GEORGE BUSH AND CONSERVATIVES IS AN EVIL DEVIL! HE SHOULD NOT BE REECELCTED!!! [subliterate alert]

[awildanimal]

GEORGE BUSH IS EVIL!!! CONSERVATIVES ARE EVIL!!!! CONSERVATIVES ARE STEALING FOOD AND MONEY FROM BABIES AND CHILDREN AND GIVING THEN TO RICH RACIST NAZIS IN GOVNERMENT!! THEY ARE STARTING HOLOCAUSTS AGAINST MINORITES WOMEN AND THE POOR!! THEY HATE THE POOR AND TAKE FROM THEM AND GIVE IT TO THE RICH!!! CONSERVATIVES ARE NAZIS!! MY SISTER HAS A HIGH IQ!~!! CONSERVAITIVES ARE BOMBING CHILDREN IN IRAK AND IRAN!! THEY ARE KILLING BABIES BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT WHITE AND RICH LIKE THE CONSERVATIVES ARE!!! THEY ARE ALL RACIST AND EVIL!!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

One thing that we will not be having is chicken.

We just had to dump about a dozen cans of chicken that we put up. The seals on the lids apparently were bad. The jars sealed and then popped about two days later. We didn't notice for a couple of weeks. You can imagine the smell.

I don't want to see chicken tonight.

[NicknamedBob]

Yeah, but ‘Face, she did not mention gravy.

We can get through this.

[NicknamedBob]

Were you pressure-canning them?

I’ve heard that’s the only safe way with meat.

[Monkey Face]

*ugh*

The only thing that could smell worse would be bottled carp that had gone bad.

And Bob, I don’t LIKE gravy on my waffles!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Yep. We pressure canned. I have never had this happen before.

About two thirds of the jars are fine. The only thing I can think of is that we opened a new box of lids for the last jars and those are the ones that popped.

[NicknamedBob]

Probably made in China.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Not gravy.

Maple syrup. Or some of my homemade strawberry syrup.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Probably.

I wonder if we can get the company to reimburse us for the chicken. That was about six chickens that went to waste.

[Tax-chick]

The pork dish got done before I was ready to eat. Wal-mart was out of chicken pieces, so Anoreth got a sub sandwich. We all ate the pork dish, and the guys can have the sandwich when they get home. There’s nothing left here but a few pieces of sweet potato! While I was giving Vlad a bath, Sally scavenged all the remaining meat out of the pan.

The girls have gone to bed now.

[sionnsar]

I thought this would make a good UT. Needs an Oktoberfest theme though.

Did somebody say... BEER?

[Monkey Face]

Wal-Mart is always out of chicken pieces when I want some!

HTB, would you be serving REAL maple syrup?

Thanks, Bob, TC, HTB...I’m hungry now, so I’m going to forage and then take my cute self to bed with a good book. I hope y’all have good nights, and that you take care of your respective Others.

*smooch*

[sionnsar]

Good night then...

[Tax-chick]

Good night! I’m going to take care of Wednesday - her bowl is empty and she’s nibbling my ankle!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Of course it is real Michigan maple syrup.

I can not stand the fake kind. Honey and maple syrup are about the only sugars I get.

[2111USMC]

bottled carp

LOL!

[sionnsar]

Gosh! I haven’t had real Michigan syrup in... decades! (I have a small souvenir bottle from DTW airport; maybe I’ll buy a larger bottle next time I pass through and try it against LoM’s CT syrup.)

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Good night Face!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I get both the honey and syrup at either the farmer's market or the "brew-it" store.

One of the things I missed most when I was overseas was real maple syrup.

[sionnsar]

I just learned that an engineer I’d worked with about 25 years ago is now an apiarist who sells honey at various fairs. I may have to track him down and get that mead-making project I’ve been mulling over the past 35 years underway.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I am considering brewing some honey mead. So far all I have brewed is ale and some apple cider.

It's strange, we home can, home brew, garden, shop at a farmers market and drive a Volvo. Am I turning into a hippy? Or does being a cold hearted Bambi killer preclude that?