Glad you are in town for a spell Old Scout! My declarations are these: (1) The salted nut roll of local provenance is indeed a dandy treat but my nice Pakistani cardiologist probably would think me foolish to consume more than one of those monthly; (2) If you stay around here for a few more weeks you will come to the sad realization that a very serious violent crime problem exists in the Twin Cities and it is out of control; (3) We are inching closer to the calendar point of WINR (weather improvement now returns) since Feb is in sight with a decreasing chance that we will have to endure too many days of constant below-zero temps, although a ton of new snow before April is not off the table; (4) I look out my window every day at the Park Square Court building where good things started for you such a long time ago and I remember that autoharp too.
So glad you still come back once in a while! One more thing to thank Jenny for! We need your presence. We also need Salted Nut Rolls! Thanks for all you give us! Stay well!
As the heavy snow falls in the NH Seacoast, my morning has started with more than a couple of chuckles. Thank you. Makes getting older a little less onerous.
Love the snow! Just ordered from Amazon some Pearson’s Salted Nut Roll. Enjoy your posts and recall the days of listening to PHC. Sending best wishes from Florida where it was 84 degrees yesterday!.
Ah,Mr. Keillor, you recall my all time favorite snack after lunch: The Salted Nut Roll!!. SNR!!!
Being in my 80's like you, I go back to a differing time when we went to a Saturday matinee at the Mohawk theater where mom's 15 cents got me in to see if real Cowboy didn't fall off the cliff and I bought the Salted Nut Roll. Those were the days where memories were so good they stuck.
At the movie, if you held the SNR in hand for 10 minutes or so, which is not easy to do, it softened perfectly. It still does! But 5-8 seconds in the microwave will do it too.
I'm with you: when it comes to old memories, I've forgotten many, but certainly not Salted Nut Rolls.And if you truly have am acessible Sharon in your file and on the party line, you are one blessed octogenarian. Press on....I love it. Tom
Pearson's should be paying you a commission. 😉 We have plenty of snow in NH, but no salted nut rolls, and your description intrigued me, so on January 24th, Amazon has promised to deliver a bit of nutty bliss to my doorstep. Since I'm a couple decades short of becoming an octogenarian, I still need to go out and shovel, but I also get to make snow people outside my 86 year old father-in-law's window, which he enjoys (and I must admit, snow person fabrication makes me feel about six years old, which was a happy age, so it's a Good Thing). Thank you for the hot tip, I'll be awaiting my nut rolls with bated breath!
Your salted nut roll hankering reminds me of my daughter in Copenhagen. You know this, but for your readers, there is a reason they call it a 'Danish.' Cold climates must inspire baking. She lives near Juno's Bakery, a fortuitous location, but in Denmark, there are no shortage of similar fortuitous locations.
Ah, salted nut rolls, my greatest generation Dad's favorite. He kept a well-stocked pogey-bait cupboard high above the stove. High enough so the sugar buzz took some effort. He called candy "pogey-bait" which years later I found out was a term picked up in the Pacific as a rough and tough Marine. Semper Fi. Miss him to the moon and back.
Growing up in rural Northern Minnesota as I did, the "central" operator on our shared telephone line was named Betty. We called Betty if we wanted to make a call outside the little circle of people on our shared line. Betty also wrote a column for the local paper about the goings on in the neighborhood. Betty knew stuff that others only knew a piece of. The "Betties" are long gone, replaced by algorithms. Thankfully Salted Nut Rolls remain.
Been such an admirer of your writing and radio shows and took my son several times to see you at Town Hall. I thank you, Jean Shepherd, George Ade, Parker and Thurber for showing me alternate views of this orb. If anything has come from all this indoctrination, it's in my Substack newsletter, "Rocky Point." If you slip on the ice and wind up in that assisted care facility, you'll have a better time reading it than watching reruns of "Murder, She Wrote."
Awhile back, after driving on frozen Ottertail lake, friends introduced me to "Nut Goodies". Delicious! Fortunately, they are available where I am on the west coast. Sounds like the salted nut roll is something I need to try! :-)
IMHO, Pearson’s Salted Nut Roll is a wonderful product, but the Nut Goodie remains my favorite. Nowadays you can get Salted Nut Rolls in gigantic 4-packs at most convenience stores. The Nut Goodie remains a single-pack at 1.75 oz of chocolate, peanuts and creamy maple filling. I don’t think I could survive more than one at a time.
Ah, St. John's and Johnny bread and the Benedictine monks. I preceded you by 10 years. I seem to remember people driving a car onto the lake at this time of year just to test the ice.
Love Pearson’s snr!! Thanks for the reminder!
#MeToo.
Glad you are in town for a spell Old Scout! My declarations are these: (1) The salted nut roll of local provenance is indeed a dandy treat but my nice Pakistani cardiologist probably would think me foolish to consume more than one of those monthly; (2) If you stay around here for a few more weeks you will come to the sad realization that a very serious violent crime problem exists in the Twin Cities and it is out of control; (3) We are inching closer to the calendar point of WINR (weather improvement now returns) since Feb is in sight with a decreasing chance that we will have to endure too many days of constant below-zero temps, although a ton of new snow before April is not off the table; (4) I look out my window every day at the Park Square Court building where good things started for you such a long time ago and I remember that autoharp too.
Very enjoyable Twin Cities chatter.
So glad you still come back once in a while! One more thing to thank Jenny for! We need your presence. We also need Salted Nut Rolls! Thanks for all you give us! Stay well!
As the heavy snow falls in the NH Seacoast, my morning has started with more than a couple of chuckles. Thank you. Makes getting older a little less onerous.
Love the snow! Just ordered from Amazon some Pearson’s Salted Nut Roll. Enjoy your posts and recall the days of listening to PHC. Sending best wishes from Florida where it was 84 degrees yesterday!.
Ah,Mr. Keillor, you recall my all time favorite snack after lunch: The Salted Nut Roll!!. SNR!!!
Being in my 80's like you, I go back to a differing time when we went to a Saturday matinee at the Mohawk theater where mom's 15 cents got me in to see if real Cowboy didn't fall off the cliff and I bought the Salted Nut Roll. Those were the days where memories were so good they stuck.
At the movie, if you held the SNR in hand for 10 minutes or so, which is not easy to do, it softened perfectly. It still does! But 5-8 seconds in the microwave will do it too.
I'm with you: when it comes to old memories, I've forgotten many, but certainly not Salted Nut Rolls.And if you truly have am acessible Sharon in your file and on the party line, you are one blessed octogenarian. Press on....I love it. Tom
Pearson's should be paying you a commission. 😉 We have plenty of snow in NH, but no salted nut rolls, and your description intrigued me, so on January 24th, Amazon has promised to deliver a bit of nutty bliss to my doorstep. Since I'm a couple decades short of becoming an octogenarian, I still need to go out and shovel, but I also get to make snow people outside my 86 year old father-in-law's window, which he enjoys (and I must admit, snow person fabrication makes me feel about six years old, which was a happy age, so it's a Good Thing). Thank you for the hot tip, I'll be awaiting my nut rolls with bated breath!
Your salted nut roll hankering reminds me of my daughter in Copenhagen. You know this, but for your readers, there is a reason they call it a 'Danish.' Cold climates must inspire baking. She lives near Juno's Bakery, a fortuitous location, but in Denmark, there are no shortage of similar fortuitous locations.
Ah, salted nut rolls, my greatest generation Dad's favorite. He kept a well-stocked pogey-bait cupboard high above the stove. High enough so the sugar buzz took some effort. He called candy "pogey-bait" which years later I found out was a term picked up in the Pacific as a rough and tough Marine. Semper Fi. Miss him to the moon and back.
Growing up in rural Northern Minnesota as I did, the "central" operator on our shared telephone line was named Betty. We called Betty if we wanted to make a call outside the little circle of people on our shared line. Betty also wrote a column for the local paper about the goings on in the neighborhood. Betty knew stuff that others only knew a piece of. The "Betties" are long gone, replaced by algorithms. Thankfully Salted Nut Rolls remain.
Been such an admirer of your writing and radio shows and took my son several times to see you at Town Hall. I thank you, Jean Shepherd, George Ade, Parker and Thurber for showing me alternate views of this orb. If anything has come from all this indoctrination, it's in my Substack newsletter, "Rocky Point." If you slip on the ice and wind up in that assisted care facility, you'll have a better time reading it than watching reruns of "Murder, She Wrote."
Awhile back, after driving on frozen Ottertail lake, friends introduced me to "Nut Goodies". Delicious! Fortunately, they are available where I am on the west coast. Sounds like the salted nut roll is something I need to try! :-)
IMHO, Pearson’s Salted Nut Roll is a wonderful product, but the Nut Goodie remains my favorite. Nowadays you can get Salted Nut Rolls in gigantic 4-packs at most convenience stores. The Nut Goodie remains a single-pack at 1.75 oz of chocolate, peanuts and creamy maple filling. I don’t think I could survive more than one at a time.
a breath of fresh-snow humor and humanity. thanks.
Ah, St. John's and Johnny bread and the Benedictine monks. I preceded you by 10 years. I seem to remember people driving a car onto the lake at this time of year just to test the ice.
They do that on Lake Winnipesaukee in NH, too. Sometimes it doesn't end well...
Autos on temporarily stiffened water ? What could go wrong? Ha!
Pearson’s Nut Goodies are still my go-to indulgence.