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Oh shoot, I’m not so far from you. I live more south of Allentown, but work closer to Philadelphia.

Apple butter is an underrated condiment. I used to eat it on pancakes instead of syrup as a kid, and I put it in oatmeal and such as an adult. I don’t have it often nowadays, but there’s a place that produces it and other fruit butters nearby, and there’s occasionally some other brands in stores and roadside shops.

For those that haven’t had it, I guess imagine baked apples or an apple dumpling but reduced down so it is super concentrated into something spreadable.

Somewhat related story, but I’ll share it to put a win for the little guy somewhere in these comments.

When I was in my late teens I worked in the deli of a large supermarket chain. We had a hot food section with reheated frozen crap that was always dried out and gross, and a pizza oven to cook school cafeteria quality pizzas. Needless to say, no one bought anything.

Right next to that was the deli section where I worked evenings. We had the fancy Boarshead stuff, including a bunch of fancy Italian meats. Nobody bought that stuff either cuz we’re not redneck here, but city people kind of treat us like we are, and nobody knew what soppresetta and that kind of thing was.

All this stuff would just sit until it got thrown out from not being sold. I would take bits of it all on its way to the trash, and I started making calzones with the pizza dough and the nice deli meats and ringing myself up for the price of like a quarter pound of meat, which was fair to me and the store. I made them for myself at first, and then some other people in the department.

The one day I made a few and gave samples out to some of my regular customers and of course they liked them because they were made with care and attention and better ingredients than any of the store stuff. I started making them in nights I was in and putting them in the hot bar and they sold decent.

One day the manager came back and cried it wasn’t in the plan-o-gram and blah blah and I had to knock it off.

Maybe a week later, they came back to me again and asked how I had been pricing them and I said I was basically just charging the weight of the deli meat and they tweaked the price a little and I kept making them, as people had been ticked when I said I wasn’t allowed to make them anymore.

I left not too long after, and I can’t say it was due to me or anything, but now all of those sites around here make little calzones and have them in the deli section as a grab and go item to cook at home.

It wasn’t enough to teach me everything I needed to know about how companies treat people that go above, but it definitely contributed to my education about work vs reward. But I’m glad I won that one. I liked saving food from the trash, and I liked seeing people enjoy something that was my idea and made purely by me and my skill. I guess I learned some things about myself as well.

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Thank you for the great reply. I know your modern brand recommendations, but the reconditions for older brands is a great idea I’ll have to look into.

For anyone that has contractor grade faucets, if you ever get to handle a higher end faucet, or even a lot of the commercial fixtures and compare them to the cheap stuff, it should be night and day.

I replaced my faucets before attempting to sell my house and used ok stuff to modernize, but they’re still low end. I ended up not moving, and I treat them nice so they’re doing ok.

But they all have plastic internals, the weight is much less, the parts wobble more, and the finish isn’t holding up as well as I’d expect of a premium faucet. Even when right out the box, they aren’t as nice as a decades old name brand faucet.

They’re made to meet a price point. While they will get you the look (potentially) of a high end faucet, it won’t hold up like one with better fit and finish, and if it does need repair, your chances of getting the part is likely much better.

Do you want a buy it for life faucet? Or do you need one to last a couple years? Spend accordingly. There’s a market for both, and people need to determine which product is right for them.

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Talk about sensitive snowflakes! Trying to ruin someone’s career because they talked about a stamp with a liberal on it…

The whole list is worth a read for the poor excuses, but the stamp was the weakest of the weak to me.