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Oh yes, like this-

My niece Ashley's son Jase wanted to know if I was having ribs the last time he was over here. So I figured I'd cook some ribs for him for Christmas, and there's also his mother and her boyfriend, and his grandmother, and maybe Mitch and Donna, so I went ahead and smoked 2 racks for them. The other one was for my son, but there's also my grandson Graham, his ma Sarah, so I went ahead and smoked 2 racks for them too.

Zina wanted me to do that, but all I did was take it out of the plastic and lay it on the smoker for a couple of hours. It was already fully cooked, just a small piece of ham. After I sliced it there was quite a lot though, I'll use some of it to season the black eyed peas next week.

She does have some very impressive boobage.

I smoked 4 racks of ribs today, to give away for Christmas. I told Bob they look and smell so good I want to keep one for us, but I put one of those little small fully cooked boneless hams on there too for us. Going to make stew tomorrow and can some of it. Can't go wrong giving something that people like and can use- or eat!

I just saw this picture of Jungle Pam, the caption said it was taken at New England Dragway.

Thank you Vlad, Merry Christmas to you!

Oh yeah, as Peter Griffin would say "that really grinds my gears" 😡. I would get behind a school bus and the kids would be waiting at the end of their driveways. Sometimes there'd be 4 or 5 houses right next door to each other and the bus would stop at every single one. Never understood why they couldn't just walk across the yard and all get on the bus at one time.

Yes it is! I'm tempted to jump on some of that myself. I ordered a dozen cans of King Oscar sardines from Amazon last year, because they make it too easy to "buy now with one click". I still have most of them. 🤣Amazon is like that auto parts commercial that used to be on TV, I forgot who it was for now, but they said something like "if we don't got it, you don't need it!"

Well,

I just looked at the website, it comes in 15 different flavors now. Made with pork shoulders and ham, no lips, snouts, or ears! 🤣 That's good to know, I like the lips and ears but I'm not too fond of those snouts 🤢

I like that Underwood Deviled Ham too, it was in the stash of emergency snacks that I carried in the truck. You never knew when you'd be stuck somewhere waiting to get loaded, or unloaded, or just not be near any place to get something to eat, so I kept some of that kind of stuff, and beany weenies, and crackers in the truck.

I don't know of course, but that would be my guess about Richmond Dragway. It was near the airport in Richmond, but kind of back behind it. It was in Seven Pines, which was just east of Sandston, which was actually pretty much a rural area in the 70's. But you know how that goes, being that close to Richmond and being 50 years ago it's probably surrounded by houses by now, and if it's not the land would be much more valuable for homes or binnesses than having a drag strip on it. Or more profitable for whoever owns it I should say. And now they have the Dinwiddie Motorsports Park just down the road a bit, near Petersburg. They have big time national events there all the time, so it probably made a lot of sense from a financial standpoint to sell the Richmond track.

I just looked at Natural Bridge Speedway on Google maps, and apparently it has reopened, along with Natural Bridge Dragway. Liberty University bought the New London Dragway a few years ago, after it had been closed for several years. A lot of people were hoping it would reopen but it doesn't look like they have any plans for that. I just looked on Google maps and it looks like Liberty still uses the airport. The dragstrip was the airport runway. They give flight lessons there every day too, in case anybody wants to learn how to drive a plane.

I like fried Spam with mustard sammiches. I fried some of the bacon flavored and had it with eggs and it was delicious.

I've, uh, never been to Longhorn either. One just opened in Lynchburg though, maybe we'll give it a try. We usually go to the Texas Roadhouse if we're going for steak.

I've never been to Outback. Zina finds it hard to believe I've never been to Olive Garden. Just never got around to it.

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I used to cook a lot of London Broil on the grill. I would slice it real thin and marinate it in a mixture of Worcestershire sauce, soy sauce, onion flakes, and garlic powder. It only needed to marinate a few minutes and I'd put it on the grill. By the time I finished I'd go back and flip them over, then go back and take them off, because it was done. It was always a crowd favorite too.

Zina just sent this from Kroger. Prime rib roasts are looking pretty expensive.

Natural Bridge Speedway was like that, they had a dirt track and a 1/8 mile drag strip. I never even went there, but a lot of people from around here did. Once I started driving a truck I'd be gone all week every week- for the most part anyway. If you got in on Friday you were leaving Sunday. If you left on Thursday you didn't get home until late Friday or or Saturday, so you just didn't have much time to do anything.