In Minnesota, we sing that line, "Silence like a hotdish."

[mrissa]

Today the delivery people brought ten pounds of Hungarian sausage and four volumes of Chinese epic. This is well worth the annoyance they cause the small dogbeast

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[timprov]

I bid blind double Finland.

[mrissa]

Oh, come on, 'Prov, you can't bid Finland every hand!

[aedifica]

That brings back memories. My former inlaws taught me to play 500, and for the longest time I always won against them. We joked that it was either beginner's luck or them being polite to me, but it was just how the cards kept coming out.

[mrissa]

We played it constantly for my junior year of college and the first half of my senior year. Constantly.

[reveritas]

"Silence like a hotdish grows"? ...

[mrissa]

Almost. The mangling of the original is, "Silence like a casserole."

[skzbrust]

"ten pounds of Hungarian sausage"

*drools*

[mrissa]

It freezes well, so we will be freezing it in smaller units and eating it in things for months to come. There's a gorgonzola walnut ravioli, for example, which is particularly fine with tiny bits of csabai sausage in.