The rest of the day

[susandennis]

First of all, after my shower this morning I was able to stress out my haircutting adventures of yesterday and, turns out, it's fine!! I have very fine, sparse old lady hair that's never going to look amazing but at least it does not look totally whacky. so yeah.

Generally, I hate Fridays but this week not so much plus, then I remembered. Netflix drops the Bake Off episodes now on Fridays. Perfection. I watch each of the three segments separately. So I can manage to drag out the one episode all day. Very satisfying.

Today, in between, I made Amazon more money. Apparently, my buying spree has not ended. Small things but guess what adds up? I need to stop.

Canadian Thanksgiving always shocks me. Every year. First of all, Thanksgiving seems so very American to me. Plymouth rock, etc. Mythical I know but still. I wonder why they bother and particularly in October. That's weird and having it on Monday? That's not right. A few years ago, I popped up to Vancouver for our Thanksgiving and discovered that even though their Thanksgiving was six weeks early, they were all over Black Friday After Thanksgiving sales. So very confusing, all of it. But Canadians. Weird but endearing. Eh?

Every once in a while I am hit in the face with a reminder we live in different times. Food edition. In my last job, I happened to be in the office one day (most of us worked at home) when two of my colleagues were talking about the weekend. One, about 25ish, said he had been at his grandparent's and they had made him breakfast. They fried real bacon from pigs [as opposed to turkey or tofu bacon] and then, took the bacon out of the pan and cracked eggs right into the grease!!! His description and tone was exactly as if he had said: They cooked up some cow shit and put it on the plate for us to actually eat! He was so horrified that it was hilarious. But, most of the people in the room - way closer to his age than mine - were a combination of equally horrified and unbelieving.

(I don't often fry pig bacon because I buy it cooked. But, I also buy bacon grease to make up for the deficit. I kept my mouth shut that day and laughed inside long and hard.)

Today, the website Lifehacker, had another grandmother horror story. Someone's grandmother, as a treat, served saltines with mayo on them! Can you imagine????

Ha. I rarely have saltines in the house but if I did, I'd eat the lot of them spread with either mayo or butter. As a matter of fact, I think I'll add saltines to the shopping list. (I have plenty of mayo and butter on hand.)

Lesson here: You do not have to be a grandmother to know what tastes good.

Comments

[mairi-dubh.livejournal.com]

Ooohhh...saltines and butter. Delish!

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

lol Love them being horrified by the bacon.

[xina-g.livejournal.com]

Saltines and butter! Yummy

[adminbear.livejournal.com]

I enjoy saltines with butter (real butter, not margarine) on them. Turns out the combination of butter on tortilla chips works pretty good as well.

[lenine2.livejournal.com]

The only German potato salad recipe I make has you fry a pound of bacon, then reserve the fat for the dressing. Heaven!

[schoolofmusic2.livejournal.com]

Intresting

[richaarde.livejournal.com]

His description and tone was exactly as if he had said: They cooked up some cow shit and put it on the plate for us to actually eat!

What the hell is wrong with kids today? Haha

[siglinde99.livejournal.com]

We celebrate Thanksgiving in October because if we waited until November there would be no fresh produce to harvest and eat. Everything would be starting to freeze solid (except in Vancouver, which is a weird anomaly). Mayo on saltines seems strange to me (unless they came with a tomato slice) but I’m all over buttered saltines.

[twicet.livejournal.com]

Below some info on Canadian Thanksgiving, it is a big holiday here.

https://www.canadashistory.ca/explore/arts-culture-society/the-history-of-thanksgiving-in-canada

[sunshine-two.livejournal.com]

Our thanksgiving is based on the end of the harvest season for our crops. We give thanks for a bountiful harvest. Thanksgiving is usually on a monday but, we normally celebrate it on the sunday. Black friday is a sales ploy that's just been picked up in the last few years in Canada. We also have a boxing day sale on December 26th.

[rejectomorph]

I've never tried mayo on saltines, but I do like butter on them. When I have peanut butter on crackers I put the peanut butter on one and butter on the other and make a sandwich of them.

And when I was a kid I didn't know you could fry an egg in anything other than bacon dripping. They still seem bland to me cooked in anything else.

[syrsa (from livejournal.com)]

I'm from Scotland originally, and we always fried our eggs in the bacon fat after frying the bacon... Tasted better, maybe not healthier, but better! :-)

[rsc.livejournal.com]

I know that frying eggs in bacon grease is a thing, and I'm not horrified by it, but I do think it's Wrong. Eggs require butter. (I vaguely remember learning many years ago that in Spain it is common to fry eggs in olive oil, which also seems Wrong.)

[susandennis]

I always use only butter, and only a little for scrambled eggs. And sometimes for fried ones so I get your point.

But, olive oil? TOTALLY WRONG

[mdlbear]

I usually fry eggs in butter, but bacon grease works very well with scrambled eggs, and is perfect for fried rice (which is probably my favorite comfort food).

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

We grew up with spaghetti paired with saltines with peanut butter spread on them.

[susandennis]

Ok, you win. I cannot compete with that!

[laciann.livejournal.com]

Our Thanksgiving has nothing to do pilgrims or Plymouth Rock. It’s a feast to celebrate a (hopefully) bountiful harvest. The big meal often happens on a Sunday. We get Monday off because there was a very deliberate attempt to create one long weekend per month. And who wants to get up for work when you’re still in your turkey coma? Thursday seems strange to us.

I’ve heard Fuddruckers will serve a medium-rare burger, but have never tested it.

We never had Black Monday’s until big corps like Walmart moved in and pushed the idea. We do our fighting in the shopping aisles on Boxing Day!

[zoefruitcake.livejournal.com]

My husband always fries his bread in the bacon fat

[opakele.livejournal.com]

I am so sad to hear that eggs cooked sunny side up in bacon grease is becoming a thing of horror... So sad.

Toast up a piece of sourdough bread, smear it with real butter and dunk it in the egg yolk.

Yum.