Orinoco Womble (tidy bag and all)’s Comments (group member since Sep 20, 2013)

Orinoco Womble (tidy bag and all)’s comments from the Net Work Book Club group.

Jane wrote: "Don't get me started on bio and organic.

Show me an egg that isn't organic - in the original meaning of the word..."

You should hear local people here in S. Spain, they use the term "biological". I was once offered "biological" eggs. Having grown up on the powdered muck, I could well believe those were "chemical eggs" but... I once bought half a dozen "organic" eggs and they tasted just like the normal ones.

Remember the "organic eggs" scandal, where it turned out the sellers had just bought normal old eggs from the wholesaler, and palmed them off as "organic"? Where I live, "organic" means "three times the price of normal" but even with all the councils and conferences and associations, I am wary of "organic" produce. Now, eggs are stamped with a code that tells you how they were produced. 3 is for normal old commercial production. 1 is for free-range. 0 is "organic"--and where I live I have yet to see an egg stamped with a 0, so there you go.

HRHDogMatix wrote: "Sorry folks but I don't quite understand your comments, you're all Americans aren't you? are you telling me that there was a shortage of food in the States?"

No, but there are desperately poor people there too. And apparently three of us were part of those people growing up.

We used to get oatmeal too. Made up slushy but was great for oatmeal cookies.

And don't even mention their pancake mix. Ugh. If I never see another pancake again, I'll be pleased. There was a summer we practically lived on the stuff.

I don't think I need a spine. It's holding me back.

We were actually eligible for free lunches at school but my parents had been instrumental in campaigning to get hot lunches at elementary schools so they were afraid if they asked for free or reduced-price lunches fingers would be pointed, so they didn't. I know we didn't get food stamps, but the cheese and powdered stuff and peanut butter arrived periodically, usually brought by one of my much-older brothers. Maybe he collected the stuff for my mom, I don't know. I had forgotten about the peanut butter--you're right, you stirred forever, but it sure tasted "nuttier" than the ultra-sweet stuff they sell now. I saw "American" peanut butter in our upmarket dept store last week--now it's all flavoured! Peanut and honey, peanut and cherry! peanut/moka...weird.

I googled this phenomenon and see that Target is selling powdered peanut butter. Ye what now?? What is the advantage of that, except maybe for the space programme?

mrbooks wrote: "Ori, I thought all cotton was bio-cotton So doesn't everyone producing cotton, produce bio cotton? I don't know maybe they have a synthetic cotton I don't know about."

"Bio" is the new European shorthand for "organic." Cracks me up when I'm offered "bio" eggs--better than the powdered eggs I grew up on (government surplus), which I think were chemical eggs!

Another phrase that angers me...when someone says something and the other person corrects them and then says, "Sorry to burst your bubble." That is so darn condescending--and the person saying it isn't sorry at all, they're enjoying being "right", like it makes them better than the other person! Otherwise they would just say something normal like, "Oh, those aren't peonies, they're dahlias, see how the petals curl up?"

Groovy wrote: "I tried to dial the number, 10210 but it was too intense"

teehee!

I dialed one of those 900 numbers for free financial advice. They advised me not to dial 900 numbers.

Yeah, let's hope she doesn't plumb the depths of degradation!

Did you hear about the plumber's daughter? Every time she heard a naughty joke, her cheeks flushed!

Tell it to the Marines!

Been thinking of taking parachuting classes, but I don't want to just jump into anything.

You wanna be careful shoppin' in those military establishments, they still believe in corporal punishment.

I'm going to make a complaint at my gym. The elevator's been out of order for over a week!

Overheard: "Don't take advice from anyone, listen to me!"

Gotta be older than Tom Sawyer, surely?

He spent too many years doing the Cat Chow Cha-cha-cha to remember that mice are more attracted by bacon or peanut butter than cheese!

Speaking of cheesy jokes:
A cat ate some cheese and waited for a mouse with baited breath.

Purrfection? What fur?

(What fur? Cat fur to make kitten britches, as my mother always answered when someone asked her "what for?")