Subdeacon Joe
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From Nashville, 1863
That $10 would be about $260 today.
More pricing in the Confederate States
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Idjits.
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And you can never get everything back where it had been.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DIMkKkqODS5/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
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Joke menu printed in the newspaper in 1863, referencing the Seige of Vicksburg. During the American Civil War, the South could not import food from the North because of the blockade. Different parts of the South were affected differently, but by 1863, pretty much everyone felt a pinch. The biggest issue: coffee. Without real coffee, Southerners made it out of sweet potatoes, peas, and some desperation. During the siege at Vicksburg, Confederate soldiers ate whatever they could to stay alive, including the mules on this menu. American Civil War: 1861-1865.
From the local newspaper in Eureka, California in 1863.
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21 hours ago, Alpo said:
Don't carry your ID in that wallet. Cop stops you, you pull that out to get your ID, cop sees it and you got some 'splaini' to do.
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2 hours ago, Pat Riot said:
The place referred to in the above
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorleywood
1 hour ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:This moves ahead a step every two or three days because I LIKE BUTTER (Kerry Gold salted gets the most coverage.) and use it in or on almost everything but cold cereal and and most drinks.
Ditto. Don't buy the Kerry Gold, but for "eatin' butter" we like
Amish Roll Butter. Almost as rich and much less expensive. For cooking I use whatever is the least expensive.
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1 hour ago, Alpo said:
And on the subject of grilled cheese - it's difficult to spread butter on bread. Butter is normally too hard, because butter is kept in the refrigerator. But they have soft margarine that is easy to spread.
I put the butter in the pan for the first side, and often sprinkle some of the grated parm that usually comes in a green can on, then put the sandwich in the pan. Then I'll put some pats of butter on the top, or maybe use a vegetable peeler to shave off some curls of butter onto it. And, if using the parm, sprinkle some on the top.
I've always kept the in use butter on the counter. Spent the first 30 years just having it on a small plate on the counter. Later got fancy and bought a butter dish with a cover. It's never around long enough to go bad, and I've often had it out for a week or so. But then, our weather is temperate, and our humidity low. No days of 95 F with 200% humidity, or whatever your average is there in FL...something like highs in the 90s and lows in the 80s with 150% humidity?
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12 hours ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:
A win is a win!! Good game, I watched the whole thing ( except for dozing off for 2 innings) 😂
My wife was using the TV for a PlayStation game, so I didn't get to the game until the 6th. "WOW! Scoreless in the 6th! This could be interesting!" And the idjits in MLB management think low scoring games are boring.
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It became "traditional" because self rising flour was one of the foods the BIA graciously gave to Indians on the Rez. SR Flour, Lard, and water, maybe some extra salt. Mix. No oven? Fry it up!
My wife and I frequently remark about how many "traditional" Old World foods rely on New World ingredients. Then we realize that our "recently introduced foods" were introduced half a millennium ago. That's enough time to become "traditional." More than enough time. Look at our own history. Only 250 years old, well next year for that, but we have "traditional foods." Biscuits and Gravy, Fried Green Tomatoes, Cornbread, New England Clam Chowder, Tex-Mex on May 5th.
We can say, "Well, that's similar to XXX that German/Italian/Irish dishes, so immigrants were trying to replicate those from their native lands." Which means that until you get into molecular gastronomy, there are really no new dishes at all for 5,000 years. And even those you can say are just modifications of other dishes.
So, my take is that, for practical matters, if there is a dish that someone says, "We need to make sure that we have your Suffering Bustard for (event) again this year" it's traditional.-
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If you've make a Grilled Cheese Sandwich, you've made toast that way.
I've been doing it for over half a century. Usually in the pan I've used to cook sausage or ham in. When I was doing War of 1861 reenacting I usually brought both cornbread and soft bread, and would often cut a slab and toast it that way. One guy, in his 40s, stared at me like I had 3 heads and blue skin. He'd never seen anyone do that. I thought it was something everyone did. I didn't know that it was "the only proper way" to do it.
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That was GREAT! That long, towering foul was exciting.
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27 minutes ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:
I miss the good old days
They were only "The Good Old Days " because I WAS young and I WASN'T good.
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Heck of a way to win the home opener. Bases loaded, count was 3 - 1, batter hit a towering foul just right of the foul pole. Count now 3-2. Next pitch just low and outside for ball 4.
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You know that there's a Coyote involved.
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The USS Saratoga shed her hefty 8" guns like a snake sloughing off old skin, ditching them in January 1942 at Pearl Harbor while limping toward Puget Sound, her hull nursing torpedo wounds. The repair pit stop doubled as a golden ticket for a jaw-dropping overhaul: a sleek starboard blister bulged out her frame; a minimalist pole mast shot skyward; her superstructure got a brutal trim; and she bristled with firepower—four twin 5"/38 mounts, tricked out with directors and radars, plus eight single 5"/38s and four 1.1" quads, elbowing out the outdated dozen 5"/25s. She got a tech upgrade too, flaunting SG surface search radar and SC-1 secondary air search radar, while swapping every last .50-cal for a fierce pack of 32 20mm guns. To keep her trim, they hacked 20 feet off her stack—a ruthless weight-loss hack for a ship reborn in battle-ready glory
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https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/mudmarch.htm
War correspondent William Swinton wrote of the deteriorating conditions the army faced:
The ground had gone from bad to worse, and now showed such a spectacle as might be presented by the elemental wrecks of another Deluge. An indescribable chaos of pontoons, vehicles, and artillery encumbered all the roads-supply wagons upset by the road-side, guns stalled in the mud, ammunition-trains mired by the way, and hundreds of horses and mules buried in the liquid muck. The army, in fact, was embargoed: it was no longer a question of how to go forward-it was a question of how to get back.2
Burnside ordered the army to return to their original camps on January 22. The retreat began on the 23rd. Fortunately for the Federal troopers, the rain slowed significantly. Unfortunately, they had to return using the same roads they had destroyed during their advance. It would take some men until the 26 before they made it to their original camps on Stafford Heights.
Exhausted, the Army of the Potomac hit rock bottom after the Mud March. So, too, did its commander, Ambrose Burnside.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mud_March_(American_Civil_War)
https://www.hmdb.org/PhotoFullSize.asp?PhotoID=6237
https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=230177
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2 hours ago, Dapper Dave said:
Wow.
That mechanism is pretty cool, isn't it?
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In the SCA I knew people by their SCA name for 15 years, and where they lived by the SCA group. I had no way to contact someone other than by calling the head of that local group and asking for the person by the SCA name. Can't call information and ask for the phone number of William the Lucky out of Montagne du Roi.
On another matter, I had to call "Jack's Powder Keg" to get powder for our Civil War artillery unit. Needed to have the proper forms sent to me so I could buy powder. Called the number, "Office of Judge John Somehingorother." (pause, pause) "Um....is this Jack's Powder Keg? Or am I in serious trouble now?" (laughter from the lady on the other end) "Yes, this is Jack's. We get that a lot. How may I help you?"
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3 hours ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:
Hard to say if the netting helped or hurt, It looks like it propelled him back on his feet!🙄
It looks to me as if the the way the net moved allowed his body to keep moving forward, but forced his left arm backwards. One of the commentators mentioned that it looked like a subluxation of his elbow or shoulder. Good call from a former player as the reports are saying he dislocated his shoulder. Amazingly, he's only on a 10 day Injured Reserve. At the moment, anyway.
QuoteVictor Robles was placed on the 10-day injured list on Monday with a dislocated left shoulder, after he slammed into the right-field netting area at Oracle Park and hung on for an unbelievable catch in the ninth inning the day before.
From the way it looked and how he reacted I was thinking he was out for half the season.
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28 minutes ago, Cypress Sun said:
He was focused and concentrating entirely on the ball, like all good fielders should. Just lost spatial awareness in his own park. It happens.
Damn nice full run snag. I wonder if the netting prevented further injury.
That game was at Oracle Park, San Francisco, so an unfamiliar park. I don't think it would have mattered, though. Running, sprinting, like that he would have easily overrun any warning track.
Watching the replays of it during the game he might have been better off without the net.
I grabbed my phone to get the replay to show my wife
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Bill of Fare, Vicsburg, 1863
in SASS Wire Saloon
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Yeah.....I couldn't find a conversion of Confederate dollars to modern federal money. But that gives at least a feeling for what that $10 pound of coffee would be today.
I came across those clippings on a FB page, Eating History or something like that. A few people were wondering what the big deal about the prices was.