Subj : Grocery Getters
To   : Dave Drum
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Tue Jan 21 2025 13:01:22

Hi Dave,


 RH> I don't know the setils but there was a shooting down in Raleigh this
 RH>                   ****** (make that details) Turns out it was a
 RH> case of a disgruntled employee shooting his ex boss.

 DD> So off to the calaboose whilst his wife and kidlets wonder how they
 DD> will pay rent and feed themselves.

No, he shot himself, survived for a few hours, then passed away. From
what I've seen in the paper/heard on the news, he was single--his
parents put out a statement.

 RH> morning. Most often they're at night, and very often in the lower
 RH> income sections of Durham.

 DD> I'm beginning to thisk that everyone should be armed or no one should
 DD> be packing. The right to keep and bear armsis enshrined in the "Bill
 DD> of Rights". But moderation and responsibility are not always in plat.

 DD> And, as with most "hot button" issues there are no easy answers.

 RH> True, some people "freak out" when they see a weapon being carried,
 RH> with no intention of it being used unless absolutly neccessary. Then
 RH> there are others that think "good going" when they see it. When we
 RH> visited Israel in 2009 (a seminary tour), some of the younger folks
 RH> were disturbed by seeing young people their age openly carrying their
 RH> military issue weapons. Didn't bother Steve and me; knew the kids were
 RH> in the Israeli army and just following orders.

 DD> In ranch country open carry is more common because of snakes and
 DD> predatory critters that get after the livestock. And while open carry
 DD> is legal in many urban areas it may get you busted for "disturbing the
 DD> peqce" or ...

Depends on the urban area.

 DD>      8<----- EDIT ----->8

 DD> America has always been a "meltiing pot" contrary to when the small-
 DD> minded politicians and their sychophants would have us believe. Heck,
 DD> at the root of it we're all descended from immigrasnts.  Bv)=

 RH> And that's what makes our nation so culinary-ily diverse. BTW, Natalie
 RH> Dupree passed away Monday in Raleigh; she was considered the "Queen of
 RH> Southern Cuisine" according to some food critics.

 DD> I saw mention of that in several national news sources. I have
 DD> severeal of her recipes. And have made more than one.

 RH> send him over. AFAIK, my heritage is 100% German.

 DD> I'm mastly a mongrel mix of English, Scots, and German. But
 DD> All-American.

 RH> And that's what makes cooking/eating so much fun across the country.
 RH> The diversity of ethnic populations has made us much more culinarily
 RH> richer than if we'd all had to keep to our own ethnic heritage's
 RH> cooking/eating.

 DD> I spent my grade school years in a small coal mining town with a lot
 DD> of first and second generation immigrants. They were from the UK and
 DD> Central Europe mostly. One of the kids I ran with had no vowels in
 DD> nhis surname - 'Drnjvc' (pronounced Durn-a-vitch.  Bv)=

I had a doctor in AZ had the surname Dwlgosh. The W was pronounced like
an E so some of the family changed the spelling to reflect that. Did you
classmates bring pierogies and such like for their lunches? I would have
gladly traded a pb&j for one of them. (G)

 DD> I dunno what makes this especially "Coal Miners" but that's the
 title DD> and it's on topic as well as beinf a "Burton".  Bv)=


 DD>       Title: Coal Miner's Spaghetti
 DD>  Categories: Pasta, Pork, Dairy, Cheese
 DD>       Yield: 6 Servings

I don't see anything that makes it especially Coal Miner's either,
except maybe an inexpensive meal, affordable on a miner's pay.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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