Filed under: Food, Friends, humor, laugh, love | Tags: Food, Ketchup, Oddities, Recipes
We had some fun popcorn and usual recipes a couple a blogs ago. Now lets have some fun with ketchup. Let me begin by stating that ketchup is one of my favorite condiments. It is healthy and tasty and can be used on lots of items to add and/or change flavor. While I am not normally brand choosy, I am when it comes to ketchup. I only like Heinz ketchup. This is not an advertisement for Heinz; it merely is a statement of fact. Now here’s some odd uses of ketchup.
(1) My youngest daughter (she’s 23) won’t eat macaroni and cheese without ketchup. When I asked why, she explained that growing up she frequently ate hot dogs with ketchup along with macaroni and cheese. Somehow the ketchup always found its way into the macaroni and cheese. Now, as an adult she will not eat macaroni and cheese without ketchup.
(2) Growing up I can’t recall my Dad eating eggs without ketchup on them. He also would spread ketchup on saltine crackers; he did the same with mustard.
(3) As a youngster, I had a friend a who family used ketchup as their sauce on spaghetti. Her mother would cook the pasta and put it in a bowl on the dining table. Then the family just took bottles of ketchup and poured it over the spaghetti. When my friend learned of “real” sauce for spaghetti, she was surprised. She had grown up thinking spaghetti sauce was ketchup.
How about you? Any odd recipes or uses of ketchup?
Let’s have some tasty fun today. There are so many ways to make popcorn. Some unusual. How do you make popcorn? What’s the most unusual way you know of?
I’ll start out. Growing up as a kid we had a special “popcorn” pan. It was black from use. We would start with a stick of butter. Let it melt and then add plenty of white popcorn. If we wanted something different we would use bacon grease instead of butter. We cooked it until it was almost black and then doused it with milk to eat. I thought that was the only way to eat popcorn until I was a teenager and started getting kettle cooked popcorn at movie theaters and sporting events.
Can you top this in unusual ways to make popcorn?
I know, recently, I became hung up on quotes. They can just be so thought provoking and most often can’t be said better. Here’s so more and I promise . . . this is it.
To love oneself is the beginning of a life long romance. Oscar Wilde
Taxes and life insurance are just about the same thing. You pay out the money, and someone else has the fun of spending it. Unknown.
If you don’t say anything, you won’t be called on to repeat it.
Calvin Coolidge
When people agree with me, I always feel I must be wrong.
Oscar Wilde
We must adjust to changing times and still hold to the unchanging principles. Jimmy Carter Inaugural Address
Only a life lived for others is the life worth while. Albert Einstein
We are always getting ready to live, but never living. Ralph Waldo Emerson
With God, all things are possible. State Motto of Ohio
Time is the least thing we have of. Ernest Hemingway
Excellence is born of preparation, dedication, focus and tenacity; compromise on any of these and you become average. John Chatterton
Filed under: humor, laugh, love, mind, smile | Tags: fun, humor, laughter, smile
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. Abraham Lincoln
If I had no sense of humour, I would long ago committed suicide. Mohandas Gandhi
A few days ago a good friend of mine, who had just read this blog for the first time, remarked how it was all so serious; that there was no humor. I looked back at the first 34 Thoughts and he was absolutely right. The Thoughts were all so serious. So, it got me thinking . . . seriously about humor. This is for you, Jack!
First, what is humor? Wikipedia (Wikipedia – a sign of the times) defines humor as “the tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement.” According to Lincoln and Gandhi (no doubt two great men and thinkers), we need humor to survive. We need to laugh in spite of hard times. In these turbulent times today, humor may be the only free entertainment available. For some it may be the only entertainment they can afford. It costs nothing and you can get it anywhere. You don’t have to drive to it. It is avaialable anywhere, anytime. So laugh, smile, be amused!
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt: its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper. Thomas Carlyle
Good humor isn’t a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice. David Seaburg
So where is this free stuff? Inside each and everyone of us. Look deep inside; it is part of our human fabric. You need to find it and practice each and every day. It’s all attitude. Smile. Laugh. Practice being humorous, at being happy.
Do you have a sense of humor? Wikipedia defines “a person with a sense of humor as people who can be amused.” Do you laugh, smile, allow yourself to be amused. Let’s hope so. If you don’t it is sad. We need humor in all lives. In all aspects of our lives . . . both in good times and especially bad times. Learn to laugh. Learn to smile. Learn to be humorous! Your life will be enriched the more you are humorous.
Thanks Jack for reminding me of this and I promise you, you will be see more humor in upcoming Thoughts. What do you think?
Humor is the other side of tragedy. Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest and earliest national resources which must be preserved at all costs. It came over on the Mayflower and we should have it, all of it. James Thurber
