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Arkansas contains both wet and dry counties; my home county is dry, not that the law keeps anyone from buying alcohol the next county over and bringing it home to drink. Places like the VFW can also legally sell alcohol at events. Prior to the Volstead Act, there were twelve wet counties left in the state. I need to know which twelve. I have consulted three research libarians and who knows how many paper on prohibition. Can I find out which 12? Not yet. Sigh.
 
ps102 said:
I've read a lot of articles on the "olive oil mafia". You apparently can't buy extra virgin olive oil that easily—even when you buy bottles that advertise themselves as such. It's really crazy. I think the answer to the best olive oil is some that you produce for yourself.
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For the lowdown on the olive oil industry, I highly recommend Tom Mueller's Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil. One of the things I learned is that there are standards for determining the quality of the oil... several of them, in fact. There's a local grocery store here in Sacramento that caters to gourmets, and has about sixteen feet of display shelves specifically for olive oil.

Corti Brothers is the name of the store. The present proprietor, Darrell Corti has been called "the Indiana Jones of the culinary world" and the man who "knows more about food and wine than anyone else in America" according to Sactown Magazine. He created a ripple in the wine world when he told vintners that he would no longer sell wine that was more than 14.5% alcohol. "If Corti disapproves of it, how can we sell it?" was the sentiment.

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Louanne Learning said:
it wasn't until last year that grocery stores and corner stores were allowed to sell alcoholic beverages, in Ontario.

Before that, you had to go to the beer store or the liquor store, which remain government-run.
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Virginia was that way once. When we lived in northern Virginia, my dad would buy his wine in the District of Columbia, only twenty miles away. It was probably illegal to do so, but everybody did it anyway.

I remember going to a ABC store in Utah back in the 1970s to buy a bottle of wine. All the wine was in a locked area behind the counter. They would check your age and then give you a loose-leaf notebook with the labels of the wine bottles, and you would make your selection from that. I wondered if buying pornography was like that.
 
Going over to my brother's house now for pizza and Euchre...
 
My clothes dryer died. It came with the house. Probably 20 years old at least. Guess I'll be buying a new one tomorrow... and some fresh underwear if they can't deliver until later in the week!
 
Homer Potvin said:
My clothes dryer died. It came with the house. Probably 20 years old at least. Guess I'll be buying a new one tomorrow... and some fresh underwear if they can't deliver until later in the week!
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I'm going to take a wild guess that it was a Mieler dryer.
 
I've never heard of Mieler. Now I have.

My stove is a 1956 Frigidaire. We rescued it from a rental house we tore down in return for the lumber and whatever else we wanted out of it back in the eighties. The stove looked like a disaster when I told my husband I wanted to take it home. He was skeptical, but took it home, tore it down, cleaned it up, and moved it into the kitchen where we lived back then. Everything worked but the clock and the light. Carrying it into the house, the assisting friend lost his grip and banged it firmly on the step. Made a new chip in the enamel, but fixed the light, which has worked ever since.
 
CatrionaGrace said:
My stove is a 1956 Frigidaire
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Old appliances are made to last. New appliances are made to break. Miele (at least last I checked, I don't know about now) is one of the very, very few brands that still makes appliances made to last. You pay a hefty price for them, of course. The Miele washing machine my father bought as a gift for my Grandmother in the late 90s still works. It outlived her.

CatrionaGrace said:
I've never heard of Mieler. Now I have.
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This really surprises me. They are a hallmark of quality and reliability. But I say that with very outdated knowledge. Some brief research suggests that while they are still quite good, their quality standards have fallen from grace. Hmph. Figures in this day and age. Quite good is not enough. I would expect excellence from them.
 
CatrionaGrace said:
I've never heard of Mieler. Now I have.
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I'm surprised too. I don't know much about domestic appliances except the brands, but Miele's reputation is very good.

CatrionaGrace said:
My stove is a 1956 Frigidaire. We rescued it from a rental house we tore down in return for the lumber and whatever else we wanted out of it back in the eighties. The stove looked like a disaster when I told my husband I wanted to take it home. He was skeptical, but took it home, tore it down, cleaned it up, and moved it into the kitchen where we lived back then. Everything worked but the clock and the light. Carrying it into the house, the assisting friend lost his grip and banged it firmly on the step. Made a new chip in the enamel, but fixed the light, which has worked ever since.
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The first fridge I ever heard of was a Frigidaire, but I haven't heard the name in decades -- to the point that I thought Frigidaire had gone out of business. (Oops!) :oops:
 
ps102 said:
This really surprises me.
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I'm not a big shopper, so I'm not familiar with brand names. When I buy a new computer, I call my favorite computer friend, say, "What do I buy?" and follow his advice. He hasn't steered me wrong in twenty years. Before I have to spend money on other things, I do some research and call it good. I just bought a couple of weather stations, though, and think I made a mistake. Instead of being what they appeared to be, they shipped from China, so I am less than sanguine about what they will be like when (and if) they arrive. They were shipped separately, which seems pretty stupid, and I'm willing to bet at least one doesn't turn up. Live and learn. Irritates me to no end with myself.
 
It's a Whirlpool, nothing sexy. Never heard of Miele either. Maybe not sold in the US? Or branded differently? They used to do that a lot.

ETA: holy shit, those are expensive. I want the dual oven with the 48" 8 burner range. Only $7K!

ETA2: don't go nuts at the appliance store, don't go nuts at the appliance store, don't go nuts at the appliance store!
 
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My stove is a Frigidaire and my fridge is a Fisher and Paykel (a company based in New Zealand) - they are both about 17 years old now and work fantastic and I have never had any problem with either of them.
 
The concept of gravity has always fascinated me. It’s the force that holds everything together. And on my flight to Europe, I thought about how this big huge plane had escaped gravity. Seems like magic.
 
Louanne Learning said:
The concept of gravity has always fascinated me. It’s the force that holds everything together. And on my flight to Europe, I thought about how this big huge plane had escaped gravity. Seems like magic.
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Magnetism is more magical. A tiny kitchen magnet that lifts a paper clip from the table has more force than the entire mass of the Earth trying to hold the paper clip down.
 
I taught magnetism to grade 9 students. It was really cool to put the magnets between paper, sprinkle the iron filings on top, and watch them form into the magnetic field.

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