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I caught a Coca Cola cooler full of rainbow trout out of Laurel Lake using corn kennels for bait.

It took a while to catch the first one. I kept measuring my line out and finally found them at 35'. After I located their depth, I just hauled them in.

We had a big family fish fry after that trip.

In the morning I eat a banana. Or if I don’t want any sugars I eat a handful of unsalted mixed nuts. Sometimes after that I drink one them small low sodium V8s.

Haha!

Frog eating sunsabitches!

I don't feel that we ever had to go without good food as kids. The only thing lacking in our meals was flavor. Salt and pepper (very sparingly) was all dad would tolerate. We rarely ate at restaurants. I remember an uncle talking about eating at Burger King and fantasized how wonderful it must be.

Visiting grandma, on the other hand, was another story. No running water and food was scarce. Mostly bought with what my dad could spare after taking care of his own household. Tomato juice with shell pasta that she called "bugs", ketchup sandwiches, fritters made of flour and water and occasional snow ice cream. She always had a giant tub of lard on the back porch but I don't recall her frying anything.

Choice steak instead of prime.

When the money was good and we could buy whatever we wanted we would say we were eating like we were on foodstamps.

I used to like to look at the groceries of the people in line in front of me and guess which ones were on foodstamps. The ones on stamps always had a cart full of the best.

You could also tell who owned a taco wagon and was on stamps too.

Bb

I go to ALDI

After seeing lots of pictures of 'fire members I'm having a hard time believing that very many of you ever suffered from a lack of food.

Uhhhh......I am getting ready for winter.

I roll high, I roll low, I even been known to roll in the middle.

If'n it was free I'd never turn up a nose at that sammich.

That'd be like turning up my nose at a free Coors Light when I was a drinkin' man.

Everyone knows (don't they?) that the best beer is the one you are buying.

Geno

You could starve half the guys here to death on Beanie Weenies and Bud light.



Fancy themselves as prepared for anything. Ha!

Funny, sometimes when folks ask the ubiquitous question

"How ya doin'?"

I'll answer with

"I haven't missed many meals lately." and rub my stomach

Geno

I just tell folks

"I ain't fat, I'm just better at storing energy than some other people"

Geno

With all the talk of the EMP, gay army and coming nuclear winter.....who you reckon is gonna have a chance?

Heard tell you Eskimo folks are used to preparing for winter...................all ten months of it.

Geno

Thats all I do.....prepare for winter.


About December comes around.....and I buy every discount ham I can find. I dont even know where they are all stashed.


Just in case.......

Wife does not understand, but she is getting there.



Thats an Islander for ya!

What you’re saying is that you handle your hams the same way a squirrel handles his nuts?

Laughin' so hard at that I started coughin'

A hamaholic, gots 'em stashed all over the house...............just in case.

Geno

PS them islanders, what do they know about storing up. Nothing drifting in with the flotsam and jetsam on this side of the island just walk around the other side. But them Eskimo folks, nothing drifting in around Nome it's a long walk or umiak paddle to Nova Scotia or Greenland.

Exactly right.


Its a compulsion....and sometimes I lose one....or three.


Call it a "bonus" ham when it is found again.

Funny you should say that......I saw a Squirrel burying a nut in my yard last week and I immediately thought of Jim.