Opsimath
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Yum to all, and to Black Cow, the chocolate coated caramel on a stick!
Yum to all, and to Black Cow, the chocolate coated caramel on a stick!
From our halloween variety bag, the Snickers are ending up alone in the jar. I used to like Snickers quite a bit, but for whatever reason don't much anymore.
When I was a kid I liked Three Muskateers bars a lot. At Halloween I'd trade for them. Now... blech. Why did I like them?!I used to like Snickers quite a bit, but for whatever reason don't much anymore.
I can't decide if this is useful information or not.....Tootsie Rolls are among the best baits for rat traps. The rats like it and it lasts forever. It can sit in a trap in an attic for months at a time and still look like it did when it was put there.
So funny. I was just laughing to myself thinking of the strange stuff I learn from hanging out here!!!I can't decide if this is useful information or not.....
Ooooh! Thanks for the tip. My wife has a giant clematis growing by the side of our garage, and I discovered that some of these nasty urban denizens decided to shack up there. Ugggh!Tootsie Rolls are among the best baits for rat traps. The rats like it and it lasts forever. It can sit in a trap in an attic for months at a time and still look like it did when it was put there.
I've heard they really like Churros..... but maybe that's a West Coast thing.....I bet a Twinkie or a McDonald's Cheeseburger would also hold up just as well.
I bet a Twinkie or a McDonald's Cheeseburger would also hold up just as well.
There’s more to it than preservatives. Something about landfill environments not always being good for decomposition if I recall.Perhaps urban legend but I recall stories about excavating landfills after 50 years (various reasons, including criminal investigations where evidence was believed to have ended up in the dump) and hot dogs (or portions thereof) were found perfectly preserved after several decades. There was no signs of "bio-degrading". I still eat hot dogs occasionally but I do wonder just what is being preserved and whether I really want that
Yes. But as the story or legend was passed on the hot dogs were unique in their lack of decomposition. Other discarded food products showed some degradation. Hot dogs didn't.There’s more to it than preservatives. Something about landfill environments not always being good for decomposition if I recall.
Do you also have landfill-gas collecting pipes that lead to a filtering unit - and from there to combusting engine turning generator?
Just to think of all the disgusting things we were doing only 50 years ago. Now the old "Dump-It-Place" has turned into modern assorting centre that produces new material of most of the stuff - some part will be burnt for getting energy - and only minimal amount remains as actual "litter".
My mom lives in a town that has a town dump still, there is not trash pickup like out here.I'm not sure most of the US had made it there, yet. My local dump is still a dump and cover operation. Compared to the dumps of my youth there is more of an effort to segregate some kinds of trash so they are not buried but beyond that, not much.
My mom lives in a town that has a town dump still, there is not trash pickup like out here.
Every Tuesday or Thursday, when I am visiting her, I drive her truck with all her trash bags/recyc in back and dump it, and it is divided up into different areas etc. It's pretty fun, as this is what I did with my dad as a kid when I grew up. Saturday was dump run day. I remember trees and woods and other cars and station wagons and pungent odors. And birds.