California's "Black Balls"

[El Camexican]

Thanks for that. I was going to snag a pre-midnight snack, but after reading your post I have lost my appetite...

Maybe a few photos of my latest meals will help get it back?

[ironchop]

they become as vogue as bottle water that comes in plastic bottles

this is a particularly poignant pet peeve of mine.

say that three times fast

the mere idea of plastic bottles full of "drinking" water infuriates the Taurus in me.....let alone the idea of buying drinking water.

[El Camexican]

this is a particularly poignant pet peeve of mine.

say that three times fast

the mere idea of plastic bottles full of "drinking" water infuriates the Taurus in me.....let alone the idea of buying drinking water.

The ONLY time I ever buy a bottle of water is when traveling somewhere nasty, or out of convenience (sporting event, race track, etc.) Not because I'm opposed to paying $2.00 for $0.00000001 worth of tap water in a bottle, but because of the freakin virgin plastic containers.

They still use glass Coke bottles in Mexico for the 500ml and smaller sizes, but over the past 6 or 7 years plastic is starting to take over. You can taste the difference (scary). If I was King all plastic containers would have a huge deposit price on them. So high that every fat ass TV watching kid would get up at 5:00am on weekends to be the first one to scour the ditches for empties (and discarded adult mags) like we did when I was a kid.

Seriously, it costs NOTHING to have a high deposit fee on containers. You pay one time and that's it, the money revolves. It's like a cheap tax which is better than a zillion bottles floating in a creek. On that note I see some towns are banning plastic bags. Good for them. Inconvenient as hell, but I don't mind. Plastic is a wonderful thing, but only where needed, like medical equipment and re-popped trike fenders.

[tripledog]

The bottle redemption machine is my ATM.

[ironchop]

I buy Mexican glass bottled Coke from my local authentic restaurant. It tastes like my childhood, when everything was good and right in the world, before high fructose GMO corn syrup and BPAs F#@%KD everything up. I remember STEEL cans of Pepsi and one litre glass bottles of Coke.

I think I heard Mexico banned GMOs. If that's true, we might take heed from our southern neighbors. Its embarrassing that we didn't think of it first.

Remember when parking lots glittered in the sunlight in the early morning and late afternoon from all the broken bottle fragments strewn about? There's beauty in colored silica. The kind you don't find in a lot full of smashed mountain dew and Walmart water bottles. Brown glass doesn't float in huge piles in our nation's waterways and our world's oceans. We went from brown paper (the easiest to recycle) to plastic bags. Cheap plastic bags.

I sold my Soul for convenience and Consumerism

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[El Camexican]

Jerry Brown dicks latest bright idea is to tax us per mile !...... because cars get such great gas mileage the state is not making enough revenue from gasoline tax ! Piss and sh!t taxes to follow !

What about a Knob Gobbler tax? Could that be the tax that finally brings California the revenue it needs to fix the water pipes?

[83ATC185]

I buy Mexican glass bottled Coke from my local authentic restaurant. It tastes like my childhood, when everything was good and right in the world

I too love the mexican cokes. And the pepsis. And Sidral Mundet. Even the 7Up is much better and i don't care for 7-Up. And that melon juice that comes in the square bottle i could make myself sick on. Compare the ingredients, there's about 8 in the Mexican coke and 20 in American coke. Why? And all those bottles are 30 years old and scratched up where they RECYCLE them. Now that i think about it 75% of what our local Mexican grocery store sells is real whole foods. The selection is all of 4 aisles but its all good stuff. That's really what we need in America, a return to simplicity. Do away with millions of engineered food choices, and have 4 or 5 aisles of fresh food.

It would be an interesting experiment to shop only at that grocery store for a few months and see how my health improves. I might work this into the budget.

One of the most beautiful things I've ever seen was the sun shining through a 30 ft pile of broken safety glass at PPG in Decatur, IL. Simply breathtaking.

[El Camexican]

I think I heard Mexico banned GMOs. If that's true, we might take heed from our southern neighbors. Its embarrassing that we didn't think of it first.

I don't know about that. My kid has taken to eating something available at HEB called a "Garapple" which looks like an apple and tastes like a grape. Sounds pretty GMO to me (I call them "Crapples")

I'm surprised to see you say the US Coke tastes different now than when you were a kid. When we would come to the States as far back as 1975 it was commonly known that Canadian Coke tasted very different than the Coke in ND or MN. Mom always said "they use different sugar down there". Mexican Coke tastes exactly like the Canadian version to me and the US still has that same syrupy sweet aftertaste that seems to last way too long. Maybe you can asked one of the guys from up North to bring one to TF for you to test next year? We can blindfold you and let you pick the best Coke

Myself I finally quit the Coke cold turkey in July. Still can't figure out what to mix with my rum that doesn't have sugar in it, so its been replaced by beer for now

Forgot about broken glass thing. Too bad people are so freaking stupid that they cant refrain from smashing them. Perhaps a $1.00 a bottle deposit would change that.

[tripledog]

I prefer Pepsi, soda speak.

[fabiodriven]

Scooter, my diesel truck gets pretty good fuel mileage and I have it because I need it and use it for its intended purpose. From early spring until late fall and into the winter I ride my bike most places. Sometimes the truck doesn't move for days.

Using wood for fuel in my eyes is good because wood is a renewable resource. I'm unaware of any alternatives in my area that would have less of an impact. Natural gas isn't available where I live and is harmful to the earth to retrieve, oil is getting cleaner and cleaner and I have no idea if that's cleaner than wood but I doubt it, and I don't know anything about propane. All three of those are fossil fuels however. This much I know.

We can play link ping pong all day and it doesn't prove a thing. I started this out looking forward to learning and having a decent debate with someone I thought I was familiar with but I'm just getting talked down to by a codger. My aim is for people to open their eyes a bit that's all. There is no such thing as face value anymore.

[barnett468]

Still can't figure out what to mix with my rum that doesn't have sugar in it, so its been replaced by beer for now.

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[El Camexican]

.................................................. ..... Same for me.

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Great beer, Too bad Kawasaki didn't name their trike "Tres Equis"

[barnett468]

Great beer, Too bad Kawasaki didn't name their trike "Tres Equis"

.......................... Yes, or even Carta Blanca....because I like the jugs they use.

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[ironchop]

How will they rehydrate the Salton Sea to attract tourists again if you are spilling all that water out in the middle of the street like that?

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[El Camexican]

How will they rehydrate the Salton Sea to attract tourists again if you are spilling all that water out in the middle of the street like that?

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10 billion tax dollars worth of Gatorade?