That goes without saying, but also does the
human urge to go for the big splash. Anyhow,
at the spread for which I made quiche, someone
brought a bag of Utz's sour cream and onion
chips, which turned out to be fine, just as
fine as before. I was somewhat gratified.

It is reassuring when that happens... :)

A little sigh of relief is a good thing sometimes.

And Jim looked it up, I believe, and found that it was indeed founded by
a Breyer...... then sold to Kraft, which was taken over by Unilever...

With brands of that antiquity, one would
expect founding fathers or mothers. More
recent trademarks - Mrs. Butterworth and
Betty Crocker, for example, are more likely
to be fictional.

Betty Crocker was known to be fictional when I was an adolescent just learning to cook from her Cookbook for Boys and Girls... ;)

But the point of such (unless they're really
outrageous to be funny, like T.G.I. Friday's
or Chuck E. Cheese or Jim's Aloysius McGillicuddy,
is that the people who would be swayed by such
things would like to believe or at least imagine
that there's a benevolent home economist housewife
behind the products.

With the current cultural
mi-mi-mi tendencies, we can expect more
real-name brands to be coming to the fore.

No reason to doubt that Newman's Own is really Paul Newman's company,
for example.... :)

I have no evidence other than a few clips out of
Hud or Exodus that there ever was a Paul Newman.

It used to be so much better....

So true and so sad; though it never was the
richest of ice creams, it was at one time
one of the most consistently flavorful and
wholesome, with limited numbers of and
sometimes no dubious ingredients.

I guess other brands have taken over that distinction....

One hopes that.

I got Turkey Hill (also reliably flavorful and
wholesome, though no longer so rich as formerly)
the other day. The Colombian coffee was pretty
decent; the fat-free sugar-free vanilla was as one
might expect a disgrace, but what does one do when
having diet-restricted people over for dinner?

Serve something other than pretend ice cream....? ;) The Turkey Hill
All Natural flavors are a bit richer, and haven't any of the extenders
(also not the fat-free sugar-free).... :) I realise that it wouldn't do
for the diet-restricted sorts....

It seemed worth a try based on the name, but on
sampling, not so.

Documenting the oops... ;)

Nah, the oops part will likely be excised
before any kind of distribution.

Oh.... it was an official recording....?

Somewhere in between - limited distribution
among the membership and sponsors and donors,
possibly stocking stuffers for the local PBS
or community station, that kind of thing.

Ah... So still something that one would want to make as good as
possible.... :)

There once was such a recording where one of the
cello ensemble parts was sour, and they excised
the offending member, and I was called in to play
the part on the viola and have that dubbed in. So,
yeah, as good as possible, not as accurate as
possible.

Some things one /hopes/ are once in a lifetime....? ;)

I've learned to roll with these particular
punches, and some of the other diners were
interesting, though hard pressed to get a
word in edgewise.

Not a complete loss, then.... :)

Dessert, some kind of traditional Italian
compote, wasn't bad.

Yep, and they switched off, so where it was record
heat one place I was became unseasonably cold after
I left, to arrive just as a major northeast cold
snap was about to end and become quite balmy for a
while. But it's not even that the phenomena cancel,
but rather that the trends are upward and
accelerating since the Industrial Revolution.

We're currently in the 40s, a bit warm for here this time of year...
with tomorrow's high to be in the 50s... but then it turns downward
again to more seasonable 30s....

Today here it's supposed to be 70. Of course,
we're flying out before that happens.

Raised them wrong, Or perhaps right - I knew
a guy who always thought he hated lobster, and
his parents didn't try to disabuse him of that
notion - it was much cheaper that way; eventually
he figured it out, and much time was made up for.

And by then, he was paying for his own lobster....?

I lost touch a year or two after that earth-shaking
event, but I presume he can pay for his own lobster
nowadays.

As well as any of us, I'd guess....

I wonder that we give pets a benefit of the doubt
that we begrudge to family members and other humans.

We tend to give humans and family similar benefit that we give our
cats... possibly even more... ;) Dogs perhaps not quite so much... possibly why we have cats and not dogs... (G)

Your household may have been an exception.

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Title: Aztec Pyramid Avocado Dip
Categories: Appetizers, Dips, Fruits, Cheese/eggs, Vegetables
Yield: 8 servings

3 ea Avocado; * 1 1/3 oz Taco Seasoning Mix; 1
Pkg
2 c Sour Cream 3 c Fresh Tomatoes; Fine Chopped
2 c Cheddar; Sharp, Shredded 1/2 c Black Olives; Sliced
5 ea Green Onions; Sliced,Use All 2 tb Lemon Juice
1 c Cream Cheese; Softened

* Use 3 California Avocados (dark skinned type) that have been peeled

LAYER 1: (Bottom) Mash the avocados and blend in the lemon juice, mixing
well, and spread evenly in a bowl or on a serving plate to the edges of
the
dish. LAYER 2: Beat the cream cheese until smooth and creamy. Blend in
the
sour cream, mixing well, and blend in the taco seasoning, blending well.
Spread over the avocado layer. LAYER 3: Sprinkle the cheddar cheese over
the cream cheese mixture. LAYER 4: Distribute the tomatoes over the
cheddar
cheese layer. LAYER 5: Spread the green onions over the tomato layer.
LAYER
6: Top with the black olives. Serve at room temperature. Makes about 10
1/2 cups of dip. SUGGESTED DIPPERS: Tortilla Chips, Bell peppers,
Lobster,
Jicama. Source unknown

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Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 12-23-18 11:07 <=-

That goes without saying, but also does the
human urge to go for the big splash. Anyhow,
at the spread for which I made quiche, someone
brought a bag of Utz's sour cream and onion
chips, which turned out to be fine, just as
fine as before. I was somewhat gratified.

It is reassuring when that happens... :)

A little sigh of relief is a good thing sometimes.

Indeed. :)

And Jim looked it up, I believe, and found that it was indeed founded
by a Breyer... then sold to Kraft, which was taken over by Unilever...

With brands of that antiquity, one would
expect founding fathers or mothers. More
recent trademarks - Mrs. Butterworth and
Betty Crocker, for example, are more likely
to be fictional.

Betty Crocker was known to be fictional when I was an adolescent just learning to cook from her Cookbook for Boys and Girls... ;)

But the point of such (unless they're really
outrageous to be funny, like T.G.I. Friday's
or Chuck E. Cheese or Jim's Aloysius McGillicuddy,
is that the people who would be swayed by such
things would like to believe or at least imagine
that there's a benevolent home economist housewife
behind the products.

Ah, but many of those would believe in the outrageous ones as well...

With the current cultural
mi-mi-mi tendencies, we can expect more
real-name brands to be coming to the fore.

No reason to doubt that Newman's Own is really Paul Newman's company,
for example.... :)

I have no evidence other than a few clips out of
Hud or Exodus that there ever was a Paul Newman.

I've seen a bit more than that.... ;)

I got Turkey Hill (also reliably flavorful and
wholesome, though no longer so rich as formerly)
the other day. The Colombian coffee was pretty
decent; the fat-free sugar-free vanilla was as one
might expect a disgrace, but what does one do when
having diet-restricted people over for dinner?

Serve something other than pretend ice cream....? ;) The Turkey Hill
All Natural flavors are a bit richer, and haven't any of the extenders
(also not the fat-free sugar-free).... :) I realise that it wouldn't do
for the diet-restricted sorts....

It seemed worth a try based on the name, but on
sampling, not so.

I guess it was worth a try... I think I did used to get that vanilla for
MJ... and she never complained... but then she wanted her ice cream even
if it wasn't quite real....

Oh.... it was an official recording....?

Somewhere in between - limited distribution
among the membership and sponsors and donors,
possibly stocking stuffers for the local PBS
or community station, that kind of thing.

Ah... So still something that one would want to make as good as possible.... :)

There once was such a recording where one of the
cello ensemble parts was sour, and they excised
the offending member, and I was called in to play
the part on the viola and have that dubbed in. So,
yeah, as good as possible, not as accurate as
possible.

A bit of a mind-boggle... but I'm sure you did a creditable (although
not credited) job... :) Apparently it was all in more of an upper cello range....?

Some things one /hopes/ are once in a lifetime....? ;)

I've learned to roll with these particular
punches, and some of the other diners were
interesting, though hard pressed to get a
word in edgewise.

Not a complete loss, then.... :)

Dessert, some kind of traditional Italian
compote, wasn't bad.

Enough to make up for the rest....? :)

Raised them wrong, Or perhaps right - I knew
a guy who always thought he hated lobster, and
his parents didn't try to disabuse him of that
notion - it was much cheaper that way; eventually
he figured it out, and much time was made up for.

And by then, he was paying for his own lobster....?

I lost touch a year or two after that earth-shaking
event, but I presume he can pay for his own lobster
nowadays.

As well as any of us, I'd guess....

I wonder that we give pets a benefit of the doubt
that we begrudge to family members and other humans.

We tend to give humans and family similar benefit that we give our
cats... possibly even more... ;) Dogs perhaps not quite so much... possibly why we have cats and not dogs... (G)

Your household may have been an exception.

Possibly. :)

ttyl neb

... A grapefruit is a lemon that had a chance and took advantage of it.

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