The Everything Drawer - Everyone has one, right? (post anything - within the rules)

After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year outside of Buffalo, New York scientists found traces of copper cable dating back 120 years. They came to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 100 years ago.

Not to be outdone by the New Yorkers, in the weeks that followed, a Wheeling WV archaeologist dug to a depth of 20 feet somewhere just outside Woodsdale. Shortly after, a story in the The Intelligencer read, "WV archaeologists, reporting a finding of 200 year old copper cable, have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network a hundred years earlier than the New Yorkers.

One week later, a local newspaper in Barton Ohio reported the following: "After digging down about 30 feet deep in his pasture near the community of Hell’s Kitchen, Pete Riley, a hell of an engineer and a self-taught archaeologist and psychologist reported that he found absolutely nothing. Riley has therefore concluded that 300 years ago, Ohio had already gone wireless."

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HOLIDAY EATING TIPS
1. Avoid carrot sticks. Anyone who puts carrots on a holiday buffet table knows nothing of the Holiday spirit. In fact, if you see carrots, leave immediately. Go next door, where they're serving rum balls.
2. Drink as much eggnog as you can. And quickly, it's rare. You cannot find it any other time of year but now. So drink up! Who cares that it has 10,000 calories in every sip? It's not as if you're going to turn into an eggnog-alcoholic or something. It's a treat. Enjoy it. Have one for me. Have two. It's later than you think. It's Christmas!
3. If something comes with gravy, use it. That's the whole point of gravy. Gravy does not stand alone. Pour it on. Make a volcano out of your mashed potatoes. Fill it with gravy. Eat the volcano. Repeat.
4. As for mashed potatoes, always ask if they're made with skim milk or whole milk. If it's skim, pass. Why bother? It's like buying a sports car with an automatic transmission.
5. Do not have a snack before going to a party in an effort to control your eating. The whole point of going to a Holiday party is to eat other people's food for free. Lots of it. Hello?
6. Under no circumstances should you exercise between now and New Year's. You can do that in January when you have nothing else to do. This is the time for long naps, which you'll need after circling the buffet table while carrying a 10-pound plate of food and that vat of eggnog.
7. If you come across something really good at a buffet table, like frosted Christmas cookies in the shape and size of Santa position yourself near them and don't budge. Have as many as you can before becoming the center of attention. They're like a beautiful pair of shoes. If you leave them behind, you're never going to see them again.
8. Same for pies. Apple, Pumpkin, Mincemeat. Have a slice of each. Or if you don't like mincemeat, have two apples and one pumpkin. Always have three. When else do you get to have more than one dessert, Labor Day?
9. Did someone mention fruitcake? Granted, it's loaded with the mandatory celebratory calories but avoid it at all cost. I mean, have some standards.
10. One final tip: If you don't feel terrible when you leave the party or get up from the table, you haven't been paying attention. Re-read tips; start over, but hurry, January is just around the corner. Remember this motto to live by:
 
I always have a bottle of Luksusowa in the freezer!
 
THParent said:
I always have a bottle of Luksusowa in the freezer!
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I always have Luksusowa and Sobieski in my cabinet. I live in a college town, and every time I see a 21 yr old buying a 'premium' vodka that they can't afford, I pull them aside and say, 'let me learn you somethin'...

My way of thinking is that all Polish vodka is premium vodka... The distillery wouldn't survive otherwise...
 
brewmeist said:
I always have Luksusowa and Sobieski in my cabinet. I live in a college town, and every time I see a 21 yr old buying a 'premium' vodka that they can't afford, I pull them aside and say, 'let me learn you somethin'...

My way of thinking is that all Polish vodka is premium vodka... The distillery wouldn't survive otherwise...
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Do you have any Żubrówka?
 
cb7893 said:
Do you have any Żubrówka?
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I do not. I've enjoyed it before, but happen to live in a state where the only place a person can purchase spirits is in a state store. So unfortunately I am at their mercy. When out-of-state, I usually concentrate on obtaining bourbon, but now you reminded me to keep my radar active for this as well. As much as I want to thank you for the suggestion, now there will be one more bottle for me to get past my wife.

Although it is much, much easier than getting that new Browning Citori past my wife...
 
All this talk of Polish Vodka has me recalling my first true appreciation of the stuff.

I was an American student in Krakow in 1978-79. My roommate and his GF invited me to spend the New Year's Holiday with them and a larger group of friends in a very small resort town South of Krakow in the foothills of the Tatra Mountains.

The weather was relatively mild on Dec 30-31. We woke up on Jan 1 to a blizzard and temperatures well below zero Fahrenheit. It was that continental European high humidity cold that penetrates one's clothing. There was group of about 100 of us passengers waiting for our train, which we knew would be late. There was no coal for the stove in the depot and the station master had no means of communicating by phone. He had no idea when if at all our train would arrive. So we were stuck there waiting. In fact, two trains filled with skiers blew through without stopping, leaving us wondering when we would get out of there.

We settled in and played cards while waiting. After a little while, Basia pulled out a 1/2 liter bottle of Zytnia Vodka made from rye (the Cadillac of Polish Vodka at the time), and a small drinking cup from her toiletry kit. The Vodka was the same temperature as the air. Each of us waited in anticipation as she served each of us our individual ration, including total strangers who happened to be huddling close to us. The vodka poured out with the viscosity of maple syrup which only made it more intriguing to me. It was the best drink of my life.

A train, with heat, did eventually arrive and stop for us.

Before typing this I googled "weather in Poland, Jan 1, 1979" and this is what I got.

notesfrompoland.com

Poland's 1979 "winter of the century" in photographs

The winter of 1978/79 in Poland was one of the harshest in living memory
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I was not hallucinating.

Na zdrowie!
 
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