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To: Rambi who wrote (43119)	12/6/1999 6:54:00 PM
From: Ish	Respond to of 71178

<<Hey Ish- I am reeling after one night of sleeplessness. I don't know how you did (do)it. We are too old!!!>> I'm getting used to it. Got the attitude in basic training and it's stuck. I was dog shit tired the first two weeks but I'm better now doctor haha. It's when you can get a routine. You get used to it. <<I stood in front of the frozen foods for ten minutes staring at the little picture of Marie Callender on a carton of Beef Pot Roast and wondering if she were a real person. >> Real or not, I like her chicken meals. A pain to nuke but worth it. I remember during week two I got lost on a street I have driven a zillion times. Like I was in a foreign country. It was fact overload coupled with no sleep. Now I drive where I want and let the horn clear out the congestion. <<There will be no new carpets in this house until these cats die. Which may be soon of starvation. >> Damn, with all the mice in the world and they want fed. Bring in a mouse and beg for food. Hey, looky the mouse, eat it. Dogs want fed but not as bad, they catch rabbits and KNOW what to do. Jeez, even the wife wants fed. I'm cutting her off liquids as she pees too much. Just kidding!!

To: Rambi who wrote (43119)	12/6/1999 8:41:00 PM
From: Constant Reader	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

"I knew Marie Callendar. Marie Callendar was a friend of mine, and let me tell you...." Truthfully, I grew up in the city where Marie first baked her pies, ate in the first or second of her pie shops, and remember when the pies were actually excellent not just good. As the pie shops added to their menu, the most memorable items were the chili and the meatloaf sandwich. Their pot pies did have a remarkable reputation. As the years past, the quest to find a piece of chicken in the chicken pot pie assumed Quixotic dimensions.

To: Rambi who wrote (43119)	12/7/1999 11:51:00 PM
From: Michael M	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Rambi - re Marie Callender (day late and many dollars short, but what the hell) Marie Callender definitely a real person. She was the mother of Don Callender who turned the pie thing into a business. The woman pictured on Marie Callender packaging is not Don's mom (big surprise, huh) but a trophy hostess named Katie from one of the earlier Callender stores that Don married. My sweetie worked for Callender's for years (N. Calif. manager and corporate bar trainer for openings nationwide) and remains a friend of Don's. He was well-liked throughout the empire and very good to the people who worked for him. The meatload sandwiches WERE fabulous. As for the disappearing chicken in the pot pies, noted by Constant Reader, credit that to Don selling the company, maybe a dozen years ago. A succession of new corporate parents, cut costs left and right - including chicken, it would seem :-). Never had one of the frozen dinners but can highly recommend the corn bread mix. More than you or anyone wanted to know, but there's so little I DO know, I wanted to pass this on. Mike