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Royalfan5

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  1. I suppose I should note I ate shit ton of miracle whip sandwiches growing up too. Graham crackers in milk as well. (Still do sometimes too on Graham crackers)
  2. Reuters often uses me as source so they’ve got to be good right?
  3. As I’m getting married soon, I’ve been trying to explain some of my family legacy dishes to my fiancé, like that our beloved beans and weenies recipe is hot dogs sliced vertically into green beans and a white sauce, we dip cookies and bars into leftover fruit syrup from canned fruit as part of dessert, and all still know how to make and like head cheese among other things. Mostly I’m trolling to see if anyone else did the hot dogs and green bean things but want to hear about other oddball dishes
  4. Beef producers are fucked here because nobody has invested in packing capacity in the last 20 years, and we are struggling to keep current despite huge packer margins and beef demand. There are some expansions in the works but it will take time. At the same time pork producers are in good shape because they actually built their own plants instead of relying on the packers to do it, and once numbers short out from the backing up of a year ago, will be in real good shape. The US beef herd is still shrinking which is going to keep prices elevated longer there, (already there at the retail level, will get there for cattle probably into 2022)
  5. Eh, the USDA has been out to lunch on grain numbers since they overestimated the 2019 crop and tried to bullshit their way through it, grains would be even higher if it was for Covid because wouldn’t of lost a bit of use last spring while we lost acres on excess moisture/lack of incentive in the north. Biggest thing here is the SnapBack on China trade and their hog herd bouncing back from ASF, and the US crop finishing dry on soybeans last year and the derecho fucking up Iowa corn just enough that it exposed the USDA bullshitting just in time for Brazil’s second crop of corn to go dry while Russia restricted exports because they had been bullshitting about wheat stocks too.
  6. They indeed did sell all their cars in a panic at the beginning of the pandemic to stave off a cash crunch
  7. Still plenty of 585 M-M propane irrigation motors running on top of the Ogllala Aquifer today that date back to the 60s and 70’s.
  8. Exactly, people shifted their habits, and became less tolerant of certain things. People who thought they'd never do anything else for work, found that they liked something else better. It doesn't take a big shift percentage wise in the amount of availability to lever into a much bigger shift, and trying to pin it all one thing isn't going to reverse changes.
  9. Hey sometimes an industry just sees a massive sea change that creeps up on people, just ask the old line packers and their highly paid union work forces that disappeared 40-50 years ago. Smaller generational cohort, and competition from other jobs, may not leave enough of a work force for the current food service base.
  10. I should note that as of the last jobs report, openings are listed at about 8.1 million, and the workforce is 5 million is about less than it was pre-covid, so even if you got everyone back, you're still significantly short.
  11. With all the Amazon warehouses and such, some folks really take to that kind of work. It's not for everybody, but I fucking loved slinging belts in a Goodyear warehouse as a in between gig. You don't have to talk to anyone, you get to move around all day, good break schedule, good hours.
  12. Now you know why in Sir-Mix-A-Lot's Posse on Broadway the women they picked up were alright with eating at Dick's over Taco Bell.
  13. At some point I want to hear from the people that aren't working their old food service jobs any more, and not the employers bitching about not being able to find workers. It seems like we are refusing to look at the full picture, and take whatever the employer says at face value and without questions, and assume that must be it.
  14. While I’ve never worked in food service, everyone seems to indicate that doing so fucking sucks with shitty hours and schedules, and that management is often pretty shady regarding tips and other employment laws. Then you add in a declining cohort of younger workers. (I believe nationally school enrollment is to drop in aggregate through 2030 or so) so the labor pool that the industry relies is getting shallower on top of that. Then you can add in other opportunities that your labor force sees as better be it door dashing or working in an Amazon warehouse(slightly better pay, defined hours, less assholes deciding your pay on whims, less drawbacks overall) and you can’t be really surprised that labor is getting tighter. It’s like when people bemoan the lost of small dairy farms without ever acknowledging that being a small dairy owner sucks because you work your ass off and wreck your body for limited payoff.
  15. I just can't imagine myself giving any sort of fuck about what James Carville has to say in the year of our Lord 2021
  16. She’s from western Kansas, what’s she going to be disappointed by?
  17. It provided rail options, and a direct flight was available. The idea was to spend 0 time there.
  18. In Lincoln, brewery wise, I’d recommend Zipline or Kinkaider first as well.
  19. Working on planning a October honeymoon and looking a different combinations for a PNW/California trip. Leading idea right now is flying to Sacramento, hoping a train up to Portland then going up to Seattle with stops a Mt’s Hood, Rainer, and Olympic National Park. Back up idea is driving the PCH from Oxnard north. I’m open to any suggest or advice you all might have
  20. As an actual Lincoln resident that just noticed the thread. Food wise, if you want something nice, hit up something in the Venue family of restaurants, although Hiro88 is where I’d go if for some reason you want seafood/sushi in Nebraska. Stuhr22 is a pretty good Liberian/Jamaican joint. PhatJacks is the best BBQ, but you’ve likely had better. Misty’s is the traditional steakhouse but I’ve never cared for it. There’s some more hidden ethnic gems if you want more advice that way. (Lincoln has a lot of refugee resettlement because of our Lutheran community and the work Lutheran Family Services does and it’s great for our food scene) For places to stay, outside the suicide motel at 27th and O, and some of the airport adjacent stuff you’re going to have basic travel hotels. If you had to stay downtown, I’d go with the Graduate over Embassy Suites, but that’s mostly cause I’ve had a lot of good times in that building. For non-football stuff to see, the Capitol building is a pretty cool tour if you are into buildings. You can go look at Buffalo/escaping convicts if you go out to Pioneers Park. Otherwise it’s standard college town stuff. As a place to stay alternative, hitting up Mahoney or Platte River State park for a cabin would probably be worth a look too.
  21. They can in Waverly too if you want a closer trip out of Lincoln.
  22. Well, if he’s down a thumb shortly we’ll know
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