[tim60]

I hope you’re getting a good price for all those jars. My wife buys it locally for our daughter, one jar at a time from Tesco, because we fill the cupboard space with other foodstuffs. And as has been mentioned before, the British alternative, Marmite, is made from vegans, which has to be a plus.

I got them at a price of £1 per 100g, on Amazon. By far the best price I saw online.

I don’t consume vegans because I am not a cannibal.

[Racer X 69]

See. We need global warming. -34C is much colder than the inside of our freezer!

At the Big Shed they have commercial freezers to keep the sealant used for all faying surface sealing. The temperature is a tightly controlled -70 F. The seal begins curing after it is thawed, so keeping it frozen until used is important.

[bspn]

"“Sault” translates to rapids or cataracts. “Saut,” an older French version of the word, meant jump. Knowing this, we now can grasp the meaning of Sault Sainte Marie: the rapids of Saint Mary"

So yup, sault should not be soo but rather sew...or thereabouts

Around sixty miles south of 'the Soo', is an island with the name Bois Blanc in the northern part of Lake Huron. Locals call it Bob-lo, not to be confused with an island of the same name (Bob-lo) which was formerly the site of an amusement park at the southern end of the Detroit River.

[CharLac]

Around sixty miles south of 'the Soo', is an island with the name Bois Blanc in the northern part of Lake Huron. Locals call it Bob-lo, not to be confused with an island of the same name (Bob-lo) which was formerly the site of an amusement park at the southern end of the Detroit River.

And not to be confused with

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanc-Sablon,_Quebec

Blah Sah blow

[MarkJerling]

Don't you ever get water pooling in the base of the fridge when the drainage hole stops doing its job? That tends to freeze in ours.

No, and the weird part is I've never managed to find where it drains to. There are no drain holes at the bottom at all. Wizardry!

[StiffLegged]

No, and the weird part is I've never managed to find where it drains to. There are no drain holes at the bottom at all. Wizardry!

Ours drains to a shallow tray close to the compressor and there it stays. I've never known this to overflow and always presumed the warmth from the compressor evaporates the water faster than it drips from the drain.

Or it may in fact be wizardry...

[slartibartfast01]

Ours drains to a shallow tray close to the compressor and there it stays. I've never known this to overflow and always presumed the warmth from the compressor evaporates the water faster than it drips from the drain.

Or it may in fact be wizardry...

That apparently is the theory but I have no idea if it works. I normally push a twisted plastic coated wire into the hole followed by rolled up kitchen towel to absorb the water. What I really need is an endoscope to see what is going on.

[lesmore49]

Recently, we've lucked out and a small local business has started making their own sausages with very high standards. Yes you pay more for them but they are significantly better than anything from the grocery store.

https://www.86bistro.ca/

A dictum that I believe, is that you generally get what you pay for.

Proving this point is that I looked up the definition of the word 'dictum' in my copy of 'The Concise Oxford Dictionary', which I bought new, in 1979 to help me with my studies and to make slow progress towards being erudite. I've learned a lot of definitions of different words but have given up on being erudite.

We go to a deli run by a family of Ukranian descent, about 5 times a year to pick up supplies of holubchies, perogies, farmer's sausage. It is out of the way, about 20 miles of travel, but boy the taste cannot be beat. Just writing about it, I'm getting very hungry.

BTW, Charlie, you being a fellow Canadian and all...the 'Peg temps ...-35 C tonight...wind chill of -46 C. These are the temps I don't like.

[lesmore49]

And ours, until I snipped the crimped end off the drain pipe leading to the collector tray underneath. It wouldn’t let the condensation drain freely before that.

We did the same thing.

You'd think the drain pipe designer would of figured that out before, but maybe he couldn't, maybe he had to design something he knew wouldn't work well, but did design something he knew would not work, because of some regulation that he had to comply with.

Modern days there seem to be a lot of government regulations we have to comply with, that don't bear too close examination, of why the regulation exists in the first place.

At this point I'm going to use my oft used disclaimer. I dunno.

[lesmore49]

I hope you’re getting a good price for all those jars. My wife buys it locally for our daughter, one jar at a time from Tesco, because we fill the cupboard space with other foodstuffs. And as has been mentioned before, the British alternative, Marmite, is made from vegans, which has to be a plus.

I've heard of these British 'foodstuffs' like Marmite and what was the other one...Vegemite (?). I've actually seen these British foodstuffs in their packaging, but never gone to the next step and bought some. For some reason I can't bring myself to actually buying it. It is probably very good.

My dad used to buy and absolutely love Worcestershire Sauce, also House(s) of Parliament Sauce. He would put this stuff on anything and everything. I tried it, but never was able to develop a taste for it.

https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8...BTn70EocI02oqA

[lesmore49]

Strangely, our fridge and freezer seems to keep itself completely ice free. Except for the ice storage part. Wizardry I tell you!
(Thank you Robert Bosch)

It is a very old freezer. My wife bought it from Sears in the early '80's. It is a Kenmore. The thing is like an ancient Maytag washer/dryer...it just keeps on working. Aside from developing frost buildup.

[bspn]

And not to be confused with

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanc-Sablon,_Quebec

Blah Sah blow

Had to look that one up, thanks for including the link.

[Parallax]

A dictum that I believe, is that you generally get what you pay for.

Although that is generally true; "be thankful we're not getting all of the government we're paying for".
(attributed to Will Rogers)

[Racer X 69]

Strangely, our fridge and freezer seems to keep itself completely ice free. Except for the ice storage part. Wizardry I tell you!
(Thank you Robert Bosch)

Our frost free freezer consumes the ice from the ice maker. We keep plastic drink bottles with water in the freezer, frozen for the times when the power goes out, to help keep the food longer. The frost free feature consumes the ice, at some point completely emptying them. Anything frozen that has moisture ultimately becomes freeze dried.

This trough sealed plastic containers.

I think the occasional defrost of a regular freezer is a small price to pay for frozen food that doesn’t get dried to nothing.

[Racer X 69]

Went to Treyvon’s memorial yesterday, and the funeral today. As he was active duty in the Army, he was given a full military ceremony, a group of soldiers from his unit, the 82nd Airborne from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and the Chaplin from there.

Also one of the guys he went through jump school with came up for 5he funeral. They became friends when they met on their first jump. As they were in the C17 riding to the jump zone, the guy told Trey that not only was this his first jump, it was the first time he had ever been in an airplane.

Funny story.

Trey touched many lives, and everyone he met remembers him for his smile, his positive nature, his generous heart. So many of his fellow soldiers asked for leave to attend his funeral, that the senior leadership had difficulty allowing leave. They did schedule a memorial for Trey at Fort Bragg this coming Thursday for the entire group.

I may have mentioned that Trey wasn’t a blood relative, that his biological father contributed nothing more to the boy’s life than the seed that fertilized the egg, when he was hopping from one clandestine liaison to another, and impregnating Trey’s mother when she was stepping out on Mrs. Racer’s son. This loser has countless offspring, some he has never known, none that he has ever contributed more than the genesis of their lives. He has dodged the welfare agencies from a dozen jurisdictions, and somehow has managed to get by, never holding a job.

He never sent Trey a birthday card, or a Christmas gift.

He never saw him but once, when Trey was in his early teens, and Trey traveled to visit him, Trey paying for the plane ticket.

He wasn’t there when the boy was born.

My stepson raised Trey, as his own son, without Trey’s mother, whom he divorced. He was there, giving Trey a chance to have a good life, teaching him to be a good person.

So it was exceptionally difficult today, to see the soldier present the folded flag to Trey’s biological father, while the man who was the only real father Trey knew sat on the side.

We took solace knowing that we had 21 years with Trey in our lives, something that guy will never have.