There it is. Clear gold. "Refreshing Gel".  As the summer of the pansamatic draws to a close and we enter pansamatic football months, I was lucky to find this in my local DolGenCorp and it was priced at $3. 8OZ, priced at $3. It was another piece of normal that I never paid more than a buck for and got generic stuff from the dollar store. It was used just after I pumped gas. It would clean my hands and make them smell not like gas. Oh yeah, I also cleaned the "Bird Dirt" from my car as well. Of course it didn't work the one time I parked at some deserted parking spots outside a local Pawnera restaurant to "enjoy" their coffee.  When I came out, my  car could best be described at a victim of bombardment. The toilet of the winged. A hot rockin smear of little black cigars stuck with white out. I had to get home and twenty minutes later I'd cleaned the car. NOW, I use this stuff like it's gold. Constantly taking a squirt from my small bottle I carry in my pocket. With all the recalls of bad stuff, I was glad to have the brand hospitals trust as my next bottle. Er...after...

I found this priced on sale at 2 for 6, regularly $4 a bottle.  This says it's made in the USA, so I wasn't getting tainted stuff. I mean, USA=FDA right? Right? This is a Canadian company that I never heard of making a brand that I never heard of. My local drug chain had it in stock, and they usually vet products before making a large purchase. My local grocery store also has this stuff and they have half gallon jugs of same. So, my supply was running low, I thought I'd go ahead. I should have smelled it first.  It works the same as other name brands and its gellin like Magellin not liquid like booze. Yay. However, It smells like Otis the drunk had a wet fart after a drunken night trying to have sex with a coal stove, Otherwise, a "spoiled lemon" after smell haunts your nostrils and hands. I'll be glad when this stuff is finally gone but in a pansamatic..throw it away? No....ugh...can...ugh...do..ugh.

Before all this, I invested in a few bottles of liquid soap. I had a few other bottles of same and well, I use the stuff a lot faster  in these days of wash your hands after ....everything. Pick up a newspaper? Open a door? Making tea or coffee? Wash your keyboard after 8 years of use? Keeping healthy means keeping clean and not touching your keyboard without washing your hands. The DG stuff was half price so another stock up item that now has more use.  Soap Soap Soap. Lots of soap.

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SOUP!

Not soup. This is breakfast. I always wanted to do a joke on this blog with soap and soup and eggs.  Yep. I always said if I do a blog for any length of time, I'd eventually have a post featuring soup, soap and eggs. The bar soap was after I'd finished my 500 bars of other soap. Shower protocol dictates that if I'm out in the world, it means that a shower is imminent. Sometimes twice a day if I go/stay/go again. That frequency has me using up the bath size bars a lot faster. The soup is becoming more available now, so I get more. I prefer the veggie stuff so that I can open a can of said canned veggies and make it into two meals. The eggs? Since I don't have fast food breakfasts on my list, I still consume a hard boiled egg in the morning or sometimes oatmeal mornings, egg salad at night or sometimes with my salad. See? It's why I called this entry "Pansamatic Debris" . It's the pics I've been saving up or using on my internet radio show. 

In these trying times, one looks for the comforts of the old days. When we were kids, mom was holding down a job, attending college and still had time to feed us. This was the treat of treats. Banquet Chicken night! I was a big fan of their pot pies until I realized that salt and fat can be consumed in other ways which much less salt and fat and a much more taste. The other things from Banquet, the quick "TV Dinner" style meals made great lunches or switch up from the frozen slurry of noodles and chicken erasers that comes from Michelinas. Of course these were way more expensive and the box, while it seemed like the same size, had it's contents shrink to 29oz.  It also seemed to have grown in the amount of asterisks. "Back Portion" . You know there is very little meat and a lot of ribs on the "back portion" of of a chicken breast. Yeah, but plenty of space to add breading and breading and more breading. Like paper and paste applied to a frame to have paper mache'. Here is chicken mache' magic.  I was excited to share this with mom  despite her saying that it wasn't going to be like I remembered.  She cooked the 6 mis-shapen blobs of something heavily breaded that may have had a breast and two drum sticks and Bob Neckenback....

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!

This was mom's plate. My plate was also filled with similar piles of bones and breading. I might have got 6 or 7 full bits of chicken from my stuff and mom did no better. Really. If you like bread and bones, you'll love this expensive disappointment. I looked on their website to see what was said.  Among the scant  "great chicken, great value" comments that were peppered in, the majority were like mine. "Where did this product go wrong?" If you must have fried chicken, most stores sell a squab fresh in their deli and costs about the same or you can get a non fried squab usually for a buck less. You'll get a lot more chicken and may even have some left over for another meal.

Here's comfort. The cheapest coffee maker with comfort beans. Grind these up, make a batch of quality coffee. Oh sure. There are other coffee beans  to grind up and I do frequently pick my flavor before brewing. However, nothing beats a good old cup of home brewed "Dunka Kawfee"

More comfort. My store had it on sale. I think it's the best. Ahh, but the jars get smaller and smaller and smaller don't they. Yes, I don't go crazy eating mayo based meals, but when you want a spread of it on your egg sandwich in the morning rather than the piece of cheese and mustard or bbq, best to get this for your egg on egg crime. Yeah, that's why It takes me three months to get through a jug.

Tools of the trade. There is some of the other blends of coffee I've featured here. Aldis has good beans as well, but "Dunka" just means "comfy". Black tea from ALDI is good when mixed cold with gin time agin-in. My local drug store has 200 coffee filters not only for my cheap coffee maker but also my home made masks. I'd use them even if I buy commercial made masks as long as they have a slot so I can stuff one of these filters between the cloth. Sounds like a new Nutflix show. "Between The Cloth". The story of a demented priest that wants to have sex with many models but set in a comedy, light,  detective squad set. Yes, I got another coffee press to back up the cheap one I bought. I love making tea in them, because coffee is better left to the Mister. Other tools include some wireless note books  I can add to the pile and the best pen refill I've used and mused about on this blog. Gee, remember when I would muse about pens on this blog while watching the DVD set of Barney Miller? It seems like two years ago. 

See? I always will show a pen giving up it's refill for the old style see through Bic pen. Where fat hands can grip a small pen and write for all he's worth until he's ready for another sacrificed tree and makes another trachea tube for Radar and the father to operate on a guy in a jeep while Hawkeye tells them what to do. Then Hawkeye and Beej can go to the still to have delicious booze that may or may not taste like my "Natural Concepts" hand sanitizer smells. Junk Blog. -Ric