Baldur

Another thing to note as that in the USA food bought in large markets is often cheaper than the same item sold in a smaller venue.
Farmer's market's have fresher items and beautiful produce but at least up here in the Northeast are more expensive.
Large chains of stores have better buying power and can negotiate better prices from the producers of the items. Even after adding in their operation costs and a healthy profit margin the prices are lower.

Dragon

When I think of "American Cheese Slices" I think of the individually wrapped slices that you get in a package of 24 or so. We just call them Kraft cheese slices. From what Baldur says it seems like I've had th wrong cheese in mind all along. The individual slices I'm thinking of don't actually seem like cheese at all to me and I place them under the categorie of petroleum byproduct, I usually call them Plastic Cheese, 'cause that's what they look like to me.

Baldur

Swiss Cheese (Ementaler) can cost between $5.99-$7.99/lb for standard supermarket stuff to $12/lb+ for a better variety.

Baldur

We can buy it that way also, but I prefer not to.
The deli version is better tasting, but still a far cry from real cheese.

Baldur

Dragon is there a different word for it there in Canada?

AuntieB

Hazer, as to my surveys, feel free to respond as often as necessary

AuntieB

Auntie B has devised another quick little survey for Channel Goldie

1. When you are in a library do you re-shelve books after you've finished looking at them?
(Auntie B indeed does this even though all the libraries I've been to have signs that specifically say to not do it.
I understand the Dewey Decimal system and will actually end up reaaranging other books in the process if they are out of place)

2. Do you place your bathroom tissue on the roller with the loose end facing forward or to the back?
(Auntie B faces it forward except when at Chez Baldur. I know that facing it to the back drives Baldur to the point of distraction so when powdering my nose in his home I will reverse his TP)

3. Tapioca... yes or no?
(I love tapioca if it's homemade , the institutional type that comes from a can isn't as good)

4. You spend a few days somewhere fabulous in a hotel and discover that it is just down the street from a Church that rings it's bells every hour on the hour. Are you aggravated by the noise or do you enjoy it?
(Auntie B loves that sort of thing, it brings back memories of my many weddings)

5. You are teaching your young niece how to plant a garden, what seeds or plants would you use?
(I think it would have to be something quick growing to keep her interested, and pretty or at least interesting. Also anything grown for food would have to be something she'd enjoy eating.
Thinking a kid will eat rutabagas just because she grew them is a mistake.
I'd say lettuce, cucumbers, marigolds and huge sunflowers)

Hazer

1. When you are in a library do you re-shelve books after you've finished looking at them?

Re-shelve...can't help myself, it's a force of habit.

2. Do you place your bathroom tissue on the roller with the loose end facing forward or to the back?

Hazer likes it rolled forward, hubby puts it to the back, so I've finally conceded, and to the back it goes.

3. Tapioca... yes or no?

Homemade...with a dash of cinnamon.

4. You spend a few days somewhere fabulous in a hotel and discover that it is just down the street from a Church that rings it's bells every hour on the hour. Are you aggravated by the noise or do you enjoy it?

Love church bells...but not between midnight and 5 am.

5. You are teaching your young niece how to plant a garden, what seeds or plants would you use?


Pumpkins, gourds, peas, snapdragons and pansies for a start.


Good survey Auntie B!

puzzler

1. When you are in a library do you re-shelve books after you've finished looking at them?

Always! I can't abide books put in upside down either and have to turn them the right way round.

2. Do you place your bathroom tissue on the roller with the loose end facing forward or to the back?

Back.

3. Tapioca... yes or no?

NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!

4. You spend a few days somewhere fabulous in a hotel and discover that it is just down the street from a Church that rings it's bells every hour on the hour. Are you aggravated by the noise or do you enjoy it?

Love it. Puzzler stayed in a hotel in Bruges, Belgium once, which was very close to it's famous bell tower, which has a magnificent carillon of 47 bells!

5. You are teaching your young niece how to plant a garden, what seeds or plants would you use?

Typically, a favourite for children is cress, because it grows so fast, but runner beans are much more fun, as they flower before they crop. As for flowers, Nasturtiums are very reliable and you get a lot of plant from very little seed. Sweet peas are also great and flowers can be cut for the house.

belladonnis

Kraft cheese singles is not real cheese. It is a processed product that only contains a small amount of cheese cultures.

polenta

I like the term "petroleum byproduct". From all the cheeses, the so-called Kraft or maybe what we call "sandwich" is the worst. It's only edible with other things in a sandwich.
I buy artisan cheese that you can eat alone, that has a flavor. Well, here in the street market you can buy it for 5 to 7 American dollars a kilo (more than two pounds). But that Feta or Brie etc. was 5 or 6 times higher. People don't buy them here.... maybe it's the price, there is not such availability and even the all-Uruguayan Colonia has a much better taste.
But one day, I'm going to try Feta cheese.... just to taste its flavor.

polenta

sorry, the last survey doesn't really apply to me.
1 What's the last time I went to a library? LOL
2 Whatever
3 No
4 Wouldn't even realize it... I guess.
5 I know nothing about gardening.... he should teach ME. LOL

Dragon

I have never considered Kraft singles a real cheese. I had a roommate who would make open faced grilled cheese sandwiches by putting a Kraft single on a piece of toast and putting under the broiled in the oven. She thought I was very strange for using proper mozzarella or marble cheddar on mine because of all the extra time it took to slice the cheese. I thought she was strange for using her cheese because when she took it out of the oven the cheese looked like melted plastic. You probably wouldn't have been able to tell if she'd left the wrapper on it until you bit it.

Qsilv

---In Defense of Dumb Things---

Although I dearly love aged Gouda, triple-cream Brie, Feta, etc etc ad infinitum, I admit to also eating those silly little Kraft singles!

A sure and certain 60 calories each (vs whatever my knife happens to chunk off, left to its own devices impacted by my subconscious desires) with 3 grams of protein in each one.

They're marketed as a "cheese product", largely because of the process involved in packaging as single slices, also due to the usual hand-wringing political pressure... but they are in fact a real cheese. Coagulated casein. Bland, but hey, so's poi. Boring isn't always ..er... well, boring... sometimes it's subtle. low-key, even comforting.

Ingredients: Cheddar cheese, milk, whey, milk-fat, milk protein concentrate, salt, calcium phosphate, sodium citrate, whey protein concentrate, sodium phosphate, sorbic acid as a preservative, apocarotenal (color), annatto (color), enzymes, vitamin D3, cheese culture, yellow dye.

;>

Qsilv

1. When you are in a library do you re-shelve books after you've finished looking at them?

Absolutely. But like the earlier answer-ers here, I'm meticulous re the system.

2. Do you place your bathroom tissue on the roller with the loose end facing forward or to the back?

I was raised that it should NOT dangle from the front, but I've spent most the rest of my life around guys... it's hopeless. In my own current home, I plant the roll vertically on a terra cotta unicorn planter's horn (not nearly as twee as it sounds... but you'll just have to trust my aesthetics on that one).

3. Tapioca... yes or no?

Yummmmmm.... texture like caviar.. fun! And of course flavored with waaaay too much vanilla, nodnodnodnod.

4. You spend a few days somewhere fabulous in a hotel and discover that it is just down the street from a Church that rings it's bells every hour on the hour. Are you aggravated by the noise or do you enjoy it?

Love it... and I can sleep through anything once I've identified it.

5. You are teaching your young niece how to plant a garden, what seeds or plants would you use?


Radishes because they come up so quickly and look so cute
Sweetpeas because they teach that waiting produces such sweetness
Avocado pits in a jar because you can see the whole process
--and any small six-packs of already budding/blooming flowers she herself likes the look of at the nursery!

belladonnis

1. Do I reshelve books at the library? No, I got in trouble at out local library for doing so, so now I just put the books on their cart.

2. Do I place the toilet paper forward or backward? Both

3. Tapioca Yes or No? Yes I love homeade tapioca and I have to admit that I like my kids tapioca snack packs!lol

4. Can I sleep next to a church that rings their church bells? Yes, like Q I can sleep through anything! Plus I would love the sound.

5. What seeds would I teach my girls to plant? We have planted sunflowers and various wild flowers.

AuntieB

Alright let's keep this moving...
Another quick survey on Channel Goldie.

1. What is your favorite small museum? By small Auntie B means not venues like the Louvre or the Metropolitan Museum of art but lesser known often overlooked ones.
(my personal is the National Museum of American Illustration in Newport, RI)
http://www.americanillustration.org/html/m_mission.html

2. If you were in a large city and needed to use a rest room where would you go to find a clean and safe one?
(Auntie B would pick an upscale department store)

3. What is your favorite poem? Do you know it by memory?
(There once was a man from Pawtucket.........)

4. While sitting in the waiting room before a doctor's appointment you see the following 5 magazines on the table. Which would you pick up to look through first?
A. Bobsledding Monthly
B. Neurosurgery Today
C. Legends of the Macabre
D. Cooking For Kitty
E. Hollywood Gossip Insider
(Auntie B would definitely look through the Bobsledding issue, that Steve Holcomb is very hot)

5. When going to a wake of a casual friend do you linger at chat with people or high-tail it out as fast as possible after paying your respects.
(Auntie B is a lingerer, especially if there are single attractive men)

Qsilv

1. Favorite small museum -
- any I stumble across in tiny towns... they hold wonderful personal items and help history feel more real, more intimate
But for a link, I truly love and admire this one -
http://www.sexmuseumamsterdam.nl/

2. Restrooms in a pinch -
- McDonald's (or any nice restaurant)

3. Fave poem -

Out of the rolling ocean the crowd came a drop gently
to me,
Whispering, I love you, before long I die,
I have travell'd a long way merely to look on you to
touch you,
For I could not die till I once look'd on you,
For I fear'd I might afterward lose you.

Now we have met, we have look'd, we are safe,
Return in peace to the ocean my love,
I too am much of that ocean, my love, we are not so
much separated,
Behold the great rondure, the cohesion of all, how
perfect!
But as for me, for you, the irresistible sea is to separate
us,
As for an hour carrying us diverse, yet cannot carry us
diverse forever;
Be not impatient — a little space — know you I salute
the air, the ocean and the land,
Every day at sundown for your dear sake, my love.

4. Dr's waiting room mag -
- Neurosurgery Today (but I'd prefer Woodworking or Architecture or any version of Homes & Gardens... and might suggest it to them...)

5. Wake -
- stay and chat (and AuntieB, thank you for the gentle outlook on this over in your nephew's channel. Strange it should come up just now... funny ol' world, isn't it... )

polenta

1 I'd go to a HISTORY OF CLOTHES and SHOES museum.

2 AVAILABILITY OF REST ROOMS. Is it true you pay for rest-rooms in US in
the streets? The best could be in shopping malls, hospitals, clinics,
ministries (yes! my husband taught me that), public buildings etc.

3 POEM not applicable LOL

4 MAGAZINE IN A WAITING ROOM Definitely Cooking and Hollywood gossip

5 In a wake, funeral or the like....
I'd stay as little as possible. I'll have lots of time when I'm involved
(grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrpsssssstttttttttbrrrrrr)

Dragon

1. What is your favorite small museum? By small Auntie B means not venues like the Louvre or the Metropolitan Museum of art but lesser known often overlooked ones.
I’d say the Torrington Gopher Hole Museum. I’ve never been there but a museum filled with taxidermied gophers dressed and posed in homey settings is just bizarre enough to make my list. http://www.jky.net/albums/gopher-museum_index.html

2. If you were in a large city and needed to use a rest room where would you go to find a clean and safe one?
Pretty much anywhere that looks clean. Department stores and restaraunts are very much preferable to gas stations.

3. What is your favorite poem? Do you know it by memory?
I’m very fond of The Raven by Poe but I only know the first bit by heart. I’ve also always had a special place in my heart for Ogden Nash’s The Duck:
Behold the duck.
It does not cluck.
A cluck it lacks.
It quacks.
It is specially fond
Of a puddle or pond.
When it dines or sups,
It bottoms ups.

4. While sitting in the waiting room before a doctor's appointment you see the following 5 magazines on the table. Which would you pick up to look through first?
A. Bobsledding Monthly
B. Neurosurgery Today
C. Legends of the Macabre
D. Cooking For Kitty
E. Hollywood Gossip Insider

Definitely Legends of the Macabre (but you could probably have guessed that after my choice of museums).

5. When going to a wake of a casual friend do you linger at chat with people or high-tail it out as fast as possible after paying your respects.
Linger for a bit, then go. If it was a close friend or family member I’d stay for the duration though.