Food-Fight

Mega-pulp........
Last week Linda did not get to go to the store.
Linda goes to the MarketPlace supermarket in nearby Honeoye Falls and does 50-60% of the grocery-shopping. It’s about 5-6 miles away.
I do the remainder of the grocery-shopping at the mighty Canandaigua Weggers, about 15 miles away, mainly produce, milk and meat (chicken/turkey, fish, whatever).
As such, Linda buys the orange-juice, and MarketPlace sells Florida’s Natural as well as Tropicana.
Weggers sells Tropicana and its own brand. No Florida’s Natural.
But since Linda didn’t get to shop, we had to buy orange-juice at Weggers, in this case the infamous jewel-in-the-crown, the Pittsford-Plaza Weggers, the store so big you need a powered cart, and the vast parking-lot has limo-service.
Thanks to our vaunted free-market system, the simple act of buying orange-juice has become a monstrous hairball.
Florida’s Natural sells orange-juice with calcium and “some-pulp;” which is what we buy.
Weggers only had pulp without calcium, or calcium without pulp.
Tropicana had calcium with “lotsa pulp;” so that is what we bought.
So all week we’ve been drinking juice with a thick layer of pulp on top — so thick you think you’re drinking sawdust.
We had three gallons of mega-pulp to consume — that’s three half-gallons mixed with water into gallons.

The great taco experiment........
Usually we have bought tacos at Taco-Bell (BONG!).
But Taco-Bell is accused of delivering toxins, and we’ve always wanted to make tacos on our own.
We made tacos some time ago, but made the mistake of using crunchy shells.
Soft-shell tacos can be managed.
We had a small packet of taco-seasoning, enough for 12 tacos it said. One each for us is a meal.
We thawed some ground-round, cooked it, and mixed in the taco-seasoning. It looked like about four meals, so we froze half.
We had soft tortillas, so made the tacos with diced tomatoes, chopped lettuce, and shredded cheese.
Bearable, I guess; although I got too much meat on mine.
They were suggesting salsa, but I used the mixed ketchup and salsa I put on fish (not salmon-steaks).
The only remaining hairball is Taco-Bell’s (BONG!) mild “Border-Sauce.” We had a few packets left, so used them. No idea what to replace them with — we don’t want fire-sauces.