I think I found my new home!

[Sailor Steve]

There is nothing like a properly stocked fridge (says the guy who can't drink alcohol). Coke in the can-racks, six (!) two-liter bottles of Pepsi.

Well, it's a start.

[August]

That's a lot of soda.

[Wolferz]

Too much Pepsi for me.
Canned Coke is a turn off too.
I take mine in the 12 ounce glass bottles. (made with real sugar in Mexico)
High fructose corn syrup will cause dain bramage.

No milk for the Cheez-its?

BARBARIAN!

Is that Barelli pasta in the larder?
I tried their spaghetti once, left the pot out overnight by mistake and found a science experiment the next morning.

[HW3]

Frau has her priorities straight! My frig has Mountain Dew instead, been drinking it since the early 60's. YA HOO Mountain Dew! It'll tickle yore innards! said the old moonshiner on the bottles when it first came out.

[frau kaleun]

I usually don't have that much pop in the fridge, but I do stock up on it if it's on sale and right now it might as well be in the fridge since there's room for it. If I had real food to put in there most of the 2 liters would be out in the storage room, typically I just keep one or two in the door.

The canned pop is what I take to work, 2 a day and that way I can limit my soda intake during the work day. One for the morning caffeine hit (I don't drink coffee) and one for lunch. Once the soda runs out I drink water unless I'm really, really dragging and then I might get a third Coke near the end of the day. We have a fridge in our lounge that is stocked as well and we can buy a drink from there for 30 cents a can but if I find it cheaper or the same price in the store I just buy it there and bring it from home.

Milk is for putting on cereal and in recipes that call for it, otherwise - yuck. I don't drink it as a beverage so I rarely keep it on hand and I only buy it in small quantities otherwise I end up throwing it out. And I would never defile Cheezits with the stuff.

The Barilla was on sale, so was most of the other stuff. I had no list, I was just going through the aisles seeing what was on sale and if it was something I'd usually keep on hand I bought some. Mostly basics like ketchup, mustard, butter, etc. but I do consider pasta a staple food and I usually buy Barilla anyway. Also the Newman's Own Bombolina spaghetti sauce, it's awesome.

Couldn't find LaRosa's meatballs, though, I like to keep a pack of those on hand. They are really, really good. Meijer used to have them but I don't know where they went. I'll probably have to go to Kroger and look for them there.

*sigh* maybe someday I'll get really ambitious and break out my old recipe for homemade sauce and meatballs. Gotta find a kettle first.

[Wolferz]

It's all your choice dear.
No, I don't put milk on Cheez-its. I just didn't see any cereal in the pantry.
Because it's in the cabinets?
I too only buy milk in small quantities because the stepson will drink it all in one sitting and that boy is obese enough as it is.


What's with all the chair cushions on your chair? Too low for the new PC desk?

[AVGWarhawk]

pop in the fridge

Bottle of pop. Love the way the folks in the mid-west call soda pop pop. Here on the eastern seaboard we know it as just soda.

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Wolferz

It's all your choice dear.
No, I don't put milk on Cheez-its. I just didn't see any cereal in the pantry.
Because it's in the cabinets?

No, there's a box of Frosted Mini Wheats in there somewhere, probably right next to the Cheezits. But I was eating those dry as a snack.

What's with all the chair cushions on your chair? Too low for the new PC desk?

Yep. My old desk chair was really beat up so I tossed it instead of moving it... well, actually I put it outside my apt door with a sign that said "free" and somebody else there took it. So at the moment I am making do with one of my kitchen chairs, but it takes all four chair pads to get me up to a comfortable typing height. I like to sit high, I think my arms and legs are a bit longer than average for my height anyway so most chairs feel too low to begin with. Having the keyboard up on the desktop doesn't help but I tried the keyboard drawer and didn't like it.

Once I get better situated I'll get a chair mat for the floor and get a proper adjustable desk chair in there.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

I(I don't drink coffee)

Milk is for putting on cereal and in recipes that call for it, otherwise - yuck.

I keep telling you we're related. My sentiments exactly. I drink a lot of tea these days because I can sweeten it artifically and it tastes fine. I can't find a diet soda that tastes halfway decent at all, so I only drink a little Dr Pepper on Pizza Day.

*sigh* maybe someday I'll get really ambitious and break out my old recipe for homemade sauce and meatballs. Gotta find a kettle first.

I've never liked beef on Italian food. I either make sauce with sausage or I buy some sausage links to eat on the side.

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

I've never liked beef on Italian food. I either make sauce with sausage or I buy some sausage links to eat on the side.

There are different types of meatballs, I think, I've seen pork meatballs on sale. I don't know what's in LaRosa's meatballs, only that I like them. The recipe I have is all beef and that would be my preference altho I may well have had pork ones and not known it.

I don't really care for Italian sausage, at least not the kind that gets put on pizza as a topping. I don't know that I've ever had it in link form.

Typically I would only make spaghetti and put the (meatless) sauce on it and that's fine with me... I only started adding the meatballs when I found out I could buy the LaRosa's meatballs ready-made in the store. Making the sauce and meatballs from scratch is just so time-consuming. It's why I rarely make lasagna any more unless it's a special occasion and somebody else requests it. By the time I get done shopping for the ingredients, prepping the ingredients, putting it all together, and baking it... I don't even want to look at the stupid thing, much less eat it.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

There are different types of meatballs, I think, I've seen pork meatballs on sale. I don't know what's in LaRosa's meatballs, only that I like them. The recipe I have is all beef and that would be my preference altho I may well have had pork ones and not known it.

I guess I'll have to check them out, if I can find where to buy them.

I don't really care for Italian sausage, at least not the kind that gets put on pizza as a topping. I don't know that I've ever had it in link form.

My local store has ground sausage with Italian spices. If they're out I buy regular sausage and put in Italian spices myself. When I say "links" I don't mean Jimmy Dean's breakfast links, but the big Bratwurst-style things, only Italian. I first had those at a spaghetti restaurant.

Typically I would only make spaghetti and put the (meatless) sauce on it and that's fine with me... I only started adding the meatballs when I found out I could buy the LaRosa's meatballs ready-made in the store.

Well, there you lost me. I put a whole pound of sausage in my sauce, plus a pound of mushrooms and some green onions and sometimes green peppers too. Lasts me all week.

Making the sauce and meatballs from scratch is just so time-consuming. It's why I rarely make lasagna any more unless it's a special occasion and somebody else requests it. By the time I get done shopping for the ingredients, prepping the ingredients, putting it all together, and baking it... I don't even want to look at the stupid thing, much less eat it.

I grew up hating lasagna. My stepmother made it, and I thought it was awful. It wasn't until I was all grown up and a friend insisted I try hers. It was delicious. When I told her about my earlier experience, she said "Let me guess. She made it with cottage cheese, right? Ricotta is not the same thing."

I'm lazy. I buy the big Stouffer's baking tin of lasagna.

[WernherVonTrapp]

I stopped drinking colas a long time ago. I think as far back as high school. We did an experiment in Auto-Shop on why it's not a good idea to eat & drink while fixing people's cars and the use of fender aprons. We spilled some cola onto a fender and left it there for 24 hours. When we came back and cleaned it off, it took the paint off the car, right down to the bare sheet metal.
Of course, I'm sure car paints have improved since then, but my innards haven't. My wife drinks the stuff (& coffee) all the time, and she always complains that she doesn't feel good. I advise her to give up the cola which she does for a few days as she begins to feel better, but then she goes right back to it.

On The Leaking Spigot:
So much has changed since I used to do plumbing, almost everthing in fact. On second look at that spigot, it looks like it might already be a "frost free" model, but a much older one. Mine are all stainless steel or aluminum alloy. If that's the case, you should just get it replaced and forget trying to tighten anything.

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by WernherVonTrapp

On The Leaking Spigot:
So much has changed since I used to do plumbing, almost everthing in fact. On second look at that spigot, it looks like it might already be a "frost free" model, but a much older one. Mine are all stainless steel or aluminum alloy. If that's the case, you should just get it replaced and forget trying to tighten anything.

I was wondering because to me (altho I haven't looked at it closely in a few days) it looks like everything is all of a piece, what should be the packing nut doesn't appear to be a separate piece that can be turned one way or the other by itself. Unless it's all so caked over on the outside with something that you can't tell where one part ends and another begins.

[Wolferz]

Gee Wern, it's not a good idea to eat while working on a car. Greasy fingers and such.
I once had a co-worker comment about my consumption of Coca Cola. He said that his high school chemistry class put a nail in a bottle of coke and it consumed the nail in about a month or so. I asked him; "How long do you think the same nail would last in stomach acid?" He never mentioned it again.
Brake fluid will remove paint quicker than Coke. Coke does a great job in removing greasy road film from a windshield but, you have to wash the car down a little so it doesn't take off the paint. My first employer would have me do that for customers on rainy nights when they came in for gas.

Your wife probably feels bad as a result of all the caffeine.
While I was in basic training, they didn't allow us to drink pop and the guys that were addicted to caffeine kind of lost their marbles for a short time.

Now days, I'm more addicted to Starbucks vanilla flavored Frappucinos and I do good to consume one 12 ounce bottle of Mexican Coke a day. I won't drink the stuff made here in the states because they sweeten it with high fructose corn syrup and that stuff will make you stupid. A professor of Neurology at UCLA proved it with experiments on rats. Could be the reason why there's so many people brain farting all over the place.


Two words Frau....
Wireless Keyboard.

Oh, BTW, just replace the spigot with a 21st century model. You'll be glad you did.

[WernherVonTrapp]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

I was wondering because to me (altho I haven't looked at it closely in a few days) it looks like everything is all of a piece, what should be the packing nut doesn't appear to be a separate piece that can be turned one way or the other by itself. Unless it's all so caked over on the outside with something that you can't tell where one part ends and another begins.

Yeah, the older models are made of brass, which oxidizes outdoors (rain, sun, etc.). That's not to say you probably can't still buy them but, I would opt for an aluminum alloy model. Depending on who and how they installed it, you should just be able to shut off the water supply, unscrew the old one, pull the length out of the wall and then screw in a new one.

This is what mine looks like:

Brake fluid will remove paint quicker than Coke.

Yeah, we tried that one too.