Food and other such holidays

[Squirrel]

 

This is the one my wife and I got for our wedding, along with about six different types of popcorn. We've still got popcorn left, and that popper gets used very frequently. Greatest smell ever!!

 

For about $75, you'd have a popper and lots of popcorn, oil, and that special coconut butter flavoring that makes it so tasty!

 

https://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/store/product/nostalgia-trade-electrics-39-50s-style-stir-popper/1040487939?Keyword=popcorn

Have you used it to make roasted/glazed nuts or trail mix? It says in the description that it can be used for that as well, so curious if you've done that with it.

[Craig Arko]

You folks and your popcorn. Where is the mimosa bar?

[Squirrel]

 

You folks and your popcorn. Where is the mimosa bar?

Next door to the margarita bar.

[Mike Sixel]

 

You folks and your popcorn. Where is the mimosa bar?

 

The one thing from the 50s I'd like back....day drinking.

[biggentleben]

 

Have you used it to make roasted/glazed nuts or trail mix? It says in the description that it can be used for that as well, so curious if you've done that with it.

 

No, but only because we haven't tried (and my wife could seriously eat a room full of popcorn).

[Squirrel]

 

The one thing from the 50s I'd like back....day drinking.

50s? Heck ... late 80s/early 90s I had drinks at lunchtime.

[biggentleben]

 

The one thing from the 50s I'd like back....day drinking.

 

One thing I'm enjoying about working from home....

[Squirrel]

Seriously, no one goes out for lunch anymore and orders an alcoholic beverage of some sort? 

[Craig Arko]

 

Seriously, no one goes out for lunch anymore and orders an alcoholic beverage of some sort? 

I don't when I'm in the office, but on Fridays we have an in-house social hour at the end of the day. Company paid for.

[Mike Sixel]

 

Seriously, no one goes out for lunch anymore and orders an alcoholic beverage of some sort? 

 

Not exactly accepted where I work....

[Craig Arko]

 

I don't when I'm in the office, but on Fridays we have an in-house social hour at the end of the day. Company paid for.

Of course, during the 17-year span I worked for myself, things were somewhat looser.

[Vanimal46]

It used to be more relaxed where I work, but someone who doesn't work here anymore ruined it for all.

 

Guy got too drunk when the company went out to watch the World Cup game, and fell asleep under his desk. Needless to say he was fired that afternoon.

[twinsnorth49]

 

Seriously, no one goes out for lunch anymore and orders an alcoholic beverage of some sort? 

Socially, always. Working lunch, can't, silly.

[Squirrel]

Socially, always. Working lunch, can't, silly.

Years ago, when I worked in an actual office (as a receptionist), our department would go out to lunch fairly regularly ... always something to 'celebrate.' I'd always have a drink ... sometimes a strong one, sometimes two. I never 'ruined' it for anyone, though. But in one of my 'sillier moments' when someone came in to see the owner of the company, and I didn't believe who he said he was and asked to see his ID, it was a good thing the owner of the company thought it was really funny that I had just ID-checked the then Chief of Police for the city of Minneapolis.

[Vanimal46]

Happy Monday! 

Today is National Guacamole Day! Specifically, National Spicy Guacamole Day! I celebrated this holiday 1 day too early by making fresh guac yesterday... Avocados are delicious, and they were on sale at the grocery store.

Today is also National Pickle Day! Pick your poison today.... Pickle chips, baby dill pickles, whole pickles... The world is your oyster!

Also, on this day in 1969, Apollo 12 blasts off to explore the moon once again. Charles Conrad, Jr.; Richard Gordon, Jr.; and Alan Bean were the astronauts on this flight.  

[Mike Sixel]

I LOVE guacamole. LOVE.

[Craig Arko]

Pete Conrad steps onto the lunar surface.

 

[twinsnorth49]

Guacamole, God bless you Aztecs.

 

A corned beef sandwich just isn't the same without a good pickle.

[Pardon My Dinger]

You guys know guacamole costs extra, right? 

[Mike Sixel]

 

You guys know guacamole costs extra, right? 

 

Heh, i told the poor woman that asks me twice a week I get why she has to ask, and we laughed.....

[Vanimal46]

You guys know guacamole costs extra, right?

Only at Chipotle... Which their guac isn't that great BTW.

[Craig Arko]

I shall become leper outcast unclean here and say avocados are not my favorite.

 

Mea culpa.

[Vanimal46]

If you have not tried this, put guacamole on a hamburger one time.... You will not regret it. 

[Craig Arko]

If you have not tried this, put guacamole on a hamburger one time.... You will not regret it.

 

Nah, horseradish. Or wasabi.

[Vanimal46]

 

Nah, horseradish. Or wasabi.

Yes and yes. Also, fried egg on a burger is TERRIFIC*

 

*Trump lingo

[Craig Arko]

Yes and yes. Also, fried egg on a burger is TERRIFIC*

 

*Trump lingo

May your arteries never harden.

[twinsnorth49]

 

If you have not tried this, put guacamole on a hamburger one time.... You will not regret it. 

Only one time? I do it all the time. No regrets.

[Squirrel]

I love avocados and guacamole. But I don't want either on my burger, maybe other things, but not my ground prime rib burger, nope ... just not what I like, but whatevs.

 

Pickles ... varies. The sharper the dill, it gives me heartburn. I like the sweeter bread and butter pickle. Fried pickle chips? omg, yes! With the right dipping sauce, bring it on.

[Vanimal46]

Fried pickles.... mmmm. One of the go-to's for bar food IMO. That and chips with queso or guac! 

[Squirrel]

 

Fried pickles.... mmmm. One of the go-to's for bar food IMO. That and chips with queso AND guac! 

FTFY.

 

There's a place nearby me that has the best fried pickles ... I never liked them until I had them there. I wish they'd bring back their fried cheese curds, though ... omg ... BEST. EVER! Good thing I don't eat out that often.