Spitball Army

“And let it be proclaimed artfully from every napkin dispenser on every table in the land…Each day shall henceforth start with a banquet of orange and yellow bell peppers!”

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This year I pledged to make good on my internet yapping and mail Christmas cards, something I haven’t done for many, many years. It turned out to be a pleasantly satisfying experience.

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While I was growing up, our house was the evening stop on Christmas Eve for relatives and friends, who would congregate in the late afternoon and early evening for a meal centered on the contents of two very large pots on my mother’s stovetop. One contained pinto beans, soaked and seasoned for a couple of days, and piping hot. The other contained her wonderful chili, a crock-pot treatment of which I have perfected over the ensuing decades. The meal also had a few other key ingredients.

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I looked it over, and the recipe definitely needed some revising, so as not to taste bland, or like a soggy green bean stew. The addition of two ingredients guaranteed to clog the arteries (bacon and cheese), and a reapportioning of the size of other ingredients and an adjustment of temperature and cooking time and, voila…a tasty wintertime harvest dish for a table full of hungry revellers.

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Over the ensuing twleve months, that post has been seen enough times through Google searches and the like that it is the #9 most-viewed page on this labyrinthine website. And every single person who has seen it has moved on without having that secret yellow cake mix cookie recipe to put to use.

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By the time I pulled this video from YouTube, it had been viewed over a million times. And that’s not including the multipe versions of it that have probably been viewed as many times each. But, in case you haven’t seen it yet, this is an inteview that Governor Palin just gave at a turkey farm.

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Chili in a bowl

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Speaking of No Depression, I was really sad when they “folded” late last year. Not only was their bi-monthly publication consistently interesting and well-written and filled with good humor and enthusiasm, but the small staff was a joy to deal with, from a retailer’s viewpoint.

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