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happy smallpox eradication day to all who celebrate, which is everyone!
The toytown window display at Macy's attracts a standing-room-only audience, December 9, 1953. Some of the small fry manage to wangle front-row locations but that doesn't keep the older citizens from enjoying the show.
Photo: Al Pucci for the NY Daily News via Getty Images/nlc.ru
Happy birthday crochetfriend :)
Birthday 🎁🎈
it feels like just yesterday asher found me, it's hard to believe it's been a full four years now.
she hasn't changed much since i got her (except maybe physical health, that's definitely improved;) but just as she's stayed the same, so has my love for her.
she saved my life and i'm so thankful she gave me the chance to save hers.
Eek tomorrow it is the day!
three days since official thomastair content was released
Hi, can I get a pallete color for Great Mother In the Sky by Lionmilk
004643 || #c7a50e || #acc4c9 || #876d8c || #6f2e47
Storytime!!!
So my parents used to do these weekly happy hour/ gossip&game nights with their group of friends, and there was this one period of time where the ~Big Thing~ with all of them was having lemon drop martinis. Particularly lemon drop martinis with the ~Meyer~ lemons. Like they all got so into this, obtaining and using the super special fancy shmancy Meyer lemons (which, okay, tbh I mean yes I have since learned in cooking that the Meyers kinda do live up to the hype like they've got uses in certain dishes where they're just awesome especially the zest). The thing was, though, that of course they are only in season for a short period each year. So one of the couples in this group had bought the lemons in bulk, and the wife juiced and then froze them all into lemon cubes to be used year-round; which is something that can be done with a lot of things, it's a pretty good hack.
One evening, when the group was over at this couples' home for their Super Special Lemon Drop martinis, and everyone was ready for another round, the husband (let's just call him Jack) volunteered to go make them. His wife (let's call her Jill) instructed him to make for sure that he used those cubes so they'd have the super special Meyer lemons in their drinks. Jack obliged and soon he was passing out fresh martinis to everyone at the table.
The group continued with their chit-chat as they began to take sips of the martinis, only to all quickly recoil after finding that these drinks tasted a bit... off. They'd take more sips, trying to figure out what exactly it was that made these drinks taste so different. Had the lemons gone bad? Had any of the other ingredients? I mean... the other ingredients were mostly/basically alcohol so it seemed it had to be the lemons, they surmised.
Jill questioned Jack- "are you SURE you used the MEYER lemons? The frozen cubes in the freezer?" "Yes, honey, of course," Jack responded. Everyone continued to sip their drinks, trying to put a finger on what exactly it was that was different. Confusion was mounting. Jill was giving Jack side-eye and Jack was feeling attacked as if he was somehow to blame for the odd tasting martinis despite having done everything exactly as instructed.
Finally, a thought dawned on Jill- and a cringe began forming on her face to accompany the creeping realization she'd just come to. She asked Jack to clarify, regarding those frozen lemon cubes- "did- did you use the ones in the back/right side of the freezer? In the blue zip-lock bag?" "Yes, those ones, in the back on the right," Jack replied, "but they were in a red zip-lock, not blue...?" and it was at this moment that Jill knew what had transpired.
You see, Jill had used that freezing cubes hack in lots of ways- in addition to lemon juice, she'd also freeze things like, for example, concentrated chicken broth into cubes for quick and easy use.
Jack had unknowingly accidentally used cubes of chicken broth to make these martinis. Everyone was right in feeling that this round of lemon drop martinis didn't taste right- because they weren't lemon drop martinis. They were chicken broth martinis.
My parents and their friends drank chickentinis. CHICKENTINIS