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Glooptygloop 2 points ago +2 / -0

He hosed the non family live in or visiting situation by constantly thinking they were stealing. When they finally took his driver's license, which was an act of God bc he even had the Dr fooled, we found notes on his phone book where he had tried renting cars.

He had destroyed his with enough reportable accidents that insurance would no longer cover as well as some unreported accidents I'd rather not speculate on.

He would come home from a drive with trim missing, once with the webbing of a lawn chair stuck in the front rim. No idea what happened and I'd rather not know. He's been gone 16 years now.

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Glooptygloop 1 point ago +1 / -0

Could also have been all the exposure to aluminum etc during the war. We have his POW cup, where they would give him his spoonful of watery soup. It was an old tin can, and he had attached barbed wire to it as a handle. At some point he gave away the spoon, which was worn flat from trying to get every last drop. I have often wondered being as old as it is and from German origin if it's not soldered with lead, as the joints are very visible unlike modern tins. Had started life as one of their fake milk tins or "klim cans" as the POW slang went

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Glooptygloop 2 points ago +2 / -0

We'll know better next time, won't we?

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Glooptygloop 1 point ago +1 / -0

Now we know barr has a weird egg shaped penis

by MAGULQ
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Glooptygloop 1 point ago +1 / -0

Watch the water tho.

What is rain?

WHERE does rain come from?

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Glooptygloop 2 points ago +2 / -0

Yeah it applies to canning also. I dunno how prevalent it is or how to safely acidity dehydrated foods such that even if the moisture level is a little off botulism isn't an issue

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Glooptygloop 3 points ago +3 / -0

True. That might work

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Glooptygloop 5 points ago +5 / -0

Any low acid oxygen free environment offers the potential for growth of botulism bacteria and the offshoot of botulism toxin.

Also iirc low or high sugar, I forget which.

So dried fruit is pretty safe because the sugar is kept in the fruit but meat or things that might ever have touched the ground like garlic and onions have the potential to carry spores and to then develop botulism

And I don't really know the best way to combat it yet.

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Glooptygloop 4 points ago +4 / -0

Yeah, that's one thing I have stuff to make but never did - cheese!

I'll give that a try. I have a vacuum sealer so in theory I could make, dehydrate, and seal the pasta for later.

My reading about botulism kinda put the kibosh on the vacuum sealing.

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Glooptygloop 6 points ago +6 / -0

My grandfather was an ex POW. got pulled over and detained by cops 6 hrs away while driving and would not give them anything but name rank and serial #. It went downhill from there.

We tried nurse visits, etc but he ended up in a high security dementia facility after he made a dummy from his clothes and tried to escape the regular nursing home after lights out.

I wish we could have done more for him but there was zero cooperation on his part and little recognition that he viewed us as any different from the Nazi camp guards.

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Glooptygloop 3 points ago +3 / -0

Vitamix is also great but I can't even fit mine on the counter where I live so it only comes out for specific purposes. Counter and kitchen space is my big issue.

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Glooptygloop 4 points ago +4 / -0

I like my little flour mill, it's Italian- Marcato marga mulina is the name. Makes flour, bran, and rolls oats.

I haven't canned in awhile. My water bath canner was big when I did. I have an all American pressure canner new in the box. The Squeezo Strainer is great for making sauces and ketchup. I usually buy pasta but I have a pasta machine and it is fun to make, but at 50 cents to $1 a box it is hard to justify the time.

The oil press and larger grain mills are all more for a SHTF scenario but I have used them and they're great. I just had to set up a beefier desk in the garage to use them bc the kitchen table is too light and flimsy when you start cranking.

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Glooptygloop 8 points ago +8 / -0

I have done all of the things you've said. Just need more time and some help to start again. I have literally thousands of dollars of equipment to assist in this process.

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Glooptygloop 1 point ago +1 / -0

Right but I still wouldn't pay for any of that, and it doesn't change my mind any on getting anyone I care about vaxxed. Just an odd thing to do is all

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