Big Top by Rob Harrell for November 16, 2012

I don’t think I’ve ever seen Kingston so enthusiastic about anything. My contribution to the Bake Sale:AUDREY SWIFTER’S PI PIESWe have an enormous selection (see menu); the house specialty is pumpkin pie(plus all the usual stuff for Da Tribe)

Good Morning TRIBE! Coffee for me Alain, Thank You. We will have to wait to see the rest of the selection from the Bake Sale and chose. In the mean time, a slice of Alain’s pie sounds good!

I used to eat pop tarts in my younger days. But these days it’s all too sweet for these taste buds,

Good Morning, Tribe

good morning everyone.happy, happy, happy.ill have a marion berry pie, please.if you dont have marion berry, black berry will do.and a pot of coffee.

I’ll have sone pumpkin pie and DWFNC, thanks Alain.

Ahhh… the smell of warm fresh Pop Tarts in the morning.. .

100% Kona coffee beans from Hawaii. Fresh-ground in a Krupp grinder ordered from Starbucks (once I figured out how to get it working). With Starbucks Mocha Powder and coconut milk. So smooth yet so rich, Colombian coffee (which I’ve tried and much appreciate) should hide its head in shame.My fictional AHDCM in theory can wake a sleeping sauropod at an eighth of a mile. This real-world version might well do the same thing. Just made it this morning – I still have to tweak the strength, it kicks back too hard after the initial boost.

Good Afternoon Alain – In go along (sort of) with today’s strip I used one of the globe greetings I made. This one is madre from a piece of German chocolate cake.

Can I have a pop tart (preferably toasted by Pete) and a Hostess Twinkie (before they are no more)?

Good Evening bmonk and Top Cat!

Hostess -

I will not miss Hostess. I’m sure all the junk food junkies will find something like that garbage to bulk up on.

Good Evening Grog! – If they aren’t too smart have they been eating their own product?

Top Cat – Nice pics.

Sojo, if they’ve been eating their own products, they’ve probably got medical bills coming out the wazoo. No wonder medical benefits were a sticking point. Their own employees did what Washington dared not do – shut Hostess down. Now if we can only get Washington to retract the statement that pizza is a food group.

Grog – LOL!!!

Top Cat, I’m sure there are people out there who won’t like that. But I think all this “food” should be 4 times more expensive that what it costs to stock your cart with your basic food groups (no, not pizza or the crap filling the frozen food freezers)

Top Cat – That would be fine with me IF they didn’t use artifical sweetener.

A couple of those Hostess pictures up there almost make me want to hurl. I don’t recall seeing that stuff in Canada growing up. But we had things called Half Moons, Joe Louie’s and Mae Wests in Quebec. I admit to an addiction to Half Moons in my teens. I also like an occasional Mae West.

There was a joke many years ago in Montreal that I don’t quite recall but it had something to do with a Frenchman, Pepsi and Mae West. I think it was what a Frenchman would order for breakfast, but I don’t recall for sure.

Top Cat – Sugar by any other name is still sugar and too much of it isn’t good for you. I think that the artifical stuff is harmful to you though.

Grog – That’s like telling a joke and forgetting the punch line!

Sojo, it was a a long time ago…yet I do recall that it was in the very early days of my 35 years of service with the company and it was told to me by a Frenchman.

Thanks, Topcat. Though, it my teens I would have gobbled that kind of stuff up. We didn’t have Twinkies, Ding Dongs and Ho Ho’s but we did have a lot of the cream filled crap under different banners. I’m glad I grew up, rather than out.

Grog – Yes the Frenchman – that explains it!

Time for me to turn in. Good night, Tribe

Goodnight Grog.

Time for my zzzzzz’s also.