It figures

[jhetley]

After the riot and insurrection of The Wedding, we all could have used a good night's sleep. (No, the timestamp* on the previous entry wasn't accurate. We weren't out boozing and wenching _that_ late. Just _too_ late.) So of course we had to have thunderstorms through last night, rain now, and airlines in our future for this afternoon, with a line of questionable weather twixt here and the Great North Woods.

Have I ever mentioned that I hate airlines?

A question for those knowledgeable about ethnic foods -- one of the items on plates circulating around in the crowd of drunken revelers looked and tasted like spiced bacon wrapped around a water chestnut. Now, I can damn well assume that wasn't _pig_ bacon, from a Kosher caterer... Anybody know what it was? By the time I thought to ask one of the serving wenches, I didn't have a sample to wave under her nose. Wasn't any pastrami I've ever eaten, at least.

And in an attempt to justify our existence in the family, common-law brother-in-law and I cut a broken trunk out of the front yard birch yesterday. I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay. No chainsaw, though. Doesn't really count without power tools.

*Timestamp on this one seems wrong, too. 24 hour time, 0826 EDT as I type, so that isn't even correct GMT.

Comments

[wcg.livejournal.com]

LJ timestamps are a chancy thing Jim. I think they're set by the time on the server, but I'm not sure. In any case they've been known to be all over the map.

kosher bacon

[dsgood.livejournal.com]

At one time, it would almost certainly have been "fry beef" or beef bacon. And a quick google shows there are a lot of places selling beef bacon.

These days it might be turkey bacon, which is common in supermarkets in Minneapolis.

There's also tofu bacon, but I don't think anyone except vegetarians is likely to eat it.

Re: kosher bacon

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

This wasn't like any "Kosher bacon" I've ever had -- dry cured with spices and herbs, can't tell more than that. Too much adjacent confusion.