Original Amish Cookie Recipe

The Amish have big families and big events. This recipe makes a huge amount of cookies. You may want to use one fourth of the ingredients.

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Original Amish Monster Cookies

Prep time:  10 mins

Cook time:  12 mins

Total time:  22 mins

Amish Monster Cookies

Ingredients

• 12 eggs
• 4 cups brown sugar
• 4 cups white sugar
• 1 tablespoon clear Karo syrup
• 8 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 pound of butter
• 18 cups oatmeal
• 3 pounds peanut butter (plain or crunchy)
• 1 pound chocolate chips
• 1 pound M & Ms

Instructions

1. Mix the ingredients in the order given.
2. Drop by spoonfuls onto greased cookie sheets.
3. Bake at 350 for about 12 minutes (do not over-bake)

Best Sub Sandwich - Ever! Nardelli's Grinder Shoppe

Yesterday I was in Hartford, CT. Travelling on I-84, I saw billboards for Nardelli's. "Voted The Best Grinder In Connecticut" and "Seen OnThe Travel Channel." Exit 25, easy off, easy on.

I had their "World Famous" Italian Grinder. It was amazing. A crusty loaf of bread stuffed with meat, cheese and veggies. I could only eat half, it is so big. I recommend Nardelli's to everyone. Great meats, great bread. Not the cheap meats Subway uses, but high quality Italian deli products.
This is not your Subway meat case. Nardelli's is a third generation Italian deli with real Italian meats we just do not find in Ohio, (can you say, "Pruzitini?").



I think the fellow who took and assembled my order was Wayne Brady.

What I Think About Jack In The Box Restaurants

I first had Jack In The Box about 8 years ago in Illinois. The restaurant was severely understaffed and it took over 30 minutes to get my order after I had paid for it.

The only reason I was willing to wait so long is that I had empathy for the manager. She was obviously short-handed, but was still friendly as she hustled and did her best to take care of customers.

The food was great. Both my wife and I loved it.

Since then we have eaten at Jack In The Box Restaurants many times. There was a store in Overland, Missouri we would eat at every summer on our trip there. Sadly, we discovered it was closed this past summer.

One thing about Jack In The Box Restaurants that was a continual source of jesting between us is that service is always slow. We have never been to Jack In The Box yet where it didn't take 15 minutes or more to get fed. But, the food is worth the wait. (I wouldn't eat at McDonalds if they would trow the food into an open car window when I drove past.)

Yesterday, Jack In The Box let me down. I drove to the drive thru window at their store in Indianapolis, Indiana. I ordered breakfast and was told they were out of eggs. OUT OF EGGS during the breakfast rush. I left, disappointed and went on to Hardees, who happen to have the best biscuits, bar none.

I managed restaurants for 6 years. In those unusual times I saw I was running low on an inventory item, I would either borrow from another restaurant in our chain or even buy the item at retail at a local grocery. But NEVER did I run out of a menu item in the middle of a rush.

The Jack manager should have seen they were low on eggs and sent someone to get a few dozen at the market. The retail and wholesale price of eggs does not vary much. Instead, the management lost revenue. I am sure I was not the only unhappy customer. Who knows how many future sales they lost, all over the price of an egg.

I will return to Jack In The Box. There are none in our area, so it is a treat when I am near one. The food, when you get it, is worth the wait.  But be forewarned, my experience has been that service is always slow.

Avoid BuzzQuote - Unless you want to be annoyed

So I fill in the blanks, looking for a couple quotes from BuzzQuote. Do I get any quotes? NO!
But I got the first sales call 30 seconds after I submitted the form. Followed by more phone calls.
I work, I have responsibilities, and my work phone is being bombarded by salespeople.

This is NOT good business. I wasn't given any warning that a swarm of sales people would descend upon me like locusts. Should I have expected it? maybe - but Buzzquotes' videos are so entertaining. They seem so nice when soliciting my request.

Never again!

The Importance of Character Education

This is a great article on The Importance of Character Education

The scientific way to cut a cake     

It seems everyone around the world cuts cake the same way, like a slice of pie.
But Alex explains how that is actually the wrong way to cut cake as the next day the open parts of the cake aren’t as fresh as the rest. There’s a better, more scientific way, to slice cake.

One problem, this method assumes there is going to be left over cake. As if that is going to happen.

Elephants Never Forget

In 1986, Mkele Mbembe was on holiday in Kenya after graduating from Northwestern University. On a hike through the bush, he came across a young bull elephant standing with one leg raised in the air. The elephant seemed distressed, so Mbembe approached it very carefully. He got down on one knee and inspected the elephant's foot, and found a large piece of wood deeply embedded in it.

As carefully and as gently as he could, Mbembe worked the wood out with his hunting knife, after which the elephant gingerly put down its foot. The elephant turned to face the man, and with a rather curious look on its face, stared at him for several tense moments. Mbembe stood frozen, thinking of nothing else but being trampled. Eventually the elephant trumpeted loudly, turned, and walked away.
Mbembe never forgot that elephant or the events of that day.

Twenty years later, Mbemb was walking through the Chicago Zoo with his teenaged son. As they approached the elephant enclosure, one of the creatures turned and walked over to near where Mbembe and his son Tapu were standing. The large bull elephant stared at Mbembe, lifted its front foot off the ground, then put it down. The elephant did that several times then trumpeted loudly, all the while staring at the man.

Remembering the encounter in 1986, Mbembe couldn't help wondering if this was the same elephant. Mbembe summoned up his courage, climbed over the railing and made his way into the enclosure. He walked right up to the elephant and stared back in wonder.

The elephant trumpeted again, wrapped its trunk around one of Mbembe's legs and slammed him against the railing, then stomped him several times crushing the poor sucker to death.

Probably wasn't the same elephant.

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Frankie Ford - Sea Cruise

Great song.... so fun to sing along.

I Would Never Hire A Clown

Clowns Scare Me

I Would Never Hire A Clown

Let me make one thing clear right away - I love professionally trained clowns. The clowns at the circus are talented and entertaining. They are some of the best entertainers in the world.

Unfortunately, the greatest majority of birthday party clowns are what are referred to in their own profession as "Chuckleheads." A person who buys a costume and face paint, learns a couple tricks and thinks he is a clown. Chuckleheads even have their own clubs and seminars. Amateurs teaching amateurs.

I would never hire a clown for a party, picnic or other event where the "entertainer" interacts directly with the audience.

The fear of clowns, known as coulrophobia, can cause panic attacks, shortness of breath, irregular heartbeat, sweating, nausea and feelings of dread. It is one of the 10 most searched-for phobias on Yahoo! search engine.

In 2007, The Bestival music festival had to change their fancy dress circus theme after some ticket holders told them they had a phobia of clowns. The festival had originally asked festival-goers to turn up in curly wigs and large shoes.

Psychologists who have addressed coulrophobia say it usually develops out of some traumatic incident in childhood associated with a clown. Loud make-up is important for a circus clown to be seen, but close-up, like at a party, it can be very scary. 

After state-funded research found that in a survey of more than 250 children aged four to 16, all disliked the use of clowns in hospital decor, with even the teenagers seeing them as "scary," hospitals were urged not to decorate children's wards with paintings of clowns in case they upset young patients.

The fear of clowns is very real, but just as real is the fact that even children who do not have coulrophobia can be frightened by a clown. An adult with a painted face is very frightening to small children. The face becomes a mask. It can be terrifying.

Add to this, most adults do not know how to interact with children. They get in their faces, are loud and scary. An amateur children's entertainer also lacks the skills to handle giving directions and maintaining control, in most cases. Their simple commands come across as threatening or harsh, and sometimes are. Dealing with children is a skill that must be learned and practiced. It should not be learned on your children by a creepy looking clown.

So why would anyone hire a clown? Oddly, parents think their children like clowns. Some might, but that doesn't mean their friends will. Do you really want to risk terrifying even one child (or adult) at your event by hiring some creep in facepaint?

Children love to laugh. They love silly antics and bright colors. Having an entertainer at your event is a great way to make it memorable. Let's make them good memories, though. Hire a professional magician or balloon artist, not some amateur in a clown suit. 

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