[MarkJerling]

Yeah, I read them all to my stepsons at bedtime when they were little (long time sgo, I'm a granddad now).

I even attempted different voices for the characters, leading my wife to claim the ritual was as much for my enjoyment as theirs.

I still read Asterix. Brilliant books.

[MarkJerling]

Our local bakery supplies bread for all the supermarkets in the district and, and also makes such items as bagels for McDonalds. So, if you go in most any day you can buy 6 bagels for $4 or 18 for $10, from the bakery office. There's no fresher than that!

[Rupert]

Will do.
I'll also check for some nice "bottoms" in leggings for you, and me, while I'm there.
Besides their prices, I like the size of the store. I was in and out in 15 minutes the other day with 17 items in my cart, $28 worth.
About 95% of what I buy is found around the outside perimeter, and around the produce area.

Yep, 95% of what I buy is also on the perimeter. Makes shopping easy. I will miss my Aldi shopping, it has been one of my biggest pleasures the past couple of years. Sending Mrs Rupert down there is not the same...she hates grocery shopping...but loves to shop for clothes, shoes, handbags, cosmetics and assorted other junk.

Regards!

[Racer X 69]

You're a lucky, lucky man if you have access to fresh bread.
Here in Pierre the bread is a week old when it hits the shelves, according to the day code on it. That means that if you buy a loaf on shopping day, assuming you weren't out of bread completely, it will be somewhere near a week and a half old by the time you open it.
I'm absolutely convinced that the distributors deliver fresh bread to Rapid City and Sioux Falls, pick up the week old bread off of the shelves and deliver it to pierre.
I alternate between loving and hating this place. On the one hand, we don't get fresh bread; on the other I don't know anywhere else I could have a casual conversation with the Governor while out for dinner with my wife as happend two nights ago.

You should open up a bakery there.

[tim60]

Will do.
I'll also check for some nice "bottoms" in leggings for you, and me, while I'm there.
Besides their prices, I like the size of the store. I was in and out in 15 minutes the other day with 17 items in my cart, $28 worth.
About 95% of what I buy is found around the outside perimeter, and around the produce area.

Do you mean it is not 'stupid big', to use a teenager's form of expression?

[tim60]

Agreed.

There is certain stuff afoot at my work, and at shift start recently we were advised of it by our superiors. We were also asked to keep it on the QT.

Five minutes after walking out of the meeting a coworker from another part of the program asked if we had heard the news.

Doing my part, I shrugged and asked, "What news?"

By first break it was the primary topic of conversation.

Funny how that works.

But even if they did not tell you anything there would be someone who had noticed the boss called to a meeting resulting in a cancellation with them, or something like that, and the rumours would start.

[tim60]

You're a lucky, lucky man if you have access to fresh bread.
Here in Pierre the bread is a week old when it hits the shelves, according to the day code on it. That means that if you buy a loaf on shopping day, assuming you weren't out of bread completely, it will be somewhere near a week and a half old by the time you open it.
I'm absolutely convinced that the distributors deliver fresh bread to Rapid City and Sioux Falls, pick up the week old bread off of the shelves and deliver it to pierre.
I alternate between loving and hating this place. On the one hand, we don't get fresh bread; on the other I don't know anywhere else I could have a casual conversation with the Governor while out for dinner with my wife as happend two nights ago.

Have they not thought of the idea of having a little bakery in the shop, so always the bread is newly baked. They can ship in 'kit bread' which only needs to be put in the oven for the time written on the instructions so anyone in the shop could make it work. Then they could market 'fresh bread' or 'freshly baked bread', depending on the fine detail of the law there.


Similar problem here in England. It seems the shop waits till the milk is almost out of date before they bother to put it on the shelf for sale. So someone is having a big warehouse somewhere storing it for most of its shelf life, and we end up paying for that too in the price we pay.


Australian shops usually have milk with 10 or more days on the shelf. No-one wants to pay to have a big fridge to store it in, so better to make it, ship it, sell it. And the supermarkets get over the shipping frequency problem by arranging that the stock control work is done by an independent contractor, who may even be the owner of the milk until it is sold in the shop - so they would pay costs for disposal of old stuff too.

[robtcorl]

12 hours and no posts?

Beef, it's what's for dinner!

[Racer X 69]

12 hours and no posts?

Beef, it's what's for dinner!

Did someone mention my favorite meat?

[robtcorl]

Did someone mention my favorite meat?

I miss Gabe and Walker, but not Falstaff.

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[savoche]

12 hours and no posts?

Beef, it's what's for dinner!

Hey, here too! Well, not in one piece, rather in a casserole (I think it's called in foreignese). Chopped up with potatoes, onion, carrots, crushed tomatoes, a few leaves of laurel, salt, ground pepper, put it all in a casserole with some water, chuck in the oven for a couple of hours - et voilà!

[robtcorl]

Hey, here too! Well, not in one piece, rather in a casserole (I think it's called in foreignese). Chopped up with potatoes, onion, carrots, crushed tomatoes, a few leaves of laurel, salt, ground pepper, put it all in a casserole with some water, chuck in the oven for a couple of hours - et voilà!

Sounds like our beef stew, but ours is usually cooked longer due to the tougher cuts of beef used.
Slow cookers work great.
Not my pic:

[savoche]

Sounds like our beef stew, but ours is usually cooked longer due to the tougher cuts of beef used.
Slow cookers work great.

Yeah, that looks very similar. Didn't find any tough cuts, I'm afraid ...which made it a rather expensive stew. But hey, as long as it tastes good - and it does. Cooked it for closer to three hours to take the edge off the tomatoes. Worked very well.

[robtcorl]

Yeah, that looks very similar. Didn't find any tough cuts, I'm afraid ...which made it a rather expensive stew. But hey, as long as it tastes good - and it does. Cooked it for closer to three hours to take the edge off the tomatoes. Worked very well.

Sounds better than my steaks right now.
I'll be grilling in a drizzly rain, wind, and falling temps. But my grills are on the deck right outside our kitchen.
Run out light the coals, come in and prep the steaks, back out and flip them a time or two, done.

[Racer X 69]

I miss Gabe and Walker, but not Falstaff.

Falstaff Beer Commercial Gabe & Walker Coin Flip - YouTube

I haven't had a Fallstaff in a long time . . . . . . . .