Posted on 05/07/2021 10:30:36 AM PDT by mylife
Fire destroyed the iconic M&M Cigar Store in Uptown Butte early Friday morning, taking out the roof and leaving the rest of the building charred and gutted. Nobody was injured but the building was a complete loss.
Firefighters were called to the bar and grill at 9 North Main St. around 3 a.m. and there were 12-foot flames coming from the roof. It took two hours to get the fire under control and two hours after that, crews were still on the scene.
“There was smoke in every orifice of the building,” said Jim Merrifield, a battalion chief with the Butte-Silver Bow Fire Department. “The fire was on the roof and spread throughout the building through the duct work.”
(Excerpt) Read more at mtstandard.com ...
Shepherd’s Pie was topped with mashed potatoes. If it had a top pastry crust, we called them ‘pot pies’ back home. Good, quick, filling dinner. Great on a rainy night if you didn’t feel like cooking but wanted a hot meal.
Pasties (pronounced “PAST-tees”) originated from Cornwall, in southwestern England. Imagine something that looks like a large Hostess fruit pie but, as mentioned, filled with beef stew.
Miners would heat them on their shovels over a fire, then hold them by the big rolled rim of the crust for eating, and drop the uneaten crusts into the fire as an offering to the “spirit of the mine”. (Which also kept them from ingesting the coal residue off of their hands.)
They’re still big in Wisconsin and Michigan.
Blatz was one of those brands that, like Schlitz, made a big deal about getting back to their original recipe a few years ago. I’ve never had the chance to try it, but I haven’t heard of any complaints about it either.
Hundreds of f-up FBI agents who were sent to Butte as punishment are sad.
I’ve been off my feed for a couple of weeks now, but damn, they look good.
I'm not sure how they taste, but they look dangerous.
Thought fire guts was a new flavor of M&Ms.
“Imagine something that looks like a large Hostess fruit pie but, as mentioned, filled with beef stew.”
Around here we called them lumps because they looked like a lump of dough. They were filled with meat, potatoes, vegetables, what ever was leftover from the day before. A little gravy was added.
If working in the field we would put them on a rock to warm as we worked.
In the winter if we were stripping or tying tobacco we put them on the top of the wood stove to heat.
Good memories of days gone by.
Yeah. Shiner, too.
I grew up on that stuff. LOL
I miss shiner
I had the new schlitz, its fine
Looks like a lot of fun!
I wonder if they’ll be able to repair. They should start a GoFundMe account.
I noticed that odd use of the word orifice too.
I associate that with the body. I would have said opening.
But that’s just me.
LOL! Me too!
I thought that it was a club for people who like the candy.
I don’t really need them (my rear end can attest to that), but they are good!
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