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I would almost put a lima bean buster sign on my door, wouldn't eat them as a kid and will not eat them now. I'll finish a bowl of beef stew and if there's lima beans in it they will be in a small pile in my empty bowl. There was a can in the pantry for 2 years, I didn't buy rhem but I finally gave them away to a can food drive. If an asteroid hit the earth and there was wide spread famin, 50 years later there would be explorers come into my house and find a skeleton on my bed and a can of lima beans in my pantry. :) [URL=http://smg.photobucket.com/user/JMH42/media/NoLimas_zps7bddddc6.jpg.html][/URL]

  Hadn't had Oysters in a while but I used to like them fried or smoked in the can, those and clams are about the onlt 2 seafood dishes i'll eat now. I will eat fried catfish but would prefer chicken, beef, or pork. Loosing my taste for fish as I get older. Also I can eat a tuna salad sandwich loaded with onions, pickles, boiled eggs, Mrs. Dash and Mirical Whip. Even better with a slice of Bordons american cheese on it.

  I've never tried them and there's absolutly no odds on me ever trying slugs with shells. The French would probably make a green fly pie, call it some Feench name and it would be an expensive delicacy at some French restaurant. The French eat some grose stuff.

  I eat alot of chicken, it's one of my favorites but I can tell if it's been cooked properly, never never eat a piece of chicken the has any red blood in it even close to the bone. When I cook it I can tell when it starts to peel back from the bone pluse I check it with a thermometer. No one will get sick from any chicken I cook. I also wash my hands and any dish and even sink that I have prepared chicken in or on.

  Well if it's survival then it's a different story. I've had to resort to C-rations a long time ago, some of those are pretty nasty.  :)

  I'm not a big seafood fan but for some reason I love fried clams and clam chowder. I could eat myself sick on clams.

  I like my coffee okay but i'm a caffien junky, if I drink something for pure taste it will be an almost frozen Coca Cola in a glass bottle. I'm leary about raw store bought food, veggies and fruit, I wash them well before I eat them raw. Proper cooking kills all biological critters so I prefer cooked veggies.

  Now "cheese", chicken and pasta I like. What's real grose is chicken pizza, only beef or pork sausage is the only meat that belongs on a pizza.

There's one particular restaurant I will absolutly never eat at again, I wont say the name but it's initials are the same as a nasty disease, T.B. A few years ago I had my sister stop and pick me up a taco salad about 11am is when I ate it. That was the only thing I had to eat that day, at about 6pm I was feeling pretty bad, at 7 to 8pm I was evacuating everything, (i'll stop right there) and doubled over in pain. 2 days later with a 100+ fever, red sploches all over my belly and sever pain and no fluids that I could hold down I went and got 2 bags of IV saline and some Zofran which didn't help except the IV's, after 4 days of the same paid and no fluids I went back for another IV. Took about 6 days to get over that, I was told it was classic Salmonella infection although it wasn't "officially" diagnosed on paper, must have been a hassle to diagnose samonella then since that chain had problems with that the same year. Last May wasn't a food born infection but a viral one, I hate the misery of inflamed guts so I am extra paranoid about what I eat and make sure everything is washed well and cooked well. No red blood in my food. That restaurant chain used to have a catchy slogan long ago, I believe it was "run for the bathroom".

Talking about a certain person I know very well. Oh well, everybody has their hang-ups about alot of things but it doesn't matter, if I don't want to eat a certain food then no is no and don't get your drawers in a wad over it. It's my personal opinion or hang-up or whatever anyone calls it that chicken or turkey absolutly doesn't belong in any kind of tomato based food, it's just grose to me. The only exception is chicken and BBQ sauce and even then I would rather have it fried or baked, in a cheesy mix with pasta but no freaking tomato sauce, no turkey/chicken chili or speggitti or that chicken marinara goop, it just doesn't mix, the bird is ruined. I love chicken and I love tomato based dishes but not together, might as well mix sour cream and bacon and ice cream. OH, but chicken chili tastes good, try some, have a bowl. NOOOOOO for the umpteenth time. Big live grub worms(maggots) taste good to some people in Africa, partially developed soured eggs taste good to some people in France, boiled pig intestines tastes good to some people in Tennessee, turds tastes good to dogs so why don't they try some of that? All i'm saying is, if somebody doesn't want to eat something, respect their decision and don't get all mad about it.   Rant over.   What's your food hang-up?

Happy Thanksgiving everybody.

First episode of Festus, (Us Haggens). His character changed somwhat after a few episodes.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQoq6K0IG_A     Early episode, Ken Curtis was a singer with a western band.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC--jr4CoLk

  Definatly no freebies there, consider a 3 ton heat pump running without electric heat elements energized, it will be using about the same wattage as if it were in the cooling mode but, you will still have 3 electric motors running, a blower motor abour 2 amps, a condensor(outdoor) motor about 2 amps and the compressor motor around 5 amps. Just say around 10 amps without electric heat elements energized. Them when the tempature drops in the 40s and the heat pump doesn't satisfy the t-stat the elements will energize in the auxillary heat mode. Most elements will pull around 15 amps each and depending on what KW kit was installed on the heat pump you can add 30, 40 to 60 amps. On a cold day and night a running heat pump can be pulling up to 60 to 70 amps and of course it's more as the unit gets bigger. We always kept a decent length of 4 guage and 2 oo wire on the truck for heat pump installations, that's big heavy wire but it's needed. Now on a straight gas pack in the heat mode you have the blower motor about 2 amps and the 24volt gas controls, circuit board and valve which isn't worth measuring, somewhere in the milliamps. about 2 to 3 amps + gas and that's all at any time no matter how cold it is. As long as gas is the cost as it is now i'll stay with a gas pack and as some have said it's warmer comming out the vents, if your heat pump air feels "warm and toasty" comming out the vents then those watt junkie heat elements are energized also.

  If the SHTF, I may take on a few if they have the right qualifications. I wont except usless skills like if they have a law degree, or political science degree, administrative, CEO of a large corperation etc. They must be licenced to drive a wheel barrow, experienced in operating a shovel and hoe, maybe an agricultural degree would be handy and especially a degree in medicine. Military experience especially with a combat MOS would be top of the list.  :)

  Personally I would rather have just a straight cooling gas heat package while natural gas is more cost effective than electricty, that may change in time but with the increased resorces of natural gas in the U.S. it's hard to see. For one thing a "gas pack" is a simple system, less costly in repairs in the future and provided it's sized correct for the home, BTUs, it's plenty efficient to heat the home. Any "auxillary heat" I would recommend some type of gas logs or remote gas heater that doesn't require electricity.

I have 3 remote ventless gas heaters with pilot light for when/if the power is lost, plus a gas stove that I can light the burners with a lighter if no power. My additional heat is old baseboard heaters which are actually safer than their reputation, they don't get hot enough to ignite paper or wood. I also have a working carbon monoxide detector on the wall, the secret with ventless heaters and logs is the right O2 to gas mixture and a strong blue flame, not a lazy yellow flame. When I worked in HVAC I had a good expensive handheld carbon monoxide detector, if the flame on a ventless was strong and blue I never got any readings, just carbon "DIOXIDE", if the flame was yellow I would get a slight reading of carbon monoxide.  

  It's actually called "auxillary heat" when the T-stat can't be satisfied by the heat pump alone, that Aux heat light comes on the T-stat, heat pump and electric heat. The emergency heat setting is only electric heat, no compressor. If there's a problem with the heat pump itself you can still have heat provided the problem isn't the blower moter, or a few other things. Some units may have an outside sensor that will not allow auxillary heat untill the outside drops to a certain temature but not all, the T-stat usually decides if auxillary heat is needed.

  Actually my local grocery store has better meat prices and often better meat than Walmart, Kroger, Publix etc. They often have good deals on whole chickens which are small because they are not treated with hormones, they have really good chuck roasts several dollars cheaper than most all and pork is less expensive there also, now everything else is more expensive than the big stores. I always buy chuck roasts, never buy bottom round roasts because I think that's dog food quality. As far as sanitation I really don't worry about meat because I "cook" it and take it's tempature. That's the secret of steralizing meat, nothing biological will live if meat is cooked properly. Years ago when I got salmonella food poisening, I got it from fast food vegtables from a popular FF restaurant.

  So he moved from China to the North Korea?

  If that was ever found out the steak would hit the fan. 

That's some good harmonica, i'm no musician but it seems the Orange Blossum Special is a hard song to play anyway. Tammy is one of my favorites, I listen to MC classic country(real country) every night when I sleep on channel 434 on Comcast cable. I don't call this new brand of country music country, it's just boring pop music to me.

Is that hickory smoke flavor?

EEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWW.   http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/Walmart-motorized-scooter-steak-theft-573214   This story is good for quite a few jokes.  

  I just noticed in that pic it looks like they have an old .30 cal. Browning also, I have to assume they have it mounted. When I was in the 2x4 in the early 80's we had our .50 mounted and a squad M-60 of course not mounted. A couple of squad members with M-203's mounted on their M-16A1's, the rest including the driver and track commander with basic M-16A1's. Also we always had at least 2 Dragon anti-tank rockets in the APC with 1 tracker firing unit. The Dragon was similar to a TOW missle, wire guided but shoulder fired. The tracker and firing unit was seperate from the rocket tube and re-usable the tube was disposable after firing the rocket/missle, you had to maintain the cross hair on the target until it was hit, or missed. Of course the Dragons have been replaced by the Javlin fire and forget missle, you don't have to wait and get shot at.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok4ZnMVxDl8

Oh and I want the Ma Deuce and about 10K of ammo also on my M113A2.  :) An M-60 with the same amount of ammo would be nice also.