I got my glad rags on this morning and headed to the used bookstore
about 11 miles away from me. I came home with seven books, four of
which are paperbacks. My grand total came to $8.72 and when I got
home I checked all the original prices for these and I would have paid
$145.84 for my booty if I'd bought them new. These will keep me busy
for a good while as I read when I hit the sack.

This place is huge and have every genre of books you can imagine.
They also stock hundreds of puzzles, games, videos, and camera
equipment. But I think their videos are too overpriced.

After leaving there I headed to Kroger to do my weekly shopping. A
large bunch of green grapes and equally large bunch of red grapes
made it into my shopping cart. Imagine my disappointment after
washing all of these to discover the red grapes are seeded. UGH, I
detest seeds and these may be given away to a friend. It's my fault
for not reading the bag as it clearly states, "seeded grapes."

On 9/29/2022 6:17 PM, itsjoannotjoann@webtv.net wrote:
>
> I got my glad rags on this morning and headed to the used bookstore
> about 11 miles away from me. I came home with seven books, four of
> which are paperbacks. My grand total came to $8.72 and when I got
> home I checked all the original prices for these and I would have paid
> $145.84 for my booty if I'd bought them new. These will keep me busy
> for a good while as I read when I hit the sack.
>
I love a good used bookstore! :)

> After leaving there I headed to Kroger to do my weekly shopping. A
> large bunch of green grapes and equally large bunch of red grapes
> made it into my shopping cart. Imagine my disappointment after
> washing all of these to discover the red grapes are seeded. UGH, I
> detest seeds and these may be given away to a friend. It's my fault
> for not reading the bag as it clearly states, "seeded grapes."

I suppose you don't have a grape pitter. I don't, either. Could you
possibly return them and swap for seedless?

Jill

On Thursday, September 29, 2022 at 6:40:58 PM UTC-4, j_mc...@comcast.net wrote:
> On 9/29/2022 6:17 PM, itsjoan...@webtv.net wrote:
> >
> > I got my glad rags on this morning and headed to the used bookstore
> > about 11 miles away from me. I came home with seven books, four of
> > which are paperbacks. My grand total came to $8.72 and when I got
> > home I checked all the original prices for these and I would have paid
> > $145.84 for my booty if I'd bought them new. These will keep me busy
> > for a good while as I read when I hit the sack.
> >
> I love a good used bookstore! :)
> > After leaving there I headed to Kroger to do my weekly shopping. A
> > large bunch of green grapes and equally large bunch of red grapes
> > made it into my shopping cart. Imagine my disappointment after
> > washing all of these to discover the red grapes are seeded. UGH, I
> > detest seeds and these may be given away to a friend. It's my fault
> > for not reading the bag as it clearly states, "seeded grapes."
> I suppose you don't have a grape pitter. I don't, either. Could you
> possibly return them and swap for seedless?
>
> Jill
Make whine.

On Thursday, September 29, 2022 at 6:00:57 PM UTC-5, Thomas wrote:
>
> Make whine.
>
I've already made a whine, it didn't help.

On Thursday, September 29, 2022 at 5:40:58 PM UTC-5, j_mc...@comcast.net wrote:
> On 9/29/2022 6:17 PM, itsjoan...@webtv.net wrote:
> >
> > I got my glad rags on this morning and headed to the used bookstore
> > about 11 miles away from me. I came home with seven books, four of
> > which are paperbacks. My grand total came to $8.72 and when I got
> > home I checked all the original prices for these and I would have paid
> > $145.84 for my booty if I'd bought them new. These will keep me busy
> > for a good while as I read when I hit the sack.
> >
> I love a good used bookstore! :)
>
We actually donate books that we're weeding to the local
used bookstore, even though they're a for profit business.
>
> > After leaving there I headed to Kroger to do my weekly shopping. A
> > large bunch of green grapes and equally large bunch of red grapes
> > made it into my shopping cart. Imagine my disappointment after
> > washing all of these to discover the red grapes are seeded. UGH, I
> > detest seeds and these may be given away to a friend. It's my fault
> > for not reading the bag as it clearly states, "seeded grapes."
> I suppose you don't have a grape pitter. I don't, either. Could you
> possibly return them and swap for seedless?
>
If they begrudgingly took them back, they'd end up
in the dumpster. She's better giving them to
someone, so they don't get wasted. I know that
some folks here like fruit salads, and when you
halve grapes anyway, they're effortless to deseed.
>
> Jill

--Bryan

Thomas wrote:
> On Thursday, September 29, 2022 at 6:40:58 PM UTC-4, j_mc...@comcast.net wrote:
>> On 9/29/2022 6:17 PM, itsjoan...@webtv.net wrote:
>>>
>>> I got my glad rags on this morning and headed to the used bookstore
>>> about 11 miles away from me. I came home with seven books, four of
>>> which are paperbacks. My grand total came to $8.72 and when I got
>>> home I checked all the original prices for these and I would have paid
>>> $145.84 for my booty if I'd bought them new. These will keep me busy
>>> for a good while as I read when I hit the sack.
>>>
>> I love a good used bookstore! :)
>>> After leaving there I headed to Kroger to do my weekly shopping. A
>>> large bunch of green grapes and equally large bunch of red grapes
>>> made it into my shopping cart. Imagine my disappointment after
>>> washing all of these to discover the red grapes are seeded. UGH, I
>>> detest seeds and these may be given away to a friend. It's my fault
>>> for not reading the bag as it clearly states, "seeded grapes."
>> I suppose you don't have a grape pitter. I don't, either. Could you
>> possibly return them and swap for seedless?
>>
>> Jill
> Make whine.
>

Nah, those gals ain't gonna move to canada, at least any time soon.

itsjoannotjoann@webtv.net wrote:
> On Thursday, September 29, 2022 at 6:00:57 PM UTC-5, Thomas wrote:
>>
>> Make whine.
>>
> I've already made a whine, it didn't help.
>

Yoose have to be in canada for it to work dummy.

On 9/29/2022 18:17, itsjoannotjoann@webtv.net wrote:
>
> I got my glad rags on this morning and headed to the used bookstore
> about 11 miles away from me. I came home with seven books, four of
> which are paperbacks. My grand total came to $8.72 and when I got
> home I checked all the original prices for these and I would have paid
> $145.84 for my booty if I'd bought them new. These will keep me busy
> for a good while as I read when I hit the sack.
>
> This place is huge and have every genre of books you can imagine.
> They also stock hundreds of puzzles, games, videos, and camera
> equipment. But I think their videos are too overpriced.

I would bet that they sell more videos than books. Lucky for you, it
seems that you are looking for the books. I really should get back into
reading more. I don't think I read anything more than Usenet.

> After leaving there I headed to Kroger to do my weekly shopping. A
> large bunch of green grapes and equally large bunch of red grapes
> made it into my shopping cart. Imagine my disappointment after
> washing all of these to discover the red grapes are seeded. UGH, I
> detest seeds and these may be given away to a friend. It's my fault
> for not reading the bag as it clearly states, "seeded grapes."

Do you not like eating around the seeds? Seeded grapes are rarer than
hen's teeth now. I accidentally got a bag once, but they didn't bother
me any. I honestly thought that they had a better taste than the
seedless grapes (similar to seeded vs. seedless watermelon).

On 9/29/2022 19:43, Bryan Simmons wrote:
> On Thursday, September 29, 2022 at 5:40:58 PM UTC-5, j_mc...@comcast.net wrote:
>>
>> I love a good used bookstore! :)
>>
> We actually donate books that we're weeding to the local
> used bookstore, even though they're a for profit business.
>
> --Bryan

Do you finish "weeding" them first? ;)

Sorry, I read it in the voice of a 2 year old attempting to pronounce
"reading", at first, then I chuckled.

On Friday, September 30, 2022 at 12:53:04 AM UTC-5, GM wrote:
> On Thursday, September 29, 2022 at 6:43:53 PM UTC-5, bryang...@gmail.com wrote:
> > On Thursday, September 29, 2022 at 5:40:58 PM UTC-5, j_mc...@comcast.net wrote:
> > > On 9/29/2022 6:17 PM, itsjoan...@webtv.net wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I got my glad rags on this morning and headed to the used bookstore
> > > > about 11 miles away from me. I came home with seven books, four of
> > > > which are paperbacks. My grand total came to $8.72 and when I got
> > > > home I checked all the original prices for these and I would have paid
> > > > $145.84 for my booty if I'd bought them new. These will keep me busy
> > > > for a good while as I read when I hit the sack.
> > > >
> > > I love a good used bookstore! :)
> > >
> > We actually donate books that we're weeding to the local
> > used bookstore, even though they're a for profit business.
> > >
> > > > After leaving there I headed to Kroger to do my weekly shopping. A
> > > > large bunch of green grapes and equally large bunch of red grapes
> > > > made it into my shopping cart. Imagine my disappointment after
> > > > washing all of these to discover the red grapes are seeded. UGH, I
> > > > detest seeds and these may be given away to a friend. It's my fault
> > > > for not reading the bag as it clearly states, "seeded grapes."
> > > I suppose you don't have a grape pitter. I don't, either. Could you
> > > possibly return them and swap for seedless?
> > >
> > If they begrudgingly took them back, they'd end up
> > in the dumpster. She's better giving them to
> > someone, so they don't get wasted. I know that
> > some folks here like fruit salads, and when you
> > halve grapes anyway, they're effortless to deseed.
> That almost sounds "dirty"...
>
Greg, I *do* think about other things. Especially food.
Heck, I'm 61 years old.
>
> --
> GM

--Bryan

On Friday, September 30, 2022 at 6:02:14 PM UTC-5, Michael Trew wrote:
> On 9/29/2022 19:43, Bryan Simmons wrote:
> > On Thursday, September 29, 2022 at 5:40:58 PM UTC-5, j_mc...@comcast.net wrote:
> >>
> >> I love a good used bookstore! :)
> >>
> > We actually donate books that we're weeding to the local
> > used bookstore, even though they're a for profit business.
> >
> > --Bryan
>
> Do you finish "weeding" them first? ;)
>
> Sorry, I read it in the voice of a 2 year old attempting to pronounce
> "reading", at first, then I chuckled.
>
I have bought a lot of books over the years, and Betsy
has bought way more that I have. When we get rid of
books, the alternatives are donating to the local used
bookstore (it is an important part of the community),
or putting the less desirable books into one of the
great number of "Little Free Libraries."

--Bryan

On Friday, September 30, 2022 at 5:59:39 PM UTC-5, Michael Trew wrote:
>
> On 9/29/2022 18:17, itsjoan...@webtv.net wrote:
> >
> > This place is huge and have every genre of books you can imagine.
> > They also stock hundreds of puzzles, games, videos, and camera
> > equipment. But I think their videos are too overpriced.
> >
> I would bet that they sell more videos than books. Lucky for you, it
> seems that you are looking for the books. I really should get back into
> reading more. I don't think I read anything more than Usenet.
>
I don't know what the ratio of books to videos sold is. But when _I'm_
there it's mostly books heading out the door.
>
> > After leaving there I headed to Kroger to do my weekly shopping. A
> > large bunch of green grapes and equally large bunch of red grapes
> > made it into my shopping cart. Imagine my disappointment after
> > washing all of these to discover the red grapes are seeded.
> >
> Do you not like eating around the seeds? Seeded grapes are rarer than
> hen's teeth now. I accidentally got a bag once, but they didn't bother
> me any. I honestly thought that they had a better taste than the
> seedless grapes (similar to seeded vs. seedless watermelon).
>
There's no 'eating around' these seeds. Each grape has four large seeds
and I just can't stand crunching on them. This is one reason I don't eat
pomegranates, too. I got off my butt today and spent almost 45 minutes
cutting each grape in half and deseeding them.

On Friday, September 30, 2022 at 6:48:40 PM UTC-5, bryang...@gmail.com wrote:.
> >
> I have bought a lot of books over the years, and Betsy
> has bought way more that I have. When we get rid of
> books, the alternatives are donating to the local used
> bookstore (it is an important part of the community),
> or putting the less desirable books into one of the
> great number of "Little Free Libraries."
>
> --Bryan
>
I've given a lot of books to the "Little Free Libraries" that are dotted
around my neighborhood. But now I give my books to a woman that
also has the same financial adviser as me. When she finishes them
they go to one of her friends.

Bryan Simmons wrote:
> On Friday, September 30, 2022 at 12:53:04 AM UTC-5, GM wrote:
>> On Thursday, September 29, 2022 at 6:43:53 PM UTC-5, bryang...@gmail.com wrote:
>>> On Thursday, September 29, 2022 at 5:40:58 PM UTC-5, j_mc...@comcast.net wrote:
>>>> On 9/29/2022 6:17 PM, itsjoan...@webtv.net wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I got my glad rags on this morning and headed to the used bookstore
>>>>> about 11 miles away from me. I came home with seven books, four of
>>>>> which are paperbacks. My grand total came to $8.72 and when I got
>>>>> home I checked all the original prices for these and I would have paid
>>>>> $145.84 for my booty if I'd bought them new. These will keep me busy
>>>>> for a good while as I read when I hit the sack.
>>>>>
>>>> I love a good used bookstore! :)
>>>>
>>> We actually donate books that we're weeding to the local
>>> used bookstore, even though they're a for profit business.
>>>>
>>>>> After leaving there I headed to Kroger to do my weekly shopping. A
>>>>> large bunch of green grapes and equally large bunch of red grapes
>>>>> made it into my shopping cart. Imagine my disappointment after
>>>>> washing all of these to discover the red grapes are seeded. UGH, I
>>>>> detest seeds and these may be given away to a friend. It's my fault
>>>>> for not reading the bag as it clearly states, "seeded grapes."
>>>> I suppose you don't have a grape pitter. I don't, either. Could you
>>>> possibly return them and swap for seedless?
>>>>
>>> If they begrudgingly took them back, they'd end up
>>> in the dumpster. She's better giving them to
>>> someone, so they don't get wasted. I know that
>>> some folks here like fruit salads, and when you
>>> halve grapes anyway, they're effortless to deseed.
>> That almost sounds "dirty"...
>>
> Greg, I *do* think about other things. Especially food.
> Heck, I'm 61 years old.
>>
>> --
>> GM
>
> --Bryan
>

Cool. But just how glabrous are your nads?

itsjoannotjoann@webtv.net wrote:
> On Friday, September 30, 2022 at 5:59:39 PM UTC-5, Michael Trew wrote:
>>
>> On 9/29/2022 18:17, itsjoan...@webtv.net wrote:
>>>
>>> This place is huge and have every genre of books you can imagine.
>>> They also stock hundreds of puzzles, games, videos, and camera
>>> equipment. But I think their videos are too overpriced.
>>>
>> I would bet that they sell more videos than books. Lucky for you, it
>> seems that you are looking for the books. I really should get back into
>> reading more. I don't think I read anything more than Usenet.
>>
> I don't know what the ratio of books to videos sold is. But when _I'm_
> there it's mostly books heading out the door.
>>
>>> After leaving there I headed to Kroger to do my weekly shopping. A
>>> large bunch of green grapes and equally large bunch of red grapes
>>> made it into my shopping cart. Imagine my disappointment after
>>> washing all of these to discover the red grapes are seeded.
>>>
>> Do you not like eating around the seeds? Seeded grapes are rarer than
>> hen's teeth now. I accidentally got a bag once, but they didn't bother
>> me any. I honestly thought that they had a better taste than the
>> seedless grapes (similar to seeded vs. seedless watermelon).
>>
> There's no 'eating around' these seeds. Each grape has four large seeds
> and I just can't stand crunching on them. This is one reason I don't eat
> pomegranates, too. I got off my butt today and spent almost 45 minutes
> cutting each grape in half and deseeding them.
>

Euell Gibbons would have gobbled them up, seeds and all. Hell, he
even chowed down on tree bark.

Trew might have a new career. Go for it man! There hasn't been a
decent Post Grape nuts cereal commercial in years!

On 2022-10-01, itsjoannotjoann@webtv.net <itsjoannotjoann@webtv.net> wrote:

> There's no 'eating around' these seeds. Each grape has four large seeds
> and I just can't stand crunching on them. This is one reason I don't eat
> pomegranates, too. I got off my butt today and spent almost 45 minutes
> cutting each grape in half and deseeding them.

Now I'm going to start shilling for "Outshine" frozen fruit bars. They
make a excellent pomegranate, frozen fruit bar, without the seeds. I
like their tangerine bars as well. Grape's probably good too.
I'm assuming that they're back East.

On 2022-10-01, GM <gregorymorrowchicago07@gmail.com> wrote:

> Even for the hippie era, Euell was some kinda nut...

He was soon supplanted by Jim Fixx, who ran, was instrumental in
starting the running fixation by writing a book and died while running
when 52.
Jim showed us that by getting fat, never running and leading a
cloistered life, we might do better than he did.
Genetics, eh?

itsjoannotjoann@webtv.net wrote:
> There's no 'eating around' these seeds. Each grape has four large seeds
> and I just can't stand crunching on them. This is one reason I don't eat
> pomegranates, too.

That's odd.
I've had a few pomegranates and yes, all you eat is the gell coated
seeds. The seeds are so tiny, I've never noticed them in a hard inside
way. No crunch.

> I got off my butt today and spent almost 45 minutes
> cutting each grape in half and deseeding them.

Good save.

On Sat, 1 Oct 2022 Gary wrote:
>itsjoannotjoann wrote:
>> There's no 'eating around' these seeds. Each grape has four large seeds
>> and I just can't stand crunching on them. This is one reason I don't eat
>> pomegranates, too.
>
>That's odd.
>I've had a few pomegranates and yes, all you eat is the gell coated
>seeds. The seeds are so tiny, I've never noticed them in a hard inside
>way. No crunch.

No need to eat pomegranite seeds, the 'gell' is easily sucked off in
your mouth and spit the seeds... just don't bite into the bitter pulp.

>> I got off my butt today and spent almost 45 minutes
>> cutting each grape in half and deseeding them.

You're an imbecile.

>Good save.

Normal people are able to easily spit grape seeds, even the skins.

On Saturday, October 1, 2022 at 10:16:33 AM UTC-5, Gary wrote:
> itsjoan...@webtv.net wrote:
> > There's no 'eating around' these seeds. Each grape has four large seeds
> > and I just can't stand crunching on them. This is one reason I don't eat
> > pomegranates, too.
> That's odd.
> I've had a few pomegranates and yes, all you eat is the gell coated
> seeds. The seeds are so tiny, I've never noticed them in a hard inside
> way. No crunch.
>
I always eat the seeds. They have a mild,
slightly rich flavor.

--Bryan

On Saturday, October 1, 2022 at 12:17:46 AM UTC-5, Leonard Blaisdell wrote:
>
> On 2022-10-01, itsjoan...@webtv.net <itsjoan...@webtv.net> wrote:
>
> > There's no 'eating around' these seeds. Each grape has four large seeds
> > and I just can't stand crunching on them. This is one reason I don't eat
> > pomegranates, too. I got off my butt today and spent almost 45 minutes
> > cutting each grape in half and deseeding them.
> >
> Now I'm going to start shilling for "Outshine" frozen fruit bars. They
> make a excellent pomegranate, frozen fruit bar, without the seeds. I
> like their tangerine bars as well. Grape's probably good too.
> I'm assuming that they're back East.
>
Yes, we have the Outshine frozen fruit bars here. They are good!
I enjoy pomegranate juice, just not the fruit where I've got a mouthful
of seeds. At least with watermelon seeds they're easy to spit out and
you can have a contest with those.

On Sat, 1 Oct 2022 14:19:41 -0700 (PDT), "itsjoannotjoann@webtv.net"
<itsjoannotjoann@webtv.net> wrote:

>On Saturday, October 1, 2022 at 12:17:46 AM UTC-5, Leonard Blaisdell wrote:
>>
>> Now I'm going to start shilling for "Outshine" frozen fruit bars. They
>> make a excellent pomegranate, frozen fruit bar, without the seeds. I
>> like their tangerine bars as well. Grape's probably good too.
>> I'm assuming that they're back East.
>>
>Yes, we have the Outshine frozen fruit bars here. They are good!
>I enjoy pomegranate juice, just not the fruit where I've got a mouthful
>of seeds. At least with watermelon seeds they're easy to spit out and
>you can have a contest with those.

Here's the tangerine version:
"tangerine juice from concentrate (water, tangerine juice
concentrate), water, cane sugar, citric acid, orange pulp, guar gum,
carob bean gum, annatto color, tangerine oil, natural flavor, vitamin
c (ascorbic acid), turmeric oleoresin color."

You'd think you mainly need tangerines to make a tangerine fruit bar.
But noooooo. The industry just has to turn it into crap. Otherwise
it's not sweet enough, not colourful enough and not flavourful enough
for the populace.

--
Bruce
<https://emalm.com/?v=SQqZJ>

On Thursday, September 29, 2022 at 5:40:58 PM UTC-5, j_mc...@comcast.net wrote:
> On 9/29/2022 6:17 PM, itsjoan...@webtv.net wrote:
> >
> > I got my glad rags on this morning and headed to the used bookstore
> > about 11 miles away from me. I came home with seven books, four of
> > which are paperbacks. My grand total came to $8.72 and when I got
> > home I checked all the original prices for these and I would have paid
> > $145.84 for my booty if I'd bought them new. These will keep me busy
> > for a good while as I read when I hit the sack.
> >
> I love a good used bookstore! :)
> > After leaving there I headed to Kroger to do my weekly shopping. A
> > large bunch of green grapes and equally large bunch of red grapes
> > made it into my shopping cart. Imagine my disappointment after
> > washing all of these to discover the red grapes are seeded. UGH, I
> > detest seeds and these may be given away to a friend. It's my fault
> > for not reading the bag as it clearly states, "seeded grapes."
> I suppose you don't have a grape pitter. I don't, either. Could you
> possibly return them and swap for seedless?
>
> Jill

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On 9/30/2022 20:13, itsjoannotjoann@webtv.net wrote:
> On Friday, September 30, 2022 at 5:59:39 PM UTC-5, Michael Trew wrote:
>>
>> Do you not like eating around the seeds? Seeded grapes are rarer than
>> hen's teeth now. I accidentally got a bag once, but they didn't bother
>> me any. I honestly thought that they had a better taste than the
>> seedless grapes (similar to seeded vs. seedless watermelon).
>>
> There's no 'eating around' these seeds. Each grape has four large seeds
> and I just can't stand crunching on them. This is one reason I don't eat
> pomegranates, too. I got off my butt today and spent almost 45 minutes
> cutting each grape in half and deseeding them.

Hmm, I don't often get seeded grapes, but the last time, each one had
one large seed in the center, like a pit. Perhaps different types of
grapes?