Could someone please tell me where I can get a hand grinder? I don't suppose the wheat will grind itself. I don't even know what it looks like. All I know is I need one.

Also - feeling a little slow here, but what's with all the tinfoil hat talk? With the 800 ft. of foil I bought last night, I could make a hell of a hat. Are the polly's saying we should be protected as long as we have our hats on or what?

-- GI, but I don't get this (slow@very slow.help), August 19, 1999

Answers

Here's a link that may interest you:

http://www.y2ksupplies.com/year2000/cooking.html

Haven't done business with them personally, but I have had good luck with other supply companies.

Good luck

-- cynic (cynic@skeptic.com), August 19, 1999.

>> ...but what's with all the tinfoil hat talk? <<

It's an obscure "inside" joke. It started some time ago with a jibe about GIs wearing a "tinfoil and egg salad hat" that has the magical property of keeping aliens from stealing your brain waves. I think it started on the comp.software.year-2000 news group.

If this remains obscure to you, even after the explanation, don't worry. You had to be there. (grin)

-- Brian McLaughlin (brianm@ims.com), August 19, 1999.

http://www.teleport.com/~dany/mill/mills.htm

These folks have the family grain mill at $126 plus shipping...quite reasonable. I've got one and like it a lot. Not as good as the country living mill but much cheaper and more available....

The mill comes from Germany. As it turns out it is actually a Messerschmidt mill....from the fine folks who made the ME109. Interesting....

DCK

-- Don Kulha (dkulha@vom.com), August 19, 1999.

I have a few listed on eBay, they are currently in the $25.00 range.

-- Ron Schwarz (rs@clubvb.com.delete.this), August 19, 1999.

I got my grain mill at : http://www.iti2.net/mnb I got the Lehmans best grain mill from them for $129, but they no longer carry that one.. :( But they do carry the family grain mill for $125 and a couple more at cheeper prices too. Hope that helps

-- Stash (stashin@yahoo.com), August 19, 1999.

Sorry typeooooo here is the correct address. http://www.iti2.net/mhb Mountian Home Basics

-- Stash (stashin@yahoo.com), August 19, 1999.

thanks everyone

-- thanks (p@p.l), August 19, 1999.

oh lord, I didn't know egg salad goes in the hat. My brains are fried. Help me, someone.......

-- Mara Wayne (MaraWAyne@aol.com), August 20, 1999.

also try chips and salsa in your hat. Even before 8-10 Coronas, it is a tastey idea.

-- bill (tinfoil@sombrero.com), August 20, 1999.

"I think it started on the comp.software.year-2000 news group."

This is a bummer. I thought Y2K Pro invented this. I thought that Y2K Pro finally had an original thought.

Oh well, live and learn...

Tick... Tock.. <:00=

-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), August 20, 1999.

Oh, and have a look at this link... <:)=

The latest in GI headgear

-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), August 20, 1999.

Sysman and GI (newfolk)

Correct me if I am wrong but the tin foil thing sprouted from Tom B. and his epic Y2K "take", before that I never seen it. The term is not in the links below but in the never ending commentary that follows

Subject: Tom's Take, Part I: Where We Are

 Date; 1998/08/27

 Author:Tom Benjamin

 DN - Tom's Take, Part I: Where We Are

 DN - Tom's Take: Part II Where We are going.

 DN - Tom's Take Part III -- The Fall

 DN - Tom's Take, Part IV, The Final Chapter

-- Brian (imager@home.com), August 20, 1999.

oh gosh, reading this thread just reminded me -- i gotta get beer for y2k. i doubt they sell it in big PET bottles. how about 55 gallon drums?

-- tt (cuddluppy@yahoo.com), August 20, 1999.

Before you spend a lot of money for a grinder, plus S&H charges, try a good "old timey" hardware store. I found such a place and they had lots and lots of Y2K prep stuff that they sell all the time to people who live closer to the "way things were." Had a great time there, and saved lots of money, plus got a great buy on what appears to be an excellent hand grinder. And this in a suburb of DC in NoVA, where one wouldn't expect to find such neat things.

-- Elaine Seavey (Gods1sheep@aol.com), August 20, 1999.

>> Correct me if I am wrong but the tin foil thing sprouted from Tom B. and his epic Y2K "take", before that I never seen it. [ Date; 1998/08/27 ] <<

Just for the comic relief of it, I did a bit a bit of sleuthing on Deja-News and found that the earliest exchange on the subject of tinfoil and egg salad hats still preserved in the archives took place between cory hamasaki and docdwarf at least 3 months earlier (5/25/98). Judging from the exchange, it was "old hat" (forgive me!) even by then.

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cory hamasaki wrote:

They haven't said that they have nukes... maybe the 'voices' are getting through again. ... DD, what was the shield, tinfoil AND egg salad?

DD replied:

Give the man a sitar, errrrr, cigar, that is correct... tinfoil-and-egg-salad hats to shield against the brainwave-stealing and brainwave-implanting rays of the Space Aliens *and* to shield against hunger, simultaneously.

-- Brian McLaughlin (brianm@ims.com), August 20, 1999.

NOooooo- dearest Mara - the tin foil PROTECTS your brain from being fried, but the egg salad DOESN'T get fried - I think, but then again I'm not known for my culinary skills.

So, fry the eggs in the colander, protect your noggin with the tinfoil - Al foil is okay too, as long as it's compliant alumininumiumium, - and put the egg salad in the refrigerator.

-- Robert A. Cook, PE (Kennesaw, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), August 20, 1999.

Slow, there is a Prep forum here at

http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a.tcl?topic= TimeBomb%202000%20%28Y2000%29%20Preparation%20Forum

You might also enjoy www.mrssurvival.com

Lots of good info and helpful people.

-- mommacarestx (harringtondesignX@earthlink.net), August 20, 1999.