Subj : Re: Crampers
To : Mike Powell
From : Dave Drum
Date : Sun May 07 2023 05:51:00
-=> Mike Powell wrote to DAVE DRUM <=-
> MP> I would not make it in such a denomination. I cannot see giving up my
> MP> Ski or Ale-8-One for long!
> I've met Ale-8. But I hadda go look up "Ski" .... Hmmmm made by "Double
> Cola". Wonder what their cloa drink tastes like. Bv)=
MP> A little surprised you had not encountered Ski before in Illinois. It
MP> is glass-bottled in Southern Illinois somewhere, and can be found on
MP> tap in some restaurants in St. Louis. Here in Kentucky, it was a big
MP> thing until Coke-Cola bought the Greensburg Bottling Company and got
MP> rid of all of the Double Cola drinks. They actually kept Ski, and sold
MP> it in place of Mello Yellow, in a limited area.
Both Mount & Do and its clone Mello Yell-o are nasty in my opinion.
MP> The Kentucky Headhunters sang about it in their hit song, "Dumas
MP> Walker."
MP> Ski is now distributed locally by Ale-8, so it has made somewhat of a
MP> comeback.
MP> As for Double Cola, there are not many nearby places to find it. I
MP> think the closest place is Evansville. I take that back... I can get
MP> Illinois glass-bottled Ski at the local Cracker Barrel gift shop, last
MP> I checked. ;)
MP> "Double" comes from the size of the early bottles being twice as big as
MP> other colas but for the same price. IMHO, it is better than Coke or
MP> Pepsi, especially the glass-bottled, real sugar version (which I think
MP> is all that Excel makes -- Excel is the Illinois bottler).
When I was a kid (probably before your daddy met your mom) Co' Cola was
in 7 oz glass bottles and Pepsi was in 12 oz glass bottles. And cans of
soda (or brewski) were a futuristic pipe dream. I always preferred the
"bite" of original Coke to the sickeningly sweet Burpsie Cola.
I've been doing diet soda since before I was diagnosed as mextra-sweet.
But if I do drink fully-leaded soda it's either Mexican Coke (which a
couple stores here carry) or Kosher for Passover Coke (yellow caps) in
season .... and avoid that nasty HFCS.
3 lb Beef chuck roast
2 tb Oil
16 oz Can crushed Tomatoes
12 oz Coca-Cola *
1 lg Onion; chopped or sliced
1 pk Spaghetti sauce mix
1 1/2 ts Salt
1/2 ts Garlic granules
* Use non-HFCS (Kosher for Passover) Co'Cola.
Brown meat in oil for ten minutes on each side; remove
to crockpot. Drain fat.
Break up tomatoes in their juice; add remaining
ingredients, stirring until spaghetti sauce mix is
dissolved. Pour over meat. Cover; simmer until meat
is tender.
Thicken gravy; serve over sliced meat.
MM by Sylvia Steiger
Uncle Dirty Dave's Kitchen
MMMMM
... Cooks marry ingredients in the way a poet marries words.
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