PSoTD

Even Central PA has a chapter.

(The National Organization is here.)

photo by dziner

It could look like this.

Four of us ate at The Cedars Restaurant of Camp Hill before going to see the Cowboy Junkies on Friday night, and it was very good. It was my first real introduction to Lebanese food, and I'm glad we've finally met. Delicious. We wanted to try as much as possible, so we bought the 15 appetizer sampler and mixed and matched for dinner. We'll be back for much more.

We had to go before it started, but they also have belly dancing on Friday and Saturday night.

but there's some serious shitkicking deserved here.

The Dairy Queen on the Carlisle Pike burned last night. The view this morning...

and last night...

Over at the State Museum in Harrisburg on Friday, October 26th.

Hey, is there a food that better describes Central Pennsylvania?

From DorothySH

Coughs, hacking, and snot snuffing in the next few weeks. Today is October 9th, and it's 90 freakin' degrees outside. Friday it will drop to 45 degrees.

(Photo credit to wordwise. The Spot is now just a memory)

It was a beautiful day for the event last Saturday at Penn State. It seemed a little more crowded than in previous years that we've went, which made it harder to see the live insect displays. The photo may be a bit misleading, it's not only an indoor event. This will probably be the last year we go, since our oldest has gone three time and our youngest twice, and the novelty of eating cooked bugs can only entice so many times. Well, that and looking at all the scorpions - both of our kids have some sort of fascination about the scorpions.

One suggestion to Penn State: allow credit cards for the sale of swag such as shirts, you'll sell a lot more. We forgot that it was cash only, and didn't have enough for two shirts, so we ended up buying none.

I swear that in the past two weeks I've probably been asked a dozen times:

Have you been to the new Wegmans on the Pike?

I am the groceries buyer in our house. I actually kind of like doing it - not the shopping experience, but just getting the food for the family each week, being able to pick up stuff not put on the list by the official Lister in our household, and checking things out.

I am not a shopper, though. I hate going to a new grocery store and learning a new lay of the land. I won't go down every aisle just for the hell of it - only if there's something down there we need to buy. A grocery shopping trip that takes over an hour is, in my mind, a failure in time management.

Which brings me back to Wegmans. It is sold as an "experience". You can spend hours at Wegmans, there are restaurants and god-knows-what there. That's all good and fine, and eventually I'll get over there, but that selling message really is countereffective to me.

Karns on the Carlisle Pike would be the best grocery in the area, hands down, if they could just improve their produce section by a LOT and improve their processed food selections by a little. Their meat department is legendary. Of course, one of the main reasons I really like Karns is that it is fast to get in and out of, and that's because it is relatively small compared to the supergroceries, and that it is very rarely crowded. If Karns made these improvements, both of those advantages might go away.

Giant on Market Street has much better produce than Karns, and more choices in almost everything, but that comes with a cost: cost. Plus, I don't know, I really am not a fan of requiring "bonus cards" for discounts, unless the discounts are really, really noticeable in the final tabulation. I think the bonus card discounts are pretty ordinary at Giant. And Giant's meat prices suck. THEY SUCK.

So right now, we look at the list - if there's a lot of meat, I go to Karns, a lot of produce, I go to Giant, and if there's a lot of both, we either take a hit on cost or quality. Will Wegmans change this equation? They'll have to offer more than "the experience" to do so.

Honestly, why the hell is Bush bumbling into Central Pennsylvania right now? What did The Jay Group have to do to get him out here? Will Bush even understand what they do?