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  1. One of my staples growing up was a chicken and rice casserole with four-ish frozen chicken breasts, two cups of rice, two cans of cream of mushroom soup, and two cups of water. Season liberally with Seasoned Salt (Morton's Nature Seasons), cover in foil and bake at 350 for about 1.5 hours. I made it for years after I got married and really like the cream of mushroom/rice combination. Fancy it up by adding a can of mushrooms. I recognize it for what it is (mid-century casserole/back of soup can recipe fare) and haven't made it in years. But it outkicked the coverage for some time after it should have been retired.
  2. Right. I'm aware of aspic and recall the early Simpsons episode where everyone brought jello salad with marshmallows to Mr. Burns's party.
  3. I've lived in Texas my entire life (50+ years), and never to my recollection have I ever been presented with the opportunity to eat a congealed salad (although I'm sure it was an option at Luby's or something).
  4. No surprise, but Tyler got a shit-ton of rain today and no tornados or derechos.
  5. My neighbor upstairs my senior year at UT had a girlfriend who would make these for us while we sat their and drank beer. There's no way they're as good as I remember them. But they're probably pretty good.
  6. Two dolls instead of thirty. Because the children have too much. Also, who rides a lion? I mean, honestly?
  7. No, usually I buy French green beans, which definitely are string beans. I cook them like my mom did, which probably softens them up enough so I don't notice my mistake. They are delicious in any event.
  8. dcbc

    We got Soul?

    Arguably one of the best.
  9. Me either. I've always just snapped the ends.
  10. Permission to come aboard: DENIED. Ole Brock Horner was charged with burglary and assault/battery after the incident.
  11. When I was about that age, my dad was 73. He was a quiet authority figure, and my mom was management, which including handing out discipline. So my dad and I were in a fishing boat, and he was talking to me about something that got under my skin, and I popped off to him. And before I even had a chance to regret that decision, he tapped me on the chin with two fingers and said, "Don't ever talk to me like that again.". I sat up straight, shut up, and apologized. He never once hit me. He didn't have to. He was in charge, and we all knew it. My mom, on the other hand, spanked my ass on a few occasions. I don't resent her for it. I probably had it coming. The last such time, I put some distance between us and negotiated to the point of her putting that elastic belt down and taking a few steps back so we could talk.
  12. I'd like to point out that we didn't even get pics of the Cattleack Brisket or the mac n cheese.
  13. My mom has Parkinson's, and once, she was being transported to the ER and was given a mild sedative because, by all appearances, she needed it. "Kicks the ant bed" is the correct analogy. She was not in her right mind for days and it's probably the closest we have come to losing her since the beginning of this long goodbye called Parkinson's.
  14. Is the TL/DR version of the Mac n Cheese recipe "I went to Luby's" on Midway and picked it up? Because that sounds solid if so.
  15. I know it's reality TV and, therefore, completely fake. But that was ridiculous.
  16. But you pare down the clutter in the process.
  17. No. You can just assign text bubble colors on your end. And so far, we cannot edit texts or respond to specific texts in a group chat. I did have the distinct pleasure the other day in telling a friend who was bitching about the quality of the video that he sent the group that if his iphone could run IOS 18, he now was allowed to send good videos. Alas, he had to admit that his iphone was too old to run IOS18.
  18. Kevin from Soulhat has one. It was his first electric and he recently refurbished it and has used it live.
  19. The lawyers he deserves. Mike Lindell lawyers threatened by judge over briefs loaded with AI-generated fake cases https://www.rawstory.com/lindell-dominion-2671843170/?utm
  20. LOL. That would have run $3.50. But Lone Star and Martinis were $1.50 all night long.
  21. Circling back on this. I can't rep it enough. I grew up in Houston in the 70s and 80s, and lived in Austin and Houston throughout the 90s. Never once did I have to specify unsweet tea. If you wanted sweet tea, you used the pink packets they put on the tables to put under the table legs to keep them from wobbling. I moved to east Texas in 2001 and the first time I ordered iced tea, I was met with, "Suuhweet or un-suuhweeeeet?" To make matters worse, in a noisy restaurant or at a drive-thru, "unsweet" is as close to "sweet" as you can get without saying, "sweet." I've got an idea, how about we call it tea and sweet tea. At least that way, I won't have to discover you got my order wrong by ingesting that syrupy nastiness.
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