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Post by oldchopperguy on Aug 29, 2014 11:22:39 GMT -5
I like tortillas... Hey, who DOESN'T like tortillas... LOL!
So, last week, I got my ration of big, soft, flour tortillas from Wally World... They seemed a tad "over-done", having some charred, brown flakes throughout, but no problem, I like 'em a little "toasty" anyway.
Now, as I got down to the LAST two in the plastic bag, I found a LOT of charred stuff... And, it smelled a little "funny". Time for an inspection... Peeling apart those last two tasty treats, I found between them, a half-smoked "joint"... Well-baked, all charred-up and embedded in the bottom tortilla.
Yup... a marijuana cigarette... "weed"... "Mary Jane"... "Wacky Tobacky"...
Apparently, "Alice B. Toklas" is alive and well, and making tasty flour patties for Uncle Wally... LOL!
I figured THIS bunch of "tillas" MUST surely have been cooked up in Colorado... Or Washington State... But no, they were rolled (pun intended)... in good old Mexico. And to think, here in America, you'll get fired for smoking a perfectly-legal cigarette... It gives a whole NEW meaning to workers taking a "smoking-break"... LOL!
The whole thing makes me feel SO delightfully politically-incorrect... Think I'll go treat myself to a good cigar, have a drink, read my Bible and clean my guns...
Now, I wonder what may turn up in my picante sauce! EEEEWWWWW!!!
I may switch to Italian food... OOH, Oregano! Yum! And you'd never notice the foreign stuff...
Ride (and eat) safe!
Leo in Texas
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Post by shalomdawg on Aug 29, 2014 14:36:29 GMT -5
howdy, you've definitely got an over active imagination leo---oh i do believe your story but still way overactive imagination.
lotsa miles and smiles to ya
ken
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Post by SylvreKat on Aug 30, 2014 8:35:07 GMT -5
But you didn't finish your story, Unca Leo.
Did you use that last 'tilla? And with, or without, the...uhm...extra vegetable-matter?
>'Kat
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Post by oldchopperguy on Aug 30, 2014 12:32:04 GMT -5
But you didn't finish your story, Unca Leo. Did you use that last 'tilla? And with, or without, the...uhm...extra vegetable-matter? >'Kat I just can't waste anything... LOL! Of course, I also pick up old tire-treads off the freeway to fix soles on my boots... They REALLY work! Ride safe!Leo |
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Post by spandi on Aug 30, 2014 13:27:51 GMT -5
Leo this is Genius! You need to come out with a line of tire tread boots for motorcycles!  |
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Post by shalomdawg on Aug 30, 2014 23:20:54 GMT -5
howdy leo, what's the glue that holds your sole together? we've got some fruit flies so after i let my coffee cup sit, then fill it up with cold coffee and put it in the nuker machine i have to strain the little bugs out or the coffee is too lumpy---they tickle when they slide down the hatch
lotsa miles and smiles to ya
ken
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Post by rockynv on Aug 31, 2014 8:40:37 GMT -5
I have started making my own.
Nothing like fresh warm home rolled, er made yes that's it home made, nothing wacky about my tortillas.
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Post by SylvreKat on Aug 31, 2014 23:20:39 GMT -5
I have started making my own. Okay, I thought rocky was meaning his own boots.... >'Kat |
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Post by rockynv on Sept 1, 2014 7:09:41 GMT -5
I have started making my own. Okay, I thought rocky was meaning his own boots.... >'Kat Tijuana Truckers is what we used to call them. www.bbc.com/autos/story/20140802-discarded-tires-tread-againlifehacker.com/repair-old-shoe-soles-with-tire-treads-950881552www.hollowtop.com/sandals.htmhackaday.com/2013/07/27/resole-shoes-with-old-tire-tread/www.shoebuy.com/mens-tire-tread-shoes-th.htmlWatch out though as some of the long wear highway tires are slippery when wet and don't work well on smooth floors. My father also apprenticed with the vineyard cobbler not just the carpenter while he was growing up outside of Naples during WWI and had brought all his lasts and forms with him to the US when the war ended. They used truck tires to resole work shoes even back then. When WWII was ending and they did not need him raiding jungles in the South Pacific any more they tried to extend his tour assigning him to the base in Australia to resole boots with tire treads and fix the officers dress shoes. They had noticed his handiwork on his own boots after he had been left behind for several months on one island and made use of what the Japanese left in the tire dump to resole them. That's when they took notice of the notation on his service record that among his skill sets aside from electromechanical and chemical engineer was cobbler At least he got to eat in the officers mess, bathe regularly, have access to clean clothes and sleep with a roof over his head for a change.. |
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Post by oldchopperguy on Sept 2, 2014 11:33:30 GMT -5
For gluing soles, I've had great results with "E-6000" "Quick-Grip" and other modern "super rubber-cements" from Wally World, and art-supply stores. Also, if you can find it, old-school "Barge" cement (genuine cobbler's glue).
I try to be "selective" in my "harvesting" of tire-treads... I like truck tire material either from re-treads or from bias-ply tires with nylon cords. Modern radials with steel belts leave NASTY stubs of steel cord poking from the sides of the cut tread... It must make fabricating tire-tread "huarache" sandals in Mexico much more difficult... LOL!
Ride safe!
Leo
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Post by spandi on Sept 2, 2014 11:58:27 GMT -5
I remember seeing tire tread sandals for the first time when my cousin brought back some from Vietnam.
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