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Remarkable sandwiches are so rare, so today when I was done with my turkey on rye, I snapped this photo to suggest that if you’re near Porter Avenue and you’re hungry, stop by the Custard Corner & Deli.

The amount of turkey meat was generous, and the bread, lettuce, and tomato were so fresh you could tell someone had just washed the vegetables.

Even the dill pickle was good.

You can’t get that across the street….

I have songs in my head for everything. I see a word, hear a phrase, something, anything, can trigger a song. One of my friends once said there is a soundtrack to my life.

The name brand of this tea is obviously meant to be a pun.

Want the song in your head? Listen to it at pandora.com.

When I was a kid, we always had a gallon jar of “sun tea” around, either brewing in the window or cooling in the fridge. We started out with a plain glass jar, the kind pickles used to come in, and we would fill it with water, a few tea bags (mostly we had the Red Rose brand, which is an orange pekoe type of tea leaf –where did all those figurines go?), and let the jar sit in a sunny window for the better part of a day. Once sun tea became more popular, there were gallon jars available at the store with spigots in the bottom to make it easier to pour a glass.

I don’t care for brewed iced tea (it’s too strong), and I don’t like sweetened iced tea (it’s too sweet). I recently tried honey-sweetened green tea, and it was okay (it’s not too sweet and not too strong), but the only reason I drank it was that I was very thirsty, and the other choices were soda, juice (everything in the convenience store was sweetened with corn syrup), and overpriced bottled water. (I like spring water, but when they charge $1.49 for a small bottle, that just bugs me.)

We never brew sun tea at my house anymore. I don’t really know why. Maybe I just like tap water so much I don’t need to spend the effort to make the tea. Also, I tend not to have a lot of caffeine these days, limiting myself to a couple cups of coffee in the A.M. and maybe a green tea later on in the day.

The skin is ultra brown because this banana has been refrigerated. The inside is just perfectly ripe, not quite overripe, but if I don’t eat it today, it will have turned. And don’t ever let a banana turn on you!

I’ve always liked the PayDay candy bar because it has the greatest amount of peanuts of any of the candies. And now they have a new version with a chocolate coating! Mmmmmmm.

(This may be the only time I ever blog about candy, just in case you’re wondering.)

This Thanksgiving, I’m thankful for you, my blog reader. 

Anyway, I just bought a box of donut holes for a mid-day snack, and I’m finding myself eating them all (boy are they hard to dunk into my coffee mug though!), so every time someone I know walks past my office I yell “Carb-Tastic Donut Holes!” to see if I can get anyone else to share the carb/fat/calorie burden with me. 

One person said no, that she had to leave room for tomorrow’s big feast. Well that’s just WRONG, because actually we need to stretch the stomachs today, to get them ready for tomorrow’s binge. 

And on a related note, my sister accidentally mixed up too much pumpkin pie filling, so she’s bring two pies and wants to know if that’s a problem. Hello, have you MET me?

mmmmmmmm, Pie