USMB Coffee Shop IV

[Ernie S.]

Read in the bathroom?

No sir, just more time for the hair dryer to fall in the tub or a snake to crawl out of the toilet.

Wuss!

 

[R.D.]

These alerts are bad for the ego

I logged on and there were 16..... Not one of them was actually responding to me

 

[007]

Thankfully, I have no allergies that I'm aware of. If I was allergic to peanuts, I would be so bummed out!

My aunt is allergic to eggs. That tends to be a huge problem because so many things have eggs as an ingredient.

I made a pizza last night and added mushrooms, black olives, swiss cheese, salsa and then extra mozzarella, cooked on the Pizzazz. It was delicious.

I have no food allergies either. I'll eat just about anything but grits and rutabaga.

Y'all better stay away from Alabama if you don't like grits. You can walk into a coffee shop and order a piece of pie and the waitress will ask you if you want cheese on your grits.

They served grits in the MacDill AFB chow hall in Tampa. I asked my buddy that was born and raised in Alabama what they tasted like because he got them every morning. He said they were good and talked me into trying them melted butter on top with salt. I about puked when I tasted them, even though they really didn't have much flavor. It was just the slimy, grittiness, something about them about made me gag. I think that's the way it is with most with grits. You either like them or you don't. Helps if you were raised on them though.

Give me a good omelet with ham, cheese, green pepper, onion and mushroom with hash browns, toast and bacon, and I'm in heaven.

I can do your omelet, or a feta and spinich omelet, but hash browns, for some reason, don't appeal to me at all

I have texture problems with certain foods too. I can't do raw clams or okra. They both feel like something you should quietly spit into a napkin.

Ever have steamers? I love steamed clams. Yummy!

I made one of my friends try one once because she had never had them, and she almost threw up. I was raised on steamers though. I love dipping them in the clarified butter. So yummy. Also mussels are very good too.

I like steamed oysters on the half shell. I like them on a saltine with cocktail sauce.

 

[007]

These alerts are bad for the ego

I logged on and there were 16..... Not one of them was actually responding to me

I hear ya. I'd rather not get an alert to a post I made that was quoted from 7 or 8 times over.

 

[Ernie S.]

I made a pizza last night and added mushrooms, black olives, swiss cheese, salsa and then extra mozzarella, cooked on the Pizzazz. It was delicious.

I have no food allergies either. I'll eat just about anything but grits and rutabaga.

Y'all better stay away from Alabama if you don't like grits. You can walk into a coffee shop and order a piece of pie and the waitress will ask you if you want cheese on your grits.

They served grits in the MacDill AFB chow hall in Tampa. I asked my buddy that was born and raised in Alabama what they tasted like because he got them every morning. He said they were good and talked me into trying them melted butter on top with salt. I about puked when I tasted them, even though they really didn't have much flavor. It was just the slimy, grittiness, something about them about made me gag. I think that's the way it is with most with grits. You either like them or you don't. Helps if you were raised on them though.

Give me a good omelet with ham, cheese, green pepper, onion and mushroom with hash browns, toast and bacon, and I'm in heaven.

I can do your omelet, or a feta and spinich omelet, but hash browns, for some reason, don't appeal to me at all

I have texture problems with certain foods too. I can't do raw clams or okra. They both feel like something you should quietly spit into a napkin.

Ever have steamers? I love steamed clams. Yummy!

I made one of my friends try one once because she had never had them, and she almost threw up. I was raised on steamers though. I love dipping them in the clarified butter. So yummy. Also mussels are very good too.

I like steamed oysters on the half shell. I like them on a saltine with cocktail sauce.

Still slimy. I want them baked or broiled

 

[R.D.]

Y'all better stay away from Alabama if you don't like grits. You can walk into a coffee shop and order a piece of pie and the waitress will ask you if you want cheese on your grits.

They served grits in the MacDill AFB chow hall in Tampa. I asked my buddy that was born and raised in Alabama what they tasted like because he got them every morning. He said they were good and talked me into trying them melted butter on top with salt. I about puked when I tasted them, even though they really didn't have much flavor. It was just the slimy, grittiness, something about them about made me gag. I think that's the way it is with most with grits. You either like them or you don't. Helps if you were raised on them though.

Give me a good omelet with ham, cheese, green pepper, onion and mushroom with hash browns, toast and bacon, and I'm in heaven.

I can do your omelet, or a feta and spinich omelet, but hash browns, for some reason, don't appeal to me at all

I have texture problems with certain foods too. I can't do raw clams or okra. They both feel like something you should quietly spit into a napkin.

Ever have steamers? I love steamed clams. Yummy!

I made one of my friends try one once because she had never had them, and she almost threw up. I was raised on steamers though. I love dipping them in the clarified butter. So yummy. Also mussels are very good too.

I like steamed oysters on the half shell. I like them on a saltine with cocktail sauce.

Still slimy. I want them baked or broiled

Deep fried oysters...mmmmmmmmmmmmmm

 

[Ernie S.]

Nope. Still slimy.

 

[Big Black Dog]

Just for the record...

Grits - I love them. Good stuff. Very much better if you put a little shredded cheese and butter with them.
Oysters - Love them even more. Anyway you can serve them is great with me.

Some of you folks have no culinary class!

 

[Ringel05]

Okay, the job in Tampa FL didn't pan out and the one in Oklahoma City was no good...... Thank God.......
Still waiting to hear about the one in El Paso, TX but she just received a call from Goodwill Industries to work in their Corporate headquarters in Albuquerque and they seem very interested in her. They've already set up an interview for next week so we'll be headed back down there on the 5th. That's the best (location wise for us) offer we've had so far. Here's hoping it pans out.

 

[007]

Mrs. Liberty had tea and peanut butter toast for breakfast for years. Until she linked very dry itchy cracked bleeding hands in the winter to a peanut allergy.

Thankfully, I have no allergies that I'm aware of. If I was allergic to peanuts, I would be so bummed out!

My aunt is allergic to eggs. That tends to be a huge problem because so many things have eggs as an ingredient.

I made a pizza last night and added mushrooms, black olives, swiss cheese, salsa and then extra mozzarella, cooked on the Pizzazz. It was delicious.

I have no food allergies either. I'll eat just about anything but grits and rutabaga.

Y'all better stay away from Alabama if you don't like grits. You can walk into a coffee shop and order a piece of pie and the waitress will ask you if you want cheese on your grits.

They served grits in the MacDill AFB chow hall in Tampa. I asked my buddy that was born and raised in Alabama what they tasted like because he got them every morning. He said they were good and talked me into trying them melted butter on top with salt. I about puked when I tasted them, even though they really didn't have much flavor. It was just the slimy, grittiness, something about them about made me gag. I think that's the way it is with most with grits. You either like them or you don't. Helps if you were raised on them though.

Give me a good omelet with ham, cheese, green pepper, onion and mushroom with hash browns, toast and bacon, and I'm in heaven.

I've never had grits or hash browns. I love home fries though!

You've NEVER HAD hash browns? ...

So many times breakfast orders come with hash browns. They're just shredded potatoes fried. Some are flavored, but I love me a pile of crispy on the outside hash browns. Not much different than french fries, just potatoes made different.

 

[Ringel05]

I made a pizza last night and added mushrooms, black olives, swiss cheese, salsa and then extra mozzarella, cooked on the Pizzazz. It was delicious.

I have no food allergies either. I'll eat just about anything but grits and rutabaga.

Y'all better stay away from Alabama if you don't like grits. You can walk into a coffee shop and order a piece of pie and the waitress will ask you if you want cheese on your grits.

They served grits in the MacDill AFB chow hall in Tampa. I asked my buddy that was born and raised in Alabama what they tasted like because he got them every morning. He said they were good and talked me into trying them melted butter on top with salt. I about puked when I tasted them, even though they really didn't have much flavor. It was just the slimy, grittiness, something about them about made me gag. I think that's the way it is with most with grits. You either like them or you don't. Helps if you were raised on them though.

Give me a good omelet with ham, cheese, green pepper, onion and mushroom with hash browns, toast and bacon, and I'm in heaven.

I can do your omelet, or a feta and spinich omelet, but hash browns, for some reason, don't appeal to me at all

I have texture problems with certain foods too. I can't do raw clams or okra. They both feel like something you should quietly spit into a napkin.

Ever have steamers? I love steamed clams. Yummy!

I made one of my friends try one once because she had never had them, and she almost threw up. I was raised on steamers though. I love dipping them in the clarified butter. So yummy. Also mussels are very good too.

I love steamed clams, raw clams (not nearly as slimy as oysters) clams casino stuffed clams, clam chowder. I do make a mean stuffed clam.

I grew up in Connecticut and went clamming for years from march through November. I wore a wet suit when the water was particularly cold. I would get a half bushel at a time and go usually twice a week.

Cooked oysters I can handle Oysters Rockefeller being one of my favorites. I like fried clams, but not fried oysters.

Clams Casino and Oysters Rockefeller are the only way I can eat those. Of course I could eat lobster all day long but not crabs, had an anaphylactic reaction decades ago to a seafood dinner and we basically narrowed it down to crab.

 

[007]

Y'all better stay away from Alabama if you don't like grits. You can walk into a coffee shop and order a piece of pie and the waitress will ask you if you want cheese on your grits.

They served grits in the MacDill AFB chow hall in Tampa. I asked my buddy that was born and raised in Alabama what they tasted like because he got them every morning. He said they were good and talked me into trying them melted butter on top with salt. I about puked when I tasted them, even though they really didn't have much flavor. It was just the slimy, grittiness, something about them about made me gag. I think that's the way it is with most with grits. You either like them or you don't. Helps if you were raised on them though.

Give me a good omelet with ham, cheese, green pepper, onion and mushroom with hash browns, toast and bacon, and I'm in heaven.

I can do your omelet, or a feta and spinich omelet, but hash browns, for some reason, don't appeal to me at all

I have texture problems with certain foods too. I can't do raw clams or okra. They both feel like something you should quietly spit into a napkin.

Ever have steamers? I love steamed clams. Yummy!

I made one of my friends try one once because she had never had them, and she almost threw up. I was raised on steamers though. I love dipping them in the clarified butter. So yummy. Also mussels are very good too.

I like steamed oysters on the half shell. I like them on a saltine with cocktail sauce.

Still slimy. I want them baked or broiled

My Dad used to make a real good oyster stew.

 

[Ernie S.]

Y'all better stay away from Alabama if you don't like grits. You can walk into a coffee shop and order a piece of pie and the waitress will ask you if you want cheese on your grits.

They served grits in the MacDill AFB chow hall in Tampa. I asked my buddy that was born and raised in Alabama what they tasted like because he got them every morning. He said they were good and talked me into trying them melted butter on top with salt. I about puked when I tasted them, even though they really didn't have much flavor. It was just the slimy, grittiness, something about them about made me gag. I think that's the way it is with most with grits. You either like them or you don't. Helps if you were raised on them though.

Give me a good omelet with ham, cheese, green pepper, onion and mushroom with hash browns, toast and bacon, and I'm in heaven.

I can do your omelet, or a feta and spinich omelet, but hash browns, for some reason, don't appeal to me at all

I have texture problems with certain foods too. I can't do raw clams or okra. They both feel like something you should quietly spit into a napkin.

Ever have steamers? I love steamed clams. Yummy!

I made one of my friends try one once because she had never had them, and she almost threw up. I was raised on steamers though. I love dipping them in the clarified butter. So yummy. Also mussels are very good too.

I love steamed clams, raw clams (not nearly as slimy as oysters) clams casino stuffed clams, clam chowder. I do make a mean stuffed clam.

I grew up in Connecticut and went clamming for years from march through November. I wore a wet suit when the water was particularly cold. I would get a half bushel at a time and go usually twice a week.

Cooked oysters I can handle Oysters Rockefeller being one of my favorites. I like fried clams, but not fried oysters.

Clams Casino and Oysters Rockefeller are the only way I can eat those. Of course I could eat lobster all day long but not crabs, had an anaphylactic reaction decades ago to a seafood dinner and we basically narrowed it down to crab.

My kryptonite is cashew nuts.

 

[Foxfyre]

Grits do need a bit a butter and sweetener and, if properly prepared, are good eating. As a daughter of the south, anything that walks, flies, crawls, or swims can be successfully seasoned, breaded, and deep fried and that's the way most southerners prefer their oysters and their clams. We can bread and deep fry a lot of veggie too. We'll leave the raw oysters and clams for you folks up north and the sushi for ya'll on the coasts.

Meanwhile, I just ran across this inspirational story and wanted to share:

Cowboy Heaven

A Cowboy appeared before St. Peter at the Pearly Gates.

"Have you ever done anything of particular merit?" St. Peter asked.

"Well, I can think of one thing," the cowboy offered."On a trip to the Black Hills out in South Dakota, I came upon a gang of bikers who were threatening a young woman. I directed them to leave her alone, but they wouldn't listen. So, I approached the largest and most tattooed biker and smacked him in the face, kicked his bike over, ripped out his nose ring and threw it on the ground. Then I yelled, 'Now, back off or I'll kick the s#*t out of all of you!'

" St. Peter was impressed. "When did this happen?"

"Couple of minutes ago."

 

[Big Black Dog]

As I mentioned earlier, I picked up my big old Mac desktop computer from the fix it shop earlier this morning. They completely wiped my hard drive clean and installed Yosemite for me and this baby is humming along very well. A small problem though... I need to download and install all the drivers for my 3 printers, down load some word processing software, some photo editing software and the games I had on the desktop are all gone too. The hard drive on this puppy is as clean as a baby butt that just got out of the bath. However, it sure is fast now and I guess you could say, just like a new one.

 

[Montrovant]

Read in the bathroom?

No sir, just more time for the hair dryer to fall in the tub or a snake to crawl out of the toilet.

With my poor digestive system, reading in the bathroom is mandatory.

 

[Montrovant]

Y'all better stay away from Alabama if you don't like grits. You can walk into a coffee shop and order a piece of pie and the waitress will ask you if you want cheese on your grits.

They served grits in the MacDill AFB chow hall in Tampa. I asked my buddy that was born and raised in Alabama what they tasted like because he got them every morning. He said they were good and talked me into trying them melted butter on top with salt. I about puked when I tasted them, even though they really didn't have much flavor. It was just the slimy, grittiness, something about them about made me gag. I think that's the way it is with most with grits. You either like them or you don't. Helps if you were raised on them though.

Give me a good omelet with ham, cheese, green pepper, onion and mushroom with hash browns, toast and bacon, and I'm in heaven.

I can do your omelet, or a feta and spinich omelet, but hash browns, for some reason, don't appeal to me at all

I have texture problems with certain foods too. I can't do raw clams or okra. They both feel like something you should quietly spit into a napkin.

Ever have steamers? I love steamed clams. Yummy!

I made one of my friends try one once because she had never had them, and she almost threw up. I was raised on steamers though. I love dipping them in the clarified butter. So yummy. Also mussels are very good too.

No thanks....... Had steamers before, don't like em, the only time I almost tossed my groceries was when I tried a raw oyster, like swallowing the largest wad of snot in the world.........

I'm with you on that one. I don't eat food that I have to neither chew nor swallow when I eat it.

But........Jello!

 

[Montrovant]

As I mentioned earlier, I picked up my big old Mac desktop computer from the fix it shop earlier this morning. They completely wiped my hard drive clean and installed Yosemite for me and this baby is humming along very well. A small problem though... I need to download and install all the drivers for my 3 printers, down load some word processing software, some photo editing software and the games I had on the desktop are all gone too. The hard drive on this puppy is as clean as a baby butt that just got out of the bath. However, it sure is fast now and I guess you could say, just like a new one.

When in doubt, format.

 

[Montrovant]

I can tolerate grits, but I'd much rather have oatmeal for a hot cereal type of food.

I won't even think about putting oysters in my mouth. I don't eat seafood, I certainly don't want to put the seafood closest to a pile of cold snot into my mouth.

 

[saveliberty]

Why would you have to carefully prepare a bland food like grits to make it tasty? Makes about as much sense as eating dried out cornbread muffins. Which apparently you also have to prepare carefully and is a bland food. I see a pattern.