Maritz Shop Decision

You're forgetting to factor in all of those $6 fee $6 reimbursement shops.

Which btw are the only shops I do for Maritz.

Also spice cake is yucky. It's all about the chocolate!

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Most of the shop fees I see and hear about are anywhere from $9.50 to $12. Are you including reimbursement in the $17?

And yes, Granny's spice cake recipe would be lovely.

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bgriffin, your description of the spice cake is offensive. I have no doubt my Granny would love Mary's Granny's spice cake.

I couldn't have said it better myself! Kudos Hoju!

Hoju Wrote:
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> I gotta tell ya, these stupid argument threads are
> much more enjoyable when I'm not in them.
>
> That being said, why does everyone have to take
> everything so seriously? This is mystery shopping.
> We're not launching missiles at the Soviets. Most
> people here are anonymous (If you're not, you're
> doing it wrong). Those sweet gammys at Maritz
> probably have no idea who any of us are.
>
> Can't we all just calm down and realize that:
> 1) Not everyone is you.
> 2) Nobody cares if you're offended.
> 3) Not everyone thinks you're as funny as you do
> (I am guilty of this)
> 4) You are allowed to roll your eyes at jokes that
> you don't like and click "toggle User Visibility"
> so you never have to be unjustifiably offended
> again.
> 5) You are NOT required to voice your disdain for
> the things other people say that offend you
> because SEE #2

Arguing with fools is like playing chess with a pigeon...
...No matter how good you are, the pigeon will s@^t on the board and strut around like it won anyway.

Not scheduling for ANY company.

LisaSTL Wrote:
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> bgriffin, your description of the spice cake is
> offensive. I have no doubt my Granny would love
> Mary's Granny's spice cake.

I wasn't being offense to anyone's Granny! Only to spice cake in general! Which I find repulsive. The only redeeming quality of spice cake is that it usually has cream cheese frosting. And let's face it. Cream cheese makes absolutely everything better.

There are reasons that a body stays in motion
At the moment only demons come to mind

I agree bgriffin, cream cheese is like the bacon of dairy products. I'm not a big fan of spice cake either. I like carrot cake with cream cheese icing.

bgriffin Wrote:
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> LisaSTL Wrote:
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> -----
> > bgriffin, your description of the spice cake is
> > offensive. I have no doubt my Granny would love
> > Mary's Granny's spice cake.
>
>
> I wasn't being offense to anyone's Granny! Only
> to spice cake in general! Which I find repulsive.
> The only redeeming quality of spice cake is that
> it usually has cream cheese frosting. And let's
> face it. Cream cheese makes absolutely everything
> better.

Arguing with fools is like playing chess with a pigeon...
...No matter how good you are, the pigeon will s@^t on the board and strut around like it won anyway.

Not scheduling for ANY company.

Holy cow. Spice cake with bacon cream cheese frosting!

Ewww. I'd rather have spice cake that carrot cake. Red Velvet with cream cheese frosting is where it's at. But yes. Cream Cheese. Bacon of the diary products.

Speaking of Red Velvet. Nuts or not? Where I grew up there were no nuts in the frosting, but then I moved here and everywhere you go, chopped pecans in the frosting. Pecans are gross. Why ruin a perfectly good cake by adding them? So, it is a regional thing? Something that just happens here? Or is the non-nut variety the oddity?

There are reasons that a body stays in motion
At the moment only demons come to mind

My favorite cake is actually Boston Cream Pie, followed by German chocolate cake and finally white almond cake with raspberry cream cheese frosting.

I don't like almonds in my white almond cake though (just the almond flavoring); I agree, most of the time nuts spoil a cake.

Arguing with fools is like playing chess with a pigeon...
...No matter how good you are, the pigeon will s@^t on the board and strut around like it won anyway.

Not scheduling for ANY company.

Oh. White almond cake with raspberry cream cheese frosting? I have seriously got to try that. That sounds fantastically amazing.

There are reasons that a body stays in motion
At the moment only demons come to mind

It is amazing.

Arguing with fools is like playing chess with a pigeon...
...No matter how good you are, the pigeon will s@^t on the board and strut around like it won anyway.

Not scheduling for ANY company.

bgriffin Wrote:
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> dspeakes Wrote:
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> > Not so funny with my name above it as if I said
> > it. I don't care if other people want to call
> > them old in a disparaging manner but I don't do
> > it.
>
>
> Anyone who read the "fixed it for you" line and
> didn't understand that I obviously edited your
> quote seriously fails at the internet. Anyone who
> didn't understand that it was simply a joke fails
> at having a sense of humor.

I didn't understand your post, I also didn't get your joke and I couldn't find the humor in it. So, how does that relate to me failing at the internet & how the hell does a person fail at the internet? I also can't figure out how it means I don't have a sense of humor? Without even knowing me, you have insulted me two times in one post!

BWA-HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Practitioner of the Nerdly Arts.

Good heavans, Meow!

And during Holy Week!

In endeavouring to wade through this 3 page chunter with regard to Maritz (a company that I find most pleasant and agreeable), there seems to be more p!$$ing and hissing than helpful comments.

Please moderator, admonish those who are indulging in this group catfight.

Or, at the very least, delete their non-relevant posts.

In the meantime, I shall await the inevitable. Who shall be first?

Tatjana

Mod note: We're all grown-ups here -- or at least we should be. And what's wrong with being a little irrelevant? It's what makes the forum fun. The debate remained civil enough, mostly; and most kept a semblance of humor. I'm just a mod -- not a censor, not a cop, not one of those old-school nuns with the black habits and rulers. Oops, might have offended someone. Oh well.

I actually enjoy the way the threads get turned into something completely irrelevant. Not the fighting, mind you, just the change of conversation. It seems almost impossible to keep a conversation on track, and I like reading the posts to see where they will lead.

I have done an excellent job of staying out the fights lately (kudos to me!), I try to just sit back and read the crazy things other people argue about. Have no doubt I will be in one soon enough, but for now I will just sit back and relax.

I have no idea if I like spice cake, but banana nut bread is amazing!

I just grabbed my first actual audit for Maritz, the one where you have to see how long it takes to pump 2 gallons of gas. I'm kinda nervous. I've only done two types of gas audits before and none for Maritz. I was smart enough to pick a tiny store in the middle of nowhere that I'm familiar with yet only takes about 30 minutes to get there. I was surprised that I was able to self assign since I've never done this type of shop for them before. Shouldn't they be sending me some kind of manual or something before the shopping period starts?

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At the moment only demons come to mind

Egads, spice cake. Reminds me too much of fruitcake, which I think only *old* people eat.

b, yes, they will send you a manual. If you'd like my cheat sheet, shoot me a pm with your email addy.

Mary Davis Nowell. Based close to Fort Worth. Shopping Interstate 20 east and west, Interstate 35 north and south.

Thanks MD! I'll shoot you a PM with my email. I know you've done about 234,123,583,192 of these so I'm guessing you have it pretty down pat by now.

There are reasons that a body stays in motion
At the moment only demons come to mind

Interesting thread

Willing to travel, Alberta, Canada

My dog once ate a whole fruitcake that the mailman left on our front porch. He had a cast iron stomach.

I once gave my mother a Christmas Card that made fun of the whole fruitcake, it was something along the lines of how people get a fruitcake in the mail, then repackage and send it to someone else, who sends it to someone else, etc. It basically never gets eaten, but it never rots...she wasn't amused and was a little offended, actually, because she used to make them (and none of us kids would eat them). That generation really does like fruitcake.

I make anywhere from two to four fruitcakes every Christmas. You guys have the wrong recipe. You need the recipe for the Marty Aronowitz fruitcake that's published every year in the Fort Worth Star Telegram. I recommend walnuts instead of pecans, and I use one pound of walnuts in each cake.

Mary Davis Nowell. Based close to Fort Worth. Shopping Interstate 20 east and west, Interstate 35 north and south.

My mom used to make fruitcake cookies with bourbon. Bite-sized and yummy.

For Easter my mom made a super yummy carrot cake with frosting made up of 5 things: cream cheese, butter, sugar, more cream cheese, and more butter. OMG I am salivating just thinking about it...is it too late for a mid-afternoon snack????

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm.................................peanut butter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wait, did nobody mention peanut butter??????

Nooo, they just mentioned buttah, but not peanut buttah. I used to like peanut butter, but then I had to work a recall for Peter Pan several years ago when they had the outbreak of Salmonella. I am not afraid that any peanut butter is tainted, I just got sick of looking at it and smelling it.

I used to make a dark rum fruitcake that was fantastic (nothing like the rock hard discs sold at discount stores at Christmas time). I lost the recipe 20 years ago and have been searching ever since. It also had a LOT of nuts and far less fruit - I think it called for dates in place of most of the icky candied fruit. It needed to cure for about 3-4 weeks before eating.

Is this recipe anything like my description ??

MDavisnowell Wrote:
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> I make anywhere from two to four fruitcakes every
> Christmas. You guys have the wrong recipe. You
> need the recipe for the Marty Aronowitz fruitcake
> that's published every year in the Fort Worth Star
> Telegram. I recommend walnuts instead of pecans,
> and I use one pound of walnuts in each cake.

Ugh, who insulted spice cake? How DARE you? I'm offended!

. . . . ehhh, except a lot of people think I'm insane because I love spice cake and molasses cookies but don't like white cake or peanut butter cookies, so, y'know, whatever floats ya boat.

Yes, this is a date based cake.

l lb. dates
1/2 lb. candied cherries
1/2 lb. candied sliced pineapples
1 lb. coarsely chopped pecans (walnuts are better)
1 cup sugar
1 cup flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
4 eggs
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon vanilla

Line angel tube pan with parchment paper. Spray with vegetable cooking spray. Cut fruits small and mix with chopped nuts. Sift dry ingredients together, mix with fruits and nuts. Beat eggs with vanilla, pour over fruits and nuts, mix well.
Pack into pan. Bake 2 hours at 250. (that's right, 250). Cool completely before removing, preferably overnight.

Mary Davis Nowell. Based close to Fort Worth. Shopping Interstate 20 east and west, Interstate 35 north and south.

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