Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[alaskaleftybass]

Oddly Amazon shipping to Alaska has been very fast lately. Amazon must have found its second wind. Items they said we wouldn't get until the second week of Feb are already in. Wow online retailers must have made a mint last year. Shoulda invested in Amazon and Best Buy!

 

[GonePlaid]

Somewhere on cassette; might be dubbed to a CD. I'll see if I can figure out how to upload it(not too good at that [stuff]). We usually did it as the second half of a medley with "I Just Wanna Be Your Everything".

My 'computer tech'(BIL)is gonna work on doing that tomorrow night.

 

[GonePlaid]

Oddly Amazon shipping to Alaska has been very fast lately. Amazon must have found its second wind. Items they said we wouldn't get until the second week of Feb are already in. Wow online retailers must have made a mint last year. Shoulda invested in Amazon and Best Buy!

Shoulda, coulda, didna.

 

[beans-on-toast]

Not all online retailers flag out-of-stock items as out-of-stock. What I see in the supermarketo are sporadically stocked items, especially in the meat section beyond the butcher's case. The back bacon I bought a few weeks ago hasn't been in stock since. Found smoked pork butt. Hadn't seen that before. Strange things are afoot at the Circle K.

My grocery is like that. Every week there are different cuts available. Prices are very good which keeps the place busy, they are constantly restocking. I can only imagine how much profit the big stores must make. They sell a lot of products that other stores don't have so I get to try a lot of stuff I haven't tried before.

Pork butt is actually not from the back end, it's above the shoulder. The butt is more marbled and tougher than shoulder. The pig uses those muscles a lot. Often they soak it in brine for a while, then smoke or BBQ it. This is where pulled pork typically comes from.

 

[GwenOnBass]

My grocery is like that. Every week there are different cuts available. Prices are very good which keeps the place busy, they are constantly restocking. I can only imagine how much profit the big stores must make. They sell a lot of products that other stores don't have so I get to try a lot of stuff I haven't tried before.

Pork butt is actually not from the back end, it's above the shoulder. The butt is more marbled and tougher than shoulder. The pig uses those muscles a lot. Often they soak it in brine for a while, then smoke or BBQ it. This is where pulled pork typically comes from.


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Smoked pork butt is just like marbled ham to me. But that was before all the good jobs were taken at the Utility Muffin Research Kitchen.

 

[StereoPlayer]

Smoked pork butt is just like marbled ham to me. But that was before all the good jobs were taken at the Utility Muffin Research Kitchen.

 

[beans-on-toast]

Mortadella is a parts-is-parts version using pork shoulder or butt. I don't know if they ate that in Zappa's studio. Currently owned by Lady Gaga.

Mortadella - The Food in My Beard

 

[GwenOnBass]

Mortadella is a parts-is-parts version using pork shoulder or butt.

Mortadella - The Food in My Beard

Lardo is a delicacy. Imagine a day of white water rafting in the Italian Alps, followed by a late afternoon picnic of beer, olives, and assorted meats and cheeses.

 

[ahc]

While probably not the parts @beans-on-toast or @Passinwind are looking for, there's a major chip shortage going on now. It's affecting the automotive and computer industries. Several car companies have shut down their production lines because of this. Time to bring back points and condensers??? Didn't my Win 95 computer run on those?

 

[beans-on-toast]

While probably not the parts @beans-on-toast or @Passinwind are looking for, there's a major chip shortage going on now. It's affecting the automotive and computer industries. Several car companies have shut down their production lines because of this. Time to bring back points and condensers??? Didn't my Win 95 computer run on those?

The lockdown has created a higher demand for computers, TV's and game consoles. Parts are going there. Car companies don't stockpile parts. As a result, they can't get their parts now. Auto sales have been in a slump, buying a new car now is not high on the list for many.

There's a general shortage and erratic delivery schedule in all industries. I received a letter to that effect last October saying that they were expecting problems from suppliers for the next year. Basically, buy what you can now.

Electronic chip makers do not want to add plants for what they consider a temporary change in the market. Last week Digikey (electronic supplier) told me that they are are listing some parts as "overdue". They can't get delivery dates from their manufacturers.

 

[GwenOnBass]

The noxious combination of cv and Brexit makes my blueburst semi-hollowbody Chowny a finer thing for me to have in hand than be waiting to arrive.

 

[Charlie Tango]

Lardo is a delicacy. Imagine a day of white water rafting in the Italian Alps, followed by a late afternoon picnic of beer, olives, and assorted meats and cheeses.

Lardo sounds delicious, but I can't help thinking that shoving Vienna Sausages into an artery would be better for you.

 

[Charlie Tango]

While probably not the parts @beans-on-toast or @Passinwind are looking for, there's a major chip shortage going on now. It's affecting the automotive and computer industries. Several car companies have shut down their production lines because of this. Time to bring back points and condensers??? Didn't my Win 95 computer run on those?

MS-DOS computers had pull starters, I recall.

 

[GwenOnBass]

Lardo sounds delicious, but I can't help thinking that shoving Vienna Sausages into an artery would be better for you.

Like an English sausage, by the book lardo should be an affront to all that is good. In practice, enjoyably tasty.

 

[beans-on-toast]

Lardo is a delicacy. Imagine a day of white water rafting in the Italian Alps, followed by a late afternoon picnic of beer, olives, and assorted meats and cheeses.

Never had lardo. I imagine it must melt from the body temperature like greasy salami does. The kind where the fat runs down the corner of your mouth.

A butcher I pass by often has pounds of pork back fat in their front window, along with heads, snouts, feet and tails. Surprisingly, they all sell well.

 

[StereoPlayer]

Never had lardo. I imagine it must melt like greasy salami. The kind where the fat runs down the corner of your mouth.

A butcher I pass by often has pounds of pork back fat in their front window, along with heads, snouts, feet and tails. Surprisingly, they all sell well.

I know gross...but I always wanted to try a piglet...

 

[beans-on-toast]

I know gross...but I always wanted to try a piglet...

A good reason to go to Hawaii.

 

[Charlie Tango]

I know gross...but I always wanted to try a piglet...

Oh man, that reminds me of when I was a high school kid, working as a checker at Safeway. One day during the Christmas season a customer shows up at my checkstand with their basket of groceries and it contains an entire suckling pig, wrapped in plastic, on one of those foam trays, mind you, with a price sticker on it. This would have been 1968 or '69, and I think the thing was $24, a fortune back then. I had no idea we even had such until that moment. Kinda gross to me, but I was also grossed out when a customer once had a similarly-presented tongue in their order.

 

[GwenOnBass]

I find a beef tongue sandwich pretty enjoyable, but not enjoyable enough to beef tongue for myself.

 

[Jeff Scott]

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Man, pigs sure have their butts in a weird place.