Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Meal question

My wife showed me sumpin' in the paper.   More on that in a moment.  I was clicking on a color for my type/font and this yellerish background came up.   I am thinking that it may be annoying.  Will now change to a different background color.
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Oh yes, oh yes, this is so much more restful to read.   In the Corsicana newspaper:  the  Corsicana Daily Sun, they run a daily article called  Annie's Mailbox.   Years past we had Dear Abby and Ann Landers.  Now I think both of those have passed on to the great newspaper in the sky.  Dear Abby still appears run by her daughter.  Many times, I think these new Dear Abby wantabes are idiots but hey, they have a job.
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So, I ask, is Annie's Mailbox just a continuation of Ann Landers?  run by her daughters?  Someone must know.  The authors are Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar - they must be delightful young ladies.  Can't stand this background.
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What makes these females so brilliant?   They certainly didn't go to college to learn how to babble.
Had enough of the background colors. 
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Yesterday in Annie's Mailbox some worrisome soul from the South who calls herself:  "Stickler in the South," asked the earth shattering question:  (lot of colons happening here):  What is the difference between Supper and Dinner?  My wife pointed this article out and commence to recite how, when she grew up, the noon meal was called Dinner.  
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Supper came at night.
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I'll tell you what I have to come to.
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It depends where and how you were raised and who raised you - what did they call it in your house?  Let's do a bit of digging here.  Surely nobody will argue against breakfast being the first meal of the day, whether it is morning or night - if you eat Breakfast - traditional Breakfast food, it is Breakfast!  Want to eat Breakfast at night?  Call it Breakfast at Supper (or whatever).  I say the choice is yours and I rarely make the newspaper.
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Now Brunch happens sometime between Breakfast and the noon meal.  Please note that I did not call the noon meal Lunch.  Even though in my family Noon was lunch.  Well, let me just cover that subject now.   I was raised by two Oklahoma backwoods folks.  Lunch came at noon.   The evening meal was interchangeable Dinner or Supper.  We didn't care either way.  I'm hungry.  Let's eat.   Pile it on.  And we did.
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What brought all this up is my wife (see paragraph one).   She read the paper and made a big deal out of it.  SIDE BAR -- SIDE BAR -- SIDE BAR   My spouse & I just had a short conversation about this.  I told her I was writing on the subject.  She asked if I were giving her credit.  I told her "yes" and that "I am trying my best not to make fun of you about this."   END SIDE BAR.
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Wife made a big deal about this.   In her family Dinner came at noon and Supper came at night.  There you have it.  The supreme answer to the question.  My wife says Dinner is at noon and Supper is at night.   If mama ain't happy, nobody's happy.  Henceforth, I will call the noon meal Dinner  ....  probably won't .... why lie here?   Lunch is noon.   If it were not at noon, then Brunch would have to be called Brinner.  Now, that's dumb.  Brupper?  c'mon folks, that's even dumber.    My opinion:  Breakfast, Brunch, Lunch, then nighttime Dinner/Supper followed by a small 10:30 pm Snack. 
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Back to the article.  These educated ladies say that Dinner is your big meal of the day.  The person sending the question to the newspaper wondered why the White House doesn't have State Suppers instead of State Dinners.    If Dinner comes at Noon, then a night fancy meal would be a State Supper.  Just sounds wrong doesn't it?    Newspaper said that Supper was a light snack in the evening sometime.  My wife says Lunch is something like sandwiches during the day-sorta.  I call a late evening meal just a SNACK.   10:30 P.M. let's have a Snack - not Supper.  For goodness sakes, can't someone figure this out.
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Have come up with the solution and final say.  Let's ask the Pope or Queen what's her name in England.  Fancy chefs have been feeding them under State control or Pope control for centuries.  If the staff at the Vatican says that Lunch is Dinner, so be it.  If they say Supper is Dinner, so be it.   If they say Brunch is Brupper, I'll live with it.   But, above all, let's keep this type of thing out of the newspapers and certainly out of Ann Lander's column.  My wife has better things to read.

p.s.   My little Greta did not eat her Breakfast this morning.  She arose about 8:30 and made a casual trip to our backyard wetting fields.  Upon her return to the house, she plopped on a doggy bed where she remained until I went outside to plant a tree (another stone there for later).   After the wife and I eat our "noon meal"  I give all dogs a chew stick of some variety.  Greta refused her chew stick today - naturally - but kept giving me THE EYE.   I put her breakfast bowl down on the floor, and it was finished off in a flash.  So you see, with sweet little blondie Greta:     Lunch was Breakfast.  Don't argue with an 8 pound blond.

later,


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