A caution about freeze dried herbs and condiments. (I used to sell them industrially)
These are all EXTREMELY hydroscopic (they take on water easily). With a lot of freeze dried items once you open the package, they're going to start taking on water. Depending on what you're making, you are not going to be happy with…

Do you folks have ANY taste buds?

Chopped onions? Shouldn't take you more than a couple of minutes. If it does you need to learn how to use a knife correctly.

For all of these "convenience" foods, you're giving up taste and adding a lot of junk to what you're eating.
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For me. Minimalist pasta sauces. Then add…

Sorry, but the taste difference makes these products unusable for me. Running out? You can run out of the tubes. Clean up? If it takes you more than a couple of minutes, you're doing something wrong.

Hmm. Climate change. Now we'll get the climate deniers.

I'm 66. We bought our first house maybe 40 years ago. It wasn't much bigger than some of the apartments we had lived in. Maybe 900 sq. ft.

At the time, you used 20-25% of your income as a guide to buying a house. I think it's near 35%.

One of the BIG problems is that some people view buying a house the same as putting…

What little I know about geology.

The "berm" around the hole is extremely telling in the sense that anything that would have caused the land to sink would not have caused the debris around the hole.

That type of thing comes from something exploding and throwing debris up.

Okay, I am an AKC and ASCA judge. I've judged for 20+ years. I've taught obedience for 35+ years.

I don't buy the argument from the insurance companies about the breeds.

My wife and I had Rottweilers for about 25 years. These dogs were on TV numerous times. Therapy dogs. In parades numerous times and used in schools…

I used to fly over 100,000 miles/year. If I NEVER fly again, I'll be happy.

First easy fix for the airlines to make coach passengers comfy.

Don't allow seat backs to recline!

Leg room is ridiculous to begin with. When people recline, you feel as if they're in your lap.

Might want to look at the odds you can get if you play craps the right way. Not real complicated.

Thanks.

Couldn't have come at a better time since I'm actually in the process of selling two cars. An '81 Triumph and a Chevy Impala.

I work in the food ingredient industry. Thank you for including "natural" and "organic". A comment on each. This also gets into "science is always ahead of the law".

For what we buy, there is our perceived definition and the legal definition.

For a while, I sold fish oil. Wild caught menhadden. You'd think that being…

I'm a recruiter.

ALWAYS make certain that you talk to a potential reference before using them as a reference. It's polite and it's common sense.

Was doing a reference check on a candidate. The reference's response when I first told him who I was calling about? "I would never hire this guy for any job including the…

I used to work for a company that sold products to Sears.

Any big seller uses the same tactics. Companies simply have to decide whether they want to deal with these bullies.

In the case of the company I worked for, after so much BS from Sears, the owner finally decided he had had enough and quit selling to them.

Another food tip that might work for you. I'm the only one who really eats bacon in my house.

I have to go a little out of my way to get some REALLY GOOD bacon so I'll typically buy 2-3 pounds. Then when I get home I wrap the bacon in serving sizes. Want bacon, just pull out a serving, thaw it and cook it.

I absolutely LOVE Cree bulbs. No financial interest.

When I started buying florescents I was extremely disappointed with their life. If I got 6 months out of one, I was lucky.

Started buying LEDs maybe 6 months ago. Will never go back to anything else.

Crewed for a hot air balloonist for maybe 15 years.

For the folks in the basket, this isn't a great sensation when the skydiver leaves.

Balloon buoyancy is based on the weight in the basket. The heavier the weight the more heat is needed to get the balloon to rise. Lose 170 lbs. all at once and the balloon is going up…

Where that happens for me. Again. I work for companies that sell ingredients to the likes of Kraft, Pepsi, etc.

I get a lot of people who sell finished products to grocery stores, or ex-pharmaceutical people The pharma people will sometimes work on the R&D side, if the requirement is for pure chemical research. Other…

Certified flavorist in the Chicago area. QA slot in Minneapolis. Purchasing slot in LA area. Director of R&D, prefer PhD. All require experience in the food industry.

Don't mean this in a derogatory way. If a recruiter is going through hundreds of resumes in a day, it seems to me that they aren't using their databases, or selection criteria on job boards, of LinkedIn properly. On both, you can get fairly specific on the criteria.

Okay. I'm a recruiter. Food ingredient industry.

Let's say that I'm looking for a certified flavorist. First of all since most of you wouldn't know, there's a huge difference between a flavorist and a certified flavorist. So when I do a LinkedIn search the first thing that I'm going to look for is certified. So that…