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Depends on your needs and lifestyle. I go to BJs maybe 8 times a year. If you look back at the receipts you will see pretty much some combination of the same items.

Eggs, Jimmy Dean Sausage, chicken thighs, 2-4 bottles of wine, Lindt chocolate truffles, etc. I avoid the 5 gallon pail of ketchup and such.

Got my tires there too, about $100 less than other sources.

Water, water everywhere nor any drop to drink.

That was a high school memorization task. Coleridge was better after a dose of laudanum. In the US the only thing available at the time was camphorated tincture of opium, aka paregoric. It was difficult to choke down enough to get into the mood.

A college elective was 'Romanticism and Realism', with the first semester being Romanticism. It was much better in the second semester. It may have had something to do with the professor who taught the Romanticism section having made his life's work 'The Faerie Queene'.

afaik there are no Brits in my background. I've no idea where the suet pudding thing came from.

Both my mother and grandmother were good cooks so I was spared the marshmallows and Cool Whip. I forget the organization but they would have a smorgasbord as a fund raiser. As long as you didn't stray too far from the Swedish meatballs you could avoid the weird and wonderful. I draw the line at Jello and sardine concoctions.

And I think you'd rather try to insult than think or discuss. That's become normal here.

You don't use both your eyes simultaneously?

I know when a pair of expensive glasses twists the world so much that I can't walk straight.

I have a trial lens set and make my own prescriptions. There's nothing confusing about that, especially doing only spherical correction. I have astigmatism but most of the time don't wear glasses, so my brain is used to the astigmatism. The classic (documented centuries ago) mistake that optometrists make is over-correcting for astigmatism on each eye independently.

Laser speckle is a good way to precisely verify your focal lengths and make a prescription, if you don't have a trial lens set.

Ah, the legendary spotted dick. I don't think it made it to these shores, at least not by that name.

I've had a steak and kidney sort of stew but no pastry was involved. I like it as long as someone else cooks it somewhere else. The aroma of cow piss as it cooks is off-putting.

Almost as dreaded as fruitcake... I liked it as a child but then I also liked candied sweet potatoes. I still like sweet potatoes, but no syrup please.

Do what?

Brains do astonishing DSP. Two eyes have much better resolution than one, and our brains correct all sorts of geometric distortions in real time.

I have a lot in one eye but I'm used to it.

California is very sloppy about that. You only need one eye and that doesn't have to be very good.

Nope, you can do it with a wooden mixing spoon in a bowl.

Not sure what you mean by that.

The bread I like isn't available at the grocery store. It costs about $7 for a two-pound loaf at the bakery (unless I go on Mondays and get the senior citizens' discount). It comes out of the oven at about

It's not worth skimping on bread, which is nearly the only starch I eat.

It's hard to compare; I've never looked at the produce at our Costco. We eat apples and bananas. I buy frozen cherries to put in my yogurt.

We don't eat that much meat. For our very occasional beef purchases I'm happy to go to the butcher shop. Costco's skinless, boneless chicken breasts are too big--they're tough and stringy.

Arm and Hammer unscented. It's the only kind we buy.

If I shop the sales, I can get TP as cheaply as at Costco, and its quality is exactly what we want.

Asparagus at the greengrocer when it's local in season.

Isn't that what I said?

When Ronald Reagan was President, the USDA declared that ketchup could be considered a vegetable portion in school lunches. Intense mockery followed.

Sure has. I first bought it at a Mrs. Bridges Pantry, a specialty store in CT with a lot of Brit imports. That goes back maybe 20 years.

I like most anything with raisinsg in it.

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Technically, it was Reagan's USDA staff, not the man himself (who had plenty of other flaws, to be sure).

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Yes!

I had macular hole surgery a few years back on my dominant eye and the sulfur hexafluoride gas tends to hasten cataract formation. I've been kicking the cataract surgery can down the road so my dominant eye is also the less functional one. That leads to some interesting visual effects.

And you get a lifetime supply...

I have a macular hole in one eye too. My doc did a retinal peel and it improved some. Did your macular hole fully heal? I have a bit of residual blind spot.

Both eyes have plastic lenses. Both have had vitrectomies and retina repairs. Both developed secondary cataracts which were YAG lasered to punch a hole in the cloudy back of the lens capsule. That takes about one minute.

Do the cataract surgery. It takes about 10 minutes and is no big deal. You'll be startled by the improvement in contrast.

What eye surgeons can do is incredible.