Pick Your Tater Salad

My mom made a great potato salad. She used fresh white potatoes, real Kraft mayonnaise, and a handful of other chopped vegetables and seasonings.

My step mother made a totally different potato salad. She used Miracle Whip – which I HATE -and yellow mustard and chopped hardboiled eggs.

My mother in law made hers even more different. She used Hellman’s mayo and put chopped sweet pickles in her potato salad.

Who knew that potato salad was such a specialty?

Toys and Movies

Are there any new movies coming out that DON’T have a complete line of toys associated with them? I mean, the Transformers, the G. I Joe, and even the G-Force gerbils have toys filling shelves at the WalMarts, KMarts and Targets of the world. And let’s not forget the “happy meals” at all the fast food joints that come with the movie promoting toys and PR tie-ins.

Summer Drinks

Around here we drink ice tea, especially over the hot summer months. I like to drink my tea unsweet but most every place around here will bring you sweet tea with a wedge of lemon on the rim of the glass unless you ask for unsweet tea. I like to add fruits to mine once in a while. The current favorite fruit additive is peach or mango. That makes it a fresher taste with body in the tea. But just about any fruit can be added to tea – it’s universal.

Peek at Tomorrow’s Cell Phone

Some of the new things coming out later this year for cell phones doesn’t have so much to do with service or features but it will be the packaging.

That goes with the old merchant’s rule of thumb: if you can’t offer a new product, change the packaging.

The current models are coming out in new colors. Someone had the bright idea that women must love the color pink, so they came out with a pink phone case.

What will be coming out later include textured cases and other packaging “improvements.”