I’m just amazingly impressed with Morningstar Farms’ stuff. They make some really tasty spicy black bean burgers, astonishingly meat-like veggie corndogs, and last night I made a very nice batch of dirty rice tortillas using their “Crumbles” ground-beef substitute. It’s not exactly like ground beef, for one thing it’s a lot less greasy, but it tastes superb…
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I’ve heard of people who wake up with a song in their hearts, bright and rested and ready to face the world, but I have no personal experience of this phenomenon. I’m part of the grumpy morning contingent of humanity. I have never, to my knowledge, sprung out of bed with a song in my heart. I have, however, woken up with a song stuck in my head.
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I have no idea how the rumor mill works. I picture it as a sort of perpetual motion machine. A complex intertwining of pulleys and levers driven by a huge sail device that turns on the winds of its own gossip. Words move around on conveyor belts, occasionally dropping off into the ears of the mill workers, who sometimes add fresh rumors to the assembly line. Like any industrial situation, there are frequently byproducts, both positive and negative. The current mill byproduct seems to be a good one, precipitated by the discovery by one of the secy’s at work that I make my own wine.
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