On Sat, 01 Aug 2020 17:29:11 -0500, cshenk wrote:

> Gary wrote:
>
>> jmcquown wrote:
>>> I cannot tell you the last time I made or
>>> ate pancakes.
>>
>> After so many years without, I found and ate 3 pancakes from the
>> freezer just 2 days ago. Very good too. Now I'm tempted to make
>> more.
>
> LOL, the way you worded that, it sounded like you ate years old frozen
> pancakes. I'm sure that wasn't the case.

I suspect he meant what he said - that he *did* eat years-old
pancakes. I doubt he made them just to put them in the freezer last
week.

-sw

On Sat, 01 Aug 2020 17:38:16 -0500, cshenk wrote:

> wrote:
>
>> On Wednesday, July 29, 2020 at 7:27:34 PM UTC-5, cshenk wrote:
>>>
>>> We don't make 'Home Fries' for breakfast as a general rule here.
>>>
>> Nor here. They were never on the breakfast table when I was kid
>> either.
>
> Closest I hve seen is if he mis-names small cubes as 'home fries'
> because we don't always do shredded down south. Home fries are a long
> thing, often in wedges, not small cubes.

Wrong again (Mrs. "Long Pig is pork loin!"). Home fries have never
been confused with potato wedges.

-sw

On Saturday, August 1, 2020 at 6:38:25 PM UTC-4, cshenk wrote:
> wrote:
>
> > On Wednesday, July 29, 2020 at 7:27:34 PM UTC-5, cshenk wrote:
> > >
> > > We don't make 'Home Fries' for breakfast as a general rule here.
> > >
> > Nor here. They were never on the breakfast table when I was kid
> > either.
>
> Closest I hve seen is if he mis-names small cubes as 'home fries'
> because we don't always do shredded down south. Home fries are a long
> thing, often in wedges, not small cubes.

Home fries are often slices, not wedges.

<https://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/home_fries/>

Cindy Hamilton

Sqwertz wrote:
>
> On Sat, 01 Aug 2020 17:29:11 -0500, cshenk wrote:
>
> > Gary wrote:
> >
> >> jmcquown wrote:
> >>> I cannot tell you the last time I made or
> >>> ate pancakes.
> >>
> >> After so many years without, I found and ate 3 pancakes from the
> >> freezer just 2 days ago. Very good too. Now I'm tempted to make
> >> more.
> >
> > LOL, the way you worded that, it sounded like you ate years old frozen
> > pancakes. I'm sure that wasn't the case.
>
> I suspect he meant what he said - that he *did* eat years-old
> pancakes. I doubt he made them just to put them in the freezer last
> week.

OK, I'll fess up. I wrote that short to not explain everything.

Haven't made pancakes in many years but I did buy a box of
Eggo's pancakes about 2-3 months ago. They come in a box of
12... 4 sealed packs of 3 each. Better than the frozen
waffles to me.

I had one pack of 3 left and that's what I found in the
freezer. More expensive than homemade but very tasty.
And you don't have to stand there cooking them. Just toss
in the microwave, in a covered bowl, for 222 seconds.
Add butter on each and syrup and enjoy.

So tasty that I bought another box last Friday.

On Sun, 02 Aug 2020 07:29:01 -0400, Gary wrote:

> Sqwertz wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 01 Aug 2020 17:29:11 -0500, cshenk wrote:
>>
>>> Gary wrote:
>>>
>>>> jmcquown wrote:
>>>>> I cannot tell you the last time I made or
>>>>> ate pancakes.
>>>>
>>>> After so many years without, I found and ate 3 pancakes from the
>>>> freezer just 2 days ago. Very good too. Now I'm tempted to make
>>>> more.
>>>
>>> LOL, the way you worded that, it sounded like you ate years old frozen
>>> pancakes. I'm sure that wasn't the case.
>>
>> I suspect he meant what he said - that he *did* eat years-old
>> pancakes. I doubt he made them just to put them in the freezer last
>> week.
>
> OK, I'll fess up. I wrote that short to not explain everything.
>
> Haven't made pancakes in many years but I did buy a box of
> Eggo's pancakes about 2-3 months ago. They come in a box of
> 12... 4 sealed packs of 3 each. Better than the frozen
> waffles to me.

But they were still 2-3 year old pancakes?

> I had one pack of 3 left and that's what I found in the
> freezer. More expensive than homemade but very tasty.
> And you don't have to stand there cooking them. Just toss
> in the microwave, in a covered bowl, for 222 seconds.
> Add butter on each and syrup and enjoy.

You must have a really shitty microwave if you have to nuke them for
3 minutes and 42 seconds.

> So tasty that I bought another box last Friday.

I always wondered who bought frozen pancakes (other than Burger King
and McDonalds).

-sw

Sqwertz wrote:
>
> On Sun, 02 Aug 2020 07:29:01 -0400, Gary wrote:
>
> > Sqwertz wrote:
> >>
> >> On Sat, 01 Aug 2020 17:29:11 -0500, cshenk wrote:
> >>
> >>> Gary wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> jmcquown wrote:
> >>>>> I cannot tell you the last time I made or
> >>>>> ate pancakes.
> >>>>
> >>>> After so many years without, I found and ate 3 pancakes from the
> >>>> freezer just 2 days ago. Very good too. Now I'm tempted to make
> >>>> more.
> >>>
> >>> LOL, the way you worded that, it sounded like you ate years old frozen
> >>> pancakes. I'm sure that wasn't the case.
> >>
> >> I suspect he meant what he said - that he *did* eat years-old
> >> pancakes. I doubt he made them just to put them in the freezer last
> >> week.
> >
> > OK, I'll fess up. I wrote that short to not explain everything.
> >
> > Haven't made pancakes in many years but I did buy a box of
> > Eggo's pancakes about 2-3 months ago. They come in a box of
> > 12... 4 sealed packs of 3 each. Better than the frozen
> > waffles to me.
>
> But they were still 2-3 year old pancakes?

2-3 months

>
> > I had one pack of 3 left and that's what I found in the
> > freezer. More expensive than homemade but very tasty.
> > And you don't have to stand there cooking them. Just toss
> > in the microwave, in a covered bowl, for 222 seconds.
> > Add butter on each and syrup and enjoy.
>
> You must have a really shitty microwave if you have to nuke them for
> 3 minutes and 42 seconds.

That might have been a bit overkill but they are hot and not
overdone.

I have a small 700 watt microwave that I use almost every
day to heat or cook things. Works fine for me.

You might have a nifty better one but I don't care at all.
Mine works just fine, thankyou.

Gary wrote:
>
> Sqwertz wrote:
> >
> > Gary wrote:
> > > I had one pack of 3 left and that's what I found in the
> > > freezer. More expensive than homemade but very tasty.
> > > And you don't have to stand there cooking them. Just toss
> > > in the microwave, in a covered bowl, for 222 seconds.
> > > Add butter on each and syrup and enjoy.
> >
> > You must have a really shitty microwave if you have to nuke them for
> > 3 minutes and 42 seconds.
>
> That might have been a bit overkill but they are hot and not
> overdone.

One thing I realized later, Steve. My microwave sees 222
as 2 minutes and 22 seconds, not 222 seconds. I'll bet all
microwaves do this.

When I enter 222 and press start, it counts down to 200 then
immediately shows 1:59 and continues counting down. You knew
that though, I'm sure.

wrote:

> On Saturday, August 1, 2020 at 5:38:25 PM UTC-5, cshenk wrote:
> >
> > Closest I hve seen is if he mis-names small cubes as 'home fries'
> > because we don't always do shredded down south. Home fries are a
> > long thing, often in wedges, not small cubes.
> >
> Yep.
>
> He'll probably have a hissy fit running backward but I have actually
> used the small frozen cubes, a generous cup, in homemade vegetable
> beef soup. It needed more potatoes and I had no fresh ones on hand
> to peel and cube. The frozen cubes made an excellent substitute.

Hum! Hadn't thought of that use.

Anyways, Don gets a bag every 2 weeks or so, small Orida type, O'Brian
I think it is. Has little bits of bell peppers and such in there.

Cindy Hamilton wrote:

> On Saturday, August 1, 2020 at 6:38:25 PM UTC-4, cshenk wrote:
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On Wednesday, July 29, 2020 at 7:27:34 PM UTC-5, cshenk wrote:
> > > >
> > > > We don't make 'Home Fries' for breakfast as a general rule here.
> > > >
> > > Nor here. They were never on the breakfast table when I was kid
> > > either.
> >
> > Closest I hve seen is if he mis-names small cubes as 'home fries'
> > because we don't always do shredded down south. Home fries are a
> > long thing, often in wedges, not small cubes.
>
> Home fries are often slices, not wedges.
>
> <https://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/home_fries/>
>
> Cindy Hamilton

I'm familiar with them both ways. When we cut our own some are normal
fat 'Home Fries' and some due to the curvature of the potato end up
more like wedges.

Not a biggie, just that some come out that way kind of. Now the frozen
ones, if you get wedges, will all be wedge shaped. One of the fast
food places I seem to recall sells them in wedges? Can't recall which
one.

On 7/29/2020 10:20 PM, cshenk wrote:
> jmcquown wrote:
>
>> On 7/26/2020 10:34 PM, cshenk wrote:
>>> Sqwertz wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sat, 25 Jul 2020 05:29:10 -0700 (PDT), Bryan Simmons wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Saturday, July 25, 2020 at 6:00:06 AM UTC-5, Cindy Hamilton
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> On Friday, July 24, 2020 at 10:07:29 PM UTC-4, Sqwertz wrote:
>>>>>>> Scrapple, eggs, beans(*), sausage, biscuits.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://i.postimg.cc/QMqx8KZx/Full-A...-Breakfast.jpg
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Bring it On!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> (*) I don't know how you ******* eat those for breakfast.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -sw
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I kind of wish you had put the quotes around "American" rather
>>>>>> than "Full American Breakfast".
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Scrapple just isn't all that popular.
>>>>>
>>>>> Neither are beans for breakfast in most of the USA, but Steve
>>>>> is in Texas.
>>>>>
>>>>> A more typical full American breakfast is just eggs, fried
>>>>> potatoes, buttered toast, bacon or breakfast sausage, and a
>>>>> glass of orange or grapefruit juice.
>>>>
>>>> This was a mini take-off of a "Full English Breakfast" which
>>>> includes baked beans. While scrapple and leavened biscuits are one
>>>> of the few 100% American inventions on the breakfast plate.
>>>>
>>>> Posting pictures on here is like pulling teeth. I'm the last of a
>>>> dying breed (who actually cooks on this group).
>>>>
>>>> -sw
>>>
>>> Steve, stop. Many of us DO cook and you know it.
>>>
>> No need to gnash your teeth about it. He knows a lot of us cook, he
>> just wants to ruffle your feathers.
>>
>>> A typical truely 'full' southern breakfast would have biscuits or
>>> corn pone/corn bread, eggs, ham or bacon, and grits or hash browns.
>>> If they added pancakes, it would be occasional and not bigger than 3
>>> inches across. If they were bigger, they'd skip the rest of it and
>>> make 'honkin big ones' to fill a plate. Ok, maybe a side of
>>> grits.... ;-)
>>>
>> I've actually never heard of anything described as a 'full' Southern
>> breakfast. But hey, Texas has tried very hard to not be considered a
>> Southern state.
>>
>> For me breakfast (when I bother to make and eat it) is usually just a
>> couple of eggs, a couple of strips of bacon (I do vary the meat from
>> time to time, sometimes a couple of small link breakfast sausages or
>> sausage patties) and a piece of buttered toast. Served with a cold
>> glass of milk, of course. I cannot tell you the last time I made
>> or ate pancakes.
>>
>> Jill
>
> I think we last had pancakes in a hotel some 8 years ago?
>
> We are admittedly off the standard path though due to our time in Asia.
> We are making congee/juk type rice things 2 times a week for breakfast
> which is basically a very thick grain soup of rice and other bits.
> It's not even remotely USA standard (even in Hawaii).
>
Yeah, we know all about your time in Japan. Personally I don't want to
eat rice/congee/juk for breakfast. I don't think about pancakes for
breakfast, either. Eggs, bacon or sausage and toast or a buttered
biscuit works for me.

Jill

On Mon, 3 Aug 2020 19:44:26 -0400, jmcquown >
wrote:

>On 7/29/2020 10:20 PM, cshenk wrote:

>> I think we last had pancakes in a hotel some 8 years ago?
>>
>> We are admittedly off the standard path though due to our time in Asia.
>> We are making congee/juk type rice things 2 times a week for breakfast
>> which is basically a very thick grain soup of rice and other bits.
>> It's not even remotely USA standard (even in Hawaii).
>>
>Yeah, we know all about your time in Japan. Personally I don't want to
>eat rice/congee/juk for breakfast. I don't think about pancakes for
>breakfast, either. Eggs, bacon or sausage and toast or a buttered
>biscuit works for me.

Why flaunt your limitations, one wonders.

Bruce wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Aug 2020 19:44:26 -0400, jmcquown >
> wrote:
>
>> On 7/29/2020 10:20 PM, cshenk wrote:
>
>>> I think we last had pancakes in a hotel some 8 years ago?
>>>
>>> We are admittedly off the standard path though due to our time in Asia.
>>> We are making congee/juk type rice things 2 times a week for breakfast
>>> which is basically a very thick grain soup of rice and other bits.
>>> It's not even remotely USA standard (even in Hawaii).
>>>
>> Yeah, we know all about your time in Japan. Personally I don't want to
>> eat rice/congee/juk for breakfast. I don't think about pancakes for
>> breakfast, either. Eggs, bacon or sausage and toast or a buttered
>> biscuit works for me.
>
> Why flaunt your limitations, one wonders.
>

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