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Jimmy Downs has been an active Usauce volunteer for over 6 years. When it comes to logging long hours and teamwork,
nobody can top Jimmy. Check back regularly for updated thoughts and stories from our man on the front lines.
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1/27/22
Greetings and salutations!
No surprise but a lot of folks have been reaching out lately given everything that's been going on.
Those bigwigs down the interstate are back at it, and they're just going to do what there gonna do. Look, when you've been in this arena for as long as I have you know things can get a bit sticky sometimes. But in our business that's not always a bad thing!
Anyway I'll try to respond to everyone's concerns direct in the next couple quarters so sit tight and keep the feedback flowing.
In the mean time I'll probably be double dipping a bit more than usual!
LOL
Jim
5/18/18
Greeting again to all my old friends,
It's such a real pleasure to be getting back to all of you. I've had myself a real nice chance to stew around in my mind a couple of good thoughts that I can't wait to share with you. I'm sure that readers of this blog will remember my old friend Conrad Janes. We just wrapped up a camping trip for about 10 days hiking and goofing around in the Sugarlands. Admiring the foliage, sharing thoughts about the movement. Getting back to the real basics of what really matters.
Like sauce!
And there's one thing ol' Conrad said that I really could not help but have stay with me a few days here and boy have I had some great thoughts spin off of it. He said to me:
'Jimmy D, lemme ask you: what is the difference between soup and sauce?"
Well, I was stumped until he told me.
"A soup is just a sauce people eat the last drop of."
Well! Suffice it to say it's been a long couple of days letting that sink in. Not to get to sounding like a freshman term paper on you here, but what's important here is stripping away the social constructs of what a sauce is. Why is appropriate even in a fancy restaurant to bring an empty bowl of soup up to your mouth to lick off the last drop? But what would people say if you tried that with the gravy boat? Or the ketchup. And why are the spouts so skinny?
Jimmy
12/21/07
I was eating lunch today at Reggie's (yes, it has the same name as that other diner fom Seinfeld).
Sitting at the lunch counter one seat down from me was a little girl eating a salad.
Well, her salad came and she just kept putting and putting and putting sauce on that thing.
I couldn't believe it and I nearly choked on my own salad (moderately dressed, of course!)
I said, little girl, don't you know there are people in other countries who would love to have
even the extra sauce that you're wasting on that plate.
And she said, 'this isn't sauce, silly, it's dressing.'
Ah, the innocence of children.
But that little story has a real lesson to it, don't you think?
It's easy for us to forget sometimes, especially during the holiday season with all its fast pace and shopping,
that dressings are sauces and sauces are dressings. So is spaghetti sauce.
Even if we forget that that is true, it is.
Have a good afternoon and a Happy New Year!
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