Bison is sold in almost every major city in the US.

Here is where you get it in Cleveland.

http://www.harrybuffalo.com/

In my hometown between Akron and Cleveland, the "Charles Chips Truck" was a regular welcome visitor with home deliveries on our street.

We also had the "Reiter & Harter" milk truck that visited the neighborhood with deliveries, as well as another milk truck that had "Elsie the Cow" on the side.

There was also a bread truck a few times a week. I forget the company, but it was not Lawson's. We didn't get the bread or milk deliveries as my Uncle managed two Lawson's stores in our town that we patronized. (Anyone else remember 5 cents a loaf, and 25 cents for a gallon of milk?)

And of course we had "Mister Softee".

The delivery trucks were welcomed, though they often interrupted our weekday afternoon street baseball games. We played with wooden bats (and tennis balls), and not sticks as we were not in New York.


I had not seen "Charles Chips" in stores in years, so was surprised to see bags in our "Fresh Market" here in Southwest Florida a few weeks ago. I was coming back from the gym and didn't pull the trigger on a purchase because I reminded myself I am trying to lose some inches from the waist line. As I looked at the bags deciding, about a half dozen people around me were saying things like, "wow, I haven't seen these since I was a kid!"

I thought about it the next day and went back to get a bag just to tell my California born and bred wife the story. The bags were all gone. The Charles Chips flew out the door.

I've gotten to know the staff at this market fairly well as I usually am in several times a week getting produce, poultry and seafood for dinner after the gym. I asked the manager when they were getting another delivery of Charles Chips, and he told me he thought it was a one time item.

I told him the story of all the customers I had heard talking about the chips and buying them with memories of their childhood (of course there are lots of people from Ohio, and Pennsylvania and other places here that might have also had Charles Chips in the 1960's and early 1970's). I told him he needed to get some more as I knew they would continue to sell well.

I saw them back in a promotion bin yesterday, and snagged one. I was in the store today and noted the same bin was now empty.

Turns out the original owners of "Charles Chips" sold out years ago, and two subsequent companies with the naming rights drove it into bankruptcy....twice.

The Scardino Family of New Jersey bought the brand name last year, and relaunched "Charles Chips" last December.

I think these Charles Chips taste like the chips of my youth, but at any rate they are very good.

Though 17 chips equate to about 11g of fat, and 160 calories for those who care.

The chips are available online for shipping, with pricing set for purchase only for the purpose of nostalgia. Not cheap. At least for chips.


http://www.charleschips.com/shop-chips.php

I paid $3.00 for a 9 oz bag at our Fresh Market.

I had two servings while watching The Tribe tonight, so hitting the gym in the AM before the Ohio State game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keneO__XgkQ


One advantage of being a night owl is that the last musical guest in the post-Tonight Show time slot on any network can be caught.

This is a girl name Sutton Foster. She had not previously hit my radar screen, but she was dolled up nicely on "Craig Ferguson," and her voice got my attention.

The above link starts slow, but does reflect her talent, though shot in a book store promotion as best I can gather.

The "Craig Ferguson" edition was very easy for watching and listening.

"Down with Love," in a rapid blues inspired tempo and lyric.

TFISC- we were at Fresh Market this AM to pick up some cold cuts to go along with our Prarie Woman Olive Cheese Toast while we watched the GA Bulldogs play, and there were some Charles Chips near the checkout line.

Maybe there were extras in the back.

When my sister moved to Harrisburg PA she got to missing Snyder potato chips. She buys when she is in town visiting our mother. Funny the little things you get to missing from home. As I've mentioned before, I really miss Bob Evans restaurants.

loufla wrote:TFISC- we were at Fresh Market this AM to pick up some cold cuts to go along with our Prarie Woman Olive Cheese Toast while we watched the GA Bulldogs play, and there were some Charles Chips near the checkout line.

Maybe there were extras in the back.

Those early game scores for Georgia against Buffalo made it look like the dogs might have stayed on the porch. As a South Carolina Gamecock fan, I'll pretend I'm happy your Dawgs won...



I did have the Charles Chips, as I secured them the second time around. We had an impromptu College Gameday Party here with our youngest daughter and her boyfriend and assorted others. I also was in Fresh Market Saturday AM to pick up extra racks of baby back pork ribs as we had more eaters than I originally anticipated.

We all have our secret recipes for ribs, I'm sure.

I needed to get these ribs prepared quickly, so went with a basic off the shelf stuff recipe that worked surprisingly well.

McCormick Grill Mates Mesquite seasoning rubbed well into the top and bottom of the rack, and then the rack wrapped tightly in foil. Tossed in the oven at 350 for about an hour and 45 minutes, and then finished off on a mesquite smokey grill while basted and basting with Lawry's Mesquite Marinade with Lime Juice while opened in the foil.

Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ sauce on the side, with a couple dashes of apple butter heated in the sauce product for some extra flavor.

Super easy, cheap and quick....and good. Speaking of ribs, of course.....

Parma teen swept 1,500+ feet through 36-inch drain pipe




Posted: 09/04/2012
Last Updated: 2 hours and 37 minutes ago
By: Jen Steer, newsnet5.com

PARMA, Ohio - Parma firefighters rescued a 13-year-old boy who fell into a creek and was swept more than a thousand yards through a pipe.

Two teen boys were riding their bikes through puddles in the creek behind Ken Town Plaza near Pleasant Valley and York Road, when the one boy fell off his bike and into the water.

Parma fire officials said 13 firefighters pulled off manhole covers and yelled for the teen, who was sucked into a 36-inch drain. Firefighters finally heard the boy more than 1,500 feet away from the beginning of the pipe.

A firefighter in a water rescue suit found the boy conscious and alert near the grounds of Cuyahoga Community College, fire officials said.

The teen was takento MetroHealth Medical Center with minor injuries.

Yesterday for some reason the soundtrack to Jesus Christ Superstar kept playing in my mind. Just about the whole freaking soundtrack.

"Prove to me that you're no fool......walk across my swimming pool."

"Prove to me that you're divine.....change my water into wine."

"What's the buzz, tell me what's a happening'"

"Israel in 4BC had no mass communication"

"The end....is just a little harder when....brought about by friends...."

"Always hoped that I'd be an apostle...knew that I would make it if I tried....Then when we retire we can write the gospels so they'll still talk about us when we've died."

"Should I scream and shout?...Should I speak of love, Let my feelings out? I never thought I'd come to this. What's it all about? Don't you think it's rather funny, I should be in this position. I'm the one who's always been so calm, so cool, no lover's fool, Running every show."



True story, when I was in 10th grade a tour company from New York did a couple performances of "Jesus Christ Superstar" at the old Akron Civic Theatre as Akron was already in steep decline. I was taking an elective acting class in high school and the teacher offered extra credit for attending the show and writing a critique. There was a senior guy in the class who had a driver's license. I didn't know him well, but his brother had taught me advanced swimming and Junior Life Saving. I convinced my parents he was a good guy and he picked me up and we drove to the show.

Drove to the show....really slow. Really, really, really slow.

In those days the original Akron Viaduct Bridge connecting North Hill to downtown Akron was in extreme disrepair. By extreme disrepair I mean chunks of concrete were falling off of it daily into the Little Cuyahoga River waters below and the below area was cordoned off for safety.

The speed limit on the bridge was 15mph, as I recall, and no trucks were allowed.

My driver took the bridge at 10mph. Maybe.

I found out later that he had toked major reefer for the show, and was stoned out of his gourd.

(did anyone else actually use the phrase, "stoned out of his gourd" in those days?)

Well back to the Jesus Christ Superstar musical soundtrack memories of yesterday, I see tonight the movie is a free offering on one of the Comcast premium movie channels.

Ironies.

So, I believe I will have to watch.....Elvis Presley in "Love Me Tender." Also available.

Best I can come up with is that Superstar soundtrack memory episode must have been a contact smoke flashback, or something.

Later in the fall of that 10th grade year I auditioned for "The Miracle Worker" and was offered the primary role of "dead little brother Jimmie" of Anne Sullivan, the teacher and mentor of Helen Keller. "Annie" had flashbacks of her little brother who had died of tuberculosis, and my primary job was to gimp on stage with a crutch as the stage turned an odd shade of green and the spotlight hit me and I would moan...."Annie, it hurts" and such.

I had another very minor role in the production where I donned different duds and played a childhood friend of Helen Keller as we played with other friends in the yard of her youth.

One of the other "playmate actresses" was a senior who was petite, cute as a button, and well endowed. I had first seen her playing well in a Winnie the Pooh based stage production when I was in middle school. I had her on my 15 year old male radar screen for her talents, and her "older girl" looks.

On the evening of the first dress rehearsal of "The Miracle Worker" I wandered backstage in my full first costume and found the senior girl in the curtains clad in only panties struggling with an Ace Bandage roll.

Catching her in only panties, I was a 15 year old shy gentleman and said, "oh, I'm sorry" and turned and walked away.

She shouted, "get back here and help me get this bandage on!"

She wanted to flatten her "buxomed parts" to get in the character and look of the kid she was playing.

I was awkward, and went back and hesitated, and she yelled, "Damn it! This is the theatre! Help me! If you can't get used to seeing actresses in stages of undress prepping for scenes, you should not do this again!"

I helped her, to the best of my ability and intentions.

Next day I told the Director I planned to audition for the next show of the season.

Prettty sad-Cleveland is not going to have a daily newspaper in several months.

TFISC- Great story, well told.

As you know I followed a girl in the theatre also.

kenm wrote:Prettty sad-Cleveland is not going to have a daily newspaper in several months.

Is that confirmed?
I found this, but it didn't say it was a certainty:

http://www.wkyc.com/rss/article/258578/ ... aily-paper

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2012
Plain Dealer Publisher Terry Egger to Retire January, 2013; Management Answers Questions About Paper's Future
Posted by Vince Grzegorek on Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 10:48 AM

In an all-newsroom meeting called this morning with short notice, the Plain Dealer staff found out that publisher Terry Egger will retire January 1, 2013.

But that news was quickly shuffled aside as reporters peppered Editor Debra Simmons and Managing Editor Thom Fladung with questions about the paper's future. Specifically, the lingering specter of going to a 3-day publishing schedule like many of its sister papers.

The answers were not hopeful.

According to folks who were at the meeting, Fladung said (paraphrasing): "Change is coming. That's clear by what the company has been doing. "

And Simmons said: "If you need to make decisions based on the fact that change is coming, do so."

As a PD staffer points out, the top position at Cleveland.com is open and has not been filled, leading some to speculate earnestly that the two (PD and Cleveland.com) will become one (like the Syracuse operation) sooner rather than later.

Said one PD employee about Egger's departure: "We're assuming it's just so he doesn't have blood on his hands."

kenm wrote:Prettty sad-Cleveland is not going to have a daily newspaper in several months.

I delivered the Plain Dealer in the AM on my Schwinn two speed fat tire bicycle for two sports seasons. That Schwinn with the basket on the front got me through summer morning humidity and winter ice and snow, and away from more than one dog ticked off as I was trying to put a newspaper on an Akron suburb porch before my 6:30AM delivery deadline.

Many mornings I read "Hal" by flashlight as I pedaled and tossed and placed papers.

I had a radio strapped to the handle bars, and unfortunately remember one of those years was when Barbra Streisand had Second Hand Rose as a hit and it was played often......and over and over and over again. For the record, I have enjoyed listening to Barbra Streisand performances of her career. She is an unmatched vocal and stage talent. I just did not like "Second Hand Rose," or her politics.

I also delivered the Akron Beacon Journal in the afternoons after school in overlapping years. One of my best friends of the time had a big cassette player strapped to his newspaper bag and apparently had a crush on a girl with green eyes, as he had a cassette that played Green Eyed Lady over and over again. It wasn't a bad song at first, but I cannot listen to it again to this day.


Can anyone within the city limits of current Cleveland really read.....or care about anything about personal betterment or societal betterment anyways?

I think a tree just fell in a forest somewhere.

If DonSurber was still reading here, he'd take me down a notch, I'm sure.

I think he is the only one who has ever posted around here since 1997 that actually ever lived in the City of Cleveland.

http://s174.photobucket.com/albums/w91/ ... 892401.mp4

I attended the above concert with this shared tidbit tonight. One Night Rodeo, Kix Brooks of Brooks & Dunn, and Darryl Worley.


Darryl Worley received a standing ovation.

Several local Southwest Florida businesses kicked in to put on this little concert for free in return to a note of their sponsorship, and hope of future success.