So I was up at my local discount market. They had corn on the cob on sale.
69 cents. EACH! How long ago was it that corn was 10 ears for a buck? And
these were pathetic examples of corn, very small ears.

Paul

"Paul M. Cook" > wrote:
> So I was up at my local discount market. They had corn on the cob on sale.
> 69 cents. EACH! How long ago was it that corn was 10 ears for a buck? And
> these were pathetic examples of corn, very small ears.
>
> Paul

Wait another two months, prices will drop when corn starts to come in from
the north. In Michigan, the saying about growing corn is: "Knee high by the
Forth of July". Also with the from the wet spring planting was late this
year.

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"Paul M. Cook" > wrote in
:

> So I was up at my local discount market. They had corn on the
> cob on sale. 69 cents. EACH! How long ago was it that corn
> was 10 ears for a buck? And these were pathetic examples of
> corn, very small ears.
>
> Paul

39 cents last week at Sunflower Market. Thats the best I've seen
so far here 'this' year.

On 6/23/2011 5:01 AM, Nad R wrote:
> "Paul M. > wrote:
>> So I was up at my local discount market. They had corn on the cob on sale.
>> 69 cents. EACH! How long ago was it that corn was 10 ears for a buck? And
>> these were pathetic examples of corn, very small ears.
>>
>> Paul
>
> Wait another two months, prices will drop when corn starts to come in from
> the north. In Michigan, the saying about growing corn is: "Knee high by the
> Forth of July". Also with the from the wet spring planting was late this
> year.
>

This is going to be a really off year. I am in the north and farmers
got started late and had to replant numerous times because of the rain.

"Paul M. Cook" wrote:

>So I was up at my local discount market. They had corn on the cob on sale.
>69 cents. EACH! How long ago was it that corn was 10 ears for a buck? And
>these were pathetic examples of corn, very small ears.

When the local sweet corn here comes in it'll be a buck a baker's
dozen at the farm stands... there's only a small window to sell it
before it spoils. The imported sorry ass stupidmarket corn that's out
now is five small ears/$2.

Paul M. Cook wrote:
> So I was up at my local discount market. They had corn on the cob on sale.
> 69 cents. EACH! How long ago was it that corn was 10 ears for a buck? And
> these were pathetic examples of corn, very small ears.
>
> Paul

I just picked up some multicolored organic ears 3/$2
It was very tasty.

On 6/23/2011 12:57 AM, Paul M. Cook wrote:
> So I was up at my local discount market. They had corn on the cob on sale.
> 69 cents. EACH! How long ago was it that corn was 10 ears for a buck? And
> these were pathetic examples of corn, very small ears.
>

Just the other day, four ears of corn were available at Aldi for $1. I
haven't gone to the Farmers' Market yet, so I haven't seen the prices
there. At the FM, the price has been 2-ears for $1 for many years now.
It wouldn't be a surprise if the price has increased this year :/

When shopping at a grocery store recently, I was rather shocked to see
many brands of bacon (1 pound pkgs) are way over $4 and even some other
over $5 per pound! OUCH!

Sky, who still hasn't won that lottery yet!!

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George wrote:

> This is going to be a really off year. I am in the north and farmers got
> started late and had to replant numerous times because of the rain.

Don't forget about all the crops lost due to flooding. The flooding is still
going on.

Bob

Sky wrote:
>
>When shopping at a grocery store recently, I was rather shocked to see
>many brands of bacon (1 pound pkgs) are way over $4 and even some other
>over $5 per pound! OUCH!

I was never crazy over bacon, I haven't bought bacon in more than
twenty years, probably a lot longer, I just don't remember. To me
it's a silly way to end up with a bucket of grease and very little to
eat... I'd rather an SLT... Spam, lettuce, and tomato.

On 2011-06-24, Brooklyn1 <Gravesend1> wrote:

> I was never crazy over bacon, I haven't bought bacon in more than
> twenty years.......

Yeah, but yer an idiot. Why do you think we care?

nb

On 24 Jun 2011 03:21:29 GMT, notbob > wrote:

> On 2011-06-24, Brooklyn1 <Gravesend1> wrote:
>
> > I was never crazy over bacon, I haven't bought bacon in more than
> > twenty years.......
>
> Yeah, but yer an idiot. Why do you think we care?
>
He pulls out his "Jewish" when it suits him... but to be honest, I
think he's lying.


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Sometimes I even put it in the food.

Hey is the discount offer still valid there or expired now???
Do let me know asap..!!!
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Clueless AOL newbie Sheldon "Pussy" Katz blathered:

> I was never crazy over bacon, I haven't bought bacon in more than
> twenty years, probably a lot longer, I just don't remember. To me
> it's a silly way to end up with a bucket of grease and very little to
> eat... I'd rather an SLT... Spam, lettuce, and tomato.

But SPAM isn't any more kosher than bacon, so you're still violating the
tenets of your religion. Of course, that's one of the lesser violations
which occur in your household, isn't it, you degenerate Cub Scout fondler?

Bob

Paul wrote:

>So I was up at my local discount market.
>They had corn on the cob on sale. 69
>cents. EACH! How long ago was it that
>corn was 10 ears for a buck? And these
>were pathetic examples of corn, very
>small ears.

I was surprise at the ears of corn around here, they were plump, juicy,
very sweet and was 25 cents or 4 for a dollar around here the last few
weeks....I stocked up on a lot of them and put them in the deep freezer.

On Jun 23, 11:44*am, Sky > wrote:
> On 6/23/2011 12:57 AM, Paul M. Cook wrote:
>
> > So I was up at my local discount market. *They had corn on the cob on sale.
> > 69 cents. *EACH! *How long ago was it that corn was 10 ears for a buck? *And
> > these were pathetic examples of corn, very small ears.
>
> Just the other day, four ears of corn were available at Aldi for $1. *I
> haven't gone to the Farmers' Market yet, so I haven't seen the prices
> there. *At the FM, the price has been 2-ears for $1 for many years now.
> * It wouldn't be a surprise if the price has increased this year :/
>
> When shopping at a grocery store recently, I was rather shocked to see
> many brands of bacon (1 pound pkgs) are way over $4 and even some other
> over $5 per pound! *OUCH!
>
> Sky, who still hasn't won that lottery yet!!
>
I just looked at bacon a few days ago. The cheapest version for $4.99
a lb. Most were over $7 a lb.

Knick > wrote in
:

>
> sandi;1629328 Wrote:
>> "Paul M. Cook" wrote in
>> :
>> -
>> So I was up at my local discount market. They had corn on
>> the cob on sale. 69 cents. EACH! How long ago was it that
>> corn was 10 ears for a buck? And these were pathetic
>> examples of corn, very small ears.
>>
>> Paul -
>>
>> 39 cents last week at Sunflower Market. Thats the best I've
>> seen so far here 'this' year.
>
> Hey is the discount offer still valid there or expired now???
> Do let me know asap..!!!

Sale ended Wednesday night.

Check their online flyer. :-)

Janet Bostwick wrote:
>
> Mother Nature can really mess with our food supply. The news this
> winter/spring has been all about record snow, rain, flood. Acres and
> acres of farmland are ruined for this growing season. Then there were
> the tornadoes. And that is just in the US. Food stuffs of all kinds
> are going to reflect the bad weather in the price we pay.

There are still a LOT of unplanted fields around here in Illinois when I
drive in the country.

Janet Bostwick wrote:
> Ranée at Arabian Knits > wrote:
>
>> Hear, hear! Though I thought I heard that that may be slowing or
>>disappearing soon. Why they don't focus on bio-diesel which has the
>>benefits of being easy to make from waste and inexpensive, I still don't
>>understand.

For the moment most biodiesel made here in Illinois is made from soy
beans. Probably also true in other regions of the US. Those soy beans
would otherwise have been exported or fed to livestock.

> They can grow algae in giant outdoor test tubes and turn the crop
> around in days and recycle the water used and put the whole works on
> land that cannot be used for anything else. But, lets burn corn
> instead ach! Stupid, stupid. Not only that, but ethanol isn't good
> for the car engine and small equipment comes with warnings not to use
> ethanol because it will damage the equipment. Stupid, stupid.

Using algae isd the goal but it takes a lot of infrastructure. Is it
using materials available today to turn a profit to build that
infrastructure or is it putting the cart before the horse by using the
wrong material before the algae method is sufficiently developed? We
disagree with the industry folks on that point.

Ranée at Arabian Knits wrote:
> Doug Freyburger > wrote:
>
>> For the moment most biodiesel made here in Illinois is made from soy
>> beans. Probably also true in other regions of the US. Those soy beans
>> would otherwise have been exported or fed to livestock.
>
> Why the heck are they doing that? It can be made from the corn
> stalks and manure and any number of waste products, for crying out loud!
> I think that with the subsidies our government pays, it is actually
> leading to farmers using land to "grow" gasoline, rather than use their
> waste products, because they can be paid twice to do it.

It's crazy. Driving the interstate to various parts of Illinois there
are all sorts of signs on the fences that face the highway. Most are
about guns saving lives so they are clearly aimed at drivers from
Chicago. But a lot of them are about biodiesel and every time I see
those they are at fields of soy. Apparently they make biodiesel out of
soy oil. Crazy to me.

On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 10:34:19 -0700, Ranée at Arabian Knits
> wrote:

>In article >,
> Doug Freyburger > wrote:
>
>> Janet Bostwick wrote:
>> > Ranée at Arabian Knits > wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hear, hear! Though I thought I heard that that may be slowing or
>> >>disappearing soon. Why they don't focus on bio-diesel which has the
>> >>benefits of being easy to make from waste and inexpensive, I still don't
>> >>understand.
>>
>> For the moment most biodiesel made here in Illinois is made from soy
>> beans. Probably also true in other regions of the US. Those soy beans
>> would otherwise have been exported or fed to livestock.
>
> Why the heck are they doing that? It can be made from the corn
>stalks and manure and any number of waste products, for crying out loud!
>I think that with the subsidies our government pays, it is actually
>leading to farmers using land to "grow" gasoline, rather than use their
>waste products, because they can be paid twice to do it.
>
>Regards,
>Ranee @ Arabian Knits
>
here our bio diesel trucks smell like French fries and such. They are
collecting used oil from fast food places.
Janet US

On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:40:03 -0700, sf > wrote:

>On 24 Jun 2011 03:21:29 GMT, notbob > wrote:
>
>> On 2011-06-24, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>>
>> > I was never crazy over bacon, I haven't bought bacon in more than
>> > twenty years.......
>>
>> Yeah, but yer an idiot. Why do you think we care?
>>
>He pulls out his "Jewish" when it suits him... but to be honest, I
>think he's lying.

Spam is PORK, you ignorant ****. I honestly don't like bacon, not the
taste, not the texture. But I eat a lot of pork; Boar's Head from the
deli, I like canned ham too, I eat several spriral cut hams each year,
and I love fresh ham and make it for Holidays... I eat pork chops,
pork ribs, Sabrett's dawgs, pepperoni, brauschwieger, all types of
pork salamis/sausages, and several other cuts of pork, I like head
cheese a lot but I really don't like bacon... I don't like shrimp
either, but I really love raw clams. And I don't lie about what I
like to eat and what I don't like to eat, nor am I pretentious about
what foods I eat, like several keyboard kooks who make it all up as
they go along. sf is truly an ignorant *frustrated* **** who can't
remember the last time she got porked.

On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 10:34:19 -0700, Ranée at Arabian Knits
> wrote:

> In article >,
> Doug Freyburger > wrote:
>
> > Janet Bostwick wrote:
> > > Ranée at Arabian Knits > wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hear, hear! Though I thought I heard that that may be slowing or
> > >>disappearing soon. Why they don't focus on bio-diesel which has the
> > >>benefits of being easy to make from waste and inexpensive, I still don't
> > >>understand.
> >
> > For the moment most biodiesel made here in Illinois is made from soy
> > beans. Probably also true in other regions of the US. Those soy beans
> > would otherwise have been exported or fed to livestock.
>
> Why the heck are they doing that? It can be made from the corn
> stalks and manure and any number of waste products, for crying out loud!
> I think that with the subsidies our government pays, it is actually
> leading to farmers using land to "grow" gasoline, rather than use their
> waste products, because they can be paid twice to do it.
>
Farm subsidies. Nuff said. It's corporate welfare to agribusiness
now, not helping out Farmer John.

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Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.

On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 17:09:17 -0400, Brooklyn1 <Gravesend1> wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:40:03 -0700, sf > wrote:
>
> >On 24 Jun 2011 03:21:29 GMT, notbob > wrote:
> >
> >> On 2011-06-24, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> >>
> >> > I was never crazy over bacon, I haven't bought bacon in more than
> >> > twenty years.......
> >>
> >> Yeah, but yer an idiot. Why do you think we care?
> >>
> >He pulls out his "Jewish" when it suits him... but to be honest, I
> >think he's lying.
>
> Spam is PORK, you ignorant ****.

I know. That's why I said you're jewish when it suits you.

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On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 23:10:58 -0400, Brooklyn1 wrote:

> Sky wrote:
>>
>>When shopping at a grocery store recently, I was rather shocked to see
>>many brands of bacon (1 pound pkgs) are way over $4 and even some other
>>over $5 per pound! OUCH!
>
> I was never crazy over bacon, I haven't bought bacon in more than
> twenty years, probably a lot longer, I just don't remember. To me
> it's a silly way to end up with a bucket of grease and very little to
> eat... I'd rather an SLT... Spam, lettuce, and tomato.

dear god.

blake

On 23/06/2011 11:10 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:

> I was never crazy over bacon, I haven't bought bacon in more than
> twenty years, probably a lot longer, I just don't remember. To me
> it's a silly way to end up with a bucket of grease and very little to
> eat... I'd rather an SLT... Spam, lettuce, and tomato.
>
It depends on the bacon. I get mine from my local Dutch butcher. His
bacon is not all fat and is not pumped full of liquids. When you cook a
pick piece of his bacon it shrinks a bit, but it is does not shrivel up
to less than half like supermarket bacon does. It also tastes a heck of
a lot better. I love the stuff. Alas, I am not supposed to eat it
anymore. I have a piece or two with Sunday brunch.

On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 15:04:28 -0700, sf > wrote:

snip
>>
>Farm subsidies. Nuff said. It's corporate welfare to agribusiness
>now, not helping out Farmer John.

I'm happy that you recognize the difference.
Janet US

On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 01:08:21 -0400, "Ed Pawlowski"
> wrote:

> We ship tons of grain to impoverished countries and
> it sits at the port while people starve. People in this country starve
> while we have warehouses full of food that the government bought up. Ronnie
> Regan started giving it away, but did that cure starvation?

It went to the black market and lined the pockets of dictators and
criminals.

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On 27/06/2011 3:56 PM, Ranée at Arabian Knits wrote:
> In g.com>,
> Dave > wrote:
>
>> There is lots of good farm land used for things other than food, like
>> flowers and Christmas trees. In Sweden they have huge tracts of land
>> used to grow trees to be burned for electrical generation. If you want
>> to get really picky, you could argue that it is inappropriate to raise
>> livestock. It takes about ten times as much acreage for a unit of meat
>> than it does vegetation. We should be planting corn only for human
>> consumption and not wasting so much land to produce corn to feed to
>> cattle, pigs and fowl.
>
> Except that to raise enough vegetation to truly nourish enough people
> without meat/eggs/dairy would require far more land. A cow feeds more
> people to full than an equivalent amount of corn. It also provides more
> nutrients.


Tell that to the vegetarians and vegans who will claim to be fell filled
and nourished without eating that meat. And then there are all those
people who rarely eat meat because they cannot afford it. I was just
presenting the argument that if someone is concerned about agricultural
land or about "food" being used to produce fuel, then they can also
claim that producing livestock is a waste of land and products.

Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>
> Any vegetative matter can be used to make ethanol.

That's problematic. Getting ethanol out of cellulose is usually a
negative net energy process. The parts with the most cellulose are
generally the parts that aren't food. Getting ethanol out of starch is
usually a positive net energy process. The parts with the most starch
are generally the parts that are food.

Methanol, though. Isn't that a different story? Wood alcohol is made
from cellulose. Maybe it's via a negative net energy process.

On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 22:23:49 -0400, James Post >
wrote:

>
> I don't like lazy people either.

I pose to you that those people are not lazy, they are drug dependent.
What they work for is more drugs and they are not lazy in that
respect. They do what they need to do to get their next fix.

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On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 21:20:56 -0700, sf > wrote:

>On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 22:23:49 -0400, James Post >
>wrote:
>
>>
>> I don't like lazy people either.
>
>I pose to you that those people are not lazy, they are drug dependent.
>What they work for is more drugs and they are not lazy in that
>respect. They do what they need to do to get their next fix.

Very true... sure they're hungry, they spend every cent on getting
high. And that's why I never donate to food banks unless its for the
four legged. Anyone truly wants to help the needy deliver a case of
food to an animal shelter. The welfare douchebags laugh at yoose.

On 28/06/2011 10:49 AM, Brooklyn1 wrote:

> Very true... sure they're hungry, they spend every cent on getting
> high. And that's why I never donate to food banks unless its for the
> four legged. Anyone truly wants to help the needy deliver a case of
> food to an animal shelter. The welfare douchebags laugh at yoose.



You would have loved the case of a local welfare recipient living in
subsidized housing. Unlike regular working folks whose kids often have
to share a room, the rules call for those in subsidized housing to each
have their own room. A woman was being forced out of her three bedroom
unit because her daughter had moved out and the woman and her
unemployed 23 year old son were eligible for the extra bedroom. The
woman claimed that she had to stay there because it was on the ground
floor and she had to be on the ground floor to take their dog out.
Curiously, it was a two story unit with bedrooms upstairs. The way I
figure it is that if she can walk up and down to the bedroom she can
walk up and down to take the dog out. Furthermore, if she is disabled
and living on welfare, maybe she shouldn't have a dog that she can't
look after properly.

On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 19:07:04 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

> She expects everyone else to pay for her to have a three
> bedroom ground floor apartment to accommodate her dog and couch potato son.

Sounds like she is enabling her lazy, freeloading son. Lots of
parents do that; unfortunately she's on disability and has section 8
housing or whatever it's called in Canada.

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Dave Smith > wrote:

>Welfare, disability, subsidized housing. It doesn't really matter. It's
>is all basically the same thing...... public assistance. She is living
>off government money paid for by the tax payers.

Really? State disability is an insurance program in the U.S.,
with payouts from private insurance companies in most cases.

Now I suppose, in a roundabout way insurance payouts are "welfare"
because the government had to go in and bail out the insurance
companies in 2008.


Steve

In my country food prices is going to high day by day, its unfair thing that is doing our Government

Dave Smith wrote:

> The US would back Satan if he promised to fight communism.

s/communism/terrorism/

Bob

On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 22:34:37 -0700, "Bob Terwilliger"
> wrote:

> Dave Smith wrote:
>
> > The US would back Satan if he promised to fight communism.
>
> s/communism/terrorism/
>
I have no idea what you meant, but I agree with Dave.

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sf wrote:
>
> On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 22:34:37 -0700, "Bob Terwilliger"
> > wrote:
>
> > Dave Smith wrote:
> >
> > > The US would back Satan if he promised to fight communism.
> >
> > s/communism/terrorism/
> >
> I have no idea what you meant, but I agree with Dave.

Bob posted a substitute command for the ed text editor.
This particular command is to replace the word "communism"
with "terrorism". The last machine which can run the ed
text editor is a 40-year old PDP-11 preserved in the
Computer History Museum in Sunnyvale, CA, and the last
person who knew how to use it died in 2007.

Mark wrote:

>> > s/communism/terrorism/
>> >
>> I have no idea what you meant, but I agree with Dave.
>
> Bob posted a substitute command for the ed text editor.
> This particular command is to replace the word "communism"
> with "terrorism". The last machine which can run the ed
> text editor is a 40-year old PDP-11 preserved in the
> Computer History Museum in Sunnyvale, CA, and the last
> person who knew how to use it died in 2007.

LOL, I suppose that's only a slight exaggeration!

I had to use ed last summer; it was the only text editor on one of the USAF
machines in Iraq. (Didn't even have vi!) But that same substitution syntax
is used in Perl.

Bob

On Jul 1, 3:35*am, Mark Thorson > wrote:
> sf wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 22:34:37 -0700, "Bob Terwilliger"
> > > wrote:
>
> > > Dave Smith wrote:
>
> > > > The US would back Satan if he promised to fight communism.
>
> > > s/communism/terrorism/
>
> > I have no idea what you meant, but I agree with Dave.
>
> Bob posted a substitute command for the ed text editor.
> This particular command is to replace the word "communism"
> with "terrorism". *The last machine which can run the ed
> text editor is a 40-year old PDP-11 preserved in the
> Computer History Museum in Sunnyvale, CA, and the last
> person who knew how to use it died in 2007.

Works with sed and vi, too.

Cindy Hamilton