My dad had derogatory nicknames for all of us kids (the boys, anyway): cabbage-head, egg-head (that was mine), melon-head, bucket-head, and water-head.
What produce/ingredients did you buy or obtain today? (2018-2022)
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epicuric
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Egg-head, over here, is used to signify a clever but slightly nerdy person. We even have a game show called "Egg Heads". Was this the reasoning behind your naming?
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Off out to little Yugoslavia to buy among other things minced veal for tonight.
That is the same thing it means over here. It is a negative thing to stupid people. but to me, it is something to be proud of.
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I'm not allowed to unpack it until the tree is up.
Hmmm...I wonder if Lowe's is selling precut trees yet?
I envy you
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Dried Porcini Mushrooms and Tomato sauce Mutti, one of my fave passata
I have polenta too in my pantry, thus lunch today will be mushrooms in tomato sauce with polenta.
I have polenta too in my pantry, thus lunch today will be mushrooms in tomato sauce with polenta.
I could suck the porcini straight from the bowl
- and Mutti is Mutti...; luckily we can get it here too.
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I could suck the porcini straight from the bowl
I’m just nibbling a couple as crisps from the bag
You can get Mutti in Finland? Oh great!
You don't have the tree up yet?I'm not allowed to unpack it until the tree is up.
Hmmm...I wonder if Lowe's is selling precut trees yet?
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Pheasant! I have a pheasant.
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Veal mince, pasta for tonight. Chicken back, chicken gizzards, celeriac, parsley root and leaf, carrots for tomorrow nights soup. Local Plums, pears, oranges, pomegranates.
I resisted stealing my neighbors oranges.
Same here, but my dad used it as an insult. Of all the kids, I did the best in school, and I've always preferred brain-work over brawn-work, so to speak. It's was my dad's way of saying, "You may be smart in the classroom, but out here in the barn, you're not worth a sh!t."
That's what all the names like were for - just a way to remind us not to get too big for our britches and to keep us down-to-earth.
I like the way you think!You don't have the tree up yet?
Actually, you can't see it, but there's a Christmas tree directly behind me. It stays up all year, just to give me something to live for.
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For those who don't cook with gizzards this is what they look like. I told the lady in Purex that in the UK they are used for dog food. Without a hint of irony she replied I have heard that you treat your pets very well.
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Well mate despite that you have turned out okay.
It may not sound like it at times, but I have a great relationship with my dad, all us kids do. Best thing he ever did for all of us was to teach us from day one that we weren't special, no we couldn't grow up to be president, and no one was going to hand us a damn thing, and if we wanted something, we had to work to get and keep working to keep it.
He could be brutally honest, and just plain brutal, but that was his goal - just like that Cash song, "A Boy Named Sue," - the world is a tough place, and if you can't take being ridiculed, you better just roll over and die right now, Egg-head.
The only time we carry any credit card debt is Christmas. It won't be there come 31 Jan.
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