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Bryan Simmons wrote:
> On Friday, October 16, 2020 at 11:02:12 AM UTC-5, Sheldon wrote:
>> On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 09:57:02 -0400, Dave Smith
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> On 2020-10-16 1:34 a.m., Doris Night wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 15 Oct 2020 22:18:21 -0400, Dave Smith
>>>
>>>>> I tasted it, and it is delicious.
>>>>
>>>> We love butternut squash soup, but it's getting to be a rare treat out
>>>> here in Alberta.
>>>>
>>>> When I was in Ontario a couple of years ago, I recall that you could
>>>> go to any farm stand and buy a squash for $0.99. Or you could pop a
>>>> couple of seeds in your garden and get a dozen of the suckers for
>>>> nothing. In Alberta, they run to $1.99/pound. So you have to be
>>>> thrifty with them.
>>>
>>> They aren't cheap here anymore. A couple years ago they were selling
>>> them by the squash, and they were huge. Now they are about 3 times the
>>> price and small. I used to get squash for supper and then enough left
>>> over to make soup. Now they are sold by the pound and are so small that
>>> one squash is enough to dinner for two or for soup, not both.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I actually peel them, then carefully cut them up into cubes (not
>>>> wasting any flesh whatsoever), and roast the individual pieces. I
>>>> would find that roasting the whole squash then scooping out the flesh
>>>> would be wasteful.
>>>
>>> My wife likes doing it that way. If she is willing to do it and save me
>>> the time and energy that is fine by me.
>>>>
>>>> However, I make my soup the same way as you. But I do add a bit of
>>>> cream at the end.
>>>
>>> I add a dollop of yogurt or sour cream when I serve it.

>> I can't remember ever buying butternut squash, it's very easy to grow.
>> I don't peel them, I scoop out the seeds for the critters and roast
>> the squash until the skin becoms a little crispy, then we eat the skin
>> too.
>> I don't remember ever buying cream either, neither of us likes creamed
>> soups. Occasionally I'll cook with evap.... evap can be whipped.
>> During WWll people used a lot of evap, my parents creamed their coffee
>> with evap, regular milk didn't keep well in the ice-a-box. People fed
>> their babies evap when breast milk was getting low. I still think
>> that evap is the closest thing to breast milk on tap... I like to
>> drizzle evap on icecream, it forms a sweet frozen crust same as
>> squirts of my mom's breast milk. Mom had to ween me at five years old
>> so I could go to kindergarten. In many countries today women breast
>> feed until their kids are eight years old. Where I lived on Lung
>> Guyland there was a large Hispanic population, it was common to see
>> ten year olds being breast fed in public, in super markets,
>> postoffices, wherever and those young women made no attempt to cover
>> up... some of those Hispanic women had bosoms so huge they'd need a
>> painter's tarp to cover them.

>
> You know, Sheldon, there are women who will, for a pretty high price,
> allow men to to suckle them. I don't think that's illegal as long as they
> don't engage in any prohibited activities, and most do not. Google is
> your friend, and NYC isn't a long drive. Of course you should wait
> until the Covid vaccine, but then you could treat yourself. It's not my
> thing, but it's not unwholesome, or even perverted, and you know you'd
> love it.
>
> --Bryan
>


Hell, he was talking about "slurping shlongs" earlier.