This discussion inspired a little trip down memory lane. Two sets of grandparents came to Idaho in the mid thirties.

Six sets of Aunts and Uncles with 30 cousins, plus my folks with six kids. Every family owned livestock. Every one of them raised their own beef and chickens. Plus most of them had deer and elk in the freezer.

And there was not an outside grill anywhere in the family. Not even s hibachi. At family gatherings at the park, Aunties would bring charcoal and cook hotdogs and hamburgers on the grills built at the park.

Some of the cousins started buying grills in the '80s. They still are far from universal among my family. Most of the beer drinkers have grills. Maybe there is a correlation.


People who choose to brew up their own storms bitch loudest about the rain.