Groceries!

Restocked Freezer!

Grocery fun facts –

• Publix’s Top Selling Snack – Pringles Original, 7oz.
• On average, there are eight peas in a pod.
• Olive oil is made only from green olives.
• The cashew is part of a fruit called a “cashew apple” that grows in tropical regions. After harvesting, the cashew apple keeps for only 24 hours before the soft fruit deteriorates. The cashew apple is not commercially important since it spoils quickly, but local people love the fruit. To harvest the nut, the ripe apple is allowed to fall to the ground where natives easily gather it. The apple and nut are separated.
• On the average, each American consumes 117 pounds of potatoes, 116 pounds of beef, 100 pounds of fresh vegetable, 80 pounds of fresh fruit, and 286 eggs per year.
• On the Italian Riviera in Viareggio, there is a culinary tradition that a good soup must always contain one stone from the sea. This stems from the days when an Italian fisherman’s catch was scooped up in nets; fish and stones frequently ended up together in the same cooking pot.

Hmm.. The bakery didn’t finish the key lime pie for delivery. Ah well… such is life. I’ll get some next time.

Hotty-hot day today, clear skies. I hope that’ll make fireworks that much nicer for the throngs of beachgoers tomorrow… though if recent history is any indicator, it’ll rain.

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