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Category: Food and Drink

  • The Response I Received To My Question About Spam

    The Response I Received To My Question About Spam

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    Herb

    Herb’s blog, Herbdate 22127-698: This is not really going to be a long post. The pain pills are taking effect and for potentially obscure reasons I have a craving for Spam and Eggs and Bacon and Spam. I have been told that SPAM, the food product, is an acronym for…

  • They’re Almost Back!

    They’re Almost Back!

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    Herb

    One of my favorite candies, which I thought was gone forever when the company went bankrupt, has been purchased by the Spangler Candy Company, the folks that make Dum-Dums, Smarties, and Circus Peanuts, among many other wonderful things. What? Well, I like circus peanuts but the trick is to squeeze…

  • German Potato Salad

    German Potato Salad

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    Herb

    This is a different sort of venture for me but I am going to teach you how we make one of my favorite family recipes. My entry tomorrow, when I complete it, will be serious, so today I wanted to do something different. Ben does a variety of tutorials on…

  • Vote For My Friends

    Vote For My Friends

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    Herb

    We have some friends in the restaurant business here in Colorado Springs. The name of the place is El Taco Rey and they have been here in the Springs since 1976. It is, pretty much literally, a hole in the wall. A little building with awesome food. We met the…

  • Cowboy’s Marinade

    Cowboy’s Marinade

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    Herb

    Some good friends of ours gave us some meat today. I always marinate it. I have for years. I know not everybody marinates it, but it’s what I like. We picked up this recipe card at the Shawano County Fair back in the early 1980s. I’ve modified it a bit,…

  • To Coffee

    To Coffee

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    Herb

    An Ode (Or rather, my feeble attempt at one.) Caffeine! Adrenaline! Adenosine!Epi–Epi–Epinephrine!Yay team! Rah-rah! Goooo Team Coffee! Getting excited is easy to doWhen you’ve had a cup or twoOr three or four or fiveWhich makes you feelYou’ve come alive! You say, perhaps, you like decafAnd/or, (this should make you laugh)When…

  • Waiting Room

    Waiting Room

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    Herb

    While sitting in a waiting room this morning, I took advantage of the modern technological miracle of Wi-Fi to research a project that I am working on for you. At my fingertips I was able to read medical documents about anything, including why coffee is so awesome. I don’t think…

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