Subj : Eggs! To : Nancy Backus From : Barry Martin Date : Wed Feb 19 2020 09:37:00 Hi Nancy! BM> Speaking of eggs: this week's Hy-Vee ad had a dozen large eggs for BM> 68›, limit two. I don't know what the price of the other ten is. BM> ,,,I was informed the price was for two _cartons_ of a dozen eggs each. BM> Nevermind! ...Did buy a carton. NB> Now that you got that settled... I was thinking it was sort of an odd restriction. NB>> That latter is called a heat exchanger... but none of that still is NB>> quite the same as being able to bottle up either the heat or the cool NB>> for later.... ;) BM> Right - couldn't think of the term. Kept coming up with 'heat pump' BM> which is a different device. As for bottling up the heat/cool, right BM> now the only way seems to be to use a large thermal-holding object as BM> the storage. In a few years..... NB> Possibly... ;) They have a Peltier Junction (or Peltier Device) which when electricity is applied on side gets hot and the other cold. From what I have read 'only' is a roughly 20ø difference between the two sides (and as I was typing that realized I don't know what scale). If Fahrenheit "only" 20ø isn't bad for a heater or cooler: in the summer 90ø down to 70ø would be welcomed. OTOH they also indicated it took a lot of current. Plus the cool (or heat) from the 'wrong side' has to go somewhere. BM>> Think they also do it with some ponds: there's a spray of water which BM>> just appears decorative but is really there for heat dissipation from BM>> a chiller in a nearby building. NB>> They have (or at least had) exactly that at Kodak's Elmgrove Plant... BM> Around twenty years ago a hotel in the same city where my parents BM> lived had several fountains shooting tall narrow streams of water 20-30 BM> feet in the air. I don't know if they were part of the cooling system BM> or just decorative but someone forget to turn them off when it got BM> cold: Nice-looking gigantic icicles! NB> Maybe it was intentional... ;) Possible. :) BM>>> I think I answered this in the interim but will again -- durn mail BM>>> lags! I did see Sue on my following week's shopping trip -- oddly BM>>> enough she was in about area of the candy section. She did investigate BM>>> and found even the main warehouse didn't stock - she was thinking may BM>>> have been a seasonal purchase. NB>>> (Don't recall an earlier answer...) Seasonal purchase makes a little NB>>> sense (although, what's seasonal about coffee M&Ms?)... might also be NB>>> that you guys are another test market area.... BM>> The earlier answer may have been earlier for me and not yet read for BM>> you. NB>> Not likely, as I do read the messages a first time when they first NB>> come by, and then go back later to actually respond to them... BM> OK -- didn't see Sue again yesterday nor the one I gave the printout BM> to. OTOH may have found a local and convenient supplier. After grocery BM> shopping went to get gas as my earlier-obtained points were going to BM> expire. Go in to pay (perks card can be entered at the pump but I BM> also had a paper coupon); gentleman in front of me was buying flavoured BM> chewing tobacco. He did a quick chat with the cashier about flavours BM> - he liked (IIRC) vanilla and cacoa but not coffee, she said she didn't BM> chew but might like coffee-flavoured. ...My turn at the counter; BM> somehow the cashier and I continue the chewing tomacco conversation; I BM> mention about the coffee-flavoured M&Ms no longer available at the BM> store (the grocery store is 'in charge' of the gas station even though BM> about three miles apart). The cashier said she would try to order from BM> her secondary supplier: primary is the Hy-Vee warehousing but when run BM> out she uses her alternate supplier so would see if could order; pretty BM> sure would sell to other customers also. NB> If it's available there, even.... worth a try, though... :) That's what I was thinking, especially as she wasn't concerned with me being the only customer. BM>> ...And the thing with the coffee-flavoured M&Ms gets better!! BM>> Hy-Vee's digital ad had M&Ms on sale - guess what the picture showed? BM>> Yup: a package of the coffee-flavoured ones!!!! Did a screen shot of BM>> that row of the digital ad, plus a close-up of the package, and BM>> printed. Didn't see Sue yesterday but did see one who I think is in BM>> charge of signing (checking the sale signs, replacing missing signes, BM>> etc.) and she knew about my inquiry so I gave her the printout to give BM>> to Sue -- she understood it was all a joke -- the item we were looking BM>> for, no longer available, and that's the clipart they used. NB>> Yes, that is humorous... :) Even funnier, sorta, if the coffee M&Ms NB>> never are even made any more.... at least that they'd be using that NB>> clipart.... sad that you'd never get them again.... BM> Well as I mentioned above maybe at the gas station. Before talking to BM> Sue I had checked to see if seasonal and found Amazon had them. NB> Or at least had the picture of them.... Now you have me a NB> little more curious... if I remember, I'll look to see if our NB> store has them... I've seen caramel and mint, that I remember... NB> since I wouldn't be getting coffee anything, hadn't really paid NB> attention to that flavor... I don't know if I'd like a whole (or half bag -- both eating!) of caramel or mint flavoured M&M's. Between the two I'd go for caramel; mint is rather sweetish, especially in the York Peppermint Patties. BM>> It is 'funny' how the same recipe can come out differently. A little BM>> more (or little less) butter/oil, A small pinch vs. large pinch of BM>> salt.... NB>> Cooking something just a bit longer or shorter.... or being just NB>> a little more liberal with the main ingredient(s).... BM> Yes: a lot of the 'tricks' with meats seems to be better quality than BM> the consumer generally can buy: more marbling (fat --> flavour!), BM> higher heat/more searing, basting in butter, etc. NB> Yup. And another good reason for ordering things out that you'd NB> not necessarily fix at home... :) The restaurants have the right 'tools' -- not only kitchen equipment but the ingredients. NB>>> ... Foods labeled as "cheese food" must now be labeled as "fake NB>>> cheese" BM>> I happened to glance at the lable of some smoked cheddar the other BM>> night: it said 'cheese food'. Didn't take the time to find out why BM>> but might later. NB>> Generally it means that it was made from smoked cheese, but had other NB>> things added to it for whatever reason... so it will spread instead NB>> of needing to be cut.... to make it stretch... or whatever.... BM> This cheese would rip toast if one attempted to spread it but is BM> softer that regular cheddar cheese. NB> If you let it come to room temp first would it still rip NB> toast....? I'm thinnking yes but haven't done the full experiment. Did let the cheese food warm up a bit and it didn't seem to loose too much of its solidness. NB> ... A neglected food group along with the Congealed group. Urk! ¯ ® ¯ Barry_Martin_3@ ® ¯ @Q.COM ® ¯ ® .... The four cat food groups: Dry, Canned, Natural, Yours. --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.47 þ wcECHO 4.2 ÷ ILink: The Safe BBS þ Bettendorf, IA --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .