The 50 Plus Cafe, Pub, All-Nite Greasy Spoon and Dive Bar

[Wat_Tyler]

I love horses

Horses.


And h000rs….

 

[Missk_2022]

Horses.


And h000rs….

And kitty cats

 

[Oldermom935]

 

[Oldermom935]

 

[likes2watchU]

I thought pork was “the other white meat.”

Wildly successful marketing campaign that has so many people misinformed about pork

 

[Oldermom935]

 

[Vinylguy]

Old Gus.

 

[likes2watchU]

Yeah, but (almost) no one is there.

And that is bad how?

my thought exactly

I downloaded an Alfredo sauce recipe once and made it. Followed the recipe exactly. It sucked.

Trick question - US alfredo is a cream-based sauce where true Italian alfredo has no cream at all

There is a small piece she used as a bedside table. It has a door and the latch needs to be repaired. The girls opened it and eack got on a shelf inside, and then they started swatting at each other. It was pretty funny.

Second life achieved - love this story

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Morning, OM - thanks for the coffee!!

To no one's surprise, I have overdone it. I think i gave myself a sinus infection. I could not sing the cat's feeding song this morning. I am gonna have a crap day today. But... maybe another glass of ice water will help.

Take care - there's something going around. Both my BFF and her husband have sinus infections right now

My team maintains an acronym list for our company.

I started my own years ago until I was familiar enough with the new-to-me jargon in a new position. I don't even think about them now.

Pep sausage mushroom

This was a family favorite growing up.
So many years spent picking sausage off the pizza... I can still do a good mushroom pizza now. My favorite topping.

The above statement of the worst Monday is the Tuesday after a long weekend…yeah…I’m feeling it.

Mood

 

[AlexAtNight]

My sister had it, too. But time and tide wait for no one.

 

[Nightbird]

Hello everyone

 

[thør]

Back to the land below freezing were my sinuses aren't taking a beating.

 

[dkak001]

Meetings and work stacked up all day. Now the single MOST important question of the day. What's for dinner?

Had some more sunshine again today. A person could get used to that!
Some of the potted plants have noticed and are waking up too.

 

[Oldermom935]

Who opened the gates at the loony bin today. Holy Hell

Excuse you?

 

[PersonalFavors]

I bought a car in LINY in the fall of 2024. \Had supper with the guy after loading the car. Pizza. He gave scraps to the raccoon he fed. It would show up at the back door around dark. He talked to it as he put the food out.

Not sure if Rocky answered him . . . .

Rocky never answered me. He always pooped on top of my dock box <<<< There were worser places he could have laid his treats.

It is sort of a NJ “thing” to debate whether it’s called “Taylor ham”’or its actual name, pork roll.

It’s a serious debate! It splits neighbors, coworkers, friends and even families.

“Supposebly” (I will tell you this story sometime) most people in South Jersey (the 609) are more prone to call it pork roll. People north of rt 78 tend to call it Taylor ham. Those of us in the glorious state of central Jersey (betw 78 and 195) are mutts and its neighbor v neighbor, friend v friend.

I grew up 20 minority of where I live now, so more north Jersey and I always heard it called pork roll.

It’s a seriously big deal here in Jersey!

https://www.foodigenous.com/post/pork-roll-vs-taylor-ham-the-great-jersey-debate

https://www.offtackleempire.com/2025/6/18/24450257/a-jersey-house-divided-pork-roll-or-taylor-ham

There’s a place on Route 57 on Warren county that has really good pork roll sandwiches.

Nearer to me is Gronskis Milk House. Ice cream by night, greasy spoon by day! A classic!

I've never experienced it anywhere else in the world. Even the bread is unique to the area. Speaking of bread I could almost walk to the bakery in Haddon Heights that made hogie rolls. .69c per grocery bag. I could fit 13. A bakers dozen? You had to pick them up off a conveyor belt as it came down and turned. It disappeared behind a wall where they packed them. Burning hot fresh out of the oven. When I showed up at my parents retirement resort on Smith Mountain Lake I would be sent away if I did not show up with all free space in the vehicle stuffed with those rolls. Those were some good smelling rides. Miss those neighbors on the lake too.
Looking back I amazed I never gained weight living in south Jersey. I put on 15-20lbs in 2023 when I got laid off from work. I was 58.
I wonder if I should take some time and try to make pork roll? Is it only a hand me down recipe? I always took it for granted. Not even sure which cut of pork it is.

From my days in SC I wish I paid attention to Chicken Bog. I don't even know what kind of sausage they used in that or how to get the rice in without making mush. I know the chickens went in whole. A few times it was my job to fish out bones and cartilage. Or the last years of my SC life, Frogmore Stew. Something likely stole from the Gullah. I knew them as Geechee even though I was on the island in SC. So many things I didn't know I needed to know when I was young and probably pretty high. Just trying to keep up with the locals.

 

[PersonalFavors]

I caught a fish through the eye the eye popped out and the fish swam on its side on top the water and i couldnt reach it with the net to dispatch it...i felt terrible

I hate when shit like that happens.
When I first started Surfing at Island Beach NJ they used to tell me about how bad dolphins are and why there are so many sharks. We catch and release wrong size stripper. They are exhausted from the fight. The dolphin come by and bite them in half and leave the rest of the carcass waste. I bought a good set of waders so I could hold on until the bass ripped itself out of my hand instead of sending them off tired.
I can remember trying to get the hook out of blue gill that swallowed it. I didn't know I could just cut the line at the time. Yet, I never felt bad sitting at the end of the dock and filling a 5 gal bucket of them to carry up to the house to get fried. Luckily young enough I didn't have to clean them. That didn't bother me either. You can't kill them or catfish. Catfish, nail through the head and pull the skin off like a sock with two pair of pliers. Easy peasy and upright ready to filet.

 

[PersonalFavors]

Meetings and work stacked up all day. Now the single MOST important question of the day. What's for dinner?

Had some more sunshine again today. A person could get used to that!
Some of the potted plants have noticed and are waking up too.

I had a 2+lb london broil I bought discounted and tossed in the freezer and pretty much forgot about. I ran it in the sous vide for a while to thaw, then opened. Smells great. Its getting some concoction like wanderer's. Red wine garlic onion carrot celery mushrooms. I had a leek left over. Most of a box of fresh thyme. Bay. A jalapeno. Some potato. A tomato I found that was still good and some paste.
Just a cook everything in the fridge before it goes bad day. I still can't decide noodles, pasta or rice.
I'm going to have to open another bottle of wine.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

And that is bad how?

It would be heavenly if'n it warn't s'fuckin' cold.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

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That looks like Out West's new paint poodle - very good resemblance.

 

[Missk_2022]

1st treat in the oven

Cinnamon pecan biscotti.... supposed to be maple pecan but i didnt have the maple... just used double vanilla

In the oven getting their second bake

 

[Oldermom935]

Meetings and work stacked up all day. Now the single MOST important question of the day. What's for dinner?

Had some more sunshine again today. A person could get used to that!
Some of the potted plants have noticed and are waking up too.

They served as chicken rollups, with ham and tomato rolled into the chicken breadcrumbs held together with a toothpick. We had roasted red potato sweep, salt, pepper and rosemary, and we had fresh green beans, small salad french dressing...

 

[PersonalFavors]

My team maintains an acronym list for our company.

When I worked at a fed, we had a white board hanging on the cube wall maze that led to my office. Words were earned place on the board. Words that do not exist. It was full. There was a small elite group who knew the origins of utterance. Some held high esteem. A firm believe from the group that these should actually be words. There were no phones. No cameras. I don't even remember the word I got on the board. Linus Torvalds was not in the office when he uttered his word. But he was on speaker phone and I heard it said. He was intentionally telling an old friend, Father Time, that called him to settle an argument he was crazy. I do wish I had a copy of that board. Members of the sales team that supported the structure of my position at ___ were on that board as well. The majority were stupid and did not complete the sale that earned them privilege to the office.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

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[Wonderer67]

Meat, meat, cheese, meat, meat, cheese!

Nipplecaresser! What’s up, bud?

We missed ya.

 

[Wonderer67]

Wildly successful marketing campaign that has so many people misinformed about pork

The pork industry wouldn’t do that!

Would they?

I guess they were just following suit with the sugar industry who tried to sell that sugar was not fattening.

 

[Wonderer67]

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Rip, Tom Hagen and of course Col Kilgore…