Salt talks

[sheribuchta]

Last year Willie and I didn't get the opportunity to go to the Salt talks at the bend in the road. Could someone please let me know what takes place during these talks. I thought that there was a topic stating what takes place, but I couldn't find it.
If I'm not mistaken, it said something about pastries. If so, could I help with bringing some or the making of coffee or something else.

Thanks Sheri Buchta

[Glen]

Sheri
They are pasties, not pastries. They are a hot sandwich thing. It's a large gathering of old and new LSR people and a place to meet. I don't think coffee is a requirement. There are a bunch of door prizes and a auction, a split the pot. Just a fun bunch getting together, sorta like the Gear Grinders at the lakes.

[sheribuchta]

You know, I am going to just let this one by.

Sheri
They are pasties, not pastries. They are a hot sandwich thing. It's a large gathering of old and new LSR people and a place to meet. I don't think coffee is a requirement. There are a bunch of door prizes and a auction, a split the pot. Just a fun bunch getting together, sorta like the Gear Grinders at the lakes.

Count me in. I sure would love to meet some of the people that we keep writing back and forth to. I sure have met some great people in the past year and a half.

As for the pasties,I would love to try one, if they have no tassles attached. Sorry I just couldn't resist.

See ya all on the Salt.

Sheri Buchta

[DahMurf]

OMG Sheri I can't wait to meet you in person! You are always making me laugh on here! First the "bed" spins now the tassled pasties!!! You are just too funny!

Deb

[sheribuchta]

Hey Deb,
Likewise...I am always humbled by a female racer who has gone over 200mph.

See you there Honey.

Sheri

[V8Pinto]

Is it on Sunday night?  I'd like to hang out too and see all these pasties everyone is talking about

[Seldom Seen Slim]

Here are last year's pasties on the roof of our trailer, getting preheated in the sun.  We then put them on the grill to finish heating them.  They're eaten either on a plate, with fork and ketchup (your choice on the ketchup), or by hand-holding and chomping away!




Pasties came to the US in the later 1800s, brought over by Cornish folks that came to this country to work as underground miner.  A pasty is made of a pie-like crust (a bit heavier) that's filled with coarse-ground beef mixed with diced potatoes and some rutabaga, a little onion and maybe some carrot for color and flavor, seasoned as you'd expect a meat pie to be seasoned (nothing weird), and baked 'til golden brown.  The miners' wives would often put the meat filling in one end of the pasty and a fruit filling in the other -- so the miner could have his meat meal and a nice dessert, too.  The miner's dinner pails were two-story affairs -- the pasty on top, and the bottom would be filled with hot tea.  As the teat cooled during the morning hours -- the rising heat kept the pasty warm.  Lunch time!

We'll have a hundred 8-ounce pasties with us at Salt Talks.  First come, first served!

[Seldom Seen Slim]

Nancy reminded me that I should ask once again for donations to the raffle we'll hold at Salt Talks.  We sell tickets and then draw them and give away the stuff that's been donated.  There'll be a guided tour around Blanding, Utah, that Sumner has been kind enough to offer for the past couple of years.  It's a great way to see some landscape like nothing you've ever seen, and you'll also get to visit some of the places where people lived hundreds -- or is it thousands -- of years ago.  And another donation will be a case of fresh apples -- donated by the Danny Boy streamliner team.  Race team t-shirts are often given away, and as I said earlier, Rocky Robinson has autographed and donated a book for the giveaway. 

So what have you got that you'd be willing to offer up to the deal?  We've had home made jewelry, tools, and so on and so forth.  We'd be happy if we had a hundred or two hundred things -- it makes it more fun to have a whole bunch of stuff. 

No big deal to donate, either -- just find Nancy or me sometime before we start the picnic Sunday late afternoon.  I'll be teching bikes all day Sunday, and she'll probably be working in the registration trailer -- and you don't really have to give us the stuff then -- because you're welcome to deliver it to Salt Talks when you get there for supper on Sunday.  Whatever you give will be raffled away as part of the basic reason for Salt Talks -- it's a fund raiser for the website.

Thanks, folks, and we sure do look forward to seeing all of you on the Salt in just a week or two.

[Geoff]

Hi I will be arriving on Sunady at around 3pm how do I catch up with Nancy as I have some of our local (New Zealand) hot rod caps to donate for the auction and will be bring some New Zealand Petrolhead magazines for people to read

[mrdodge]

Geez Geoff, you need to use that spell check thingy. I'll be with Geoff and I have some NZHRA Limited Edition Number Plates issued to commemorate 45 years in NZ. All for a good cause

[Geoff]

Hi John

Didnt go to school to learn to write see you on Thursday for a couple of pre flight drinks 

[mrdodge]

Looking forward to it good buddy . The great thing is, we leave Auckland Thursday night and land in San Fran Thursday lunchtime. I love it!! The down side is, we then have longer to wait until Speedweek starts!!