Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 11:33:57 -0500
Reply-To: Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
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From: Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
Subject: Re: AC ego disaster, pig killing cold
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10-4 on the pig killing requirements. And by the way, you'd find
plenty of drinking and dancing if you took a tour in your vanagon
camper through southern middle tennessee, too. Not much singing
though. Too much drinking for that.
I once worked in Holland, we drove all over the place on the numerous
three day weekends. Everywhere I went, everybody had a small
refrigerator at home because the concept of keeping food for a long
time, even cold, was kind of disgusting to them. They kept their gin
and drinking water cold. Vegetables and meat were bought fresh every
day, two days at the most it seemed, and the vegetables mostly came
in from the middle east fresh daily. The food was damn good.
Once a bunch of Americans I worked with drove to france to order
turkeys for thanksgiving, which obviously isn't celebrated there so a
bunch of turkeys would not have been available normally on any given
day. When they went back to pick them up, they found out the turkeys
were still alive. When they drove back into france the next week
after arranging to have them butchered, they couldn't find any place
to keep them cold so they had to cook and eat them early anyway.
Stupid. They caught a lot of hell for how much company gasoline they
wasted getting those turkeys, and rightly so.
Jim
On Jun 15, 2006, at 11:14 AM, Zoltan wrote:
> Jim,
> You forgot to tell the younger ones, that killing pigs happened in
> January because keeping the meet cold had to be about that time of
> the year. It was before the fridge arrived to the US. In Europe
> they are still using this time of the year. So, if you would ever
> try to take a tour with your Vanagon Camper around the villages in
> Eastern Europe in January, you would find a few feasts with good
> drinking, dancing and singing going on. Even though they have a
> small fridge now. These wardrobe size fridges are only in the US.
> Their fridge is not much bigger than the one we have in our
> Westfalias. A/C and Power Stearing is still a unessential luxury
> over there. We are having the best of this world here.
> Zoltan
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Felder" <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 8:50 AM
> Subject: Re: AC ego disaster
>
>
>> I remember hearing about that, particularly in little rural towns
>> when dad would take his family back home to show the locals how he'd
>> "made it" in the big city. I have heard from more than one person
>> that dad ordered the windows to be rolled up as they passed the city
>> limit sign, and they couldn't be rolled down until the family left
>> town again, no matter how hot it got.
>>
>> Vanagon content: I went back to a small tennessee community where I
>> once lived and gave my ex-neighbor a ride in my Vanagon that would
>> have been in my 69 bus back when I lived there. His remark about the
>> Vanagon's air conditioning: "It's cold enough to kill pigs in here."
>> For those not familiar with the concept of killing pigs, it's
>> normally done in the coldest days of january. And don't look at me. I
>> don't eat 'em at all.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>
>> On Jun 15, 2006, at 10:10 AM, Roger Sisler wrote:
>>
>>> No , it is a 85 westy with a gas 1.9. I only drive like it is a
>>> diesel. I
>>> am old enough to remember hearing that folks used to drive with the
>>> windows
>>> up in 100 degree weather to make their friends think they had a/c.
>>> This was
>>> back in the early 60's when a/c was still new.
>>>
>>
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