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In August, it's going to have been six years since we moved to California.
I've whined before about the lack of actual proper apple cider donuts in the Bay Area, that we'd apparently have to drive 120 miles out to freaking Placerville to get them. Because of this, I've developed an annual habit of loading up the Atkins Farm website every October on the first day cool enough to feel like fall, checking on the cost of overnighting a dozen apple cider donuts from western Mass to the Bay Area. In 2024, it was $145, or $12.08 per donut. In 2022, it was $133.50 ($11 for the donuts, $122.50 for shipping). I swear I wrote down what it cost in 2023 somewhere but I can't find it now. But at least it's consistently been $11 for the donuts themselves the last few years, it's the shipping that makes it prohibitive.
(As much as I miss apple cider donuts, the tradeoff is that I'm now back in the land of reliably good, reasonably sized $2 crullers and old fashioneds, instead of Dunkies' donut mediocrity.)
I've also been researching clam chowder recipes; I'm back on my quest to replicate the clam chowder that Oga's used to serve in Natick until they closed last summer.
Which means that when I stumbled across the following quote this weekend in Yankee Magazine, I FELT KINSHIP ACROSS THE CENTURIES:
(In modern terms, that's $6.21 worth of common crackers with a shipping cost of $288.00. Also note their recipe for clam chowder calls for common crackers.)
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( clam chowder musings, New England-Japanese-specific )
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In the meantime, H and I ( continue to be 900% ourselves )
I've whined before about the lack of actual proper apple cider donuts in the Bay Area, that we'd apparently have to drive 120 miles out to freaking Placerville to get them. Because of this, I've developed an annual habit of loading up the Atkins Farm website every October on the first day cool enough to feel like fall, checking on the cost of overnighting a dozen apple cider donuts from western Mass to the Bay Area. In 2024, it was $145, or $12.08 per donut. In 2022, it was $133.50 ($11 for the donuts, $122.50 for shipping). I swear I wrote down what it cost in 2023 somewhere but I can't find it now. But at least it's consistently been $11 for the donuts themselves the last few years, it's the shipping that makes it prohibitive.
(As much as I miss apple cider donuts, the tradeoff is that I'm now back in the land of reliably good, reasonably sized $2 crullers and old fashioneds, instead of Dunkies' donut mediocrity.)
I've also been researching clam chowder recipes; I'm back on my quest to replicate the clam chowder that Oga's used to serve in Natick until they closed last summer.
Which means that when I stumbled across the following quote this weekend in Yankee Magazine, I FELT KINSHIP ACROSS THE CENTURIES:
"Common cracker love was a deep and loyal love that sometimes refused to be denied. In 1927 the Miami News reported that a woman from Maine that had moved to California missed her common crackers so much that “she ordered 34 cents worth of old-fashioned common crackers for her chowder and is having it shipped airmail, special delivery, at a cost of $15.76.” How’s that for looking the other way when it comes to Yankee thrift?"
(In modern terms, that's $6.21 worth of common crackers with a shipping cost of $288.00. Also note their recipe for clam chowder calls for common crackers.)
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( clam chowder musings, New England-Japanese-specific )
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In the meantime, H and I ( continue to be 900% ourselves )
