Eyesa Horg Posted February 5 Posted February 5 I've been served some brighter green giant limas that are nasty. I think they are actually soy beans! 1 Quote
Buckshot Bear Posted February 5 Author Posted February 5 (edited) I eat a lot of these; thought I better go read the back of the can - Says red kidney beans - Edited February 5 by Buckshot Bear 1 Quote
Buckshot Bear Posted February 5 Author Posted February 5 9 minutes ago, Eyesa Horg said: I've been served some brighter green giant limas that are nasty. I think they are actually soy beans! I've had mung beans and they are nasty and green!! Quote
Eyesa Horg Posted February 5 Posted February 5 16 minutes ago, Buckshot Bear said: I've had mung beans and they are nasty and green!! The name says it all for me mate! 1 Quote
Sedalia Dave Posted February 5 Posted February 5 (edited) 5 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said: Not sure if I have ever partaken in consuming a lima bean.......what type of food do they hide them in? According to most GIs the worst C-Rat you could get was Ham and Lima Beans. Edited February 5 by Sedalia Dave 1 1 Quote
Kid Rich Posted February 5 Posted February 5 13 hours ago, Alpo said: Nope. It's a simple word. I don't understand why people have such problems. It is a contraction - y'all got contractions down there in Oz, right? Where you take two or more words and cram them together to make a new word. If you just shove them together it becomes a compound word - CAN and NOT becomes the compound word CANNOT. But if you take one or more of the letters away, and replace it or them with an apostrophe, it becomes a contraction. Like G'DAY. You took the words GOOD and DAY, crammed them together, removed both Os and the first D and replaced them with an apostrophe, making the contraction G'DAY. You take the words YOU and ALL, shove them together, remove the O and the U and replace them with an apostrophe. Y'all. And people insist on spelling it ya'll. It boggles the mind. NO if ya have ya and all you can remove either a and come up with y'all OR ya'll.Ya just have to broaden yer perspective and expand yer knowledge base, don't limit yerself so much. kR 1 Quote
Chicken Rustler, SASS #26680 Posted February 5 Posted February 5 Butterbeans and lima beans are supposed to be the same plant according to science, but they're definitely different. I don't know if it's because the dirt is different down south or because we pick them later but you can tell them apart by sight and by taste. On the other hand, I think black eyed peas and purple hull peas actually are different. 1 Quote
Buckshot Bear Posted February 5 Author Posted February 5 What say ye @Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 Quote
Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 Posted February 6 Posted February 6 7 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said: What say ye @Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 I usually try to wash my hands first ..... 2 Quote
Eyesa Horg Posted February 6 Posted February 6 5 hours ago, Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 said: I usually try to wash my hands first ..... And for sure that sauce bottle! 3 1 Quote
Buckshot Bear Posted February 6 Author Posted February 6 16 hours ago, Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 said: I usually try to wash my hands first ..... I'd say he's a plumber and just finished unblocking a septic. 1 Quote
Alpo Posted February 6 Posted February 6 Looks more Carpenter to me. That blue thing behind his left shoulder appears to be a circular saw. Then in the case at the other end of the picnic table appears to be a nail gun and a cordless drill. I was unaware that plumbers used any of the three. But my main question is what the heck is he eating? Here I would say it's a hamburger but I've seen pictures of hamburgers down there, and that ain't got no beets and no pineapple and no eggs - so obviously it ain't a hamburger. 1 Quote
Buckshot Bear Posted February 6 Author Posted February 6 The Big Tyre Yamba, South Australia 2 1 Quote
Buckshot Bear Posted February 6 Author Posted February 6 1 minute ago, Alpo said: Looks more Carpenter to me. That blue thing behind his left shoulder appears to be a circular saw. Then in the case at the other end of the picnic table appears to be a nail gun and a cordless drill. I was unaware that plumbers used any of the three. Plumbers work on job sites. 1 Quote
Eyesa Horg Posted February 6 Posted February 6 51 minutes ago, Buckshot Bear said: Plumbers work on job sites. I'm going with electrician and the bottle is Penetrox or Noalox for aluminum wire. So there! 1 Quote
Buckshot Bear Posted February 7 Author Posted February 7 1 hour ago, Eyesa Horg said: I'm going with electrician and the bottle is Penetrox or Noalox for aluminum wire. So there! Plumber eatin' a pie and it's his sauce bottle 1 Quote
Alpo Posted February 7 Posted February 7 I just now saw that damn red bottle. His orange and yellow shirt that bottle just kind of faded in. I did not notice it atall atall atall. I did wonder about the "sauce" reference. I forgot that y'all call ketchup "tomato sauce". I was thinking barbecue sauce, tartar sauce, soy sauce?? Tomato sauce. Pfuey. 2 Quote
Buckshot Bear Posted February 7 Author Posted February 7 BUT ,the good part is eating their lollies that someone else has paid for!! 3 Quote
Buckshot Bear Posted February 7 Author Posted February 7 23 minutes ago, Alpo said: I just now saw that damn red bottle. His orange and yellow shirt that bottle just kind of faded in. I did not notice it atall atall atall. I did wonder about the "sauce" reference. I forgot that y'all call ketchup "tomato sauce". I was thinking barbecue sauce, tartar sauce, soy sauce?? Tomato sauce. Pfuey. How the hell did you did you fella's come up with 'ketchup'!!!! Ya' a weird bunch, you know that don't you 2 Quote
Buckshot Bear Posted February 7 Author Posted February 7 There is a 0.5 second window between perfectly dunked,and sludge in the bottom of your cuppa! 1 Quote
Alpo Posted February 7 Posted February 7 (edited) 1 hour ago, Buckshot Bear said: How the hell did you did you fella's come up with 'ketchup'!!!! Ya' a weird bunch, you know that don't you My understanding is it came from the Cantonese Kats sup (I undoubtedly spelled that wrong) which means fish sauce. The original ketchup was a sauce made from fish. Like Worcestershire. It immigrated to England where it became quite popular. Then they started making it with different things instead of just fish. There is mushroom ketchup. And the one that we are all familiar with here in the states - tomato ketchup. From wiki -- A popular folk etymology is that the word came from the Amoy (Xiamen) region of China into English, as a borrowed word 茄汁 (ke zap, Cantonese, meaning "tomato sauce"; the character 茄 means 'eggplant'; tomato in Chinese is 番茄, so the phrase literally translates to foreign eggplant sauce). And pretty much everybody just dropped the word tomato from it because all the ketchup you can find in the store is tomato ketchup. Be like calling it avocado guacamole. Edited February 7 by Alpo 1 Quote
Buckshot Bear Posted February 8 Author Posted February 8 The ‘Camel Lady’, Robyn Davidson, with her beloved dog, Diggity, and four camels, trekked 2700 kilometres across some of Australia’s most remote and inhospitable deserts, from Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean, in 1977. Born in Queensland on 6 September 1950, Davidson enjoyed a free childhood that encouraged a vivid imagination. The creek at the bottom of the paddock quickly became the Amazon to adventurous Robyn and her older sister. Their father was a naturalist, bushman and opal fossicker. Robyn was 11 when her mother died and her spinster aunt, a tough horsewoman, became her carer. “I could go to school on the back of my friend’s horse, charge around the mountain, skip school and form a gang”, she wrote. In 1968, declining a music scholarship, Davidson hitched to Sydney to squat in an abandoned house with a piano, an artist’s model, gambling house hostess and member of the Push (a group of bohemian intellectuals and artists). Although never formally qualified, she learned zoology from students around her and drifted to Alice Springs to serve a one-year apprenticeship with a cameleer. “Dealing with camels proved to be a lot of trial and error. I was up at five every morning running around barefooted so my feet would toughen up.” The idea of a long camel trek across inhospitable desert was triggered by her desire to challenge her contrasting traits of vulnerability and steely determination. A chance meeting with photographer Rick Smolan led to National Geographic sponsorship and the now world-famous story. Setting out in 1977 on the nearly year-long trek, Davidson relied on good maps and knowledge of the constellations to navigate. A Pitjantjatjara man, Eddie, shared her journey from Docker River to Warburton (WA) to guide her to water. The journey left Davidson with a desire to learn more of nomadic life. In 1990 she documented the disappearing culture of Rajasthani sheep-herders. Since then she has continued her nomadic lifestyle, which she believes causes “less damage to ourselves, the environment and our animal kin”. Tracks, Davidson’s best-selling book about her Australian journey was made into an internationally-released film. She sees herself now as an inspiration for a new generation of girls. “I try to factor solitude into my life, because more and more that’s becoming a very precious and rare commodity.” 2 1 Quote
Buckshot Bear Posted February 8 Author Posted February 8 Puftaloons 2 cups SR flour Pinch salt Mix in water or milk to form a smooth dough. Drop spoonfuls of mixture into sizzling butter in frying pan. Turn over when bubbles form on top. Drain and serve hot with golden syrup. These were favourites for smoko in the mustering camp in 50s and 60s. 2 Quote
Buckshot Bear Posted February 10 Author Posted February 10 37 minutes ago, Alpo said: I think that guy is a New Zealander blow in 1 3 Quote
Alpo Posted February 10 Posted February 10 You sure about that? He's got corks hanging off his hat and a beer in his hand. Doesn't that make him an Aussie? 1 Quote
Buckshot Bear Posted February 10 Author Posted February 10 1 hour ago, Alpo said: You sure about that? He's got corks hanging off his hat and a beer in his hand. Doesn't that make him an Aussie? The sheep says otherwise (but I'm not ruling out a Tasmanian) 1 3 Quote
Buckshot Bear Posted February 10 Author Posted February 10 ‘BILLYCARTS’ - 1920 State Library of NSW. Children riding billycarts down a street, Sydney. Looks like fun......but for the ties!!!! 2 Quote
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