zxcvbob wrote:
> How about using a tennis racket, restrung with piano wire? (that might
> be kind of fun, actually) HTH ;-)
>
> Bob

1 second burst in a food processor? In many batches


NT

On Nov 3, 7:38 am, wrote:
In today's kitchen,...the first thing we think of is....... what
gadget can I buy to do this job. The gadget probably is already in
your kitchen.

What would your Grandmother have done....yep...grab a sharp knife and
get going withough complaint. She probably would be thrilled to HAVE
five hundred tomatoes.

cybercat wrote:
> > wrote in message
> ups.com...
>> On Nov 3, 7:38 am, wrote:
>> In today's kitchen,...the first thing we think of is....... what
>> gadget can I buy to do this job. The gadget probably is already in
>> your kitchen.
>>
>> What would your Grandmother have done....yep...grab a sharp knife and
>> get going withough complaint. She probably would be thrilled to HAVE
>> five hundred tomatoes.
>>
>
> Not my grandmother. She would have lit a cigarette, reapplied her
> lipstick, and said, "What fresh hell is this?"

LOL

Oh pshaw, on Sat 03 Nov 2007 06:43:18a, cybercat meant to say...

>
> "Ophelia" > wrote in message
> ...
>> cybercat wrote:
>>> > wrote in message
>>> ups.com...
>>>> On Nov 3, 7:38 am, wrote:
>>>> In today's kitchen,...the first thing we think of is....... what
>>>> gadget can I buy to do this job. The gadget probably is already in
>>>> your kitchen.
>>>>
>>>> What would your Grandmother have done....yep...grab a sharp knife and
>>>> get going withough complaint. She probably would be thrilled to HAVE
>>>> five hundred tomatoes.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Not my grandmother. She would have lit a cigarette, reapplied her
>>> lipstick, and said, "What fresh hell is this?"
>>
>> LOL
>
> That is a Dorothy Parker line, as you may know. I should have given an
> attribution.
>
>
>

A great line, nevertheless.

--
Wayne Boatwright

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__________________________________________________ ____________

It's lonely at the top, but you eat better.

cybercat wrote:
> "Ophelia" > wrote in message
> ...
>> cybercat wrote:
>>> > wrote in message
>>> ups.com...
>>>> On Nov 3, 7:38 am, wrote:
>>>> In today's kitchen,...the first thing we think of is....... what
>>>> gadget can I buy to do this job. The gadget probably is already in
>>>> your kitchen.
>>>>
>>>> What would your Grandmother have done....yep...grab a sharp knife
>>>> and get going withough complaint. She probably would be thrilled
>>>> to HAVE five hundred tomatoes.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Not my grandmother. She would have lit a cigarette, reapplied her
>>> lipstick, and said, "What fresh hell is this?"
>>
>> LOL
>
> That is a Dorothy Parker line, as you may know. I should have
> given an attribution.

I know but It was still funny

> wrote in message
ups.com...
> On Nov 3, 7:38 am, wrote:
> In today's kitchen,...the first thing we think of is....... what
> gadget can I buy to do this job. The gadget probably is already in
> your kitchen.
>
> What would your Grandmother have done....yep...grab a sharp knife and
> get going withough complaint. She probably would be thrilled to HAVE
> five hundred tomatoes.
>

Not my grandmother. She would have lit a cigarette, reapplied her lipstick,
and said, "What fresh hell is this?"

"Ophelia" > wrote in message
...
> cybercat wrote:
>> > wrote in message
>> ups.com...
>>> On Nov 3, 7:38 am, wrote:
>>> In today's kitchen,...the first thing we think of is....... what
>>> gadget can I buy to do this job. The gadget probably is already in
>>> your kitchen.
>>>
>>> What would your Grandmother have done....yep...grab a sharp knife and
>>> get going withough complaint. She probably would be thrilled to HAVE
>>> five hundred tomatoes.
>>>
>>
>> Not my grandmother. She would have lit a cigarette, reapplied her
>> lipstick, and said, "What fresh hell is this?"
>
> LOL

That is a Dorothy Parker line, as you may know. I should have given an
attribution.

wrote:
> On Nov 3, 7:38 am, wrote:

> In today's kitchen,...the first thing we think of is....... what
> gadget can I buy to do this job. The gadget probably is already in
> your kitchen.
>
> What would your Grandmother have done....yep...grab a sharp knife and
> get going withough complaint. She probably would be thrilled to HAVE
> five hundred tomatoes.

At times like this I would very quickly ask myself: do they really
have to be diced?


NT

Well. not 500, but ...

Back in days of yore, I would sometimes get up of a late summer morning and
find the kitchen counters laden with tomatoes that needed to be dealt with
<now>. My husband would get up at dawn, haul the tomatoes in to the kitchen,
and then slip out to work before I was awake. It usually happened on a day
when I had promised to take the kids swimming.

Felice

wrote:
> On Nov 3, 7:38 am, wrote:
> In today's kitchen,...the first thing we think of is....... what
> gadget can I buy to do this job. The gadget probably is already in
> your kitchen.
>
> What would your Grandmother have done....yep...grab a sharp knife and
> get going withough complaint.

Nope. She would have grabbed at least two sharp knives and handed me
one. Then we would have sliced them and laid them out in the Southern
California sun to dry. That is, the ones the supermarket down the
street wouldn't have bought.

B/

Felice Friese wrote:
> Well. not 500, but ...
>
> Back in days of yore, I would sometimes get up of a late summer morning and
> find the kitchen counters laden with tomatoes that needed to be dealt with
> <now>. My husband would get up at dawn, haul the tomatoes in to the kitchen,
> and then slip out to work before I was awake. It usually happened on a day
> when I had promised to take the kids swimming.
>
> Felice
>
>


When we lived in New England we used to go on vacation for one or two
weeks ending on Labor Day. When we got back home, I'd begin laundry and
unpacking and my husband would inspect the garden. Invariably he would
return to the house with a bushel of tomatoes for me to can or freeze,
saying "Happy Birthday."

The tomatoes would be followed by overgrown zucchini, peppers, melons,
corn...and I wouldn't be a happy camper.

gloria p