For many years, there was an old hand painted sign across the front of a food booth at our county fair that said “Hambergers.”
Most food vendors had trucks or tents, but this was a little year round building, which had the concession for other events on the fairgrounds, like the computer show and the gem fair, so I saw it a lot.
It wasn’t corrected till they apparently bought new, lighted plastic signs… maybe 15 or 20 years ago.
I’m pretty sure the same family still owns it.
I always wondered whether they knew the mistake and just liked the old fashioned authenticity, or they were surprised when the new sign guy told them it was misspelled.
BTW I bought burgers from them in the 70s, when we thought they were expensive for $3 or so, but hey, it’s the fair. Not any more… Last year they were something like $18.
I remember taking a picture of the sign for their “lunch deal”… a burger, fries and a coke for about $25! Extra for cheese.
As a photographer, and a draftsman (CAD – mechanical drawings, blueprintes, if you don’t get the reference) I absolutely love this – the symmetry and curves. Amazing. Where the spoons nest in the bottom it reminds me of nautilus shells.
I was going to ask whether they were unloading bananas….
Then I decided to search the image.
Sure enough, this area, at the foot of Wall Street in lower Manhattan was known as the banana docks
I only see a couple of bunches, but presumably there was a large cargo of them.
BTW … In those days, when organic was a way of life, because there were no pesticides, being bitten by tarantulas was a job hazard for banana boat workers and for grocers.
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Also BTW, something I’ve read about lately: in 1900, and well into the 1950s, almost every banana sold in the US was a variety called Gros Michel (Big Mike). The problem was they were almost all clones, grown from cuttings and grafts.
Then in the 1950s a blight called Panama disease wiped them out, almost worldwide. Only a few remained in small plots away from commercial growers, or there’d be no trace.
The big growers soon switched to a similar banana, called the Cavendish. Every banana sold by the major fruit companies…. almost anything with a sticker… for 50 years, has been a Cavendish.
Supposedly they don’t taste quite as good, so if you’re old enough to remember bananas from the 50s, that’s why they seem better in memory.
They’re still all clones, so the next disease may wipe out the Cavendish, too.
Scientists warn that they need to find a variety they can grow from seed, because clones are so vulnerable, but nobody listens.
…..
One more thing…. in my search I saw a few articles from trashy papers saying this photo proves that time travelers exist.
Why? Because there’s a fellow standing right behind the banana buyers, who looks like maybe he’s a deck hand, in a white short-sleeved shirt and no hat.
His haircut looks like a Mohawk. But if course, no one wore a Mohawk in 1900, so he must have come from the future.
Logic at its finest.
Could it possibly be that this picture proves that some people wore that cut in 1900? Of course not. Much more believable that he was born in the 1970s.
Panama disease has got into the Cavendish.
They are looking for a replacement for it now.
I’m hoping that they figure out the problem with the apple banana from Hawaii and its inability to travel well. A couple o the grocery sores here had them one year before covid. I’m guessing we got them because of how relatively close we are to there, here. I’ll see if i can find the History Guy’s vid on bananas world wide.
The thing that made the big mike and cavendish so good as a commercial fruit is it can be handled and shipped with little damage, and that’s not true of all bananas growing in the world. Most just don’t travel well.
And yeah, I know fragility is a problem. I don’t think I’ve seen apple bananas, unless they have another name, or they’re red.
My favorite Mexican market, which I visit maybe once a month, has about 4 varieties most of the time…. tiny baby bananas and a little bit bigger burro bananas, usually a red variety, sometimes purplish ones, besides Cavendish.
Problem is, I didn’t think the names they use are the actual variety names. And they’re all quite expensive, so I only occasionally buy one of two to taste.
IIRC, the artificial banana flavoring used in banana taffy and other candies, is developed from the Gros Michal varietal. That is why it doesn’t taste like the banana we know.
Yes, but I recently read that now there’s some controversy over it.
Some people are not so sure the fellow who invented it had ever actually tasted Gros Michel.
Plus, in a recent taste test, participants were more likely to identify the artificial flavor than either banana, with some saying the bananas tasted alike.
Where there was a preference, it was Gros Michel first, then Cavendish, then ärtificial.
…
Personally, I don’t like artificial fruit flavors, even the ones they call natural… except banana.
I like those (horrible to many people) orange marshmallow peanuts that are fake banana flavor. 😁
I was actually searching for the location, but I found the artist and title instead.
Lozowick did another one called “Backyards of Broadway”, and New York City’s elevated trains (pre subway) were referred to as the Elevated… so I’d guess that’s where this is too.
1 pain in the neck
2 against all odds
3 forgive and forget
4 mixed reality
5 chill out
6 dream big
7 scrambled eggs on toast
8 top hat
9 last minute
10 chip on your shoulder
11 double oven (aga is a brand name)
12 beat around the bush
13 ring of fire
14 growing pains
15 excuse my french
16 gold star
17 break the bank
18 one step forward two steps back
19 pisces
20 mercury rising
1. Pain in the neck
2. Against the odds?
3. Forgive and forget
4. ??
5. ??
6.Dream bigger?
7. I want to say either “eggs over easy, or scrambled eggs, on toast”… But there are two Es and one G.
8. (They’re all hats…. so…… Oh! ) Top hat!
9. ??
10. Chip on your shoulder?
11. ??
12 Beat around the bush(es)
13. Ring of fire
14. Growing pains
15. Excuse my French! (Took a while but it’s funny)
16. Gold star? ( That’s more like a quiz than wordplay, though. )
17. Break the bank?
18. One step up, two steps back? (I think so, but we usually say forward)
19. Pisces (if I’m right that’s funny too)(Pi C’S)
20. The mercury is rising?
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Two mice to go, please, and a side of earthworm.
“Get off my lawn!”
‘miniature ‘ LA for the 1976 movie ‘Earthquake’
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“Eat here, get gas…”
I think Madge’s has seen better days.
All the sites I found this on say that Madge’s Café was located in Millersberg, Iowa.
For many years, there was an old hand painted sign across the front of a food booth at our county fair that said “Hambergers.”
Most food vendors had trucks or tents, but this was a little year round building, which had the concession for other events on the fairgrounds, like the computer show and the gem fair, so I saw it a lot.
It wasn’t corrected till they apparently bought new, lighted plastic signs… maybe 15 or 20 years ago.
I’m pretty sure the same family still owns it.
I always wondered whether they knew the mistake and just liked the old fashioned authenticity, or they were surprised when the new sign guy told them it was misspelled.
BTW I bought burgers from them in the 70s, when we thought they were expensive for $3 or so, but hey, it’s the fair. Not any more… Last year they were something like $18.
I remember taking a picture of the sign for their “lunch deal”… a burger, fries and a coke for about $25! Extra for cheese.
if i remember right, that is most likely a pair of young brothers.
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Flatware display by Mobius. Disturb at your own risk.
The rare and delicate white spoonflower.
Now I see it!
As a photographer, and a draftsman (CAD – mechanical drawings, blueprintes, if you don’t get the reference) I absolutely love this – the symmetry and curves. Amazing. Where the spoons nest in the bottom it reminds me of nautilus shells.
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Think how beautifully those cheetahs above would blend into this scene.
Any more when i see fields of sunflowers i can’t help but think of Ukraine.
Growing a few on back porch….from bird seed.
Yeah right. Sunflowers. Of course.
(cough)
♪♫”If you could see her through my eyes…”♫♪
Isn’t there a Grimm Brothers fairy tale about this?
A true ferry tail.
😀
YEEEE HAW! What a ride!
NYC 1900
I was going to ask whether they were unloading bananas….
Then I decided to search the image.
Sure enough, this area, at the foot of Wall Street in lower Manhattan was known as the banana docks
I only see a couple of bunches, but presumably there was a large cargo of them.
BTW … In those days, when organic was a way of life, because there were no pesticides, being bitten by tarantulas was a job hazard for banana boat workers and for grocers.
…
Also BTW, something I’ve read about lately: in 1900, and well into the 1950s, almost every banana sold in the US was a variety called Gros Michel (Big Mike). The problem was they were almost all clones, grown from cuttings and grafts.
Then in the 1950s a blight called Panama disease wiped them out, almost worldwide. Only a few remained in small plots away from commercial growers, or there’d be no trace.
The big growers soon switched to a similar banana, called the Cavendish. Every banana sold by the major fruit companies…. almost anything with a sticker… for 50 years, has been a Cavendish.
Supposedly they don’t taste quite as good, so if you’re old enough to remember bananas from the 50s, that’s why they seem better in memory.
They’re still all clones, so the next disease may wipe out the Cavendish, too.
Scientists warn that they need to find a variety they can grow from seed, because clones are so vulnerable, but nobody listens.
…..
One more thing…. in my search I saw a few articles from trashy papers saying this photo proves that time travelers exist.
Why? Because there’s a fellow standing right behind the banana buyers, who looks like maybe he’s a deck hand, in a white short-sleeved shirt and no hat.
His haircut looks like a Mohawk. But if course, no one wore a Mohawk in 1900, so he must have come from the future.
Logic at its finest.
Could it possibly be that this picture proves that some people wore that cut in 1900? Of course not. Much more believable that he was born in the 1970s.
Panama disease has got into the Cavendish.
They are looking for a replacement for it now.
I’m hoping that they figure out the problem with the apple banana from Hawaii and its inability to travel well. A couple o the grocery sores here had them one year before covid. I’m guessing we got them because of how relatively close we are to there, here. I’ll see if i can find the History Guy’s vid on bananas world wide.
The thing that made the big mike and cavendish so good as a commercial fruit is it can be handled and shipped with little damage, and that’s not true of all bananas growing in the world. Most just don’t travel well.
Thanks for the update.
And yeah, I know fragility is a problem. I don’t think I’ve seen apple bananas, unless they have another name, or they’re red.
My favorite Mexican market, which I visit maybe once a month, has about 4 varieties most of the time…. tiny baby bananas and a little bit bigger burro bananas, usually a red variety, sometimes purplish ones, besides Cavendish.
Problem is, I didn’t think the names they use are the actual variety names. And they’re all quite expensive, so I only occasionally buy one of two to taste.
The apple might what they are calling the red.
Yes, expensive. But a far superior taste.
IIRC, the artificial banana flavoring used in banana taffy and other candies, is developed from the Gros Michal varietal. That is why it doesn’t taste like the banana we know.
Yes, but I recently read that now there’s some controversy over it.
Some people are not so sure the fellow who invented it had ever actually tasted Gros Michel.
Plus, in a recent taste test, participants were more likely to identify the artificial flavor than either banana, with some saying the bananas tasted alike.
Where there was a preference, it was Gros Michel first, then Cavendish, then ärtificial.
…
Personally, I don’t like artificial fruit flavors, even the ones they call natural… except banana.
I like those (horrible to many people) orange marshmallow peanuts that are fake banana flavor. 😁
Not more than bananas, though.
That might explain why I like bananas but hate anything banana flavored.
DAY-OH! DAyayay oh.
Wow! Something other than the Harry Belafonte rendition!
Okay, so I ordered my bourbon with one ice cube. But this is ridiculous.
Looks like my last root canal.
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Louis Lozowick…
Titled “Checkerboard (Under the Elevated)” ,1926
I was actually searching for the location, but I found the artist and title instead.
Lozowick did another one called “Backyards of Broadway”, and New York City’s elevated trains (pre subway) were referred to as the Elevated… so I’d guess that’s where this is too.
Wasn’t t just called the “El” in Chicago?
I think so.
Yes… And some people do say the elevated, but not many.
In NYC they apparently don’t say the El… And his other paintings are of New York.
Anyway, I’m just guessing, as I said.
I swear, this is the LAST one of these I have left !
1 pain in the neck
2 against all odds
3 forgive and forget
4 mixed reality
5 chill out
6 dream big
7 scrambled eggs on toast
8 top hat
9 last minute
10 chip on your shoulder
11 double oven (aga is a brand name)
12 beat around the bush
13 ring of fire
14 growing pains
15 excuse my french
16 gold star
17 break the bank
18 one step forward two steps back
19 pisces
20 mercury rising
They come from here…
https://quiz-questions.uk/brain-teasers/
… scroll down to find them.
Okay — technical foul! Six is not odd…!
(And I’m not happy with 7 or 9 either…)
In those answers, 7 is what I said…. But in our image, the letters are incorrect.
There are several I’m not happy with… And I didn’t understand 11 till i just googled it
I have five for certain, maybe three more.
I’ll look again in the morning.
I’m not allowed to peek till I give up…
So here’s my work in progress….
1. Pain in the neck
2. Against the odds?
3. Forgive and forget
4. ??
5. ??
6.Dream bigger?
7. I want to say either “eggs over easy, or scrambled eggs, on toast”… But there are two Es and one G.
8. (They’re all hats…. so…… Oh! ) Top hat!
9. ??
10. Chip on your shoulder?
11. ??
12 Beat around the bush(es)
13. Ring of fire
14. Growing pains
15. Excuse my French! (Took a while but it’s funny)
16. Gold star? ( That’s more like a quiz than wordplay, though. )
17. Break the bank?
18. One step up, two steps back? (I think so, but we usually say forward)
19. Pisces (if I’m right that’s funny too)(Pi C’S)
20. The mercury is rising?
Forgot to say…. @Nighthawks…
But I like them.
Funny that so few are trying… we all used to do them.
Come on, everybody!
Hey, I’m late, busy day. I got 13. Two puzzle entries have errors: #2 (which I still would have missed) and #7 (which I would have likely gotten).
I just said the same about 7…. But I don’t see the error in 2…. Which I sort of got, at least the gist of it….but not their whole phrase
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“Hey! Get your own %^#( stick!”
Dude, yer front end needs realigning..
Maybe the poor pooch needs an exorcism.
Or a puppy chiropractor.
I’m looking at that huge zipper around his neck and realizing they zipped his head on upside down.
Now I’m dying to know: What events?
You don’t remember the great Oreo fiasco of ’23?
S’OK… neither do I.
Something like this?
https://notalwaysright.com/snack-attack-2/383833/
One of those forever mysteries, like Calvin’s noodle incident.
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The piñata deserves a nice boyfriend, after the way her last owners treated her.
But that mop… I dunno. I have to warn you, Mr Shih Tzu… She always acts like she’s got a stick up her… um… you know.
The brown bear always goes for a guy in uniform.
The nearsighted lovers are always my favorites here.
I love the little donkey.
I hope he isn’t around when she gets…
…yeah.
I am currently making a Pegasus Unicorn Cowboy Donkey Pinata. But it is solid so it cant be broken.
Hi again!
Then it’s a statuette or a sculpture, but not a piñata.
Lucky for it!
Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique training after the show.
of course there is
Be there or be square.