Subj : Re: Extra Sweet
To   : Dave Drum
From : Ben Collver
Date : Thu Oct 23 2025 06:37 am

  Re: Re: Extra Sweet
  By: Dave Drum to Ben Collver on Thu Oct 23 2025 06:06 am

DD> The bury-em-deep folks don't know I have a pre-paid cremation and have old
DD> my brother to put my ashes in the trunk of his car to use at need for
DD> trasction. So I can go on being of some use to someone

After my grandfather retired he worked as a grave digger.  He witnessed
the local family mortuaries being purchased by nation-wide chains, and
he said there were only one or two of those chains that owned practically
all of the mortuaries in this state.  After they gained control they
successfully influenced the state to pass a law requiring embalming
within a ridiculously short period of time after death, supposedly for
public health reasons but not backed by any real evidence.  He said it
was purely to put extra pressure on grieving people to make them even
easier to profit from.  He said that the mortuaries sold expensive and
fancy looking coffins that appeared to be made out of finished hard wood
but were actually cardboard.  After hearing a lot of that, i became firmly
in the cremation "camp" too.  The money lenders outside this "temple" can
go whip themselves.

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      Title: Zucchini Short Rib Stew
 Categories: Beef, Stews, Zucchini
      Yield: 4 Servings
 
      2 lb Short ribs
      2 tb Cooking oil
      1 c  Water
           Salt & pepper
      1 lg Onion; chopped
      2 c  Zucchini; sliced
      9 oz Can crushed pineapple
      1 c  Tomatoes; peeled, chopped
      8 oz Egg noodles; cooked
 
  Brown meat in cooking oil. Add water, salt, and pepper. Cover and
  simmer for 2 hours. Skim fat; remove meat and set aside. Add enough
  water to remaining broth to make 1 cup and set aside. In the pan with
  additional oil, saute onion and zucchini until soft. Mix in all
  ingredients except noodles and simmer gently for about 20 minutes.
  Serve over hot noodles.
  
  Recipe by Zucchini Cookbook by Nancy C. Ralston & Marynor Jordan, 1977
 
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