Paper Towels and Toilet Paper Direction ???

UNCLE JIMMY wrote:First off! It surely is great to hear from you ( even though it's on a toilet paper post hahahahahaha on a food cooking forum! hahahahahahahaha.......
We have missed you, and were concerned with the rain and flooding in NOLA. There are several posts ( back a couple days on the what's to eat for dinner etc. posts.)

A Statue of the TV character Dr. Dolittle in the oh? I guess early to late 70's. For little Jimmy, we bought him a toy of Dr. Doolittle.
It was a bust, fairly large in plastic. Stood about 14 inches tall.
Weird! ,,,,, Well, little Jimmy was like 7 or 8 , and we placed the statue on his dresser. Every night, he would turn the face toward the wall.
I would sneak in his room, and turn it back so it would now look at him.
'10 minutes later.... yep! .... Jimmy would AGAIN, face it to the wall.
We finally had to give it to my wives nephew!

UNCLE JIMMY wrote:We picked up potato and macaroni salad at Piggy's Deli.
It had a hint of onion green leaves chopped too small to distinguish.
The celery, was a  approx. 1/2 teaspoon ( yes! in a pint container ) if that, of celery LEAVES!!!

Bugster2 wrote:Does anyone remember the cat box cake? Most disgusting thing I ever saw.

Crybaby wrote:

UNCLE JIMMY wrote:We picked up potato and macaroni salad at Piggy's Deli.
It had a hint of onion green leaves chopped too small to distinguish.
The celery, was a  approx. 1/2 teaspoon ( yes! in a pint container ) if that, of celery LEAVES!!!

Is Piggy's Deli the deli at the Piggly Wiggly?!  I haven't seen a Piggly Wiggly in over 30 years!

UNCLE JIMMY wrote:

Crybaby wrote:

UNCLE JIMMY wrote:We picked up potato and macaroni salad at Piggy's Deli.
It had a hint of onion green leaves chopped too small to distinguish.
The celery, was a  approx. 1/2 teaspoon ( yes! in a pint container ) if that, of celery LEAVES!!!

Is Piggy's Deli the deli at the Piggly Wiggly?!  I haven't seen a Piggly Wiggly in over 30 years!

No.... No piggly wiggly here! .... Just the name of the deli in town.

Crybaby wrote:I checked out Cassie's website ages ago, Norm, and I think I got her link from looking at your blog.  She really did some amazing cakes.  I remember when Charlie helped her make some decorations for one of her cakes -- which one escapes me now (of course) but perhaps it was computer-oriented or a Harry Potter or something. I remember being quite impressed with Charlie's work as well.

I remember seeing that Coors Lite cake on her site and it was and still is amazing.  She really had a talent for it, that's for sure.

Whenever I think of Cassie, the very first thing I think of after cakes is how she didn't like celery!  No lie.  My SIL doesn't use it either; she says it's tasteless.  And I can't seem to cook anything without onions, garlic AND celery -- that's my "trinity" instead of the usual onion, garlic and bell pepper.  Though I like green peppers, I usually don't like the way they taste in leftovers when they were diced up and cooked with the onions and garlic.  It's funny, as I was watching one of John Besh's cooking shows one time and he said he doesn't use green pepper in the famous trinity either -- he said his mom didn't use it so he tends not to use it then either.  

NormM wrote:She works for Cracker Barrel and they make a stuffing that we both think is dreadful and it tastes of too much celery. I think that is why she does not like celery.  She had a long list of things she didn't like and I honestly think some of the reasons she didn't like them had little logic.

Norm wrote:I saw some of her work after she left and I don't think it is on a par with what it was. I wonder how much of what she did was due to Charlie's help.

Crybaby wrote:

NormM wrote:She works for Cracker Barrel and they make a stuffing that we both think is dreadful and it tastes of too much celery. I think that is why she does not like celery.  She had a long list of things she didn't like and I honestly think some of the reasons she didn't like them had little logic.

I think often a person's "dislike" is illogical based on what you know they DO like.  My SIL and her family were really not exposed to what I call real food -- good food and things that accentuate the flavor of foods that most of us kind of pick up as we go through life.  Granted, most of us LIKE to cook so I know we tend to stretch our tastes a bit in order to try or experience different ingredients and also different cuisines. My brother was no "adventurous eater" by any stretch of the imagination when he lived at home, that's for sure, so I can't blame all of it on her. And since SIL doesn't like certain things, her kids and my brother (now) don't like them either.  Like "salads" -- I think I mentioned our having dinner there one time when she said she knew Brian and I liked salad but they didn't eat it so she had some for us.  It was a plate of wet iceberg lettuce on the table with a bottle of some dressing next to it.  We had to laugh on the way home, as we said she obviously didn't like lettuce and not salads, as that wasn't a salad.

I remember admiring Beth when she said she didn't let her kids know she didn't like cheese when they were young so they didn't develop a dislike for it just because of her.  I think it would be pretty hard to keep that from them but she managed to do it.  And let's face it, cheese shows up in a lot of food stuffs so she really gave them the ability to like it.  I was pretty impressed with that.

After Charlie and Cassie broke up, you were a bit more forthcoming about her many dislikes -- I was amazed as I wouldn't have been so vocal about my dislikes and would've just eaten around the celery or just avoided certain dishes.  I was amazed at how many things you were making again since she wasn't there anymore.  And bless your heart, as you really did "suffer" in silence as you hadn't mentioned how many things you no longer used or made because of Cassie!  

Norm wrote:I saw some of her work after she left and I don't think it is on a par with what it was. I wonder how much of what she did was due to Charlie's help.

That's not surprising, as I remember some of his detailed work for one of her cakes.  I'm going to have to check out her website again so I can tell you which cake it was where I was so impressed with his little "sculptures" of sorts. It may also be Charlie's support and encouragement, too, that she is without now -- yours too.  Those things often mean a lot to a creative person. Or maybe she's just not happy anymore. That would definitely show up in an artist's work and cake making/decorating was really her art of sorts.

How Charlie doing in that regard, Norm?  I hope he's feeling good and is happy.

NormM wrote:Michelle, Charlie has been diagnosed with depression which he has had for several years before he met Cassie, but the break-up didn't help. However he had an extensive personality test just before the break-up which confirmed that he was not having illusions like Cassie told him he was having.  She had him committed to a hospital for that once and they confirmed that he was depressed but not suicidal and was not imagining anything to the extent that she kept telling him.  She is the one with the personality disorder.  Charlie said it is called the Dark Triad and that is causing him some problems still, but I think he is getting better.