whoah! easy there.

didn't seee the winkie?

it's a running joke that double posts on a regular basis mean that you're crazy. a quad post seemed to need recognition. no need to call me an asshole. golly.

We call them Lincoln Logs. Good to put the occasional/intermittent raisin on them.

Again, as my Pop (grandpa') used to say: "If you ain't related to it, and it ain't poison, it's food... and there's exceptions to both-a' those rules".
Farming in the depression, as he did, nothing went to waste.
I grew up, for some time, very poor. Not "American" poor, real poor. I don't usually talk about it.
I love it when people say "I won't" eat something... yeah... you will, actually.

Lizzy, my first encounter with a ham-and-pineapple Hawaiian was in a Shakey's -- in the sixties -- in north central Colorado.

So to me, that's pretty old. And Shakey's pizza parlors have gone a long way downhill since. I wouldn't send an enemy to a Shakey's now. He'd take about three bites and then come after me with the mallets of forethought -- and I want those mallets to play croquet.

Hst! -- LJ, I think she was speaking of herself. She saw the winkie, I'm sure.

if you put raisins on the pbutter/celery, it's "ants on a log"

A lot of people think my Raman (sometimes rice noodle), egg (optional), mixed veggie (optional), sardine, octopus, wasabi, soy, sesame oil combo is odd. It is not for me.
EXACTLY!

yum, ramen noodles with egg drops, sesame oil, and soy sauce. I haven't had that since . . . I started making decent money :)

soba noodles are better for you, though, and I've had those similarly. I love sesame oil!

My Grandparents were East End Londoners and their experiences in the war sent them in opposite directions. Even now Grandad (with the reduced appetite of a man in his mid eighties) will force himself to eat everything on his plate. Whereas Nan (now deceased) developed a horror of germs and food contamination. She would obsessively check expiry dates and felt uncomfortable keeping anything even a day before expiry. When we stayed with them in the summer holidays, Nan would only buy the Kelloggs Variety cereal (8 mini boxes) because the idea of an open box of Cornflakes would drive her crazy. Grandad would then make us eat the ones we didn't like (Smacks and All Bran) because he didn't want them wasted.
We were British 70s poor. Our standards weren't all that low for the time, but by today's standards we were well below the poverty line. I wish I had the motivation to eat that diet today - it was so healthy.
I learned as a teen not to say, "I'd never eat that" and that was only skipping-two-meals hungry. I'm aware that skipping-two-days-of-meals hungry might even make me consider eating ants on a log. Although I'd be more likely to try the real thing first.

Hmm... her no likeum peanut butter?

You tease - we had this out when someone suggested peanut butter on brioche as I remember...

Like I said, sometimes I make it with rice noodles (clear and soba are not unusual, what ever is on sale, in bulk, at the Asian market).
Still, like Raman, what is to bad about them?

I don't recall at all. (sigh) Was it fun?

Something not strange nohow: almond butter on toast with black cherry preserves.

OK, I got one...Mary likes to eat Jif peanut butter, sugar-free strawberry preserves and Bar S turkey slices.

Together!

EW!

ramen noodles are fried, which is why they're not good for you.

Did you see there's a new tv show? Bizzare Foods on the Travel Channel.

Yesterday I set out to make breakfast pigs in a blanket--sausages wrapped in pancakes, with a little drizzle of maple syrup--but ran out of sausages. So I pan-fried some hotdogs and tried using those instead, with some Cheddar shavings (and the maple syrup, too)...

Hotdogs and pancakes are so gooooood.

April and I watch that show on occasion, Cloud...the last one we saw was one where the people ate guinea pigs in a South American country (don't remember which one). Blecch!

We went to IHOP for dinner tonight. I ordered the Big Bacon Omelette, which is 3 eggs, bacon, tomato, parmesan and swiss cheeses and sour cream. Normally, I would find such a combination gross, but on occasion, it's mighty tasty.