Subj : Re: Soup To : Ben Collver From : Dave Drum Date : Tue Oct 01 2024 05:12:32 -=> Ben Collver wrote to Dave Drum <=- DD> But on the doctor's usual pain scale of 1 to 10 it's less than DD> one. Go figger. BC> Thanks goodness! That's a positive outcome. I told my boss at AutoZone that I'm not climbinh any more ladders for highly stocked parts. This getting old lark is not for pus ... weaklings DD> Were you an inmate or a volunteer/helper? We have a fair amount of DD> homeless here and are currently hassling through a project to build DD> a cluster of "tiny homes" which has generated big discussion recently DD> as the Springfield City Council tries to decide if it should provide DD> financial backing for a resource center that would serve a planned DD> east-side housing development for homeless veterans. BC> I was an inmate for the first time this year. Folks generally left me BC> alone and i got my space. I slept better than i expected to and nobody BC> stole anything from me. There were some very creepy characters passing BC> through and it didn't feel safe. I can't imagine what it was like for BC> the single women who were camping there. Probably the same as anywhere. Many men are living deep in the past when wome were considered fragile, dependent creatures. FEH! Of couse, some women use that as a trump card. I heard a female who worked in a factory whinging about some task that involved moving something and "Not one guy offered to help." So I asked her "Do the guys look for help with that task?" She said no. Then I asked "Do you get paid the same as those guys?" She said yes. To which I replied "You need to do the job you are being paid for then." DD> NIMBY - big time. BC> That's for sure. And in some west coast communities NIMBY is BC> surprisingly well funded by real estate developers who can afford the BC> big guns (lawyers). DD> For the past 10 years I have bought U$100 woth of McDonald's gift cards DD> which I pass out to the hard-core homeless at holiday time. Two years DD> ago I was returning home from an "Interfaith Breakfast" at Temple B'rith DD> Sholom when I spotted a guy with a cardboard "HUNGRY HOMELESS" sign out DD> in front of a McDonalds. I had one last U$10 gift card which I gave him DD> before realising that Xmas day was the only day in the year that Mickey DD> D's was closed. So, I took him back to the Temple and bought his morning DD> meal. BC> That's nice of you to pitch in during holiday times. The churches BC> around here cooperate to run a mobile soup kitchen, and IMHO they treat BC> people with respect. From my perspective that's more important than BC> the food. We've got a number of soup kitchens and outreach ministries. At my club meetig (Vintage Iron Riders) we had a lady give a presentation on how her group(s) feed the homeless. I was amazed that the answer seems to be as simple as peanut butter and jelly snadwiches in ZipLoc bags. Simple, easy to make, very portable, etc. So, next meeting we brought in donations. I kicked in a 10# bucket of peanut butter. And I noticed a pile of grocery store sized jars of Jif or Skippy and a big stack of sealable sandwich bags. And one of the guys put the arm on a local restaurant supply for a donation of several cases of peanut butter and some jelly. MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06 Title: PBJ (Peanut Butter, Bacon, Jam) Categories: Five, Nuts, Pork, Breads, Chilies Yield: 1 Sandwich 2 sl Aldi Multi Grain Sandwich - Thins 3 tb Crunchy peanut butter +=OR=+ 3 tb Nutella 3 sl Smoked bacon; cooked crisp 1 tb Mick's Peppourri pepper jam Spread the peanut butter on the bottom round of the sandwich thin. Place the bacon, breaking to fit on the sandwich, on the peanut butter. Coat the top of the sandwich with the pepper jelly and set on the bacon. Pick it up and PIG OUT. https://www.pepperjelly.com/shop Uncle Dirty Dave's Kitchen MMMMM .... Overeating at Thanksgiving is a case in point. It's a national tradition. ___ MultiMail/Win v0.52 --- Maximus/2 3.01 * Origin: Sursum Corda! BBS-Huntsville,AL-bbs.sursum-corda.com (1:396/45) .