The Right Stuff

You've talked us into it, Mr. P.

Gather 'round the big log fire, Villagers.

It's hot buttered rum time.

Uuuummmmm! That hit the spot on this cold, cold night.

Anybody else ready for another round?

This time, Villagers, how 'bout a round of dark rum, straight up?

Now it's time to be off, Villagers, to sleep it off.

Pero vino por vino.

Aw, shucks! As soon as I saw this topic I was chanting "Fifteen men on a dead man's chest" only to find that Mr.P had got there before me.
That film Four Weddings and a Funeral - The church in the funeral bit is above Tilbury on the River Thames. My Dad was the incumbent for several years. According to church records, the mortal remains of a sea captain who died in Barbados were placed in a lead coffin which was filled with rum for embalming. The coffin was shipped to his home village, where he is buried beneath the pulpit of the church.
Bit early to splice the mainbrace. I'm looking at recipes and anticipating a mellow evening.

Good morning! When my headache subsides from the delicious Long Island Iced Teas I enjoyed last night--they are apparently made from 7 kinds of rum--I shall rejoin you. Hopefully by then I will have located the "power" switch for my brain. Meanwhile, some great jazz in Mystic CT last night.

Hazel:

Back when Rummy was doing his morning live-TV daily war briefings during the W. years, it was said widely that the older generation of the fairer sex would hie tube-ward to watch, and often do some mainbrace splicing (often with liquid cough suppressants, many of which are 80 proof).

Chef Deb:

Take a gram of acetaminophen with two tall glasses of water and go back to bed.

Personally, I prefer Dominican double-distilled bay rum (from the Peterman catalog) in the morning. On my face, I mean.

Road-hard-and-put-up-yacht: Can't wait to read what you'll post today.

"Black and viscous----
Bound to cure blue lethargy.
The sugar-plum
petroleum
for energy."

------"North Sea Oil," Jethro Tull

The are a goodly number of Brands of Good Rum available, and I have seriously investigated them all ... Found none that were totally off-putting, but some that were disappointing ... After years of intense Research, I finally found my Favorite ... Dark Myers' Rum ... Deliciously sweet, but not too sweet, and a gentle bite on the tongue that makes one want even more ....... It is a marvelous flavorant for Black Bottom Pie, also ... and mix'd with stew'd Plums it becomes a fantastic Glaze for Roast'd Lamb ... If you Roast a stuff'd, boneless Leg of Lamb ... adding Pistachios to the stuffing really works with that Glaze ....... Whether you opt for Champagne or non-Sparkling Wine with the Meal ... Order a Rose' (Best ever Rose Champagne, is Laurent-Perrier ... Chill it to 38 Degrees, Serve it at 42 Degrees ...) Truly Marvelous Wine ... !!!  If you serve Baked Alaska for Dessert, flame it with the Dark Myers' .......

Perfect topic for my day.  I will be in meetings for nearly 6 hours today.....could definitely use a Mt. Gay and Tonic with a generous squeeze of calamondin orange.
 
 

Kill Devil Hills on the NC coast, where the Wright Brothers were "first in flight" (a NC motto) were named after rum. Rum was known long ago as "kill-devil," and many ships transporting rum foundered and sank off the coast of NC in the "graveyard of the Atlantic" near Kill Devil Hills.

Before the American colonies ever started acting up over the issue of tea, they staged an insurrection over the British imposition of a steep levy on French molasses imported to the colonies. This molasses was, of course, for making rum.

This and much more interesting history can be found in "A History of the world in six glasses," by Tom Standage. My copy is at home, but has been read and re-read.

"His daddy chopped that sugar cane and one day he fell dead" Tomás had a wandering feeling swimming around in his head since my honeymoon in Jamaica and my interlude with Ivan's excellent choice of Myer's Dark. A Rum Runner can take a man to his inner Bogie and his Papa chi all the way to my own adventures in Key West and to my dream trip to Cuba now that I, too, have grown greyer and more garrulous and have a Rum Diary of my own to scribe. Many Spring Breaks post institutions of education at the Tiki Hut at the Elephant Walk in Sandestin had me drinking those frozen concoctions & creating a rumbullion of me own with a tankard of the libation's original name Kill-Devil, more appropros although a Kill-Devil Cake doesn't sound just right not does a hot buttered Kill-Devil. Right Jack Sparrow?

Kss- 4 stars for the Tull Memories. Why I could recite Thick as a Brick (sans flute) in its entirety at local haunts I will never know. It replaced my condensed version of Alice's Restaurant. Cheers!

Next time you're in Jackson at the Old Town Spaghetti Store, we can perform together over a bottle of Pinot Noir.

Meyers, Black Seal and some of the Pyrat Reserves, are my personal favorites. When drinking liquor, rum is my choice. I make a mean Black Mojito with the Black Seal; Meyers usually on the rocks with a squeeze of lime ( or in my famous baked beans). I'm kind of partial to Dark n Stormies when the mood strikes.

Rum can be called the Devil for more than one reason. The triangle of trade for a couple of centuries involved molasses (the favored methods of sugar crop transport) manufactured good (including weapons) and the other "Black Gold", slaves.

No one's hands were clean in this operation, the New England traders made plenty of money from human misery. Perhaps we would not be celebrating MLK Day if not for this historical tidbit.

I wanted to post this yesterday, but didn't get around to it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zM_MzkLKPY

 Never would I make Black Bottom Pie without good rum. 
 
 I envision fellow Villagers in cold climes, huddling happily and sipping h b r.  And wish I were amog you this too-hot-here day.
 
 From the Broadway musical of years ago, "Shenandoah," the song "Molasses to Rum to Slaves" brings a chill, still, as it well did then -- not to put a damper on anyone's warmth.  But I saw the show, and the song stayed.  The character who sang it so well I now see portraying an attorney in Law & Order.  And well.  John McCollum comes to mind, but I may be wrong....
 

 
 
 
 
georgia, I think is was "1776"......
 
as I mentioned above, the new England traders were key players.
 
 
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9xV1LA6EHU
 
 
 
 
 
 

Molasses, by the way, is gluten-free...Here is a Honeybee recipe for you; a clensing formula, that was given to me by a Beekeeper; ask you doctor/physician before you tryit... Ginger pyes' Recipe:  1 teaspoons unsulful Molasses 2 teaspoons of local Honey, high quality honey..from one source...not from all over the world...yeks.. :)
 1 teaspoon Apple Cider Vinegar 2 to 3 *times per week  and theBeekeepers swear by it ; I try it once every week because it is sticky on your throat, so i put it in my morning coffee brew...at least i am hoping it provides me wtih a health benefit... Here's my poem:                                                 TwistedI wrote a poem..... all religion is the same..........................................live and let live........................................... critics stole it......................changed it all into .........................................sex and metaphor................................Adam, Eve, and serpent.............................their moral was ignorance is bliss................instead of hell.............they declared it billiant...................authority had spoken.....so the people..................taught it to their children...........told it to their friends.....and the disease spread ....................like molasses honey melting over burning toast and consumed the world...........not only was my message destroyed people accepted the ridiculous........acting like battered women who stay...........it sickened me and                              I spun in my grave..................... by my daughter...wrote this, too..
Mygreat  Uncle was a Ukrainian Cardinal Priest... for a very short time and died in France...the Ukrainian Holocaust, 10 million perished;today, there is so much revolution...out there.all over the world. I have a suggestion,.make war illegal....fund money into education and building up bricks and mortar....i dont have all the answers...but I can just talk and write about it; even my limited base......the Ukrainian people when they escaped suppression and famine came to America...and a group intermarried with the First Americans in South Dakota; history is so important...which i know you are up on it;Have a nice day....Sitting Bull was designated/discussed as a holy man by the President of the UnitedStates..I read it in a magazine...have a nice day everyone...we have downpouring rain in Pennsylvania in January, this is so odd...unstable climate...

SIL~ Get that cider vinegar inside your insides! I do mine in a mug of hot water with a slice of lemon and some brown sugar.

And I use it in salad dressings.

You are funny - "I read it in a magazine ...."

There is no moral to the story. G-d the omnipotent HAD to know what was going to happen, right?

MISS BLUE, thanks -- I too saw "1776" (and performed Abigail Adams, believe it or not). I see why you'd make that connection, but John McCollom sang that moving song in "Shenandoah." I THINK.  But I'm always open to correction -- the mind plays tricks, but I see him standing downstage right as he sang -- fine staging for it, I thought at the time.

I learn so much from the Village: The very thought, IMarjorie, that anyone didn't like unadelterated Co' Cola is heresy hereabouts, in its home state.  I can't recall when I've drunk one, but I certainly grew up equating Co' Cola with, well, I'd later hear "'soda," though it took me a while to learn what 'soda' speakers meant by it.  Now you make me want to have rum and Coke....
 
No getting around the fact that rum has a checkered history in our country.

oops, Mr. Editor: you know I can spell 'unadulterated'

 
 
Georgia
 
....I can still get Coke made with cane sugar instead of corn syrup,,,,at the local bodega.

Folks, MISS BLUE is right, and that leaves me wondering.... John Cullum indeed sang it in "1776," and I can't explain why I'm certain -- in the face of facts -- I saw him in 'Shernandoah"!  Now I must look up "Shenandoah."  Oh, dear....
 
 

Georgia, it was 1776--a great show. The singer was John Cullum.  He was also on the TV show Northern Exposure.  A very powerful song.

I've heard that having a tablespoon of vinegar daily is supposed to be very good for you.   SIL and Hazel, do you really think it works?  What does it do?

Yes, he was wonderful in "Northern Exposure," so much so that I ordered a season from Netflix last year to re-enjoy.  He was among my favorite characters.
 
And WHAT a powerful song, as you say.  Clearly it moved me -- so much I credited two shows with it.

OFF TOPIC BUT NOT REALLY< MR. P.: How is it I'm often recognized by the Neighborhood even before I register, while other times I am ignored and must re-enter the magic realm?
I find no logic to it so far, or anything I'm doing wrong. Makes me a puppet....

Georgia, here you go,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QhyX-_RPuI

Georgia.......................................YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It happens to me often & is quite the pain. Glad I'm not the only one it happens to. Now, you don't get off that easily...............PLEASE, post your recipe for black bottom pie. I am absolutely sure that I am NOT the only person whose mouth started watering when I saw that mention.
 
I always use dark molasses in my bbq sauce. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm......................
 
CHEFD........................you bad, bad girl............................

Wait, here is a better link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9xV1LA6EHU&feature=related

 bebe and georgia

a" disconnect" with the server by a log-off  or interruption of service most likely.

am I the ONLY one who tries to read everyone's posts...just wondering.

Hazel Leese, what a recipe of healthful ale, cocktail of Molasses Tea. in a hearthstoneblock teacup...portugal.....boiled the water...added one jigger of apple cider vinegar...one hard stone-size bit of brown sugar...no lemons...so made do with a smile of a Navel Florida orange...1 Tablespoon of farm fresh honey....and 3/4 Tablespoon of molasses..stirred with laughter and down the hatch**** very good spirit of tea...It has been a hectic week...my relish room had teacups all over the place...thank goodness for dishwashers.. I migrate to.ornate oriental selections of teas...and international coffee.I am writing a book on teas...Teasim by Ginger...the title not ready yet!...

MISS BLUE......................................Your last post, a tad enigmatic ( Or me a tad slow, that is probably it), please explain............................

Hooray!!!! I thought it was just me being a computer idiot. The Eye regularly says it does not see me and I have to go through all the rigmarole of logging in again.
Sea Island Lady~ Are you serious about tea? Like made with tea leaves in a real pre-warmed tea pot, the most beautiful you can find - and do you have a tea cosy knitted by your grandma?

O, I forgot - the 'thank goodness for dishwashers' - I need a dishwasher fairy to put the stuff in there, take it out, put it away. All that bending is getting ouchy.

MISS BLUE and BEBE -- no, you are not the only one who reads all the posts. But BEBE I believe Miss Blue is referring to some blogger/posters who on some days don't even seem to have read what Mr. P has to say, let alone the rest of the Villagers. Most of us regard this as a conversation. Is that what you're getting at Divine Miss Blue? (I'll be stopping by for a Mojito, later...hair of the dog)

l marjorie~ Cider vinegar is one of those grandma's cure-alls. Farmers used to add it to animal feeds, so if you want a cold nose and a glossy coat ...

Bebe

You have mail (2).

Yes, Chef Deb

You are correct.

A round of Black Mojitos for all this afternoon in the Club Car.

Now back to A and P and Perspectives in African American Health.

what the hell went wrong with the formating?

Miss Blue, I try to read every post. I don't comment on every post.  I read and may have internal thoughts and comments, but they may not make it to here.
 
 

Miss Blue,
 
I almost never look at links, even though I post some.  I see I reposted your link after the fact.  BUSTED!  Shame on me.

Hazel Leeze, yes, teais4me2; I held the very first Tea Conference in Pittsburgh in the Spring of 1997; a $120.00 ticket...I taught Teaism....and. "how to open your own Tea room...after the 3 page Newspaper spread...i mind you, is the biggest challenge for a PR marketing gal..., there were 3 novis tea room opportune entrepreneurs.....that sprang off my tea tottle...ing ideas...for example***always remember when you open a tea room do not use China cause then you have to hand wash china to prevent cracking the porcelain.....and the novelty wears off pretty fast looking at beautiful delicate china in you tearoom, when you have too constantly immerse your hands in hot water....!One tea lady did not follow this...and then...realized...the expense...and time....and then effort...next thing you knew it B.Y.O. Liquor!
 Spring plum tea is a favorite of mine...so exotic....and blooms out llike a carnation...when steeped. I tried to avoid the tea fannings at all costs...! I used to sew teacozies...but i just made a multi-layed pink silk, courderol, floral pattern peasant skirts...lacy n' all for Breast cancer awareness to auction off to raise monies for the cause...petticoats, too...pink.... .floral panties and matching pink hair adornments and pink jewlry galorious...! I figure the one who buys, will wear it to a Pink Tea!!  Very good points Miss Blue...too "omnipotent.." 

Miss Blue, I read every one! This is the most interesting group I ever did come across! I often wonder what the common thread is...could it be that Peterman fans are this smart...and diverse??

Check this out ...this is a good friend of mine, singer Irene Goodnight, irish,  one of the hallelujah singers in the movie Forestgumps boyfriends www.piratelifestyle.com on you tube ; she sings tunes with him Swoshbuckle me baby... they are just friends... because he said Arrrgh too many times..on their dates...just kidding......he is paid and is a pirate for CaptainMorgansRum....please review all 15...video...has some good old stuff too...

Sea Lady~ Laughter from the misty hills of Wales. Until the days of Idi Amin the tea my Daddy grew was sold in Harrods, in a yellow packet with a black cockerel logo.
Village~ I read every one of your posts.

Back in the day when my beard was brown and my teeth were white, I was fond of rum-n-coke with a twist of lime....so as far as being picky about the quality of rum; it just didn't matter. I preferred the taste of the coke to carry the evening.

The quality of the rum was determined by whether I was in a smoke filled tavern where the age of the pool tables was determined by the number of beer can and shot glass rings that covered the torn felt. Cigarette burns were also part of the equation...... or ........if I was in a new ye old pub where the ferns were thriving and the bartenders wore aprons that were actually laundered and the glasses were.... well, a bit cleaner than the other place.

Anyroads, that was a long time ago..... But I sure could use a slice of Georgia's about now.

As for the CaptainMorgan Pirate,Rob I only watched the old video ones.2 years ago..when he shows his private plane flying above the ocean in South Carolina; and yanky singing with Irene...and his something like TR6+ sportscar..it just happened today, i google his Youtube site and looks like he has some newstuff...i can not watch all of his posts..but i hope... all is in good taste...believe... i do  not have time...for reviewing everything.....how our communication channeling has changed since 1997...oh Gosh...its a mighty fighty funny world...2012!

Where's the fun if you don't read every post?
 
I saw molasses and thought gingerbread.  Then I read black botton pie.  Never heard of it and would love to make one. 
 
Hope you're feeling better, ChefDeb.
 
Not a rum drinker, but if I need to buy it for the pie I'll just have to test that Dark Myers especially since my maiden name was Myers. 

it certainly is

Hazel Leese....  interesting tea life version. ... so you have generations into the tea industry..how exciting...and precise colonial history... at least, in america there is no tax on tea, so, I have my own tealine...Sen-She-Ent   tea purchase aboraod sell at my musical productions and smalltime events and not to worry about tax "n' such... .enjoy tea  especially while thinking ... on the"eye," program until this weather breaks...icywinds...today.. can we talk more about tea...on another day? I got to get out into the weather to Macy's....and I am going to the movies...good day...

Miss Blue~From work, I absolutely read every post. I don't often open the links, since I keep my volume off.
 
If I comment, it's a day I've read. When I'm at home on the weekends, I'm much less likely to be online with time to read.
 
I have learned many new things today. For some reason, I had never put molasses as the origin for rum. It makes sense. And I would love to know what a Black Bottom Pie is.
 
I'm recovering from a weekend back in Augusta Georgia where I saw family I haven't seen in a long time. In some cases, the time passed made no difference. The food was great, the wedding was a long, extremely traditional Catholic affair, not my style at all, but the bride is madly in love with my brother, so I can't ask for more than that. And the reception finished off with an all-hands-on-deck Virginia Reel. Hadn't seen that dance since elementary school.

CHEFD...................I like the new name for MISS BLUE, the DIVINE MB.............it fits.
 
MISS BLUE.................Just read em' & thanks!
 
GEORGIA......................we're waiting................................
 
I'm smiling at the thought of PL w/ a rum & coke................now that's nice.................w/ a hotdog chaser.............................
 
GEORGE HALL............................HULLLLOOOOOOOOOO & give a HULLOOOOOOOOOOOO to UMM!
 
IVAN..........................as usual your post is mouth wateringly delicious................mmmmmmmmm.......................

After reading ALL the posts I just went to the kitchen and added a glug of molasses to my slow-cooker where I've been simmering beef short ribs in bbq sauce.  The sauce I use doesn't contain any of that dark elixir, so I gave it a shot.  I also, like the divine Miss Blue, use it my baked beans from scratch.  Last fall I used it in a Shaker recipe for green tomato pie.....which turns out to be very very molasses-y.  I think I needed more tomatoes and less molasses.  

CAROL is making dinner in the car tonight...............her short ribs sound beyond delish..............I have never purchsed rum before, I will be doing so soon................... 

I too read every one, every day.
SIL - I don 't know much about tea or didn't until I went to a lecture on tea - who knew! absolutely marvelous.  We have always had proper tea in this house.  My mother was British.
RUM - Alas - rum and Giraffe's don't mix well

I have occasionally skimmed over posts ........ Mea culpa, mea culpa, nea maxima culpa...... But not often.

Sometimes, if the topic of the day grabs me by the throat, or blows open the door to my memory warehouse, or may even unlock a long kept secret in my heart..... In which case I will post first and read later. It's bass ackwards but it works for me.... Probably because I have such a small span of attention.

 
 
 
Carol....molassas AMD Meyers in the baked beans.
 
 
Is it coctail time yet?

 
 
 
 
 
cocktail...

 
 
 
 
Peter Lake
 
another thought...
Wonder how many lurkers there are who NEVER post?

Quick log in before I start dinner and ran into your "bass ackwards" PL.  Brought back memeories of my mom who used the expression often.  I still do, but had not heard it from others for a long time.  Thanks.

MISS BLUE, the divine one....................it's cocktail time some where in the world at any given time..............................what a nice thought..................
 
 
Or how many double post under two names??????????????????? all the way to creepy town....................

Molasses:  blick, yuck, ewww.Rum: ; yuck, eww, nasty!Hehehe ;)   I'm not attempting to be negatory.  Just my thoughts for today.Have a good evening to everyone here.

Miss Blue----when I make them next time I'll try to remeber the Myers!  I started cooking long before I started discovering the wonderful world of spirits and wine.  And now....I'm open to the wonders of taste and experimentation.   And with the help of all the wonderful Eyesters I've traveled some delightful roads of taste discoveries!  I also have a wonderful, wonderful wine and liquor merchant who is full of good ideas and suggestions.   ...............................but mostly, I have Ivan's direction here on these pages.  

Lurkers and double posting under two user names. . . . yes, creepy town, but you all are really funny.It made me laugh!  Loved your thoughts!

Miss Blue - I think there may be quite a few.

It seems like a lot of first-time posters indicate they have been reading the Eye for quite a while before dipping their toes in..... Waiting for a topic that will nudge them off of the diving board.....but there may be many that read it and never post 'cos they view it as an extension of the Owner's Manual.....an interesting read.

What do you think.

Who said Green Tomato Pie? Carol? I want some. Immediately! Well yo ho ho and a bottle of rum...you have all been discussing it and I have been recovering from it.

Molasses is a magical elixir that will sit on your shelf forever and rescue your chocolate chip cookies just when you run out of brown sugar or add that certain je ne sais qouis (sp) to your butternut squash soup and up here in Yankee land it is a common condiment for beef stew and there is no pumpkin pancake that could survive without it.

However as you may have already discerned I am quite happy with having molasses in rum...cuba libre, long island iced tea and my new favorite the Divine Miss Blue's Black Mojitos. Cheers!!

There's only one of me and I use my real name.

I've changed my name twice and back again just since the last post. Hasn't everyone?

To my knowledge, there's only one of me. I'm working very hard to keep myself as one person. I happen to know there's a cassiepants on Twitter that isn't me. As I don't do THAT, I don't worry about it overmuch...
 
At least not so much that a Black Mojito couldn't solve the problem. Although I confess to being a lover of the Raspberry mojito, myself...

Lurkers?......I prefer to think of them as long and faithful readers. Helps the old ego a bit.

Well, molasses and lads, it's duvet time in Wales. Nos da, dear people, x

Miss Blue: Whoever did the green or dark cerulean glaze on your photographed pottery has quite the gift. It's not easy being or doing green.

MISS BEBE:  I Thank You for the Notice, and if you ever actually try that Dish, you'll be amazed how good it really is ... Just don't count Caliries (calories don't really count anyway) ...
 
I MARJORIE:  Apple Cider Vinegar is EDTA, or EthylDiethylamine TetrAcetic Acid ... it is a Natural Antihistamine, Natural AntiPruritic, Natural Decongestant, and AntiBacterial ... used as an Anticeptic and Cleaner by Hannibal's Army's Physicians,(You remember Hannibal ... he crossed the Alps with Elephants and none of the offspring survived) and it was used the same way during The Recent Unpleasantness ... A Naturally occuring substance, that is harmless to the Human Body, and most beneficial, UNLIKE, White/Distilled Vinegar, which is only good for cleaning out your Steam Iron/Coffee Maker/Scullery, or dying easter eggs, and should never be ingested by Humans ... Apple Cider Vinegar will thin the Blood and help to lower Blood Pressure, and it also dissolves Cholesterol in the Bloodstream and Liver ... Remember that Vinegar [Vin Agre] is Latin for, Sour Wine, and most of us are familiar with the proven Health Benefits of Wine ... Good Stuff that The Almighty put here for us to use and enjoy ... I have a Shot Glass full of Apple Cider Vinegar every day after Breakfast ... and I cannot help believing that it is part of the reason why my Cholesterol is 102, in spite of my Rich,  High Fat Diet ... People dress Salads with it, or Fish ... seems strange to think that it is so difficult to toss of an ounce of it once a day ... and it is a whole lot less expensive and Dangerous that Statin Drugs ...
 
TOMMY:  Right you are Bubba, and a little twist of Fresh Lime ... and for a Toddy against the frost of a day, warm that Mix above (Never Boil it) and put in a Tinkerbelle Pinch of Butter Flavored Popcorn Salt ....... Quite Bracing !!!
 
MISS GEORGIA:   Give us your Recipe !!!

Chef Deb--yes'twas I who mentioned green tomato pie.  It was an attempt to use up the poor pathetic tomatoes that the squirrels finally left to me--they robbed me of all my lovely red ripe ones all summer!!  So........with a handful of green tomatoes I tried a Shaker recipe--as I said, probably needed more tomatoes .......Long Island Iced Tea--haven't had one in at least forever!  Goes down real easy as I recall..................

All livestock like molasses. It is a good base for lots of stuff including some home remedies. My mom kept it around as well as sorghum and honey. There was a rule that Paw Paw started and enforced. Whatever is put on the table is what you ate. I learned to like everything as a result. I believe that anything edible can be acceptable and the palate like most things is trainable. I have tried most things that aren't out and out poisonous including a variety of foods, liquids, drugs just to experience them. That is my nature. I love this planet and hope to experience others. Just a happy thought. Cruzan makes a great rum and a little stand on St . Thomas makes the best Banana Daquiri in the world with the best view of the Island and that takes me to Rum drenched flame kissed Bananas Foster. See, it's all good...and connected?

Ivan- I raise a glass to you as we speak but it's Meshcun Mouthwash not Pirate's Grog, a tasty cacti it is. Viva Tejas! Hey my bruddah, ol' Kinky is coming to town next month. High Time for a Jewish Cowboy to be El Presidente. Little Jewford for VP. That ticket gets this Scottish vote, the Lindsay Clan...

I've been lurking...but it turned to laughing when I read PeterLake's comment.  The thought of him in one of those little cute bars "with ferns" just tickles me.  And bartenders with aprons.Precious places.    ... Bars shouldn't be precious, should they?   .... As for Northern Exposure, whoever up there (I marjorie?)  wrote about borrowing from Netflix some Northern Exposure episodes, I should tell you that I have all 110 episodes - on tape.  Original.  But on tape.  We do have a VCR, which is really useful when we want to go to Cicely for a few hours of beautiful, wonderful, intelligent insanity with Holling Vincoeur and Shelly, his bride, and all the rest.  I am so glad I taped them: the CD's don't have the original music which makes them worthless in my opinion.  My brother in law, the tech guy, is in the process of burning CD's from the tapes.  Did I mention I really love that show?  ...
 

And I really love my brother in law for doing this too.  Hi B!  (In case he's lurking).

Ok, now the party starts....Park4 is in the Club Car! 'bout time!

Another show which you would enjoy more on home recordings (though I don't think VCR and Betamax were in use back then) is WKRP. They didn't make any agreements with the musical artists when they recorded the show, so none of the original music made it onto the DVDs...
 
And yet Walt Disney filmed all his television shows in Color, before color TV existed.
 
Hi, Park 4, Peter Lake, and the rest! I've survived my Tuesday, and only have 1/2 hour left before the drive home and a nice cocktail with my honey. Perhaps Rum will be my beverage of choice!

Hey Cassiepants, have a most bodacious evening!

CASSIEP....................WKRP is a gem!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My mother always said that if she becomes bedbound she wants to watch old WKRP & laugh herslf to wellness.
 
GEEZ PARK.................bout time. make some trouble........................
 
DR.'S IVAN & HAZEL have spoken..........................am going to try the old apple cider treatment..................

TOMMY:  I'm guessin' that if Little Jewford is gonna be VP ... Panama Red is going to be the Czar in charge of the NEA ....... How bad could it be ??? 
 
Lotsa Hype and promotion for lotsa different "Toney" Tequilas ... but take it from a Season'd Aficianado, of long standing ... HERRADURA is the ultimate delight for a dignified evening ... If one is just carousing, raisin' a little hell ....... GUSANO ROJO is the stuff to do ... Remember Tommy, Tequila doesn't make you drunk ....... it makes you crazy .......

I- not surprising you know your sauces. Panama Red- he'll still your woman then rob your head. Funny!

Finishing Act II of Gypsy and I smell a Ben Franklin Post real soonish. Cookin with molasses!

IMajorie- i am so glad that Jalopkin gave such a nice complete answer to the goodness, of "Apple Cider Vinegar." I am getting into the groove...with the ,"eye.". ..I 've been with the eye...since it began; and love the clothing of Petermans selections; i just bought a delicious fushia/hotpink blouse that arrived in the beginning of January; worn beautifully because of the tailored detail on the blouse, cut...of the blouse...quality detail..... usually I arrive to chat for short period of times.  i think on the eye....you can chat cyberly with other art clothing sea-loving and tea loving enthusiast...thinking about the wisest way to be heard..you given a topic walla walla ...create opionion...and your " in" like Flynn!.... ..anywho...i just got back from the mall and saw the movie, contraband...ok...action cops and robbers flick ....could of used a better ending...kinda cool footage.... while waiting for my teenage son from work at the food court...one of his friends said hi...asked about my son.......we starting talking about poetry she quoted, the Harrypotter poem:  "It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."then she showed me her tattoo..on the side of her ribs..i waved my hand. " you do  not have to show, but insisted to proceed to show; it was huge...on her side with a gothic border...and she as well as she should be...proud...then she quoted Egar Allen Poe: We loved with a love that was more than love...this next generation we are greatest help...to all of us....she said that her friends...tattoo the word POETRY on their bodies, too..that how much feeling is in their hearts...she proceeded that she is adopted...and this is becoming more common...we all need to love more....greater than ....a love that was more than love...the eye is just too much fun!!!
    There is no cookie cutter for making people...we just love everyone...

IMajorie. enjoyed the youtube video 1776 Malasses to Rum. Theres only one of me....I can not even believe i have to say it.. .i am sure you can figure this out...casue i hope i have some kindof writers personalty...yea, after i wrote on the MissAmerica peagent.and you know my grandmother was in the very first Miss American Peagent in Atlantic City, Miss Pottstown; she came in third place..i commented on the news silly question on marriage......expressing an opinion; then i quit the eye writing thing..becasue maybe i express too much..i am trying to change..my thoughts reprogram myself..too shortened my writing...for 2012!
but see I changed my    eye name...becaue i like the sea ocean. i am a NAUI Diver...and master swimmer....so much...like my father a "Navy Sea farer Man."..Sea Island Lady....and theres a connection to some of my friends, too.  but now i am writing on the eye again...

We got a dusting of snow today in the PNW.  This is enough to make the morning commute a nail biter for a girl <cough> who has been raised in Southern California and Hawaii. " Don't disclose where you were raised to anyone in the Pacific Northwest" my brother warns me. (please keep my secret)  Once I actually got to work, it took formidable strength not to suggest making Hot Buttered Rums in my triumph over the snowy commute.  Maybe next year when the economy is better, I'll have less restraint.

I read them all daily, but sometimes have nothing to add or reflect upon.

Like today....no real rum stories....rum and Coke in college...a few forgettable fraternity parties....Singapore Slings with rum....rum in pina coladas....feeling buzzed and a little dizzy on rum faster than on vodka or a bourbon blend....rum in egg nog at the holidays.....that's it.

I knew a kid whose mom made him take spoonfuls of black strap molasses for his health, and he grew into a strapping large boy! Too much sulphur for me.

My screen name is my street...Moose Loop...kinda unusual and memorable.

It rained here all day and is still raining. I was at the doctor's all day with tests for the Wellness Program of the Medicare Advantage plan...supposed to help me get a discount on my insurance costs....We will see. Stress test is not pleasant, but I made it to the end of the time period. Glad to be through that! Read my Kindle all in between the various tests from 8-3:00.

Good night all!

Apple cidar vinegar is NOT EDTA.
EDTA is ethylenediamminetetraacetic acid.
EDTA is not a natural remedy for anything. It is a chelator of divalent cations such as calcium and magnesium.
EDTA can kill and harm you.
It disturbs me deeply when lethal and litigable misinformation gets put on this site.

Time for a little Bukowski nightcap perhaps-"you boys can keep your virgins
give me hot old women in high heels with asses that forgot to get old." I put on my Duster tonight and walked through the warm rain before the cold returns tomorrow. I never worry that a cyber persona wants to be Typical. It's a safe hiding place in a crowd.

Penn, congratulations on you triumph over mother natures rath and your safe arrival at work. Hot buttered rum in the club car.

Sincerely,
Anonymous

99 works for me. Sucked the last few drops out of the old rum keg we did. Billy Bones would be proud Mr. Hawkins.

Ivan, Dark Myers's Rum is what I use in my homemade eggnog. I think it's the best.

TT, I was sitting at a bus stop in 1974, reading Bukowski's Post Office when a woman sat down and after a few minutes asked if I was taking the test to work at the Post office. haha...never forgot that exchange.

Karma noted you correction for apple cider vinegar...read through....what's up.do some members of the village... story it up a bit...with misinformation... i can see.....i will try to sift thru a little more cautious with cyber misinformation...some posts i glance..at a speed read thru...i definitely do not want to go into depth with diet/food detail...and list components of food or food caloric contents...but i will watch...wordage....too ... my goal is an opionion creative writer contributer..not an advisor...i am not a dietetic counselor here on the eye;i am retired..from hospital work....please do not ask me ....a question on individual diets..go see your local professional...this is my luxurant vocation on the eye...wise opinion poll review...I lilke designing and sewing things... 

oops there are two Captain Robs...Piratelifestlye...was not the right youtube video...when i clik on it ; it look like the Rob i know, but not the one from  Dataw island...that is the Captain Morgan Rum Man; but this rob on this pirate site is someone different..ooh...see cyberstate mistake...i am sorry...but maybe he had a good video too....

"Hi Park, make some trouble" -- LOL @ bebe!  My reputation, what can I say?  To be known as a trouble maker, rabble rouser LOL again.  .....I was born with a silver pen in my hand, a gift from my paternal grandmother, a rabble rousing before her time woman, and  The Arizona Republic's first female editor, way back in 1931 - who came to be known for her articles re: inequality and minority (including women) rights, stirring the pot whenever she felt it to be necessary.  Which was often.  I was never sure that those leanings could be inherited, but in the last few years, I'm convinced that they are just that.  ... Give me time, and trouble I shall make.  It's in my blood.   ;)

Floyd, is that a rum keg on your collar? 
 
"Woof."
 
Sit, Stay, Good dog.