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8 December 2008

Rating the Unexplained Bacon

Filed under: consumer,ireland — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Will @ 9:12

Okay, Farmer Billy’s slow killed bacon, Farmer Billy’s bacon fed bacon, Farmer Billy’s travel bacon. Mr Simpson if you really want to kill yourself I also sell hand guns. — Apu

I was about fifteen. I stood in front of the pantry, hanging from the door and staring into shelves devoid of anything that a teenage runner’s body needs. I just ran ten miles and what, I’m supposed to heat up some Cream of Mushroom soup?

My eyes scanned side to side, back and forth, looking for a genuine snack. Something processed, something salty and oddly, slightly, sweet, something crunchy and immediately satisfying.

Bac-Os. That would have to do. I upended the little bottle and bit down on a mouthful. The chemical taste wasn’t repulsive so much as off-putting. The texture of the bits was hard and gritty at first, and then broke down into a featureless mush.

I wasn’t going to do that again. Even my adolescent hunger wouldn’t drive me to chugging Bac-Os. I’d eat an apple or something, first.

The BB Procurement department recently returned from the supermarket with two products that attempt to improve on that formative experience. (more…)

2 July 2007

Dublin Trash

Filed under: dublin — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Anita @ 9:04

In the comments of my “Two Tugs” post, someone asked if we were saving all this packing material for another move, versus taking it out to the dumpster. I thought a short post on how trash works in Dublin might explain some of our perceived craziness.

We live in an apartment in a building. We are the only people living in the building – the four floors above our home are offices. Since we’re not in an apartment building, we have to pay for our trash removal. Unlike in Gurnee, where we paid a monthly amount for a 65 gallon waste cart, here we have to pay by the bag. Each 80 liter bag of trash requires a prepaid sticker before the City will pick it up.

Recycling is another matter. I’ve been told that if we put our paper in a green trash bag, the City will pick it up free of charge. However, Will and I can’t find that confirmation on any web page. For glass, aluminum and plastic, we have to take the materials to a “bring bank” and sort the recycling appropriately (unlike our recycling in Gurnee, which was a co-mingled container). We’ve been taking our paper along with the other recycling.

Lucky for us, the movers will come back and pick up all the boxes and packing papers we don’t want. Since we had so much packing paper, the only recourse we had was to smooth it out, otherwise, we would have been run out of house and home. It would take over 20 trips with the Micra to get all this cardboard and paper to a recycling center, so we’re thrilled that the moving company will come back and take it away.

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