Couch 224: 2day, 2morrow, 4evah!

It is good to have one’s predictions thwarted. How else can you grow as a pollster?

In my family, we definitely add sugar to French toast. We dredge the thick-cut bread in a rich mixture of eggs, milk, and some sugar. The eggs and milk are the bigger attraction, but the sugar is also there. Oh, and cinnamon as well.

We are farm folk. It's supposed to sit heavy, to get you through a hard cold day.

I believe the problem here was not the poll but the pollees. The pimento cheese hostility is unsettling.
If instead the question was- what sort of pimento cheese is the therapist you hire
or Do you think the therapist puts pimento cheese on crackers, or celery, or just plain bread? Or the ever popular "if the therapist you hire was a cheese spread/dip - what sort would they be? Pimento Cheese? Queso dip? Ranch (for the contrarians) and so on.
I now would assume a lot of people claiming they can not imagine their therapist enjoying such a delightful delicacy at all.
More is the pity.

My mother put sugar on the sort she made as well. I am not a huge morning sugar fan - but my bigger problem is the pan fried breakfast bread - it all lumps back up into a cannon ball of lead inside. And as I am not a farmer - it just sits there.

I find the pile of simple carbs just sort of puts me in a food coma for much of the day, where I want to take a nap an hour after breakfast. Though lately, I haven't really been eating much breakfast at all, just coffee and something small, then having an early lunch.

I've never had pimento cheese to my knowledge and I don't even know what it is.


I don't put regular sugar on French toast but I do love powdered sugar sprinkled on top because it is just pretty. Not that I have French toast all that often but now I am craving some. Thanks guys.

I've both made it and bought it. I particularly like the Palmetto Cheese brand that I'm not able to find where I live. When we first moved to the PNW, we were looking for some pre-made in the grocery store deli section and they had no idea what it was.

ETA: Never had it with nuts, either mayo would be fine, personally don't like it spicy, I eat it on crackers or as a sandwich.

You just reminded me of fried balogna sandwiches - a staple of my childhood. I can almost smell it! Haven't had it in years, but yum.

I just heard that Rush Limbaugh passed away today. Tidbit about Artie, I went to college (the first time around) in his hometown, Cape Girardeau, MO.

I haven't tried or heard of pimento cheese until now.

I would like it on bread over crackers.

Oh, I used to eat that sometime, too! As a vegetarian now, it sort of horrifies me, but I can also think of the smell!

Ended up briefly talking about the show Monk with Dr. T today. I think you're a fan of that, Una, right? He clearly watched it, because he was like, "What was his wife's name, the one that died...Trudy?" And I was like, "yes, that's it!" He said he felt the episodes involving stuff about her were really well done. But some other stuff wasn't handled as well.

When my mom was off doing something else, my dad would make us fried balogna sandwiches from a giant log of balogna that he sliced thin and thick pieces off of so we could taste as he cooked them up -on white bread with yellow mustard.
He would go out and buy it about once a month. My mother would sometimes make them for us, but not with the gusto of my dad.

I don't think I have ever had a fried balogna sandwich. I can only think of half a dozen times when I have had balogna.

Wow. I must be made of bologna. That would explain a lot! Never fried though.

“The name is Luna, Una Luna. Flambéed, not fried.”

I remember you have to cut a slit in the circular balogna before frying so it didn't just curl up into a bowl.

In case anyone is wondering what I decided: But I really feel like I made the decision. Even though T wanted me to do it. And my friends wanted me to do it. I finally feel like I got to that place where I made the decision and I'm good with it. Gotta have the faith!

This brings up another memory, when I was in high school on rare occasions my Dad would fry slices of corn meal mush for breakfast for the two of us. We put syrup on it as if they were pancakes. No one else in the family was up that early, and besides we were the only 2 who liked it. He could be a much different person when the younger kids weren't around.

Hugs, Kit. I'm glad you feel like you were the one who made the decision.

A quick Google search indicates that putting sugar in your cornbread is divided by race, but apparently not always because I actually like a little sugar in my cornbread.

Prayers for Artley and her family, and our other friends from Texas who may be suffering due to the polar vortex and resulting power outages. And a pox on those civic leaders, they know who they are.

My mom in San Antonio has power but no water. She's brought in buckets of snow to melt. I'm just glad she has heat still.

NP, Palmetto Cheese is amazing! It's available at Walmart here, and I've seen it at Publix. Wonder if you can have it delivered?

I read that houses in texas are constructed to be 30 degrees lower than the outside temperature, so it feels like 75 inside when its 105 outside. So everybody was running their electric heaters and that overloaded the grid. And the grid itself is not winterized to this extent (polar vortex temps), and texas doesnt give or get power from other states. So they are kinda effed.