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#120520 01/23/04 07:38 PM
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a course, that's them up there in the Kingdom. we'd never say anything like that down here in civilized Central Vermont...


Harrumph....

Here's something I wrote recently on the very same subject:

Sugar On Snow

Cynthia tells me about how
in trendy Stowe in April
the sugarhouses open up
their doors, invite the public
to sugar-on-snow, a local
favorite, with a pickle on the
side to temper the sweetness,
and home-made doughnuts.
The locals, she says, break out
their fiddles and their mandolins
and everybody has a little dance.
Over in the Northeast Kingdom,
where I live, I tell her, we like
to do things differently. We have
our sugar on our snow, a pickle
and a home-made doughnut, too,
but then we crank up the boom-box
and pass around the whiskey jug.






Ron.



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I'm guessing it's because the radish, being often the smallest (& possibly least favored) part of the salad is often all that remains in the bowl after the feast; the bitter end, sort of.

As to just how regional the expression may be, I've heard mixed reports.

Ron.


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Harrumph

but I used all them smileys and winks!!

great poem, Ron.



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uh-oh!... the circley R police is gonna get the two of you..* now, you'd better *really run!

Green Onions took me straight to Booker T.


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What do you call the men who patrol the meters? Or don't you have 'em?

You put radishes in salads. Hmmm.


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What do you call the men
meter readers
radishes in salads
where else do you use them? perhaps a garnish, I suppose...



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radishes in salads
where else do you use them? perhaps a garnish, I suppose...

We eat them just like that, sometimes, you dip 'em in salt. I've never seen radishes in a salad, or thought of putting them in there...which is odd for me cause I'm a big "assorted" salad fan. The usual, everyday salad will include:

iceberg lettuce
chopped spinach
sliced challots including the green shoot
garlic chips
chopped parsley
tiny apple cubes
green or red pepper cubes
grated carrots
tiny cubes of ham
grated cheddar cheese (mild orange or very strong white, depending on the mood)
Salt & pepper

Tomorrow, I'm adding radishes


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adding radishes

often sliced, or at least cut in half, unless they're little bitty ones...



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I'm with belM, on this one. Back home, we just ate radishes as radishes. I have seen them in salads, but it's not the normal way to eat them to me.

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Next time you make a potato salad, don't forget to add radishes

Here in Kalamazoo, we call our parking police the "Parking Nazis". There was this one guy, I haven't seen him in a while, you could just tell he wished he could carry a gun. He was the worst of the Parking Nazis. I heard that he had tested to be a policeman but had failed the psych test...


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