Subj : Greasy Spoons was: Chill [1]
To : Dave Drum
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Mon Mar 03 2025 14:31:30
Hi Dave,
DD> I wonder what cpuld have caused that sort of off-taste? I'll assume
DD> you've not researched it. Bv)=
RH> No, and have forgotten about it except as a reminder of how bad chili
RH> can be. Some years ago, a family in our church won the chili cook off
RH> with a sausage and pineapple abomination--don't know what the judges
RH> were thinking on that one! I did place in it, but heard a number of
RH> comments about the unusual "chili".
DD> Not everything called chilli is actually chilli. I was competing in a
DD> "district" cook-off (less than 20 cooks) some years ago and the #1
DD> bowl of red, according to the judges, was a cook who had put an entire
DD> regular sized bottlem of Hunt's Catsup into his pot just before "turn
DD> in". He may have won the trophy and the $$$$ but he didn't get a
DD> single "People's Choice" vote.
Doesn't sound like anything I'd vote for. I'm not much of a ketchup
eater to begin with, and knowing that there was a bottle of it in the
pot of chili would have turned me off, fast!
RH> Greasy spoon chili in a not so greasy spoon eatery.
DD> We don't gots no greasy spoons around here. Our health department is
DD> "on the ball" and the local daily publishes their results on those who
DD> fail the test(s).
RH> The Raleigh paper publishes them on a weekly basis also. I see a number
RH> of B grades but usually nothing lower. The listing usually lists some
RH> of the violations that were noted.
DD> All of the chilli cook offs in this area get a visit from the health
DD> department. I got an attempted "ding" from aninspector for not having
DD> a thermometer present. So, I lifted the lid of the chilli pot to the
DD> stew bubbling merrily along and siad "What's boiling point?"
DD> She started to ask "What's that ... " which was as far as she got when
DD> I saw her "get it" and she turned and left. Bv)=
Makes you wonder, sometimes, how they got to be food inspectors. The VFW
post here runs a chuck wagon at community events as a fund raiser. All
who are involved with running it in any form have to go thru the county
food handler's certification class. AFAIK, it has never been "audited"
but I'm sure it would pass.
DD> If they look like there's a ground fog following them they're putting
DD> down ice melter.
DD> As they do in this area. I keep a monthly subscription at one between
DD> home and work. Hit it often for thew undercar wash to get ride of any
DD> salt build-up. Not to mentions the salty coating on the bodywork.
RH> We can't use a lot of the commercial washes because of the high cap on
RH> the back of the truck. So, it's usually a DIY project, awaiting a nice
RH> day without rain in the foreseeable forecast.
DD> How high is the cap? If it will fit under a drive-thru awning it will
DD> go nicely through most of the car washes around here. Most of them
We don't do drive thru awnings. The truck and cap would probably fit but
we've got radio antennas that would not fit. Having done the drive thru
at the bank a few times, we know not to try it at a fast food place.
RH> ... Books are better than TV; they exercise your imagination.
DD> That's been a tenet of mine forever. Movies and boob tube show you the
DD> writer's or director's vision of what's happening. A book lets your
DD> mind build its own screenplay. I note that Gene Hackman died
DD> yesterday. Many of his movie roles inspired me to get the source
DD> material - if only to see what was left out. Bv)=
RH> I don't think I've seen any of his movies. My dad's old newspaper boss
RH> (editor/owner) also owned the theater as part of the same building. He
RH> let employees and families in for free. When he passed away, the
RH> theater part was sold to an outsider, no more free movies so I think I
RH> saw maybe half a dozen (if that) more before leaving home. Steve and I
RH> haven't gone to a lot of movies either, just never got into it. I did
RH> talk him into seeing "Gone With the Wind" a couple of months after we
RH> got married. (G)
DD> I worked at a local drive-in theater in my teens. And in the late 70s
DD> got a job as a projectionist at an "adult" cinema. Talk about
DD> boooooring. As long as those old Brinkert projectors were running well
DD> I got a lot of book work (reading) done.
Good time to get studying done. (G)
DD> Since the only "French Connection" recipe I could find is for a
DD> cocktail and neither of us ....... I picked this to "Burtonise" the
DD> post.
DD> The pixture accompanying the original recipe was nice. I'd probably
DD> enjoy eating it. Doubt I'll ever make it, though.
I've come to that realisation with a lot of recipies. Went thru a stack
of saved newspaper food sections over the past week or so, think I saved
maybe a dozen recipies to try.
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Catch you later,
Ruth
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