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| StitchInTime | Jun 30 2010, 08:14 PM Post #1 |
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When the power's gone down and the back up generator's on the fritz, and the wind is blowing ominously through the broken windows in the sitting room, what do you chow down on? My favourite power failure repast, ever since the days of the biggy, the one that blacked out the whole eastern seaboard (back in 2003, was it?) consists of a can of beans in tomato sauce, with milk poured over top, garlic, onion powder, curry powder, and black pepper, and a slice of bread and margarine with a big hunk of prehistorically ancient yellow cheddar cheese. I figure I have to use up the milk, bread and cheese; so, I throw everything into the mix, and besides, I like it! What's your favourite? |
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| bonnie | Jun 30 2010, 08:41 PM Post #2 |
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Since I would not be able to cook (stove is electric), I would probably eat a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and open a can or two fruit. |
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| StitchInTime | Jun 30 2010, 08:47 PM Post #3 |
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Mmm, sounds yummy! Maybe I forgot to mention that I don't cook the beans, since I can't cook then either, unless I start a fire on the balcony, which is not recommended.
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The Untold Doctor Who As Wide as the Infinite Sky ![]() Holy Zarquon's Singing Fish! What's a StitchInTime? It is a wrinkle, a glitch, a hitch, an irrepressible hangnail in the fabric of space-time that can't be clipped. - S.C.L. Eiler When the moose shows up on your doorstep, we'll know that all is lost. - wombat (June 11, 2007) Brigadier: You know, just once I'd like to meet an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets. (Robot) Sarah Jane (about the Fourth Doctor): He sometimes talks to himself, mostly because he's the only person who knows what he's talking about. (The Ark in Space) | |
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| bonnie | Jun 30 2010, 10:22 PM Post #4 |
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I gathered that you wouldn't be able to cook the beans.
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| wombat | Jun 30 2010, 11:20 PM Post #5 |
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Hmmm... I'd probably polish off the emergency ice cream I keep at the back of the fridge. In years gone by I'd have said "a large glass of wine" but with the latest bout of fires during storms, maybe drinking isn't the best idea around here! |
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| Gold Usher | Jul 1 2010, 03:03 AM Post #6 |
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Well if I were up home in Maine, I'd be hoping for a nice long snow storm..the kind that keeps you home for 2 days or three. I used to cook on and in the wood stove so food would never be a problem there. Boiling water for a hot bath, that's a problem We would do the baked beans on top and fire up the hot dogs with the open doors on the skewer. Hamburgers and steaks we used to do on a folding grid of sorts to the flames. Of course the one time we lived in a mobile home park and had to evac to the shop, I made up the large cooler with bagels, cream cheese, peanutbutter and jelly with bread, milk and cereal. If I recall there was a 6 pack of soda too. But the shop was next to a bar and beyond that, French Affair so I know we'd not lack for anything 'good'. Unfortunately the hurricane never came to Sarasota and drifted up towards Tampa and points north. At 11 p.m. we went back to the house after a day at the shop boarding up the windows, inflating two twins and bringing bedding. Hey, I planned to be very comfortable if I had to camp out there. |
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We would do the baked beans on top and fire up the hot dogs with the open doors on the skewer. Hamburgers and steaks we used to do on a folding grid of sorts to the flames.
12:54 AM Jul 11