Things That Amuse You

[Vt-Freeheel]

[Toadman]

Figured I'd put it here...

[char_]

My organization loads 4 browsers onto our machines: Chrome, IE, Edge, and Firefox. Then they default pin IE AND Edge to the toolbar in such a way that they repin themselves upon restart. LOL.

[MakersTeleMark]

I just had a baloney sammi for the first time in over 35 years.

It was really good, and tasted just like I remembered.

[Meadow Skipper]

I just had a baloney sammi for the first time in over 35 years.

It was really good, and tasted just like I remembered.

White bread, mayo, and American cheese? That’s what I remember about them.

[~mikey b]

yuk

[riser4]

White bread, mayo, and American cheese? That’s what I remember about them.

Yellow mustard >> mayo on a white bread, salami, and american cheese sandwich.

[PB]

Yellow mustard >> mayo on a white bread, salami, and american cheese sandwich.

Holy Mother of Dog YES!! Sitting in a class room became unbearable by 11 AM in HS when one of these was waiting for me in that crumpled up brown paper bag in my locker.

[riser4]

White bread, mayo, and American cheese? That’s what I remember about them.

And now that I think if it, you did fire work, right? I remember the salami and american cheese on white bread with yellow mustard being a Red Cross and ladies aux staple around here, from when my dad was a volunteer fireman as well as various other disaster sites. Its safer than mayo, keeps better.

[Meadow Skipper]

And now that I think if it, you did fire work, right? I remember the salami and american cheese on white bread with yellow mustard being a Red Cross and ladies aux staple around here, from when my dad was a volunteer fireman as well as various other disaster sites. Its safer than mayo, keeps better.

Fed meal contracting rules pretty much kept the condiments off the sandwiches until meal time - the mayo, mustard, and ketchup came in those little plastic cafeteria-style packets. Pranks were played with the packets. Seemed like we were generally kind of remote or way off the road. Occasionally the locals and auxiliaries would show up, but generally we went with contracted stuff, or military rations.

[Lvovsky]

We did not have ketchup in Soviet Union. Isn’t it amusing?

[TBS]

I just had a baloney sammi for the first time in over 35 years.

It was really good, and tasted just like I remembered.

Our local butcher shop makes their own bologna. They make a 3” tall, 6” diameter bologna/cheddar on sturdy white bread with lettuce, tomato & pickle and yellow mustard or Mayo. They are goooooood

[old goat]

We did not have ketchup in Soviet Union. Isn’t it amusing?

Isn't borscht the same thing?

[Danno]

We did not have ketchup in Soviet Union. Isn’t it amusing?

Is no ketchup. Only potato.

[Rideski]

When there’s vodka nothing really matters that much.

[Lvovsky]

Isn't borscht the same thing?

Borsch is a Ukrainian soup appropriated by Russian empire. It’s not a ketchup but very nice /*Borat accent

[ntblanks]

Borsch is a Ukrainian soup appropriated by Russian empire. It’s not a ketchup but very nice /*Borat accent

beets!

[Lvovsky]

Is no ketchup. Only potato.

One potato. Only one. And that was a good year!

When there’s vodka nothing really matters that much.

You are not wrong. However, with obscene amounts of food much more vodka can be consumed.

[Meadow Skipper]

Borsch is a Ukrainian soup appropriated by Russian empire. It’s not a ketchup but very nice /*Borat accent

Borscht has a long and complex history involving Ukraine, Poland, Lituania,, and Russia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borscht#History

My wife was Lithuanian and had a fantastic cold beet borscht, the way it was made was handed down for generations. Like my favorite summer dinner dish ever.

[Buster Highmen]

[Lvovsky]

Borscht has a long and complex history involving Ukraine, Poland, Lituania,, and Russia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borscht#History

My wife was Lithuanian and had a fantastic cold beet borscht, the way it was made was handed down for generations. Like my favorite summer dinner dish ever.

Yeah, the cold version is da’bomb on the hot summer day. Interesting version your wife has with beets cut in circles rather than straw. Every household has it’s own version or two if they know of cold variant. Russians have no idea about the cold one. In west Ukraine we called it Polish borsch. The whole history of the region is complicated no doubt.

[abraham]

Recipe? I like beets

[Meadow Skipper]

Yeah, the cold version is da’bomb on the hot summer day. Interesting version your wife has with beets cut in circles rather than straw. Every household has it’s own version or two if they know of cold variant. Russians have no idea about the cold one. In west Ukraine we called it Polish borsch. The whole history of the region is complicated no doubt.

Lithuanians, Poles and Ukrainians probably never told the Russians about it. No love lost there. Lithuanians and Poles ruled over a huge commonwealth/empire back in the 1500s.


Don’t get me going about Lithuania. .

[ntblanks]

Don’t get me going about Lithuania. .

sig worthy

[Meadow Skipper]

Recipe? I like beets

This is all I have. It was a family thing, so proportions were assumed to be known, and my wife has passed (fuck cancer). It’s from a handwritten page she sent to someone that asked for the recipe.

Pickled beets
Cucumbers - peeled & diced
Hard boiled eggs sliced
Chicken broth
Dill
Water
Sour cream
Green onions - sliced
Boiled potatoes, peeled , cut up, buttered

Combine all liquids then add beets & juice, cucumbers, green onions, dill.
Set aside some juice & mix in sour cream - chill till very cold.
Serve with hot buttered, boiled potatoes. <- drop them in the soup, that part was exquisite.

Edit: Google on Lithuanian Saltibarsciai (Cold Beet Soup) and you’ll find some ideas about proportions. Most seem to use buttermilk instead of sour cream. I’d go with the sour cream.