Soy Sauce Packets & Epiphanies: What Does It Mean To Be From Maine?

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***Sausage Queen said...
Awesome truth here...I have to get the dries up slices behind the herring...lol. BUT the thing i miss the most? POLAND SPRING WATER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There is only one store here in Florida that sells it and its way expensive. SO SAD.
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***spleeness said...
You know what's awesome water, Dannon's "Spring!" water and man, it's as good as Evian but super cheap.
I almost forgot about "spk" - lol. I remember working in a deli in NJ, those sandwhiches were so popular for bkfst! great post!
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***TONY a.k.a. i sWEAT bUTTER said...
is it possible to be the queen of TWO breakfast meats???
poland spring... what it means to be from maine. maine's a looong way from 'the retirement state.' the cost is all shipping.
and for the record while 'spring!' is delish, i think evian tastes like pond water. panna is my first choice of agua...
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somehow the string of comments following the post 'thc, spk...' turned into one about bottled water preferences. mostly because, as you can see, the sausage queen of deerfield beach has to pay top dollar for crisp, clean?!? poland spring water in florida. ms. spleeness enjoys the equally pricey evian, which normally, because of my feelings about the french, i would boycot like, i don't know, a clown or a doll with freckles. but after reviewing this ad, i've changed my opinion on a few things: 1) i really didn't need to know what it meant to be from maine, and 2) je suis assoiffé vous le joli français, peux j'ayez s'il vous plaît cette bouteille d'eau maintenant? (i'm thirsty you lovely frenchman, may i please have that bottle of water now?)

EXPERIENCE+CHANGE=2008

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the story behind ssp&e:

so i'm not sure if you're anything like me, but being the 'off the cuff cuisine' chef that i am, i try not to let anything go to waste. you know, when you bring home some bk or mickey d's, and after consuming your poor excuse for food, have ketchup packets or sauce shots left over that you throw in the door and forget about. same goes for chinese food, and you know they always give you enough sauce to put out a fire at the pentagon with your order. you throw them in your refrigerator door and forget about them. then one day you're trying to impress some last minute guests that have decided to stay at your place for dinner and all you have in your 'gourmet' kitchen are some ramen noodles, frozen veggies and some leftover grilled chicken from last weekend's cookout. the makings of a superb, on-the-fly stirfry. but wait, OH SHIT!, how are you going to make a sauce for your stirfry with no sauce? you look in the fridge and all you see is a bottle of ketchup, french's mustard (i use the term mustard loosely when describing french's), and a jar of pickle juice. oh no, what to do, what to do. then you bust open the butter holder, that invariably has never seen a stick of butter in it's life, and VOILA! soy sauce, duck sauce, hot mustard! packets, but instant chinkychow sauce nonetheless! each one of those packets, collected over time, came from a meal, inevitably eaten over conversation, an argument or during a lone lunch of self-reflection, came from a time and place in the past. as are our lessons learned. we learn through the years how to cope, how to inspire, how to teach, and how to live. we don't always remember those lessons, as we throw condiment packets in the fridge we throw life-lessons into the back of our heads, until one day we find ourself in a situation where it becomes relevant and we pull them from the back of our minds as to not waste the advice and lessons of the past. the moral of this story, and the linking of it to my blog- our life experiences are our 'soy sauce packets,' our hidden links to our experiences of our past...

e·piph·a·ny - noun - a sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into the reality or essential meaning of something, usually initiated by some simple, homely, or commonplace occurrence or experience. [www.dictionary.com]

the epiphanies that we experience in life, questions or situations that we find ourselves in, and don't know how to resolve, can most often be solved my raking our brains in search of a 'soy sauce packet.' an answer to a question. a solution to a problem. and so this, this blog, is simply an ever-expanding culmination of soy sauce packets in my butter box, and the epiphanies that have helped to make room for more butter in my fridge...

3 comments:

Anonymous, 9:50 AM: there's no water like Superwatermatic 76...fresh, clean, crisp....and FREE. Poland Spring...well.......the next best thing...but the french can keep their overpriced sludge.

mom
Anonymous, 11:11 AM: hahaha. Love this. It IS funny how it turned to water, but hey, take away clean, refreshing water, and your bound to have some angry people on your hands...Take a look at this..Flowing throughout most of the State, this is the underground source of drinking water for almost all of Florida, and it is being contaminated at an unprecedented rate.

Some of the inorganic impurities found in Florida's drinking water include: Aluminum, Arsenic, Barium, Cadmium, Calcium, Chlorine, Chromium, Copper, Iron, Lead, Nickel, Nitrate, Nitrite, Magnesium, Manganese, Silica, Sodium, Sulfate, and Zinc.

Fact: Not only does it taste bad, Florida is rated as one of the 5 worst states for drinking water quality.

So It's either non-quenching dasani or deer park water, or the above...which would you choose?
Anonymous, 3:45 PM: Ok I'm continuing the water comments... Dasani and Aquafina are just tap water:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/
HEALTH/07/27/pepsico.aquafina.reut/

So cool that you mentioned me in a post! I feel like Andy Warhol's quote "everyone will be famous for 15 minutes someday" (except mine is 0.0000001 minute, lol).

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