens at all stages of
life; happily not too often.
Dee Dee

James Silverton wrote:

>
> One of the more unpleasant things is accidentally not putting something
> in the freezer but in the back of a cupboard. The initial bad smell of
> warning, the panic and then the clean up are not life's great moments,
> especially if meat is uncooked :-)

*Luckily* I wanted to do the chicken salad today.. and also luckily, I
go in and out of that cupboard daily - so hopefully I would have spotted
it before it got *too* bad... but yes, I hear what you are saying.
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Garlic: the element without which life as we know it would be impossible

Vilco wrote:
> ChattyCathy wrote:
>
>
>> Aha! Found it (at last!) back in the "container" cupboard.... <Cathy
>> sighs> Getting older is not as much fun as I thought it would
>> be.
>
> LOL, a friend of mine uses to say that at only 35 years old. You women must
> be crazy

You only figured that out now?
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Garlic: the element without which life as we know it would be impossible

ChattyCathy wrote:


> Aha! Found it (at last!) back in the "container" cupboard.... <Cathy
> sighs> Getting older is not as much fun as I thought it would
> be.

LOL, a friend of mine uses to say that at only 35 years old. You women must
be crazy
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Think pink, drink rose'

"ChattyCathy" > ha scritto nel messaggio
.. .
> OK, it's official. I am losing my mind....
- no chicken. Eventually I opened all the
> cupboards ... Aha! Found it (at last!) back in the "container"
> cupboard....
>
> <Cathy sighs> Getting older is not as much fun as I thought it would be.
>
> BTW, for the record: I had two glasses (size: 240ml/8oz) of white wine
> last night, one while I was cooking and one with dinner, (just in case any
> members of the RfcAASG [1] are reading this post).

Since a "dose" of wine is normally counted as 3.5 ounces, you were drunk,
honey. It's perfectly OK as long as you don't burn the house down. I find
I often cook a bit better and speak better Italian with a few glugs, myself,
but with 16 ounces of wine I'd have to hand in my knives, take off the toque
and be a guest. YMMV.

We attribute these things to the "White Potato Monster." One summer in
college I had a number of housemates moving in and out. They all had
different styles of food they liked to eat, but I don't think anyone had
reason to want 2 restaurant size cans of boiled white potatoes. Given
how available and non-perishable ordinary potatoes are, I can't even
think of a reason for restaurants to want such a thing. Yet there were
the cans on the shelf. As I ran into the housemates one by one, I asked
if the cans were theirs. The answer was always no. Eventually I
figured that someone must have broken into the house, deposited the
potato cans and left. That person is <spooky music> ... The White
Potato Monster.


Since then, The White Potato Monster has been responsible for depositing
a black lacy bra behind my friend's radiator, and numerous instances of
absconding with scissors.


The White Potato Monster giveth and The White Potato Monster taketh away.


--Lia

ChattyCathy wrote:

>> LOL, a friend of mine uses to say that at only 35 years old. You
>> women must be crazy

> You only figured that out now?

I always try to forget
--
Vilco
Think pink, drink rose'

what is the question

Back in May, after my son, who works a sous-chef, had graduated from
college, he came over and we cooked up a big meal and had a good
time..

A day or so passed; I found I was missing my best Old Hickory carbon
steel paring knife that I have had for 30+ years. I was resigned to
having lost it. I didn't want to blame my boy for taking the knife,
but the thought crossed my mind.

About a week ago, I was retrieving some kitchen tool from the drawer
that does not hold knives and I had to pul out the divided since the
tool I wanted was stuck.. there was my favorite paring knife. I was
sorry I had thought about blaming my son for it..

T.

Giusi wrote:
> "ChattyCathy" > ha scritto nel messaggio
> .. .
>> OK, it's official. I am losing my mind....
> - no chicken. Eventually I opened all the
>> cupboards ... Aha! Found it (at last!) back in the "container"
>> cupboard....
>>
>> <Cathy sighs> Getting older is not as much fun as I thought it would be.
>>
>> BTW, for the record: I had two glasses (size: 240ml/8oz) of white wine
>> last night, one while I was cooking and one with dinner, (just in case any
>> members of the RfcAASG [1] are reading this post).
>
> Since a "dose" of wine is normally counted as 3.5 ounces, you were drunk,
> honey. It's perfectly OK as long as you don't burn the house down. I find
> I often cook a bit better and speak better Italian with a few glugs, myself,
> but with 16 ounces of wine I'd have to hand in my knives, take off the toque
> and be a guest. YMMV.
>
>

http://www.sizes.com/food/glasses_wine.htm

<quote>
White wine

The white wine glass has been growing, but remains smaller than the red.
Older styles have capacities somewhat under eight ounces (240 mL); newer
designs somewhat under 12 ounces (360 mL). The traditional German glass
for riesling, the romer, is much smaller.

</quote>

Guess I better get some "romers" whatever the heck they are....

BTW, your RfcAASG annual membership is almost due, sweetums. You can
send me the cheque, I'll pass it right along
--
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Chatty Cathy

Garlic: the element without which life as we know it would be impossible

wrote:
> what is the question
>
Why did the chicken cross the road?
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Garlic: the element without which life as we know it would be impossible

ChattyCathy wrote:
> OK, it's official. I am losing my mind....
>
> Made some roast chicken and veggies for dinner last night, but we only
> ate half the chicken. I dutifully packed the leftover chicken away in
> one of those plastic containers with a lid after dinner and put it in
> the 'big' fridge... or so I thought.
>
> Decided that a bit of chicken salad would go down nicely, about an hour
> ago, so I started looking in the 'big' fridge for the container with the
> chicken in it. Not in there. Looked in the 'small' fridge, not there
> either... At that point I thought "Oh no, I must have put it in the
> freezer..." Nope. Not there either. Now what? I looked all over the
> kitchen working surfaces - no chicken. Eventually I opened all the
> cupboards ... Aha! Found it (at last!) back in the "container" cupboard....
>
> <Cathy sighs> Getting older is not as much fun as I thought it would be.
>
> BTW, for the record: I had two glasses (size: 240ml/8oz) of white wine
> last night, one while I was cooking and one with dinner, (just in case
> any members of the RfcAASG [1] are reading this post).
>
> [1] Rec.food.cooking Alcoholics Anonymous Support Group

Don't ever loose an orange in your car. One time during the summer I
picked up some groceries and put them in front of the back seat of an
infrequently used car. An orange escaped and rolled under the seat. The
smell was unbelievable when I opened the car door later that week.

George wrote:

>
> Don't ever loose an orange in your car. One time during the summer I
> picked up some groceries and put them in front of the back seat of an
> infrequently used car. An orange escaped and rolled under the seat. The
> smell was unbelievable when I opened the car door later that week.

Never done that myself, but I can imagine it didn't smell too great.
But, what I *do* remember "vividly" is when I left a "sachet" (500ml
sealed plastic bag) of milk in the car. It eventually "popped" and
leaked all over the carpet in the boot (trunk) and quietly went
"rotten". Ewwwww. I had to have a professional car "valet" done to get
rid of the smell... and even after that, on "damp" days I could still
smell it. I eventually replaced the carpeting (I had to, I don't think I
could have 'traded in' car if I hadn't done that).
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Garlic: the element without which life as we know it would be impossible

In article >,
ChattyCathy > wrote:

> OK, it's official. I am losing my mind....
>
> Made some roast chicken and veggies for dinner last night, but we only
> ate half the chicken. I dutifully packed the leftover chicken away in
> one of those plastic containers with a lid after dinner and put it in
> the 'big' fridge... or so I thought.
>
> Decided that a bit of chicken salad would go down nicely, about an hour
> ago, so I started looking in the 'big' fridge for the container with the
> chicken in it. Not in there. Looked in the 'small' fridge, not there
> either... At that point I thought "Oh no, I must have put it in the
> freezer..." Nope. Not there either. Now what? I looked all over the
> kitchen working surfaces - no chicken. Eventually I opened all the
> cupboards ... Aha! Found it (at last!) back in the "container" cupboard....
>
> <Cathy sighs> Getting older is not as much fun as I thought it would be.
>
> BTW, for the record: I had two glasses (size: 240ml/8oz) of white wine
> last night, one while I was cooking and one with dinner, (just in case
> any members of the RfcAASG [1] are reading this post).
>
> [1] Rec.food.cooking Alcoholics Anonymous Support Group
> --
> Cheers
> Chatty Cathy - sipping a glass of soda pop at the moment
>
> Garlic: the element without which life as we know it would be impossible

I'd be willing to bet that you are suffering from sleep deprivation. ;-)
I only pull stuff like that when I am desperately short on sleep.
Alcohol never had anything to do with it.

As for getting old, I just got my first prescription for Bifocals this
morning.

<sigh>

F-ers are costing me $414.00 and the frames were only $96.00. I wanted
something pretty this time as my last pair of glasses lasted me 6 years.

Line-less, glass with photogray.
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In article <MGZti.8705$J13.592@trnddc02>,
"James Silverton" > wrote:

> One of the more unpleasant things is accidentally not putting
> something in the freezer but in the back of a cupboard. The
> initial bad smell of warning, the panic and then the clean up
> are not life's great moments, especially if meat is uncooked :-)
>
> James Silverton

Even just forgetting about some raw pork in the refrigerator is bad
enough. ;-) Plus I hate the waste at today's meat prices.

So far, I've only done that once this year. Wasted 2 lbs. of pork
chops...
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>
> Heh. Friend of mine went fishing.... caught his quota and took his catch
> home in the boot (trunk) of his car. Forgot one in there - same sorta
> thing as above...<more gagging>

Just last week I forgot about a bowl of beans I had left in the
microwave for 3-4 days. I had a hard time getting the smell out of the
microwave.

In article >,
"Dee Dee" > wrote:

> "James Silverton" > wrote in message
> news:MGZti.8705$J13.592@trnddc02...
> > ChattyCathy wrote on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 14:12:01 +0200:
> >
> >
> > C> <Cathy sighs> Getting older is not as much fun as I thought
> > C> it would be.
> >
> >
> >
> > One of the more unpleasant things is accidentally not putting something in
> > the freezer but in the back of a cupboard. The initial bad smell of
> > warning, the panic and then the clean up are not life's great moments,
> > especially if meat is uncooked :-)
> >
> > James Silverton
>
> Not too many weeks ago found a zip-lock package of 3 cooked pork loin chops
> behind the freezer. Can only surmise how they got there. I hadn't cooked
> them that week, so I must've taken them out, put them on the lid ..... who
> knows?
>
> We thought we smelled something amiss, finally we found it. Luckily, it was
> well wrapped.
>
> I'm in the "got older" stage, but things like this happens at all stages of
> life; happily not too often.
> Dee Dee

I think the worst thing we found was the source of the "hoard" of fruit
flies we had in the house. Finally found a rotted grapefruit that had
rolled under a set of shelves. Loaded with fruit fly maggots. Was not
too smelly, but it was gross and messy. ;-p
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In article .com>,
tbs48 > wrote:

> Back in May, after my son, who works a sous-chef, had graduated from
> college, he came over and we cooked up a big meal and had a good
> time..
>
> A day or so passed; I found I was missing my best Old Hickory carbon
> steel paring knife that I have had for 30+ years. I was resigned to
> having lost it. I didn't want to blame my boy for taking the knife,
> but the thought crossed my mind.
>
> About a week ago, I was retrieving some kitchen tool from the drawer
> that does not hold knives and I had to pul out the divided since the
> tool I wanted was stuck.. there was my favorite paring knife. I was
> sorry I had thought about blaming my son for it..
>
> T.

At least you didn't. :-)

Verbally anyway...
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ChattyCathy wrote:
> Nancy Young wrote:
>
>>
>> Days later, what is that smell. Next day, what is that horrible
>> smell? Did everything I could think of to clean away the stench.
>>
>> Then my ex moved a stack of bowls on top of the refrigerator. In the
>> middle of this nest of bowls, a raw steak. A decomposing steak.
>> Gag! But, hey, someone had made room in the freezer for those
>> leftover hotdogs!
>
><Cathy also gags> Yup.
>
> Heh. Friend of mine went fishing.... caught his quota and took his
> catch home in the boot (trunk) of his car. Forgot one in there - same
> sorta thing as above...<more gagging>

Got in the car one day and smelled something. Mostly it seemed to me to
be just damp. Wet. Mildewish. I actually had a car once that had some
leaks in the floor pan, and driving through enough puddles and other
standing water had soaked the carpet from the underside, and I ended up
with a crop of light, fuzzy whiteish mold. I thought something like
that was going on, but it was a new car and I don't think it was the
rainy season. Couldn't find the issue. A couple days later I went to
get something out of the trunk (which is not just a big empty bin; I
keep a fair amount of stuff in there) and there was a cantaloupe that
had rolled out of a grocery bag and gone unnoticed.

PS It wasn't spoiled; I cut it open, suspiciously, and found it was
still an eater.


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In article >,
ChattyCathy > wrote:

> wrote:
> > what is the question
> >
> Why did the chicken cross the road?

To see a man lay a brick.
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In article >,
George > wrote:

> Don't ever loose an orange in your car. One time during the summer I
> picked up some groceries and put them in front of the back seat of an
> infrequently used car. An orange escaped and rolled under the seat. The
> smell was unbelievable when I opened the car door later that week.

Spuds are worse.
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"tbs48" > wrote

> A day or so passed; I found I was missing my best Old Hickory carbon
> steel paring knife that I have had for 30+ years. I was resigned to
> having lost it. I didn't want to blame my boy for taking the knife,
> but the thought crossed my mind.
>
> About a week ago, I was retrieving some kitchen tool from the drawer
> that does not hold knives and I had to pul out the divided since the
> tool I wanted was stuck.. there was my favorite paring knife. I was
> sorry I had thought about blaming my son for it..

I would have assumed it was thrown out accidentally, wonder why
you thought he'd taken it.

nancy

Omelet wrote:
> In article >,
> George > wrote:
>
>> Don't ever loose an orange in your car. One time during the summer I
>> picked up some groceries and put them in front of the back seat of an
>> infrequently used car. An orange escaped and rolled under the seat. The
>> smell was unbelievable when I opened the car door later that week.
>
> Spuds are worse.

That I can relate to Had one or two spuds roll to the back of the
storage cupboard and "liquefy" into some sort of black goo in my time.
The stench was unbelievable....

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In article >,
Scott > wrote:

> >
> > Heh. Friend of mine went fishing.... caught his quota and took his catch
> > home in the boot (trunk) of his car. Forgot one in there - same sorta
> > thing as above...<more gagging>
>
> Just last week I forgot about a bowl of beans I had left in the
> microwave for 3-4 days. I had a hard time getting the smell out of the
> microwave.

<lol> Sorry, but that's funny!

Pure white vinegar often helps for stuff like that. ;-)
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In article >,
ChattyCathy > wrote:

> Omelet wrote:
> > In article >,
> > George > wrote:
> >
> >> Don't ever loose an orange in your car. One time during the summer I
> >> picked up some groceries and put them in front of the back seat of an
> >> infrequently used car. An orange escaped and rolled under the seat. The
> >> smell was unbelievable when I opened the car door later that week.
> >
> > Spuds are worse.
>
> That I can relate to Had one or two spuds roll to the back of the
> storage cupboard and "liquefy" into some sort of black goo in my time.
> The stench was unbelievable....

After the last adventure with rotted spuds, I started refrigerating them.
I have the space.

Problem is, we don't eat them that often. I've started buying them by
the lb. now rather than by the bag.

The stench is indeed unreal. Worse than rotted meat.
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On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:56:16 +0200, ChattyCathy
> wrote:

>Giusi wrote:
>> "ChattyCathy" > ha scritto nel messaggio
>> .. .
>>> OK, it's official. I am losing my mind....
>> - no chicken. Eventually I opened all the
>>> cupboards ... Aha! Found it (at last!) back in the "container"
>>> cupboard....
>>>
>>> <Cathy sighs> Getting older is not as much fun as I thought it would be.
>>>
>>> BTW, for the record: I had two glasses (size: 240ml/8oz) of white wine
>>> last night, one while I was cooking and one with dinner, (just in case any
>>> members of the RfcAASG [1] are reading this post).
>>
>> Since a "dose" of wine is normally counted as 3.5 ounces, you were drunk,
>> honey. It's perfectly OK as long as you don't burn the house down. I find
>> I often cook a bit better and speak better Italian with a few glugs, myself,
>> but with 16 ounces of wine I'd have to hand in my knives, take off the toque
>> and be a guest. YMMV.
>>
>>
>
>http://www.sizes.com/food/glasses_wine.htm
>
><quote>
>White wine
>
>The white wine glass has been growing, but remains smaller than the red.
>Older styles have capacities somewhat under eight ounces (240 mL); newer
>designs somewhat under 12 ounces (360 mL). The traditional German glass
>for riesling, the romer, is much smaller.
>
></quote>
>
>Guess I better get some "romers" whatever the heck they are....
>

Red wine

The smaller red wine glasses are now around nine ounces (270 mL),
which used to be an average size. More typical are 12- and even
14-ounce (415 mL) glasses.
````````````

Personally, I like those 14 oz red wine glasses! They don't fill them
up, they just put in a normal amount and you swirl/swish it around &
sniff before you sip.



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One time on Usenet, "James Silverton" > said:
> ChattyCathy wrote on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 14:12:01 +0200:
>
>
> C> <Cathy sighs> Getting older is not as much fun as I thought
> C> it would be.
>
> C> BTW, for the record: I had two glasses (size: 240ml/8oz) of
> white
> C> wine last night, one while I was cooking and one with
> C> dinner, (just in case any members of the RfcAASG [1] are
> C> reading this post).
>
> C> [1] Rec.food.cooking Alcoholics Anonymous Support Group
>
> One of the more unpleasant things is accidentally not putting
> something in the freezer but in the back of a cupboard. The
> initial bad smell of warning, the panic and then the clean up
> are not life's great moments, especially if meat is uncooked :-)

Reminds me of the time DH's brother accidentally put a package
of minute steaks in the cupboard under the sink, rather than the
freezer. DH says the family just could not figure out where the
stink was coming from...

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"ChattyCathy" > ha scritto nel messaggio
...
> Giusi wrote:
>> "ChattyCathy" > ha scritto nel messaggio
>> .. .
>>> BTW, for the record: I had two glasses (size: 240ml/8oz) of white wine
>>> last night, one while I was cooking and one with dinner, (just in case
>>> any members of the RfcAASG [1] are reading this post).
>>
>> Since a "dose" of wine is normally counted as 3.5 ounces, you were drunk,
>> honey. It's perfectly OK as long as you don't burn the house down. I
>> find I often cook a bit better and speak better Italian with a few glugs,
>> myself, but with 16 ounces of wine I'd have to hand in my knives, take
>> off the toque and be a guest. YMMV.
>
> http://www.sizes.com/food/glasses_wine.htm
>
Who fills wine glasses to the top?

Anyway, the check is in the mail. It's in zlotys.

"> After the last adventure with rotted spuds, I started refrigerating them.
> I have the space.
>
> Problem is, we don't eat them that often. I've started buying them by
> the lb. now rather than by the bag.
>
> The stench is indeed unreal. Worse than rotted meat.
> --
> Peace, Om

A few weeks ago I noticed a bin of potatoes at the grocery store - Yellow,
Yukon Gold, I believe they call them -- I started to pick up a bag and
noticed the potatoes smelled like some'thing' had peed all over them. It was
so gross. On examination, they looked very, very fresh.

Then I took a 'sniff' at another bag of different kind of potatoes in the
same condition, and they had the same smell, only much fainter.

What the heck are they doing, carrying these potatoes in pig-farm trucks?
Phew! Lordy!
Dee Dee

Giusi wrote:

> Who fills wine glasses to the top?
>
> Anyway, the check is in the mail. It's in zlotys.
>
>
Kewl. It might just might cover a ticket to Macbeth in Warsaw. I just
love those witches... don't you?

Now
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In article >,
"Dee Dee" > wrote:

> "> After the last adventure with rotted spuds, I started refrigerating them.
> > I have the space.
> >
> > Problem is, we don't eat them that often. I've started buying them by
> > the lb. now rather than by the bag.
> >
> > The stench is indeed unreal. Worse than rotted meat.
> > --
> > Peace, Om
>
> A few weeks ago I noticed a bin of potatoes at the grocery store - Yellow,
> Yukon Gold, I believe they call them -- I started to pick up a bag and
> noticed the potatoes smelled like some'thing' had peed all over them. It was
> so gross. On examination, they looked very, very fresh.
>
> Then I took a 'sniff' at another bag of different kind of potatoes in the
> same condition, and they had the same smell, only much fainter.
>
> What the heck are they doing, carrying these potatoes in pig-farm trucks?
> Phew! Lordy!
> Dee Dee

I'm beginning to think that bagged spuds are a bad idea.
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Omelet wrote:
> In article >,
> ChattyCathy > wrote:
>
>> wrote:
>>> what is the question
>>>
>> Why did the chicken cross the road?
>
> To see a man lay a brick.

To get to to the other side....

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"ChattyCathy" > ha scritto nel messaggio
...
> Giusi wrote:
>
>> Who fills wine glasses to the top?
>>
>> Anyway, the check is in the mail. It's in zlotys.
> Kewl. It might just might cover a ticket to Macbeth in Warsaw. I just love
> those witches... don't you?
>
> Now
> --
> Cheers
> Chatty Cathy

There is a bus from here to Poland that costs ?16 each way that the hired
caregivers use to go back and forth every 90 days. I am going to take it
with them soon. Really, it seems silly not to. I've never gone anywhere on
a bus, so 24 hours ought to satisfy that curiosity.

ChattyCathy > wrote in
:

> OK, it's official. I am losing my mind....
>
> Made some roast chicken and veggies for dinner last night, but we only
> ate half the chicken. I dutifully packed the leftover chicken away in
> one of those plastic containers with a lid after dinner and put it in
> the 'big' fridge... or so I thought.
>
> Decided that a bit of chicken salad would go down nicely, about an
> hour ago, so I started looking in the 'big' fridge for the container
> with the chicken in it. Not in there. Looked in the 'small' fridge,
> not there either... At that point I thought "Oh no, I must have put it
> in the freezer..." Nope. Not there either. Now what? I looked all over
> the kitchen working surfaces - no chicken. Eventually I opened all
> the cupboards ... Aha! Found it (at last!) back in the "container"
> cupboard....



Should still be alright. Hope you didn't chuck it out!!


>
> <Cathy sighs> Getting older is not as much fun as I thought it would
> be.


You're not trying hard enough :-)


>
> BTW, for the record: I had two glasses (size: 240ml/8oz) of white wine
> last night,


480ml...... that's just about 3/4 of a bottle. Not bad going for just
two glasses :-)

What brand of white was it anyways? Local/imported?


>one while I was cooking and one with dinner,


I *always* use wine when I'm cooking. Sometimes I even put it in the
food!!!




--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia

"People sleep safely in their beds because rough men stand ready in
the night to do violence to those who would do them harm"
-- George Orwell

ChattyCathy > wrote:
>OK, it's official. I am losing my mind....

More than once, I've taken out sliced meat and measured
out a portion by putting the whole container on the scale
and subtracting what I was going to use.

Then went off to prep, and forgot about the container.

Usually for a few hours.

Lost more $10/lb roast beef that way....

--Blair

PeterLucas wrote:

>
> 480ml...... that's just about 3/4 of a bottle. Not bad going for just
> two glasses :-)

LOL! I had no idea how much my wine glasses can hold - I just googled
and the first site I hit said that's the size of white wine glasses
these days. (I was trying to avoid the "but how big were those glasses?"
question). Anyway, just for the hell of it, I actually checked the
capacity of one of them - and yes, it can hold 240ml - if you fill it
right up to the brim. I only fill my glass up to about 2/3 - I do have
some manners, you know but it's too early in the morning here for me
to figure out exactly what 2/3 of 240ml is - so I'll take a guess -
about 170ml???

However, my white wine glasses are smaller than the ones I have seen in
some restaurants here - guess those must be the 360ml size that the site
I found was talking about.
>
> What brand of white was it anyways? Local/imported?

Drostdy-Hof - it's local. We get a very nice selection of wines here in
SA, and they are very reasonably priced - even some of the "Chateau
el-Cheapo" ones are drinkable

>
> I *always* use wine when I'm cooking. Sometimes I even put it in the
> food!!!

<laugh>
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Garlic: the element without which life as we know it would be impossible