As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
I remember the first time I saw Tracey Bregman in she did not have any make up on and she was pretty. There really are no actresses who look pretty without make up on and yet she is one.
The other day in the Thrift Store I spotted a Revereware 4 quart kettle. I told TL that I had sworn off buying any more Revereware as we have a number of pieces, we then added JYG's collection the trailer house collection and then there were some quarter sale finds and some cute miniature ones and I just knew we had enough.
Odd part in the Brier Patch in the women all had small kettles. So when I saw this 4 quart, I picked it up and asked TL if we had one this size. We did not, so for 3 bucks we and the boiled potato size for cooking kettles.
When I opened it up, I told TL, "This is a potato boiling kettle and it is now our Young and the Restless Kettle. TL wonders how I arrive at weird explanations, so I showed TL and said, "See, scorched boiled potatoes." The bottom was tarnished like all scorched kettle are, and this one had a heap big heat to it as it had that rainbow colour to it. I told TL, that like the mother who burned the literal copper bottom off of a nice stainless steel set of kettles I got from India, some old gal had turned the burner on high, went off to watch the Young and Restless, got involved in Lauren and Paul or Victor and Niki or hosebag Jill and whatever platoon she was draining of fluids, forgot all about dinner until scorched potatoes filled the house. Then the rush was on, but it was too late. Hubby and the kids got scorched potatoes ad she pretended that she could not taste it.
So that is our Young and the Restless Kettle. Better story than the old gal died while cooking, as I have mentioned before, allot of old women die while cooking dinner or supper. I always pick up those pots and pans.
About 2 months ago there was this mother and daughter in the Thrift. The Daughter was about 800 years old and the mother looked she she was around when the Vikings were in America. Old gal had a walker and she had a Revereware small kettle. I thought, "Woman you look like you are going to be dead or in the old folks home before you use it twice," but I smiled as she was getting herself a pot and I imagine a good number of those shitty canned soups and stews will be cooked in that kettle before it ends up in the Thrift store again.
I still wanted her pot as it was pretty, but prices are like 3 bucks for these and I just won't pay that too often. I noticed they do not last in the store anymore either. They put them out and they are gone. Used to be they would sit for awhile, but there are so many poor White People now that they are picking them up. I'm glad to God that we have our stuff as the quality is not that good on the newer stuff. I was picking up allot of cooking stuff in women born around 1920 to 1950, and they had good shit. They are about DOA now and with hard times, there better stuff is not appearing like it was.
I know this kettle has been incubating for some time, as the handle was off colour in dusty, so when Grandma keeled over, it was sitting someplace for a number of years before it made it's debut in the cooking section.
I don't know why women didn't have more of these potato kettles. It seems like they shifted to the two handle 8 quarts instead. I can understand that, as I picked up lots of these types for a quarter back in the day. They were big and heavy. I took a set down to TL's when in the metro and we cooked chili and I don't remember what all in them.
I always prefer a big kettle, too big, to one that is small as things usually just cook better.
Nuff Said
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