"Carl's Lounge" (Off-Topic Discussion, Traditional Knife "Tales & Vignettes")

September in Mt Keira ....spring....was the Rusa rut.....bellowing and lots of stinky wallow...and herds gathering.....In my old mountain home.....now I'm way down the coast...dead roos and wallabies on the
roadside .....although I saw a Sea Eagle twice today.👍
 
Thanks for thinking of me, guys. :thumbsup:🤓:thumbsup:
I am away on vacation and the wifi access this year is atrocious! Usually about 6 hours to load a new page, so I haven't been keeping up with The Porch much, but not for lack of trying. :thumbsdown::mad:
Actually, I'll be surprised if this post gets through. (2:48pm on Thursday when I initially post it)

- GT
 
So a few weeks back I posted a picture of some shrubs and whatnot I was pulling up with a jack. One of them I dug out by hand and am trying to save to grow as a smallish bonsai plant. It’s a ficus pumila otherwise known as a creeping fig. Wife planted a ten dollar plant fifteen years ago, and it ran rampant. Hardly pruned it. It covered a block wall and the foliage was probably the size of a bobcat truck. Decided to pull it and when I did I found these really neat snakey roots at the base. Potted it up and low and behold six weeks later it’s starting to leaf out. Found out that these are rare to see as bonsai as you need to grown an unpruned hedge for a long time like we did (unintentionally mind you) to get something like this. Very cool plant. The juvenile foliage is quite small and lends itself to this sort of thing. Maybe next spring I will try to find a better pot for it. ;). Here it is with a knife in the pic for no special reason other than it is my garden knife. D8E9D720-9E3D-4871-90E7-060A289C6C28.jpeg5947993C-9CEF-42D0-B2C0-AAC5ABB8C464.jpeg
 
Wi-fi at the cottage we're renting seems more reliable this week than it was last week (nowhere to go but up), so I'll try sneaking a post in here. This is not knife-related, just a curious thing I discovered back in April 2020 when COVID-19 shut down my state, I was banned from my campus and its mail facilities, and I started walking about 1.25 miles to the nearest US Post Office when I needed to use some kind of mail services. I noticed that across the street from the Post Office was a pizza joint I had never seen nor heard about before I walked by it. It was, of course, shut down at the time and I found its name amusingly ironic for the pandemic situation with which we were all dealing. Never remembered to take a photo of it until one day last month.
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- GT
 
Nature Boy Nature Boy
Mike,
As a former Detroiter one of the things I miss most is the pizza. Best explained here;
www.slicepizzeria.com

What Is Detroit Style Pizza - Why Is It Unique - Slice Pizzeria

Detroit is a place known for three things, music, cars, and fantastic pizza. Detroit has produced major pizza chain giants like Dominos and Little Caesars. But, you cannot mention pizza in the United States and ... <a title="What Is Detroit Style Pizza – Why Is It Unique" class="read-more"...
www.slicepizzeria.com www.slicepizzeria.com
Of course it can be made anywhere but it is rarely made quite like at Buddy's where it was invented and each slice was a heavenly deep dish meal.
 
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redsparrow said:
As a former Detroiter one of the things I miss most is the pizza. Best explained here;
www.slicepizzeria.com

What Is Detroit Style Pizza - Why Is It Unique - Slice Pizzeria

Detroit is a place known for three things, music, cars, and fantastic pizza. Detroit has produced major pizza chain giants like Dominos and Little Caesars. But, you cannot mention pizza in the United States and ... <a title="What Is Detroit Style Pizza – Why Is It Unique" class="read-more"...
www.slicepizzeria.com www.slicepizzeria.com
Of course it can be made anywhere but it is rarely made quite like at Buddy's where it was invented and each slice was a deep dish meal.
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Thank you for that info! Quite fascinating to read about the specific tools and ingredients that make Detroit style pizza unique. I feel foolish for not realizing that Detroit was so highly regarded in the pizza world!
 
Born and raised in Detroit in the 60's and 70's and I hate to admit that I never heard of "Detroit" style pizza until a few years ago. The closest to the description in the link I remember having was from Buscemi's. I don't recall the sauce being on the top and the pepperoni on the bottom though. The pic in the article shows pepperoni on the top, so must be some allowable variations ;)

All that said, one of the things I've missed about Detroit was the pizza. When I was a lad, there was a plethora of excellent choices for a pie in the metro area.
 
Nature Boy said:
Thank you for that info! Quite fascinating to read about the specific tools and ingredients that make Detroit style pizza unique.
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Happy to oblige.:) Mike even Michigan pizza makers aren't familiar with Detroit style. They usually offer only New York or Chicago style. Along with good pizza Detroit had it's own style of Coney Dogs and Ribs like nowhere else. At a time when a ginger ale "pop" made by the Vernors family was also exclusive to Detroit.
 
redsparrow said:
Happy to oblige.:) Mike even Michigan pizza makers aren't familiar with Detroit style. They usually offer only New York or Chicago style. Along with good pizza Detroit had it's own style of Coney Dogs and Ribs like nowhere else. At a time when a ginger ale "pop" made by the Vernors family was also exclusive to Detroit.
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Man, I miss Vernors. Best ginger ale ever. No contest. When I first moved to Missouri in '84 there was one store that had it - sometimes. Then IIRC, Pepsi bought them and I never saw it again in Missouri.

"pop" :D Down here its "soda". Every once in a blue moon I still call it "pop".
 
5K Qs said:
Wi-fi at the cottage we're renting seems more reliable this week than it was last week (nowhere to go but up), so I'll try sneaking a post in here. This is not knife-related, just a curious thing I discovered back in April 2020 when COVID-19 shut down my state, I was banned from my campus and its mail facilities, and I started walking about 1.25 miles to the nearest US Post Office when I needed to use some kind of mail services. I noticed that across the street from the Post Office was a pizza joint I had never seen nor heard about before I walked by it. It was, of course, shut down at the time and I found its name amusingly ironic for the pandemic situation with which we were all dealing. Never remembered to take a photo of it until one day last month.
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- GT
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Boss's forename Tentin. 😉
 
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^^^ +1 !!
Nothing like a Vernor's Float on a hot summer's day, Mike.:cool:
Preferably with about 5 White Castle sliders for lunch.
I have family in Tennessee that stock up with Vernor's cases whenever visiting Michigan. :)
 
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