Went to the burgers & beers place near my house and sat at the bar. The bartender took my food order and then, except to bring me a new beer at just the right time, completely ignored me. It was perfect. When I cashed out, there was one fewer beers on the tab than I’d actually ordered. I said nothing, but tipped accordingly.
Best case scenario: she got a 35% tip and I got a free beer. Everybody wins! Worst case scenario: they catch the mistake, and she gets a crappy tip, but at least doesn’t lose any money (and I still get a free beer!).
I started watching DS9 and Babylon 5 (on DVD, from the library, since that’s my preferred mode – gives me a reason to bike over there).
Anyway, I just finished DS9 episodes 7 and 8. The DVD has gone back to the menu and is running the attract-loop sound effects. Ship and station sounds, computer trills. It’s been looping for half an hour, I just became aware of it, and it’s a nice sound.
Plus the weather has turned cold, and I’m such a cold weather person that this makes me quite happy.
We have about 5 or 6 Betty Crocker cookbooks (among about 100 others), from the 1950s, 1960s, and so on. Some of the baked goods are really good. I use them to time veggies. Asparagus requires time covered then time uncovered (or possibly vice versa) and I can never remember.
I have two sets of those recipe cards that I inherited from my mom. When I was a kid at age seven, I thought they were neat to look at, but I don’t think Mom ever made one dish from them.
I have old Better Homes & Gardens cookbooks with the most gawdawful color pictures you’d ever see of food this side of those index cards! And some knock-off index-card sets, too. What the fuck - was the processing of color photography of food way down on the aesthetic-chain in 1971? Or was everyone involved in the industry of food photography and styling coming down from the 1960s, and their vision was messed up from taking too much or not enough LSD?
When I was a kid, I made a lot of concoctions. Because we didn’t have that much money, Mom allowed it, as long as it was actually eaten. Food waste was a real no-go, but creating and eating weird stuff? Yea that was OK.
My top one was taking out the stems of whole mushrooms, then filling the little cavity with honey. That was definitely my favorite, and I never had to share!
It was much better than whatever the abomination is in @Lucy_Gothro1’s posted image. Perhaps even that was more appealing in true color, it looks like the cyan ink faded while M-Y-K all stayed.
When I was a kid, I made a lot of concoctions. Because we didn’t have that much money, Mom allowed it, as long as it was actually eaten. Food waste was a real no-go, but creating and eating weird stuff? Yea that was OK.