I have no idea where this Ponder will go but pull up your chairs, crates or whatever and enjoy this nice fall evening. Anyone here familiar with Marconi Sports Peppers? They are Chicago style peppers, primarily to use with hot dogs, but I’ve also found that they go well with sub sandwiches of most any kind and a sandwich, say bologna… fried bologna now that’s a good pair. I first ran into them at the Publix and they were pretty expensive 16 ounce jar. I think it started out around $4.50. Well that lasted for about a year then they disappeared couldn’t find them there. They never had them stocked then they came back and they went first to $5.70. and then on up finally they topped out at $7.50. My wife has always been very attentive to keeping in stock some things here at the house that I particularly like to have with sandwiches or snacks. But they broke her tolerance level when they reached $6.50 mark so to speak for a jar of hot peppers… so I guess it doesn’t really need to be repeated, but we quit buying them, or she did. Now it’s real funny how the human mind works, but I just couldn’t get those Marconi sports peppers off my mind or out of my taste locker. Like I said with some fried bologna and believe it or not, with some fried spam they were pretty good. Now before I get too carried away, they didn’t hardly come up to and certainly did not surpass a really fine garden tomato with mayonnaise on light bread with some fresh cayenne pepper out of the garden… I have been told that it was even responsible for some Yankees relocating here to the south. Back to the story. I could not put those peppers out of my mind so I started looking for them again, went online and checked the grocery stores here where I live, Kroger and Publix and Aldi and Walmart even went so far as to check Costco but nobody had them, well nobody had them in stock.You could order them from Walmart but when they added the shipping fee onto them, it was $15 and some odd cents for 16 ounce jar. You couldn’t sell that to my wife with two complementary tickets to a QVC studio show. I found some other values elsewhere, but one that I almost fell for was six jars for $35. Shipping was free but the catch was they were 8 ounce jars. But I just couldn’t and wouldn’t give up and finally my wife found those beautiful Marconi sports peppers somewhere on Amazon for nine dollars and something 16 ounce jar… bingo, love her heart, with the shipping fee added it came to $13 and a few pennies and she went ahead and got them. It might be hard to believe, but them suckers came to my front door overnight, I had made some chicken salad homemade the other day and because I was in such a hurry I didn’t feel like frying any bologna up, I went ahead and just made me a nice chicken salad sandwich and got some of them peppers out and everything was wonderful. Now I’m sure you’re asking by now. What’s all that about? I also guess you’re trying to figure out what kind of a ponder can we possibly get out of this? Here is your Ponder for the day… Never let a good pepper get away!

Kurt