@roger,
roger wrote: but being made in China you might not want them within 100 yards of food.
now they're making them in Canada again
http://www.businessinsider.com/global-sticks-china-canada-2011-5
this was allllll over the news here a coupla months ago
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/commentary/jeff-rubins-smaller-world/are-chinas-factories-running-out-of-power/article2032648/
Quote:Why has Global Sticks, a manufacturer of wooden ice cream sticks, moving from Dalian, China, to Thunder Bay, Ontario?
It’s the kind of low margin manufacturing that is never supposed to come back after it leaves North America for cheaper labour abroad.
But wage costs are no longer everything they were cracked up to be. In today’s world of soaring energy costs, power rationing and export taxes on key commodities such as wood, wage gaps are less important. When the power goes off, it suddenly doesn’t matter if your labor is expensive. Factories don’t run on sweat alone.
150 craft sticks $1
150 long wood coffee stir sticks $1
150 short wood coffee stir sticks $1
60 plastic swish n spit cups $1
40 paper swish n spit cups $1
30 paper swish n spit cups with fold out handles $1
200 tiny plastic shooter glasses $1
6 unit popsicle maker $1
I'm going to be making some gazpacho'y ice pops with the short stir sticks and paper swish n spit cups - I suspect the first batch will be more slushy than ice
@ehBeth,
What is the difference between a craft stick and a wooden one? Are those the plastic sticks?
@ossobuco,
the craft sticks are wood - they're just packaged slightly differently (and seem a bit thicker)
@ehBeth,
Sorry, I must have jumped past the last of your listing, re the plastic sticks.
@ossobuco,
I didn't price any plastic sticks - none of the plastic options looked sturdy enough to hold up an ice pop.
@ehBeth,
Aack, I wasn't interested in plastic, just wondering about the quotes I saw. The woodies of whatever description seem accessible enough, and I trust the sturdiness needed will vary with the size of the popsicle. Whether or not it has some lime in it. (red herring) Is it beefier with sugar? Perhaps there is a sugar limit for a popsicle to work..
@ossobuco,
Today is flying ant day, (in Southampton at least). I know this may not sound like good news, unless you're a priapic ant. If you are, well done for getting on line. It means there won't be another flying ant day for another year. (That's the good news bit).
@izzythepush,
Interesting. That's certainly why it is in Southampton, H ants.
(Which makes me smile, remembering my bus trips on
H ants & Dorset buses at night and what the conductor said ....)
@Walter Hinteler,
I had a couple fornicating on my car windscreen. (Ants, not people, this isn't Portsmouth).
Just got a phone call:
"Hallo" young girl. "Who are you". So I told her my name and asked about hers and her age, and why she phoned me. Her name was Lydia, aged five. Her parents were just out shopping, and she had only pushed some buttons. "How can I hang up the phone" she than asked after some small talk.
It took us less than 30 seconds to discover the "red button" with the "sleeping telephone"
I got to watch a beaver today. It's rare to even see them around here, and a sighting usually amounts to a glimpse of the head moving through the current. Today, she was partly out of the water, then started moving upstream. She came out from some overhanging brush with a leafy stick in her mouth, ate it, climbed out to get another, and back into the water to eat that. She went through this several times. I guess she wasn't comfortable spending time on the bank.
Our beaver don't build dams, by the way. I don't know if it's because the current is too strong, the water level varies too much, or if they're just lazy, but they don't build. I've been told the make dens in the banks.
@ehBeth,
finished the painting... and breathe
<fumes
>
going to zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz - smiling, achieved.
@Izzie,
photos next week?
I want to see the bronze against the overt olive
My best friend's daughter has a not-too-stimulating summer job at a small medical history museum.
She taught herself to knit again.
She's been doing a series of ocean creatures - lovely, fun, crazy, happy-making.
Then she posted this on FB
Flying Spaghetti Monster
(sure hope it shows up)
@ehBeth,
Oh cool! (Just saw this.)
If you're expecting something sweet, that avocado will be a surprise for sure. (It ain't sweet.)
edit: I like FSM too!! She's talented.
@ehBeth,
that picture. that picture made me smile.
@hamilton,
Me too. Beth, congratulate the knitter of wit..
