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Old 04-15-2010, 11:12 AM
 
Location: Brendansport, Sagitta IV
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I've never seen gribenes sold in a dried form.

It's typically a homemade product, and the chicken skin is fried in schmaltz (= rendered chicken fat).
Doesn't seem like it would make a good commercial product, but who knows, maybe someday someone will figure out a way... and now that I know it has a name, when my mom asks how I can eat "that disgusting stuff" I can tell her it's a traditional Jewish treat!

(How do you correctly pronounce it?)
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Old 04-15-2010, 11:44 AM
 
Location: Colorado Springs,CO
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Here is what I think Billings could use.
Macy's (someone already said that)
Hooters
Family Christian Stores
Boston's Pizza(They need to expand in Montana)
Qdoba
and Five Guy's Burgers.
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Old 04-15-2010, 12:41 PM
 
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was that before dodger stadium??
It was the home field of the BROOKLYN Dodgers.

The Dodgers name is derived from the preceding Trolley Dodgers name, because Brooklyn fans had to dodge the electric trolleys on their way into Ebbets Field.
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Old 04-15-2010, 12:47 PM
 
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(How do you correctly pronounce it?)
gɾibənəs
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Old 04-15-2010, 01:14 PM
 
Location: New Mexico
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we need an In-and Out Burger!! and we need a better library but that'll hopefully happen if the mill passes this next election to expand the library. we got an Indian food resturant but haven't tried it yet. Best food. but dillards is like a macy's i think. One of the things I like about Billings is that there's so many good used book stores and lots of great thrift stores. could use more antique malls, just have two the big one by the Depot closed, it was great though.
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Old 04-15-2010, 01:38 PM
 
Location: Brendansport, Sagitta IV
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It was the home field of the BROOKLYN Dodgers.

The Dodgers name is derived from the preceding Trolley Dodgers name, because Brooklyn fans had to dodge the electric trolleys on their way into Ebbets Field.
Baseball, a game of history, perhaps moreso than any other organised sport.

Okay, there's something MT could use more of -- minor league and college baseball, which can be every bit as exciting as the big leagues, and a lot more personal since you're much more likely to get a good seat and may even know some of the players as local boys.
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Old 04-15-2010, 01:41 PM
 
Location: New Mexico
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Baseball, a game of history, perhaps moreso than any other organised sport.

Okay, there's something MT could use more of -- minor league and college baseball, which can be every bit as exciting as the big leagues, and a lot more personal since you're much more likely to get a good seat and may even know some of the players as local boys.
Billings has a great beautifull minor league ball park right downtown. the mustangs play there and then we have the outlaws a minor league footboll team with their own place and we also have a professional hooky team!!
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Old 04-15-2010, 01:45 PM
 
Location: New Mexico
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Baseball, a game of history, perhaps moreso than any other organised sport.

Okay, there's something MT could use more of -- minor league and college baseball, which can be every bit as exciting as the big leagues, and a lot more personal since you're much more likely to get a good seat and may even know some of the players as local boys.
here's a pic of Dehler park home of the Mustangs
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Old 04-15-2010, 02:30 PM
 
Location: Brendansport, Sagitta IV
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Billings has a great beautifull minor league ball park right downtown. the mustangs play there and then we have the outlaws a minor league footboll team with their own place and we also have a professional hooky team!!
Does look like a real nice park with intimate seating. Glad to hear the minor leagues are still alive there -- last I'd paid attention they were pretty much pulling out of the backbeyond states. You'd think it would go the other way, being cheaper to operate there even if you don't get quite the revenues.
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Old 04-15-2010, 02:41 PM
 
Location: Brendansport, Sagitta IV
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Most of the responses have involved bringing in national chains. But for every national chain that comes in, probably half a dozen competing local shops (restaurants, whatever) will close -- they just can't beat the large chain's economy of scale, and can't afford to take a loss for several months while getting established. And that means local jobs that keep all the profits local also go away (remember, the corporate profits will almost uniformly go out of state), and someone who worked their whole life to build a business is now reduced to a basic-wage-job for the very chain that put them out of business.

So I think the question really should be, what can be done to help upgrade local businesses so they can provide whatever it is people are "missing out" on from the national chains? Because in the long run, those national chains are really not to the benefit of our smaller cities.

Does anyone else remember when the local incarnations of even a national chain like JC Penney's had the flavour of a very personal local store, where the same people would work for a lifetime and knew all their customers by name? You'll never see that with a modern Macy's, nor ANY chain that has moved from the individual downtown store environment and into the impersonal venue of the mass-market mall.

The other issue that people tend to forget is that in todays economics, national chains seldom offer fulltime employment. Most of their jobs are under 32 hours a week to avoid the high cost of providing employee benefits, and they rig shifts to wear people down with irregular hours, so no one will stay in the same job long enough to get retirement benefits, either.

So, let's ask the question a little differently: what can we do to encourage locally-owned business to be competitive and to fulfill our desires and needs?

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