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I make yummy smoked brisket.
I make yummy smoked brisket.
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Rep Retirement Lodge #173: (Insert Title)
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I think you should have a bonfire and provide said brisket in the near future.
I think you should have a bonfire and provide said brisket in the near future.
bigblue_dl
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My next one won't be brisket, I want to try more things before going back to something I've made before.
I think you should have a bonfire and provide said brisket in the near future.
My next one won't be brisket, I want to try more things before going back to something I've made before.
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Then you cooked up too much onion. Duh.
I apparently cooked up ALL the spaghetti tonight. Wanted one plate, accidentally cooked up a plate and 2 tupperware containers.
Then you cooked up too much onion. Duh.
I apparently cooked up ALL the spaghetti tonight. Wanted one plate, accidentally cooked up a plate and 2 tupperware containers.
gmann
Cheer up, the worst is yet to come
Thanks. I read up on it a bit today. Good guy got the axe. New guy is an ahole. Family is torn. Workers and consumers are making a stand and some are getting canned in the process. Company losing about a million a day. Good guy makes statement and politicians are jumping on the bandwagon. I hope the "good side" prevails. If not..........fire all of them, rape the company of any profits, sell the company and call it a day. USA! USA! USA!
gmann
Cheer up, the worst is yet to come
Onion flavored zig zags?
bigblue_dl
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I'm leaning towards doing some baby backs next. The brisket was amazingly good, but I'd like to get a meat slicer if I did it again, because I like my brisket on a sandwich, and I like it cut really thin. I'm also looking to make my own sausages, and smoking sausages, salmon, and doing a nice pork shoulders, but can't do too much at once, need to have a little time to eat the stuff.
I'm leaning towards doing some baby backs next. The brisket was amazingly good, but I'd like to get a meat slicer if I did it again, because I like my brisket on a sandwich, and I like it cut really thin. I'm also looking to make my own sausages, and smoking sausages, salmon, and doing a nice pork shoulders, but can't do too much at once, need to have a little time to eat the stuff.
gmann
Cheer up, the worst is yet to come
I consider myself to be a better than average griller. I have never smoked or thought about smoking. Maybe one day......
bigblue_dl
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This was my first time, I just got the smoker last week. It was a good decision.
This was my first time, I just got the smoker last week. It was a good decision.
leswp1
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Back from the backwoods of Maine. No electrics for 5 days. My brain is refreshed.
Drove home from mid Maine, passed 5 MB stores. Everyone had empty parking lots (I mean empty, as in no cars in front of the store) and tons of workers outside at the edge of the parking lot cheering, holding signs. One store had to have 50 people, all decently dressed- guys in white shirts and ties- cheering. Driving by the stores sounds like rush hour in NYC. They all are holding signs to honk if you support. There is a TON of honking going on. People are sticking their recpt's from other stores on the windows and fronts of the MB stores. There are pics of empty shelves. No one will deliver or stock the stores. Big sinners- food banks are getting huge donations of stuff meant for the MB stores that can't accept delivery. Business down 91%. Good guy has offered to buy the evil ones out.
Evil mgmt. responded by announcing they are holding a job fair this coming week, betting the customers will come back when the stores are restocked. Today the customers took out a full page ad in the local paper saying they will continue boycott until the good guy is back. It isn't the lack of stock. Can't speak for other areas but I don't know anyone who doesn't know someone who is somehow connected to MB. No one is shopping there. How they think they can sell the business when at this point they have 68 of 71 store managers saying they won't work for anyone but the good guy and multiple other management types who are also not going to play ball. What can they sell? the buildings? the business is not one right now- no management, no workers, no stock, and now OSHA investigating the warehouse. Any one buying this business out from under the good guy is asking for a hate fest. It is really amazing to watch.
Fascinating to follow.
Back from the backwoods of Maine. No electrics for 5 days. My brain is refreshed.
We go to Hannaford. MB store on Bridge St is huge- too much stuff in there. I go to Hannafords because it is smaller and then MB once in awhile. Not now tho. Have multiple friends and patients who are connected to MB. Hearing stories of Artie T (good guy) that are consistent among many tellers. Has paid for funerals, medical bills. Knows everyone's name (I mean the baker in the back room of the store, the drivers, their families, etc.). More imp is he was running a wildly successful business. All the business analysts can find no reason for removing him except the bad guys are a55hats and want to screw him.
Drove home from mid Maine, passed 5 MB stores. Everyone had empty parking lots (I mean empty, as in no cars in front of the store) and tons of workers outside at the edge of the parking lot cheering, holding signs. One store had to have 50 people, all decently dressed- guys in white shirts and ties- cheering. Driving by the stores sounds like rush hour in NYC. They all are holding signs to honk if you support. There is a TON of honking going on. People are sticking their recpt's from other stores on the windows and fronts of the MB stores. There are pics of empty shelves. No one will deliver or stock the stores. Big sinners- food banks are getting huge donations of stuff meant for the MB stores that can't accept delivery. Business down 91%. Good guy has offered to buy the evil ones out.
Evil mgmt. responded by announcing they are holding a job fair this coming week, betting the customers will come back when the stores are restocked. Today the customers took out a full page ad in the local paper saying they will continue boycott until the good guy is back. It isn't the lack of stock. Can't speak for other areas but I don't know anyone who doesn't know someone who is somehow connected to MB. No one is shopping there. How they think they can sell the business when at this point they have 68 of 71 store managers saying they won't work for anyone but the good guy and multiple other management types who are also not going to play ball. What can they sell? the buildings? the business is not one right now- no management, no workers, no stock, and now OSHA investigating the warehouse. Any one buying this business out from under the good guy is asking for a hate fest. It is really amazing to watch.
Fascinating to follow.
At this point it is completely obvious that the bad guy is more intent on screwing the good guy than in reaping any profit. They are losing >10M a day.
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This. I was up in Nashua today and there were employees with signs out on Daniel Webster Hwy on both sides and the honking was non-stop. After Nashua we drove by the Hannaford's in Dracut on the way to my brother's house and the parking lot was full. It must be like that all the time now.
As I said, I went into my MB to get trash compactor bags because no other store has them and I felt awful about it. I apologized to some of the workers outside and signed a petition. Unless Artie T comes back, that store is done.
leswp1
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They had to hire a detail cop to direct traffic in Dracut. All the stores- Shaws, Hannaford, Stop n SHop in the area are straight out. Many have brought in extra workers from outside the area to handle the volume from the MB boycotters. We went to the H in Dracut at 8:30 last night and it was packed, lines into the aisles, pallets of stuff being unpacked onto the shelves everywhere. This is a SATURDAY night. Usually the parking lot is empty. The other stores are also hiring extra staff.
They had to hire a detail cop to direct traffic in Dracut. All the stores- Shaws, Hannaford, Stop n SHop in the area are straight out. Many have brought in extra workers from outside the area to handle the volume from the MB boycotters. We went to the H in Dracut at 8:30 last night and it was packed, lines into the aisles, pallets of stuff being unpacked onto the shelves everywhere. This is a SATURDAY night. Usually the parking lot is empty. The other stores are also hiring extra staff.
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I have to say, I was very disappointed in my Stop n Shop and their inability to pick up and make a run for MB customers. I think they're totally overwhelmed and not taking advantage of this very unique situation to get MB customers and ensure they never go back. I've heard good things about Hannaford's though. Wish there was one by me.
I have to say, I was very disappointed in my Stop n Shop and their inability to pick up and make a run for MB customers. I think they're totally overwhelmed and not taking advantage of this very unique situation to get MB customers and ensure they never go back. I've heard good things about Hannaford's though. Wish there was one by me.
leswp1
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They are all running ads in the Lowell Sun. The Sun, true to its journalistic roots, (sarcasm meter redlined) is running daily, front page stories on the situation. Lil runs at 7 AM and he says the parking lot is packed when he goes by. People are telling stores about following folks out of the store to get a parking space.
They are all running ads in the Lowell Sun. The Sun, true to its journalistic roots, (sarcasm meter redlined) is running daily, front page stories on the situation. Lil runs at 7 AM and he says the parking lot is packed when he goes by. People are telling stores about following folks out of the store to get a parking space.
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Apologies for clogging up this thread with this story but it really is a fascinating view from a MB customer on the Save Market Basket site that I thought was really well done and thought you'd all find kind of interesting:
I had to shop at Hannaford yesterday. I had held out until the kitchen had tumbleweeds and my children (who can eat with the frequency and voracity of locusts devouring a wheat field) were eye balling the family dog in a way that made me uncomfortable. I was even forced to use that one remaining protein in the deep freezer, a pound of hideously ginormous EZ Peel shrimp my husband bought with the hope I would cook them for him. (Yeah...........no.)
So, off to Hannaford I went. I have the capability of spending $400 in 30 minutes at Market Basket, and that is without a shopping list OR a safety helmet, and still come home with every single thing needed and nothing more. I spent 2 1/2 hours at Hannaford yesterday, 2 1/2 HOURS. Why are the freezers in the middle of the store, thereby interrupting my shopping mojo by forcing me to return to the middle of the store after I have woven my way from one end to the other? Why is the cheese divided between opposite sides of the store? What is that weird grocery store smell? SIX NINETY NINE FOR QUINOA?
WHAT FRESH HELL IS THIS?
I wandered the aisles in a fugue state, dragging my poor 11-year-old with me. "Look Momma, Annie's mac and cheese!" he said. "For that price they had better be making it with artisanal cheese made by a pastured goat they keep behind the store." I retorted. It was easy to spot the other displaced Market Basket shoppers, we all sported the same expression - equal parts righteous resolve to boycott, and abject sticker-shock-horror. We passed each other and nodded as if saying "solidarity, man... solidarity." Occasionally I would run into someone I know, and we would silently mouth words of disgust to each other, the new etiquette for displaced shoppers, rather than giving each other the usual air kisses.
But, honestly? The produce was extremely fresh, the cashier was efficient and friendly and the bagger was conscientious and organized. The milk, eggs, and butter rival Market Basket prices. While I was loading groceries into the back of my van, a nice management-looking fellow bent down and retrieved the potatoes and bleach from the bottom of my cart and thanked me for my business as he smiled and handed my items to me. Oh Hannaford, you cheeky devil, I do believe you are flirting with us Market Basket shoppers!
I am a third generation Market Basket shopper, my Massachusetts native maternal grandparents shopped at Demoulas during the depression era, and my mother, a nurse and a single parent who worked extremely hard to keep her two kids fed, clothed, and sheltered, made ends meet by shopping at Demoulas. I have shopped at the Stratham Market Basket for 14 years, and I spend roughly $2,000 a month to feed this growing brood a mostly whole foods, non-processed kind of diet. And if I need to now spend $2,100 a month for groceries at Hannaford, that's a small price to pay if it prevents me from giving one more penny to support the insatiable greed of Arthur S. Demoulas and the vineyard and interior design firm owning, car and plane and mansion collecting, ruthless, heartless, opportunistic SHREWS he calls his sisters and turncoat sister-in-law.
I will miss the Stratham Market Basket crew. Barb and Lisa and Arthur, who always had smiles and dot stickers for my kids when they were babies. Emily and Joseph and Nancy and Alexis. Every Associate who has ever rushed to get a motorized cart for my mother, who wore her knees out running hospital floors for countless 12-hour-shifts and had to have both knees replaced. I wish nothing but wonderful things for all the Market Basket employees and support them 100%. Stay calm and keep on, I say.
However, I have had enough of the corporate greed in this country. My family has been filled with police officers, nurses, construction workers, salesmen, middle management, direct care providers, mechanics, and hotel personnel. I come from a working class family, people who have worked so hard their body parts have completely worn out. People like us have BUILT this country while the Arthur S. Demoulas' of the world have reaped the rewards. I don't even know anything about Hannaford and their infrastructure, they could be nearly as bad as the non-working side of the Demoulas family, but that's irrelevant. I have read that after firing his cousin, the first thing Arthur S. did was divide 250 million between the nine family shareholders while discussing the slashing of employee benefits and the raising of prices.
You, sir, are a ***** of the highest order.
If Artie T. is able to buy out his cousins and they fade off into oblivion, I will be back. However, if Arthur S. has ANYTHING to gain by my business, even if our paltry $24,000 a year is a drop in the proverbial bucket to him, I will never set foot in a Market Basket store again. This is a personal battle for the employees, but it's personal for the customers, too... that's something that capitalist PIG Arthur S. seems incapable of understanding.
That reminds me, Hannaford did have a good price for pork chops yesterday, maybe I should return today and stock-up.
#YouCantFireCustomersWeQuit
Apologies for clogging up this thread with this story but it really is a fascinating view from a MB customer on the Save Market Basket site that I thought was really well done and thought you'd all find kind of interesting:
I had to shop at Hannaford yesterday. I had held out until the kitchen had tumbleweeds and my children (who can eat with the frequency and voracity of locusts devouring a wheat field) were eye balling the family dog in a way that made me uncomfortable. I was even forced to use that one remaining protein in the deep freezer, a pound of hideously ginormous EZ Peel shrimp my husband bought with the hope I would cook them for him. (Yeah...........no.)
So, off to Hannaford I went. I have the capability of spending $400 in 30 minutes at Market Basket, and that is without a shopping list OR a safety helmet, and still come home with every single thing needed and nothing more. I spent 2 1/2 hours at Hannaford yesterday, 2 1/2 HOURS. Why are the freezers in the middle of the store, thereby interrupting my shopping mojo by forcing me to return to the middle of the store after I have woven my way from one end to the other? Why is the cheese divided between opposite sides of the store? What is that weird grocery store smell? SIX NINETY NINE FOR QUINOA?
WHAT FRESH HELL IS THIS?
I wandered the aisles in a fugue state, dragging my poor 11-year-old with me. "Look Momma, Annie's mac and cheese!" he said. "For that price they had better be making it with artisanal cheese made by a pastured goat they keep behind the store." I retorted. It was easy to spot the other displaced Market Basket shoppers, we all sported the same expression - equal parts righteous resolve to boycott, and abject sticker-shock-horror. We passed each other and nodded as if saying "solidarity, man... solidarity." Occasionally I would run into someone I know, and we would silently mouth words of disgust to each other, the new etiquette for displaced shoppers, rather than giving each other the usual air kisses.
But, honestly? The produce was extremely fresh, the cashier was efficient and friendly and the bagger was conscientious and organized. The milk, eggs, and butter rival Market Basket prices. While I was loading groceries into the back of my van, a nice management-looking fellow bent down and retrieved the potatoes and bleach from the bottom of my cart and thanked me for my business as he smiled and handed my items to me. Oh Hannaford, you cheeky devil, I do believe you are flirting with us Market Basket shoppers!
I am a third generation Market Basket shopper, my Massachusetts native maternal grandparents shopped at Demoulas during the depression era, and my mother, a nurse and a single parent who worked extremely hard to keep her two kids fed, clothed, and sheltered, made ends meet by shopping at Demoulas. I have shopped at the Stratham Market Basket for 14 years, and I spend roughly $2,000 a month to feed this growing brood a mostly whole foods, non-processed kind of diet. And if I need to now spend $2,100 a month for groceries at Hannaford, that's a small price to pay if it prevents me from giving one more penny to support the insatiable greed of Arthur S. Demoulas and the vineyard and interior design firm owning, car and plane and mansion collecting, ruthless, heartless, opportunistic SHREWS he calls his sisters and turncoat sister-in-law.
I will miss the Stratham Market Basket crew. Barb and Lisa and Arthur, who always had smiles and dot stickers for my kids when they were babies. Emily and Joseph and Nancy and Alexis. Every Associate who has ever rushed to get a motorized cart for my mother, who wore her knees out running hospital floors for countless 12-hour-shifts and had to have both knees replaced. I wish nothing but wonderful things for all the Market Basket employees and support them 100%. Stay calm and keep on, I say.
However, I have had enough of the corporate greed in this country. My family has been filled with police officers, nurses, construction workers, salesmen, middle management, direct care providers, mechanics, and hotel personnel. I come from a working class family, people who have worked so hard their body parts have completely worn out. People like us have BUILT this country while the Arthur S. Demoulas' of the world have reaped the rewards. I don't even know anything about Hannaford and their infrastructure, they could be nearly as bad as the non-working side of the Demoulas family, but that's irrelevant. I have read that after firing his cousin, the first thing Arthur S. did was divide 250 million between the nine family shareholders while discussing the slashing of employee benefits and the raising of prices.
You, sir, are a ***** of the highest order.
If Artie T. is able to buy out his cousins and they fade off into oblivion, I will be back. However, if Arthur S. has ANYTHING to gain by my business, even if our paltry $24,000 a year is a drop in the proverbial bucket to him, I will never set foot in a Market Basket store again. This is a personal battle for the employees, but it's personal for the customers, too... that's something that capitalist PIG Arthur S. seems incapable of understanding.
That reminds me, Hannaford did have a good price for pork chops yesterday, maybe I should return today and stock-up.
#YouCantFireCustomersWeQuit
MavHockey14
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I'm looking at adding TV to our tailgate this fall..I'm not experienced with this nor do I know a whole lot about it..This may be a question just for monster, but I'm wondering if anyone else has any experience or ideas? Thanks!
I'm looking at adding TV to our tailgate this fall..I'm not experienced with this nor do I know a whole lot about it..This may be a question just for monster, but I'm wondering if anyone else has any experience or ideas? Thanks!
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Talk to ShirtlessGuy.
At the last F5 tailgate, we had satellite tv rolling. It was awesome.
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Talk to ShirtlessGuy.
At the last F5 tailgate, we had satellite tv rolling. It was awesome.
https://scontent-a-ord.xx.fbcdn.net...40/1238732_10202649459010717_1179797996_n.jpg
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There's plenty of ways to do it. I've seen set ups where they have two different flat screens on the side of the RV so you watch 2 different games at the same time while you stand around at their portable bar they have. I also know of one GVSU fan who had another flat screen installed on the driver's side of his RV so that when he's parked next to the guy with the 2 flatscreens and portable bar, you can watch another game on that TV.
IMO, those set ups are best if you're going to a late evening game. Lets you catch the action of all of the early games and most of the late afternoon games as well. Once the game is over with, most event staffs across the country are going to want you to clear out so they can clean up the tailgate area. And they're usually not happy with you celebrating a win over their team as well out in the parking lot.
There's plenty of ways to do it. I've seen set ups where they have two different flat screens on the side of the RV so you watch 2 different games at the same time while you stand around at their portable bar they have. I also know of one GVSU fan who had another flat screen installed on the driver's side of his RV so that when he's parked next to the guy with the 2 flatscreens and portable bar, you can watch another game on that TV.
IMO, those set ups are best if you're going to a late evening game. Lets you catch the action of all of the early games and most of the late afternoon games as well. Once the game is over with, most event staffs across the country are going to want you to clear out so they can clean up the tailgate area. And they're usually not happy with you celebrating a win over their team as well out in the parking lot.
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