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So what type of syrups do you buy form DaVinci? Are you one of them Latte' Q places? Does that qualify as the first Qbarista? Actually their facility is just a few miles from here as the crow flies. but in order to get there you have to fly around Boeing Field (King County Airport) When I saw their name it perked my attention.

Hi.



Actually we do I-talian sodees (sodas) and Creamosas (sodas with cream floated on top). We have a DaVinci in Wisconsin too! I get my product out of Duluth MN. These are like old fashioned phosphates the drug store used to make. They sell real well here, no one else serves them! Hot Da**!

Have to run to wqork now! Shirking my duties
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Later!
Kate

Would that be a Barista-Q ? BBQ-Barista

I like Latte-Q, has a certain charm to it!

I think we may be on to something here. Or at least you were.

Here is a dumb question ... are there any Latte Q's around. Not much for Latte joints here or Baristas. We are so barbaric in Wisconsin!

Thanks for the smile!

Kate

I'm not into fancy coffee, but I do have an interest in high class soda, pop or whatever you call it back there. Italian soda may work for the latte people, but you gotta have a better red neck name for a real man to drink one. Dry with some kick like a single malt scotch, not pepper or caffeine. A sippin' soda.

Hi Jerry,

Here is my line of thinking ...

Clint Eastwood ... Hang Em High ... Few Dollars More ... Fist Full of Dollars ... Spaghetti Western .. Italy ... I-Talian Sodee Pop.

What they basically are ... Phosphates minus the Ph. Acid. I have some guys that are totally hooked on them. Try a new flavor everytime they come for a sandwich. Flavor ranges are pretty good. Huckleberry, everyone tries it just to see what huckleberry tastes like! Huckleberry always reminds me of Val K. in Tombstone. (also the hound dog )

Sounds macho to me.

Kate

Kate,

I was thinkin' not quite so upper class. Priorities: Your truck, your dog, your guns, your boat and fishin' pole, and Busch or Coor's light in cans. There ain't even no girls on that list.

The idea is to replace the beer, with a good American non alcoholic beverage. Good Dawg Brew has possibilities!

We have dawgs up in this neck of the woods, not hounds.

PS: I believe the person should be called a "BarBQista" but I don't even know enough about the gourmet coffee to know if a guy would be a "BarBQisto"

This is good........I'm sitting here lmao, yet I'm learning something too!

Thanks Kate. Thanks Jerry.

Q,
man i'm learning too!!!!!!
down here dawgs are for hog and deer huntin'.
hounds go out at night for the coon and possum hunts!!!!
no gurls on the list???!!!! who the heck gonna keep us outta trouble then??!! or stitch our tiny lil heads up from runnin into trees in the dark??
jack

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Cheese and Crackers!

I think you guys didn't follow me. Huckleberry ... hound Huckleberry Hound!!! I guess I think in cartoons ... Dawg ... Deputy Dawg!

Jerry, Gun comes first. Truck is a good second. (diesel Cummins) A good Partner be it man or woman is next. Then you need that hound, dawg, pooch, or even just a plain dog. Good retreiver works for me! (I have 3, Goldern, Chocolate Lab and Chessy) A boat is good but a canoe will get you into some great bog lakes too, or 3 to 4 inches of water, fits nice on top of the truck too, Bass, mmm.
Gotta have Miller Time.

Sold the fishin rods when we inherited the generator! It is quieter than a Dupont Spinner too!

On I-Talian Sodee Pop ... You can get some at Sam's Club. Raspberry, and a few other flavors. Get hooked up with DaVinci and they will give you 45 dollars POS material a month. I buy pumps for the bottles, boards, signs and so on.

They are simple to make. Seltzer, syrup, ice. On the creamosa, well, I will grant you that that one could use a name change! Some people do recognize it by that name though. It just baffles others. I describe it as a cousin to a milk shake, but less heavy, less calories and refreshing for summer. Flavors... Banana, strawberry, blackberry, mango, peach,chocolate peanut butter and on and on.

Jack, you are a good ol' boy! Coon dogs are hounds. I agree. Patrick's favorite experession is Kiss my coon dog's A** . Smithers would release the hounds ... back to cartoons.

I guess summens would take those hounds on a fox hunt too. Latitude.

Up here you might take your hound Bar chase'n ( and I don't mean taverns).

You guys are the best!

Kate

I guess she told ya'll. lol

You're right I should have put the gun first. This spring I bought a Browning 358 Winchester lever gun. I had to special order it and everything. Basically it is a .308 necked out to 35 caliber. You have to load your own ammo, but every couple of years Winchester does a run 200 grain Silvertips, but you can load it from 38 Special pistol bullets for plunkin', up 225 grain and above. Will take care of anything in legal in the lower 48. I haven't had time to load anything yet, but that season is coming fast.

I don't have a boat either, but I thought it would make good copy. I got a canoe, and one of them Kayaks, which is probably closer to a decked single canoe.

Washington is one of them there ecosqueak states, we can't use dawg or hounds to hunt anything anymore. As a consequence the bars and the cougs are present from the 'burbs and out. Them 'coons is everywhere.

I drink more seltzer than that regular yuckie Sodee pop. When I can't get seltzer I drink club soda. Sometimes I mix it with some of them syrups but most of the time I like it straight up with a twist of lemon. Real ginger ale made with fresh ginger, is awesome, and you can control the ginger and the sweet if you make the syrup yourself. I would like to find a way/recipe to make a decent root beer also.

So I guess my question is do you use seltzer from a bottle, from your regular yuckie sodee pop machine, or do you use one of them seltzer bottles that you use CO2 cartridges, similar to one of them whipped cream thing of a bobs?

For the creamosa, do you used half and half and blend it, shake it, with or without seltzer, with a dab of whipped cream from them thing of a bobs, or just float the cream like a Irish Coffee?

PS: If Jack comes back here could he please tell us how his smoked bologna works. I have been looking for cheap bologna, but all I have been able to find in bulk is John Morrell, 2 pound chunks and full logs, and some gourmet stuff that goes for almost $4 a pound.

kate,
i would take my hounds on a fox hunt but it would violate our rules. never eat nothing that looks that close to folks. least that's what moose said and corvette just nodded her little red head
hope you have a good sales weekend.
off to bed for me with dreams of winning the lottery and buying the motel and restaurant on US127 just south of pall mall tennessee in my head. man corvette would love it. hardwoods mountains and plenty of squirell to be taught they belong in trees and not on the ground. which has me thinking of peg's squirell in sour cream sauce. man better go to sleep. plenty of good dreams there
ops almost forgot what with me drolling over squirell in sour cream. try to find an IGA grocer there. these are independent guys buying from a co-op deal. the brand you want is bryant's meats. 40 oz piece is 5 bucks here. if you want i could try to get a mail addy or ask the manager at rowe's for some info. good stuff iffn you dont read the ingredients to close lol.
ok bed time 4 am is 5 hours away
jack

RendezvousQ,
good lord man i thought for sure you would have a 45/70 500 grain hollow points living up there!!!! sorry the eco-terroists got you but if it makes ya feel better down here we have been told to be nice to sharks as they are an endangered species.
oh by the way it is 11.21pm here and heat index is still over 100. on the balogna thing just look under the kate post above. sorry i blew it. hope ya understand
jack

Hi.

Sorry I missed the conversation tonight. It is 2 am and the lectricty just came back on. We were up around 100 today and got a rip roaring storm as a chaser. I have two trees down, one blocking the drive.

Sorry Jack, chasen fox was a general statement not directed at you. Worded badly by me. Should have been a new paragraph. My Mom is British and she would be the one out hunting fox!

I'll be back tomorrow to add some thoughts and answers. For now, I am down and out.

Kate

Hi.

For some answers ...

We have a seltzer maker with the co2, but we usually just buy bottles of seltzer (2 for a dollar).

We use full cream for the creamosas. Just float it on the top. Let them mix it with a straw. Looks real purdy!

Fill the glass 3/4 ers full of ice (16 oz glass) add seltzer, add syrup (you can get all natural syrups too) , float cream on top. Add lid and straw. Smile when they drink it and come back 10 minutes later for another!! I am waiting for more Mango. Sold out almost as fast as I got it. It is the hot flavor along with raspberry I would say.

They are trying to make us play nice with the wolves up here. I have neighbors losing calves right now. I also know someone who is not above catching themselves a wolf and depositing it in the BIG city, where people think it is such a grand idea for these wolves to be roaming my neck of the woods. They sing a different tune when the predator is prowling their neighborhood!

Nice action on the Browning! I mostly tote my little Mossberg. Patrick has his Win Mag and his Smith n Wesson, and of course his Ruger Pistol under the seat of the truck at all times. Haven't come across anything I can't stop yet, including bar.

We also have up here something called a Flambeau Fly Rod. Looks a lot like a spear to me! On the legal side we have St. Croix Rods manufactured in Park Falls. Hmmm, no mention of the Dupont spinner!

Have to admit, we have a fishing boat, inherited it from my Dad, but Patrick has had his canoe for more moons than he has had me!

We don't have any Baristas here, nor do we even have a fancy coffee shop. I did see one of those StarBucks shops a couple of hours aways when we went to Sam's Club. Tellin you the truth here, I hate coffee! I do love the I-Talian sodees though!

Take care Pards!

Kate

good lord am i the only one with a marlin??? odd man out again but being lefthanded used to it by now.
i like the wolf dumping guys. if they need gas money maybe we could take up a collection.
the ruger pistol is great. got a bull barrel 22 for squirel hunting. hard to rebuild after cleaning tho. that little lever thing really cranks me off!!!
but the one thing i can't get off my mind is the phosphates. after spending 6 months flat on my back in 1960 due to rheumatic fever (that was the downside. well that and needles were hand sharpened by the nurses. got a blood draw everyday and soon learned which nurses had sharpening skills and which didn't. the upside was there were all kind of wonderful soap operas i could listen to on the crystal radio my grandmother brought me and when i got home home and had to lay another 2 months my uncle lent a ham radio and set up an antennea and man did that open up a world!!) when i could finally get up my old man took me down to the drug store and set me up with a lime phosphate. man i can still taste that thing!!!!!
so thanks kate. been a hard two weeks what with peg getting mri's and ct's and it all felt like it was closing in on me. but just the memory of a good a phosphate makes life nice again!!!!
again thanks
jack
ps. just gotta wonder at my advanced age what a lime phosphate with mont gay rum would taste like??? har can we say pirate??!!!

Jack,

I noted Peggy was missing from here. I do hope that she will be back with us soon and although I have no idea of what the MRI's and so forth are for right now, I am praying all goes well with her. She is a terriffic lady! Please tell her I send my love. I miss her.

We called em Lime Ricky's I think. We would go to Goldblats (sp?) in Downtown Gary Indiana (!!) yes Gary Indiana, and get a lime ricky in the metal base with the paper cone cup on top. I think you may have a few years on me with the radio memories.

Put some Dark Cruzan Rum in that lime phosphate, live it up! Then recite the pirate vowels ... with feeling ...AAAAAeh...eeeeeegh....ayeeeee...ooooo ,,,,,, youuuuu ! arrrrgh! Better listen to a Pirate looks at Forty too.

"If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane" Now my Mom would tell you to keep your pecker up, and being British she would be meaning keep your chin up, but being Americans we might take that the wrong way!!

Manana
Kate

I've got a Model 94 tirdy-tirdy also. I bought it to bring back memories. When in high school hunting with my dad and my uncle, I had my grandfathers 30-30. I was in the middle of the group and someway the hammer safety released and the bullet went down though my shoe and took off the skin on my little toe. The doctor said that if the bullet had hit the bone, I probably would have lost half my foot. If you want to understand the grace of God, just check to see how little meat you have on the side of your little toe. Anyway we sold that 30-30 right away so I bought the other one as a reminder.

I don't reckon I've ever had a phosphate of any description. Not because I'm not old enough, it is just that the small town I grew up in was too small to have a drug store, little lone one with a sodee fountain. Maybe my mom just didn't introduce me to them, because she thought I would (or would not) like them. I do remember the metal base with the paper cup on top. That got you a nickel Coke. Could you make that type of phosphate today, relatively easily? I'm going to give the creamosas a shot to see if anyone salutes. With some summer type syrup it sounds like a real hit.

That hospital gig is no fun, got the scar to prove it and is probably worse for those having to watch all the proceedings, except for the recovery phase, which takes some time. Both of you hang in there.

Hi Jerry.

Looking at my list of flavors, I see cola listed. I might also add that you can mix flavors to create interesting combos. I picked up watermelon today in the case I received today. I think it will be a good I-talian sodee, but I am not too sure about a creamosa. Thought I would give it a try for the sodee though.

If you buy DaVinci, make sure you sign up on their web site for free signs, pumps, and so on. I have found them to be great people to work with.

Good luck on the drinks. I hope they work for you like they do for me!

Kate

Well since this is really a (Italian) Sodee string, I thought I might give it just another spin.

My training is really in water chemistry, river and lakes. They call the science limnology. That and a couple of bucks will buy you a good Italian Sodee.

It it always interested me how the world makes money selling, essentially water. Starbuck's etc. probably is the best racket. But long before Italian Sodee had ever been heard of in this country and I had tasted good Q, I did a business plan for gourmet natural soda, from down home syrups, not the commercial pop. Fixed just the way you now fix Italian soda.

One of the problems was how to get great soda water without investing in a post mix machine or bar equipment to do test batches. Bottled seltzer doesn't have the right fizz and the bubbles are too big. Regular seltzer bottles are a pain and more expensive than decent store bought.

A wine tasting guru I once knew said great champaign should taste like high end soda water, with little bubbles. So why can't you make great seltzer with tiny bubbles? That is where the chemistry comes in, but it is kicked up a couple notches above bar and post mix machines.

Anyway, this tread got me thinking about real ginger ale, spruce beer etc. again, so I thought I would do a little more research about how to make small batches of good seltzer, for a reasonable price (less that $.50 a liter).

I turned up a link to http://www.sodaclubusa.com/default.htm. They say that with their equipment you can make seltzer, for $.17 a liter. A little research on their site showed that they were stocked at Boaters World that has a store a few miles away. I went down to check it out and they sell the RV model (that you can screw down to a counter) for $80. which is $20 off the net price, so I bought one.

So far I have made a liter of their seltzer, which is as good as any I have ever had, using my own filtered water, and a liter of their cola, again which I prefer over both Coke and Pepsi. The cola doesn't burn on the way down but has about the same sweetness of Coke, part of that from sucralose (Splenda), and there is a hint of molasses. The label says natural flavors.

Anyway if you can make your own seltzer from your own proprietary spring, well or whatever, and want to market it as such, it might be worth a cost effective look, to increase the sales of Italian Sodee, or just your private labeled gourmet drinks. Water from Park Falls, has to be better than that from Duluth, Chicago or some other big city.

Drink Good Dawg Sodee, not that coffee stuff.