Journalist Rocky the Squirrel here – Keeping his paws on the nuts of the world –
I think this is a day that we *all* have been looking forward to all year long – National Junk Food Day. Today, July 21st, we can eat all of the junk we want – hopefully without calories! Today being National Junk Food Day gives us a chance to eat anything and everything we can put our greedy little hands/paws/hooves on and not feel one bit of guilt. Potato chips, dips, Cheetos, pretzels, ice cream, nuts, french fries, milkshakes, pizza – what’s your pleasure for today?
Personally, I think today is going to be a race here at the Hotel Thompson to see who can eat more junk food – Bacon or his daddy… oh and don’t think Bacon’s mom won’t participate. She’s been doing that four lettered bad word – diet – I’m sure she will enjoy her own as well!
Welcome my friends to a new year of adventure and great food!
Today we are highlighting great sandwiches of any kind. Mom/dad here at the Hotel Thompson are the king and queen of sandwiches. Sometimes they are huge and sometimes they are just something thrown between two slices of bread. You never know with those two. One of dad’s favorite sandwiches is a club on wheat bread. There is a local sandwich shop that he always wants to frequent… that is until mom created this monster for him. Now dad welcomes mom’s club sandwiches any day. So without further ado – take it away mom!
What you will need: Hoagie buns (a package of six cost $2.00 – $0.33 each bun); Meats – you get whatever you want from the deli. We get a 1/2 pound of roast beef, ham and turkey. Of course, a 1/2 pound makes multiple sandwiches. They range from $4-$6.00 for each selection. If you had to break it down, it would be somewhere in the neighborhood of $1.75 per sandwich with all three meats. Cheese – we also get 1/2 pound of provolone for $3.50. It costs around $0.50 per sandwich for each sandwich. Chips – we buy the store brand of chips for $1.00 a bag. There are multiple servings per bag. So somewhere around $0.25 per serving. And we always keep pickles and olives on hands – always for nibbling. So each sandwich will cost you around less than $3.00 per sandwich. Not really bad and they are yummy!
Here is the fun part – arrange the sandwich however you want. Pure and simple, right? LOL – we prefer a little mayo on one side of the sandwich and a little mustard on the opposite side. You can use a sampling of all three meats or just the ones you want. Add the cheese. Now we have even used a panini press in the past and squished this sandwich making it hot or you can just serve it cold like this picture – whichever works for you. It’s a simple sandwich but so delicious and easy.
You can even make them in advance and cut them into little pieces for a big football party. We’ve done that before as well. These are so easy to fix ahead of time. Just a thought with the Super Bowl coming up my friends ❤
I think this is a day that we *all* have been looking forward to all year long – National Junk Food Day. Today, July 21st, we can eat all of the junk we want – hopefully without calories! Today being National Junk Food Day gives us a chance to eat anything and everything we can put our greedy little hands/paws/hooves on and not feel one bit of guilt. Potato chips, dips, Cheetos, pretzels, ice cream, nuts, french fries, milkshakes, pizza – what’s your pleasure for today?
Personally, I think today is going to be a race here at the Hotel Thompson to see who can eat more junk food – Bacon or his daddy… oh and don’t think Bacon’s mom won’t participate. She’s been doing that four lettered bad word – DIEt – I’m sure she will enjoy her own as well!
I think this is a day that we *all* have been looking forward to all year long – National Junk Food Day. Today, July 21st, we can eat all of the junk we want – hopefully without calories! Today being National Junk Food Day gives us a chance to eat anything and everything we can put our greedy little hands/paws/hooves on and not feel one bit of guilt. Potato chips, dips, Cheetos, pretzels, ice cream, nuts, french fries, milkshakes, pizza – what’s your pleasure for today?
Personally, I think today is going to be a race here at the Hotel Thompson to see who can eat more junk food – Bacon or his daddy… oh and don’t think Bacon’s mom won’t participate. She’s been doing that four lettered bad word – DIEt – I’m sure she will enjoy her own as well!
Okay my friends. Let’s discuss weird food combinations. What foods do you mix together that *you* think is so good but somebody else would say eeeww nasty?
I’ll start – snorts with piggy laughter. When mom/dad go to the movies, which is infrequent but does happen, mom has to have popcorn while dad is a huge nacho fan. Dad will dip his nacho in his cheese and then put the cheesy nacho in mom’s popcorn to pick up some popcorn before eating it. Can you see his nacho in mom’s popcorn. Disgusting huh? I haven’t seen such a disgrace since peanut butter bumped into chocolate.. oh wait a minute. I do like that combination.
Then there’s mom who when she fixes tuna for sandwiches, cuts up green olives with the pimentos and throws it into the mix.
Another thing that mom does – when she fixes a peanut butter sandwich, she crumbles up plain potato chips and puts inside of the sandwich. Yep, inside of the sandwich. Shakes piggy head. Unbelievable huh?
So what do your humans fix that seems weird. Please share. My humans can’t be the only strange ones.
Oh chitter-chatter. I think this is a day that we *all* have been looking forward to all year long – National Junk Food Day. Today, July 21st, we can eat all of the junk we want – hopefully without calories! Today being National Junk Food Day gives us a chance to eat anything and everything we can put our greedy little hands/paws/hooves on and not feel one bit of guilt. Potato chips, dips, Cheetos, pretzels, ice cream, nuts, french fries, milkshakes, pizza – what’s your pleasure for today?
Personally, I think today is going to be a race here at the Hotel Thompson to see who can eat more junk food – Bacon or his daddy… oh and don’t think Bacon’s mom won’t participate. She’s been doing that four lettered bad word – diet – I’m sure she will enjoy her own as well!
Dear Bacon – This is the pits. No I mean it really. It’s not bad enough that my humans put these ridiculous pajamas on me. Now I have to wear the cone of shame. AND they sat me in a make shift bed which is really an old potty box with a blanket. Really? This is how they treat me. Can you give me a word of encouragement my piggy friend? Signed Cat in the Hat
Dear Cat in the Hat – You know my friend. You are looking at this all wrong. Look at it from the positive prospective. They put pajamas on you – I’m guessing – so that you wouldn’t scratch whatever you had done surgically, right? Then they put the pitiful projector on your head so you couldn’t lick or bite that particular surgical spot, right? AND then they put you in a comfortable spot with a blankie so you would be comfy. See, look at it from this prospective. Do you know what all of that adds up to this little piggy? To me it says your humans care for you way more than you think and want you to be comfortable during this duration. Instead of looking at it from your point of view, take it from my point of view. And let me add, suck it up for all it’s worth – humans love that when they think they’ve done something to you 🙂
Dear Bacon – Can you believe my humans have the audacity to blame ‘me’ – innocent cute little ‘me’ – as stealing one of their valuable orange crunchy things they snack on while watching television? Me. There is no way they can pin this crime on me. There is no proof! Signed Cheeto
Dear Cheeto – Do me a favor my friend. Go to your nearest mirror and look at yourself. Go ahead. I’l wait. Whistles while waiting and taps hooves. Oh good you are back. Did you see that incriminating evidence on your cute little face? The orange stuff my friend. That would be evidence of eating your humans prized Cheetos. By your name, I’m thinking this is not your first run in with the law on being busted for this crime. Might I make a suggestion for future escapades? Once you have partaken of the evil Cheeto, go drink some water out of your bowl with delight. I mean slush that water around on your cute little face to wash the orange stuff off. No proof means it didn’t happen my friend. Happy eating.
Dear Bacon – I was cold. It was freezing in this house. My humans like to hang me as they so delightfully like to say. Don’t worry about us little pooches. I had to resort to the last step and wrap myself like a hot dog. It does the trick especially with the sun coming in from the window. Have you ever been this cold? Signed Cold Dog
Dear Cold Dog – WOW. I say if you’re cold, go for it my friend. I’m one of the very few here with us anipals that love it cold. I’m with my mom and like you said, we like to hang meet here at the Hotel Thompson. The colder the better. Heck, if we could skip over summer we would so do so. Stay warm my friend!
Dear Bacon – Here is my brother. He is so weird. I was looking down at the dog just minding my own business. That’s when Patches (my bro) jumped up and pulled my head up. What was so important that he wanted me to see you ask? The humans were cooking breakfast. Something smelled so delightful. They call it bacon. I’m just wondering. Do you know what this glorious smell is? Signed Matches
Dear Matches – I know exactly what that awful stuff called bacon is. It’s horrible. Such a bad thing to ever try. Some humans get addicted to it. See, that’s how bad it is for you cats. Once hooked, they can’t go back. And I for one can guarantee you that you don’t want to get hooked on that bad drug. Yeah, it’s a bad drug. Better steer far away from it my friends. I wouldn’t want it to stunt your growth or anything. Snorts!
Dear Bacon – Don’t you jussst love my new ssssweater? I got it for my birthdaysss. I just love to sssslither around the house wearing itsss. I think it makesss me ssslim and bringsss out the color of my eyessss. What do you thinksss? Signed Sexy and I Know It
Dear Sexy and I Know It – As long as YOU think you are sexy and you know it, does it really matter what anyone else thinks? You rock that sweater around your house all you want. Perhaps maybe next time your humans can get you a longer one? Keep slithering there where you are my friend.
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FRIENDS – Please remember that Dear Bacon can’t happen without YOU. Please email me your pictures and letters 🙂
Now, I’m all for a great cheese doodle. I mean hey, you’ve seen me eating cheese doodles in the past. You haven’t? Okay, I’ll attach a video for you on the bottom of this post. But this weekend while mom/dad were out – of course unchaperoned – they came across something that daddy just *had* to have. Rolls piggy eyes. Your’re killing me daddy.
The man almost loves cheese doodles as much as this oinker. He wanted these – BACON CHEDDAR cheese doodles. Are you kidding me? BACON CHEDDAR flavored. Really? Shakes piggy head. Dad – are you seriously going to eat these in front of me – the original BACON? Can anyone get me the number to piggy welfare – please 🙂
Oh squeals! I was watching television this past weekend resting up from the renovation here and I saw it. Something that was so fantastic – so glorious – so out of this world. I just *had* to share. Squeals – I can do this. I can do this!
My friend Fozzie and I have scheduled a group posting today of Shopping Around the World. We thought it would be interesting to see the differences between different countries all over.Here are our prices for the following from our area – Georgia USA:
Items to price this month:
Olives – Mom ❤ her olives. Sometimes during the day, she just eats them straight out of a jar. And she likes to put them in her Bloody Mary’s. She buys the huge jar – 21 ounces – of pimento stuffed olives from Walmart, it’s called Manzanilla, for around $4.00 a jar.
Light Bulbs – Light bulbs are so expensive these days! It seems like we are forever replacing the ones in the kitchen. We have two light fixtures in the kitchen that have three lights each. They take 65 watts and they are made kind of like a flood light. She can buy a three pack at Home Depot for $19.99 – expensive huh?
Air Spray – Mom keeps a bottle of Lysol in my room – shrugs shoulders – I don’t know why. But she says that little can is almost $5.00 on sale! Throughout the house, she likes to use Febreze. She can usually get two bottles for $5.00 on those.
Lettuce – How much is a head of lettuce? Here in the market on sale, we can buy a head of lettuce for 99 cents. If we are lucky, sometimes they are HUGE.
Random Item of your choice. My random choice is bananas. Mom can usually get them in the store for around 79 cents a pound. Why can’t they be cheaper? I *need* my bananas. They are one of my all time favorite snacks.
Miniature pot bellied pig and friends - Bacon, Houdini, Hemi and all of the Rock Clan with Journalist Rocky the Squirrel all out looking for adventures from the Hotel Thompson.
Welcome my friends to a new year of adventure and great food!
Journalist Rocky the Squirrel here –
Dear Bacon – Can you believe my humans have the audacity to blame ‘me’ – innocent cute little ‘me’ – as stealing one of their valuable orange crunchy things they snack on while watching television? Me. There is no way they can pin this crime on me. There is no proof! Signed Cheeto
Dear Bacon – Here is my brother. He is so weird. I was looking down at the dog just minding my own business. That’s when Patches (my bro) jumped up and pulled my head up. What was so important that he wanted me to see you ask? The humans were cooking breakfast. Something smelled so delightful. They call it bacon. I’m just wondering. Do you know what this glorious smell is? Signed Matches
Now, I’m all for a great cheese doodle. I mean hey, you’ve seen me eating cheese doodles in the past. You haven’t? Okay, I’ll attach a video for you on the bottom of this post. But this weekend while mom/dad were out – of course unchaperoned – they came across something that daddy just *had* to have. Rolls piggy eyes. Your’re killing me daddy.
Piglove 