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Could Your Post Office Be Closing? (so very much hash brown discussion)
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I'm seeing several "outsourced" Post Office locations. There's a gas station not too far from me that also serves as a post office.
They didn't close our post office, but mail is no longer postmarked in Olympia. It has to go all the way to Tacoma for that. Yes, even LOCAL mail.Grrrrrr....
No, but that would be an interesting idea.
Jackie "the Librarian" wrote: "They didn't close our post office, but mail is no longer postmarked in Olympia. It has to go all the way to Tacoma for that. Yes, even LOCAL mail.Grrrrrr...."
Growling at Postal employees is frowned upon, Jackie.
If I growled at our local postal lady, she'd growl back. I wouldn't mess with her.
Well, if stamp prices didn't keep going up...
Give 'em cookies every once in a while will ensure better service.My cousin does that with a local mechanic shop. Lemme tell ya she gets a serious discount.
Larry to Hash Browns: Why can't I quit you?IHOP is an evil mistress who tosses me a plate of hash browns, waffles, bacon and eggs. I CANNOT DENY HER!
So...uuuh...totally feel your conflict!
Tanja -- I was talking about brownies with hashish baked inside.But I enjoy a good side of hashbrowns, too. Village Inn makes good ones. But you gotta be out west to get 'em. Denny's and IHOP aren't too awful bad.
Sorry, gang, but the best hash browns on the planet can be found at the Waffle House...smothered, covered, chunked, etc...
The steak omelet from IHOP has hash browns inside. It's my current favorite hash brown delivery system.
I have yet to darken the door of a Waffle House. Not sure why -- but I just always seem to drive past and go to a Cracker Barrel or an IHOP instead. Maybe one of these days ....
IHOP hash browns with cheese are better than WH's ANY DAY OF THE WEEK!And I used to have a lot of WH since it was the nearest restaurant to a hotel I worked at.
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You're missing out, Sally. Hashbrowns that have been cooked until they're so crunchy you think they'll cut your gums are a truly transcendental food. A little hot sauce (Secret Aardvark, Cholula or good old-fashioned Tabasco) and you are utterly transported. Breakfast taters are my favorite.
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I just like hashbrowns at home, cooked in my skillet, with my bacon grease and shortning. I don't like the stuff they serve at Village Inn/IHOP/Denny's because I've worked in too many joints like that.
Jackie, it is some of the most delicious hot sauce I've ever had. It's a habanero, so you'd expect absolute insanity, but it's tempered with a solid tomato base and just a hint of onions. I am solidly in love with it since discovering it a couple of months ago and have been liberally applying it to nearly everything under the sun.They don't seem to have a proper website, but they do have this:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?...
Ohh! I will have to look for that next time I'm in Portland, Logan. Sounds yummy!
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Oooo Sally, this city does breakfast like nobody's business. And the bloody maries! So delicious at every place I've tried them. It seems as though each breakfast spot is competing to see who can outdo the other with morning booze. We're slowly working our way through breakfast places, neighborhood by neighborhood, we've nearly conquered all of them in South-East so I think we're going to be moving on to North-East next. So many great eateries, so little time.
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I was just looking at that. I think it would have to be Marys b/c otherwise its Maries (as in more than one Marie).
Back when I used to fly Delta through Atlanta a lot, I LOVED spending time in the Crown room drinking their dyn-o-mite bloody marys/maries.No olives, though. I freaking hate olives.
Larry wrote: "Back when I used to fly Delta through Atlanta a lot, I LOVED spending time in the Crown room drinking their dyn-o-mite bloody marys/maries.No olives, though. I freaking hate olives."
I would never have guessed that about you, Larry. :D
Yes, the hating olives freakily part, Larry.
I like ripe olives but not the green ones so much.
Oh, I'm totally with Larry on this one. I hate olives. We could form a club.I hate olives so much that if you were to put those little balls of evil on my pizza and I'd punch you.
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I've even been known to drink the juice from the bottle.
AHHH LUUUUUV olives. ♥ I add them to sammies, specifically olive tapenade (because it's as close to olive salad at a reasonable price as we can get at the grocery stores around here). <-- all inspired by the Central Grocery muffalettas I grew up on in N'awlins. :)
I used to put a little olive juice in my bloody marys/maries. (When I was a bartender.) They were yummy!
In Italy my friend Mahmood got yelled at for (accidentally) breaking a branch off of an olive tree. Serves him right. Evil trees.
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I remember the muff part ... oh wait ... never mind.
Oh, TC. Grossing me out with poop-talk over lunch breaks and torturing me with food-talk after I've brushed my teeth. Now I want pancakes. : (
I don't think our post office is going to close. It's the only one in town. But what about these tiny towns all over the place? How do they send mail if their post office disappears?