Your Favorite Frozen French Fries

Back when I was in college I remember these flyers offering "High paying summer jobs" on a potato farm in Idaho and I knew some of the kids who went for this.

Most of their glorious summer vacation in Idaho (as in "where the hell is Idaho?") was more like hauling, loading, and sorting the potatoes in the processing barns and I heard all of the horror stories. They were saying that those instant mashed potato mixes used, quite literally, the floor sweepings, so stay away. I remember that they said one brand "Potato Buds", but I have not seen that in decades, used actual good potatoes in them. I also remember them saying that Pringles used the lower grades as well.

 

Noooooooo. I loved the wedges.

 

That sounds like the Grapes Of Wrath.

 

Hmmm ... pomme de terre = apple of the earth.

Does this mean than apples are the potato of the tree?

 

Was her name Paulette and did she drive a Pontiac?

Breeze, Did you work at the Budd Plant on Hunting Park Ave?

 

No, I worked at Kelsey-Hayes at Front and Olney. Same type of work at a smaller plant. Very dangerous. I worked the same exact press for 5 consecutive years. One day this huge flywheel broke off it’s axle and missed me by about two feet. That was the beginning of the end.

But you know, all of this stuff led me to my 30 year career working for the Navy.

 

Great story! But could you have ended up married in Idaho if he'd tipped you $25?

 

Very true.

 

This sounds like the movie script sequel to " The Breeze " Trilogy !!!!
Part I......the 30 year Navy career of Breeze
Part II..........by popular demand........the sequel focuses in on the "younger" years of Breeze.....love, romance, travel., exotic Philadelphia locations -
Part III..........anybody wanna guess ?.......submit your script now !

 

Let's see here ... something along the line of millionaire playboy Vegas whale.

 

With Jack Nicholson in the starring role?

 

One slight correction. I worked FOR the Navy as a civilian. I served IN the Air Force.

I see Kevin Costner playing me.

 

I was thinking more of Ashton Kutcher playing you and Kevin Costner playing your cranky superior officer in Part I, your Navy/Air Force career. (Hey, that kinda sounds familiar.)

 

As long as I get Mila Kunis.

 

I was thinking more of Debra Winger playing The Girl. (Wait! That kinda sounds familiar too.)