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The swiftness of money's movenment The swiftness of money's movement.. I guess the direction would matter a bit  It seems over the past decade, its moved quickly from my pockets, far quicker than it is moving into my pocket. But I don't guess this is a problem others are having  Well, let's start with the grocery store- it has become to be a quick grabber of money and still many things wanted, become left behind. It's amazing how the prices continue to rise. then there the 2 for $X's or 10 for $10, and etc. Seems tomato's were one of the first among items they tested in space, now they seem to have price tag's as if they've been grown in space and requires a rocket to get them to market. I'm not the biggest buyer of meats, I do fish, pork, chicken, and shrimp. I looked at the Lobster, but the price seems to dictate that it won't be a regular consumption items. what a trip, because I actually like it very much. I don't care for buying any live ones, and here in the South people east a lot of 'crayfish" (Crayfish, also known as crawfish, crawdads, freshwater lobsters, or mudbugs, are freshwater crustaceans resembling small lobsters) I just can't get with it, but people here buy the by the "pan", which is a large foil container and they sit and eat the whole pan full. I've never tried it, possibly because they cook it with the head still on it. I personally do not like anyone to serve me fish with the head on it. If they bring it, that means for me " dinner is over", I'm ready to go. yesterday, I saw some bags where they had cut up the pig feet into small pieces, then they had cut up the pigs tail in small pieces, neither of which I have any interest to eat. However, I do like 'Hillshire Farms" smoked sausage, then I was reading the label on various other packs. It say's Pork, chicken and beef (parts).. Now what the heck are the "parts". I just can't figure out why people can't identify what they are selling !!!! as well as I can't figure out why they don't just put the basic things in meat, Example' if it is pork, then ground it up, stuff it in the sausage skin and sell it as "pork sausage" Period !! Last year a friend gave me some "deer meat". he lives in the country, he said they have wild pigs, deer and they butcher their own pigs an cows. They don't add anything in. I'm not thrilled about the 'deer meat", so it has been in the freezer, but I guess the best things is to thaw and cook it. he gave me some seasoning, which said, If I apply it, the meat will taste like beef, and he gave me another pack of seasoning and said if I want it to taste like pork pan sausage, then apply that pack. They grow their own vegetables, and he said mostly in his family and friends living in the small rural areas, and they grow and trade with with each these 'natural grown foods". I guess its working, because I grew up in a small rural town, and we had 'garden's, pigs, and chickens", we did not have cows, but we did have two horses at one time. the trip is, I did not want to eat the chicken we grew, I would always ask if the little FDA tag was on it, ( they'd tell me yes), but probably it was not, because frequently some chicken would have disappeared from the yard. I remember the older men would go hunting, they did squirrels, rabbits, and I have heard but never ate any, but they would kill armadillo. I'm quite sure as a I tried squirrel, and rabbit. Then there were the fish, I use to like the "perch", and back then people would catch 'Catfish", they called them "Channel Catfish".. they'd have to skin it, and the meat was a little pinkish color. Now the Catfish is a white meat, not sure what changed but I see mostly white meat catfish in the stores. There was a time when I was young I heard that some white people did not eat the catfish, because they called it a scavenger. Now 'everyone" seems to eat catfish more than they eat many other fish. Now I understand that in the markets, now, they claim many fish are mis-labeled. I also saw where it said you have to make sure where the fish came from. There was an article, I read which said, be careful about the Catfish from China, the article said: one Catfish farm had the wire over the pond, and the chickens lived on top of the wire and the catfish would eat the dropping from the Chickens. ( how insidious and gross that idea is). Now its really crazy when it comes to foods, the concerns about where did it come from, and what did they feed it to get it to grow. Do they clean the ponds and many many other questions. There use to be a lot of Fresh Trout and other fish, I don't hear much about that anymore. Then when it comes to greens, "Turnip Greens", Mustard Greens", Collard Greens".. some of these foods they claim were 'foods black people eat", but all during the slavery years, and many other years after, when the black people were doing the cooking, the white people, at plenty of these same foods. So how it became known as black peoples foods, I don't know? Now, I see at some places that sell what is called "Soul Food", when I go to one sometimes for lunch, there are more white people in there, than there are black people. They order lots of fried chicken, smothered pork chops, rice, blackened peas, Collard Green's, Cabbage, Turnip Greens, and some order 'chitterlings" and various other things, people once claimed were only 'black peoples food items. That crazy notion seems to have vanished. there are many many non black people who visit soul food places, and many other places have adopted some of the items generally sold at soul food places. Even, Tea Cakes... the kind my family made when i was a . Now I see them sold all over the place, and people buy them up, in some places if you don't get there early, you won't get any. A few weeks ago, I visited a place which did not have a name on the building, it was full of very older groups of senior citizens, all white people. I was the only black person in line. Although there were two black women who worked there. These white people had plates full of these very same above mentioned foods, and then the one lady told me it was also, "gumbo" day. I've long noticed the place, generally only Older Senior white people were going in and there, it is always a lot of these people going in around lunch time. I had been going to the Italian place across the street, to get spaghetti and meat balls. This is how I noticed the place. I usually go to some of the Chinese, Thai and Vietnam/Cambodia food places, because the rice and other 'soft foods" work best with my teeth until I get my dental work done. I wan to hurry up, because I like corn on the cob and at present I can't eat it.  One place has very good rice, it is far different from some of the rice at other places, the owner told me he orders his from "Houston", because its imported and its a longer grain, but it does not stick together and it is really good. he told me the reason his rice cost more, is because he has to pay more to get this type of rice. I learned there are differences in rice, I had an Iranian friend in LA and we'd go to Beverly Blvd, in Los Angeles to a place that served food from his country, they had good rice too. They had this very wide and long piece of meat, as if they'd beat and flatten out the chicken breast, it actually was very good. They'd serve "onion" which you dip in the sugar and eat it before the meal arrives. Now when I watch the food shows, I just can't get with some of the dishes they present. very small portions with some sauce on it and arranged specifically on the plate. I just can't justify the cost of such things. I guess I'll stick with the simple foods. Even with chicken now, the chicken wings are made even more expensive, they use to be very low cost, now they cost more than many other parts of the chicken. People of all ethnic groups buy lots and lots and lots of chicken wings and every kind of fast food place now wants to sell chicken wings. I can't see why I'd go to the grocery store and pay nearly $3 for dish liquid, when I can go to the dollar store and get a large bottle for $1. I don't like cheap toilet tissue, nor do I like cheap 'paper towels', I just can't see the point in the low quality of the cheap paper items as such. I now use a lot a foam and paper plates, because It's just me and I'm not interested in a lot of daily "dish-washing". I have may dishes in the cabinet, now I'm even wondering why I have them. I have too many classes for what I use, and various other dishes that I look at and realize I have not used these things in years. I guess when setting up house, we buy all this stuff, but some of it is never used. Maybe if there was a woman in the house, things would probably be used more. Anyway, what I've noticed over the past year, is the cost I expend when I go to the store has gone up 2½. Although income has not increased any. Now between my Lawn and the Lawn at the other house, has come up to $200 a month. I'm thinking, maybe I should buy a Lawnmower and weed-eater and let the people in the other house cut their own grass. Seems I cut cost in one area and the cost double in another area. The result evidentally is to increase income, because the cost seem not to be decreasing. |
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I do wish they'd make the locking mechanism 'wider" on the zip lock plastic bags... why they make it so cheap is ridiculous, as some of them are made simply too cheaply. If I had billions of dollars, I'd target certain products and reproduce them as quality products in quality containers. Example: I bought some crincle cut French Fries, now why the bag was not designed with a zip lock is insane. Not everyone is going to cook the whole bag at one time. finally, they have began to put a Zip Lock on the bags of dog food, then last week I went to buy the dog food, and the bag did not have the Zip Lock. Thankfully, I had not disposed of the previous bag, so I simply poured the contents into the older bag with the zip lock on it. Why bread is not sold in zip log bags is another issue I think they should fix. It would be great to find a place that sells 'real food" and things which people have actually though about and prepared it for the regards of the consumer. I did find that I bought some cookies from Big Lot's, and they actually had them packaged uniquely, you peel back the top, take out what you want and it was self re-sealing.
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