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I have fond memories of a date grove in Furnace Creek iirc. A woman operating out of a trailer sold me a huge bag of dates for a very small sum. That was about '85 so it's probably gone by now.

My brother had a friend somewhere around Lompoc that had walnuts. The commercial stuff you get from Diamond wasn't in the same league.

My bad. I never dug into the history and thought it only meant corn meal much.

Agreed. And the Russians are quite capable of blowing new ones. It must suck to be in the air when somebody shoots the s*it out of your home.

Like the B-52s they fly. They're scheduled to be replaced by F-35s someday soon.

And the Ukrainians are quite capable of shooting down those trying to do that.

That's why they use drones.

Fantasy.

The Falklanders thought so.

Presumably the landowners failed to make money from the land somewhat later. Phytophthora infestans has a lot to answer for!

I didn't.

Yes you did.

It's understandable in the South they expect it all to look like Kraft individually wrapped American cheese slices. What would white trash cooking be without Velveeta and Marshmallow Fluff?

I grew up in upstate NY near the VT border and many of the smaller independent grocers has wheels of 'rat trap cheese' and would slice off what you wanted.

I lived near Scruton Pond in NH and Calef's was on the way home. That was about 50 years before they had an internet presence. At the time Scruton Pond was sort of a hippy enclave; looking at the real estate prices you'd have to be a damn rich hippy to live there now.

Or have been there all this time.

Not especially. I just noted that raw milk cheese is available, and I buy it sometimes.

The Falklands have never belonged to anyone else, but Britain, the Falkland islanders absolutely want to stay British, but Argentina, once one of the wealthiest countries in the world after ceasing to be part of Spain, has economic problems and its a convenient distraction for the government there to claim it 'ought' to be theirs, despite *never ever having been so*.

Largely because there may well be oil and gas reserves under it.

Why don't you shut your f****ng loudmouth and go an invade Cuba, where probably the majority of the citizens would welcome being American, having lost their love of Marxist austerity and Che Guevara?

Actually the Russians are demonstrating that they are less and less capable of blowing holes in anything, except their own cities.

Russia is totally cattled*, and it is only a matter of time before it collapses. Wait and see.

Dyed cheddar is considerably darker orange than American cheese, even in the Midwest. I've seen (and purchased) white American.

For your consideration:

Jello? Who said anything about Jello? Cheesecake is, as they say, easy as pie. Here's the recipe my husband uses. I think Mary Ellen St. John is a relative of his.

Mary Ellen St John's Cream Cheese Pie

Crust:

Mix crust ingredients, press into 12" glass pie plate. Blind bake at 350 F for 8 minutes.

Filling:

Mix filling ingredients with electric mixer until smooth. Pour into prepared pie crust. Bake at 350 F for 20 minutes. (Make sure center is firm.)

Topping:

Mix topping ingredients and pour over baked pie. Return to oven for 5-8 minutes at 350 F.

Chill pie before serving.

Note: 12" pie plates are pretty rare. This also works in a 9x10" glass pan.

It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘polenta’ is. Authentic polenta is made from cornmeal.

Bollocks

"As it is known today, polenta derives from earlier forms of grain mush (known as puls or pulmentum in Latin) that were commonly eaten since Roman times. Before the introduction of corn (maize) from America in the

In Yemen, polenta is primarily prepared from either sorghum meal or barley-meal with an addition of animal fat and made into a thick paste, and is known locally as ʿaṣīd. It is often served in a bowl where soup broth is added as a viand, and eaten with one's fingers. "

Wiki

In short its a pretty generic term of a starchy sort of porridge. In (south) Africa its called 'mealie meal' and is now almost exclusively maize, but used to be millet.

Like most Americans, you think the world begins and ends in the USA

Could make people (i.e. the child readers) think that all similar disabilities are psychosomatic.