Winter of '64 - The review and thanks...

[Spinster]

Re: Winter of '64 - The review and thanks...

Ah Ha! Another abode with a secret compartment.

Mighty handy thing. Otherwise that surgeon (who was so worried about the laundresses and their possible consumption of fraudulent alcohol laden patent medicine) might have found something to confiscate.

But he didn't. Good thing he was a skinny feller. A larger man could and did fall through the secret door. We shared with him though.

:tounge_sm

[Johnny Lloyd]

Re: Winter of '64 - The review and thanks...

Each hut was rich in something. Each hut was poor in something. Trading was possible. The secret compartment in Vesuvius was to the immediate left of the doorway. It was not opened until after the event.

I'll bite... "What was in the doorjamb of Vesuvius, Mr. Heath?"

Thanks- Johnny Lloyd ;)

[Charles Heath]

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I'll bite... "What was in the doorjamb of Vesuvius, Mr. Heath?"

In this instance, the draconian Winter 1864 "Cone of Silence" shall remain unbroken...at least by me.

[Rob Murray]

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There is that danged "Cone of Silence" again. If it would have been cracked, it would have saved me about an hour and a half of feeling nuts and running around like a chicken with its head cut off. Though I'm sure someone was having a good laugh at my expense.

[Johnny Lloyd]

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In this instance, the draconian Winter 1864 "Cone of Silence" shall remain unbroken...at least by me.

Yep... the AC Forum tenet holds true still...

"Ask a stupid question...

Mr. Heath will giveth the smackdown..."

LOL ;) :p

Bully, sir... Johnny Lloyd

[BrianHicks]

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Whatever it was... it can't surpass the numerous other items which materialized in Vesuvius. (remember the Jellied Eels? The Great Dog Bowl... and other uhhh... mysteries of the Vesuvius inhabitants?.

[Johnny Lloyd]

Re: Winter of '64 - The review and thanks...

Whatever it was... it can't surpass the numerous other items which materialized in Vesuvius. (remember the Jellied Eels? The Great Dog Bowl... and other uhhh... mysteries of the Vesuvius inhabitants?.

MSgt-

Yes, the "Jellied Eel" certainly remembered me in the morning whether I wanted it to or not.

LOL- Johnny Lloyd:p

[Charles Heath]

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I could tell the tin of quail eggs were a really big hit!

[Spinster]

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Hey! I ate about half a can of those quail eggs.

But the G&H S fellers were swearing they were starving to death on slim rations, so I passed them on.

Didn't have box from home, but had plenty to eat anyway. Food that somebody else cooks is always good.

[Charles Heath]

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Hey! I ate about half a can of those quail eggs.

Terre,

I'm glad someone tried to eat them. They've been hanging around since either Winter 1864 in 2004, or Reoccupation of Fort Sumter in whatever year that was. Even Erasmus couldn't sell them, but the USCC could sure give them away.

That salt, smoked, herring in the Pine Cottage had grown rather foul. It had what appeared to be amber oozing from the fish. Just judging from the cloth wrapper it was in when I found it at the bottom of a box, I'd say it was maybe 2003 vintage or earlier. It was too old to funk up the hut when the stove got hot, so that petrified fish was too old to do much with at any rate.

[Hank Trent]

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I'm glad someone tried to eat them.

I had about eight or ten of them too, before passing them on up to the laundresses. The biggest surprise for me was seeing the label, opening the can, and discovering they really were quail eggs!

Hank Trent
hanktrent@voyager.net

[Spinster]

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Actually, I want to know where Chawls got them.

I've never been one to eat, or relish, cold boiled eggs.

These were different. They'd have been better with hot sauce or vinegar, but the sutler had absonded and, like I said, no box from home for Vicey Compson.

[AZReenactor]

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I think I was the only one in the G&HS hut who actually ate any of the quail egs. Can't say I found them very appetizing, perhaps with some salt, pepper sauce, or more hunger they'd be a little better. A good relish might have helped too.

I passed them on and last saw the can outside the musicians hut.

I was already pretty full of pickled tongue, sardines, and oysters by the time I got to the eggs.

[Charles Heath]

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Actually, I want to know where Chawls got them.

I've never been one to eat, or relish, cold boiled eggs.

Terre,

Living here on the face of Mars, where, as you know, virtually no retail worth mentioning exists (other than mail-order and Ebay) we can buy a wide variety of international foods at Asian and Latino markets, and some of these grocery stores are approaching the 80,000 sq. ft. mark, which is the size of a small supermarket. They carry about three brands of quail eggs on a regular basis, as well as a number of items that would normally be found in the bulk foods section of food co-ops and organic stores, but for much less. A number of the older Food Lion stores have been converted, and if you happen to have a Trader Joe's in your area, they carry some seasonal items, such as large quantities of dried peach halves, pear halves, dried cherries, etc.

Approximately every two years, I'll post a source of supply blurb, and it behooves folks to check out the remants in Ollie's, Big Lots, Dollar Tree, Family General, etc. the Dollar General in Newfane happened to have a whole bunch of tasty keyless smoked oysters, which match the old Bumble Bee brand packaging, but are now sold under the Chicken of the Sea brand.

If you find a cache of Swanson's canned whole chickens, or something very similar, then please let me know. Let me tell you just how close Erasmus came to selling a few of the XL cans of chicken broth as the whole chicken, but stopped short of such sutlering cruelty. It would have been good for a laugh.

This reminds me it is almost time to make another couple hundred pounds of salt pork. :wink_smil

[MassVOL]

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Since Newfane everytime i hear about dried cherries i think about cherry bounce....
The Pine Cottage reaked of smoked oysters for awhile but no matter how pleasing or horrid the odor created Corporal Jonah found a way to wash the smell away.