Baby, It’s Cold Outside

Budgets &Hot Buttered Rum

The problem with Capitalism is the greed factor:

I can make an excellent hot buttered rum with a

jigger of cheap rum (you don’t need a brand name                              

because once you add the real creamery butter and

brown sugar, you could not possibly taste the

difference, anyway!)

So, back to the recipe:

·       one cup of boiling water,

·       Add a pat of butter, stir until melted,

·       and add one Teaspoon brown sugar, stir,

·       then a jigger of the cheapest rum available (I repeat,

you do not need a name brand, you do not need

to line some ad agency’s pockets) generic will

be perfectly fine. Now, taste it: just like a pricey bar hot buttered rum,

Eh?

I happened upon this by accident, one holiday season, when

my name brand, best selling hot buttered rum batter

ran out in the middle of the night

It was our Christmas season tradition to enjoy

Hot buttered rums to warm us up after caroling               

in the frigid winter streets

On this particular December night there were

more revelers than usual and the hot buttered

rum mix ran out!

In a moment of illumination, after reading the

ingredients on the five dollar $$$ batter tub,

I noticed that the essential contents were:

.butter

. brown sugar

With rum and hot water, we’re home free!

Hooray! Foodie and creative cook that I am,

I improvised and from that day forward never

bought hot buttered rum mix again!

The essential ingredients are inexpensive

and I discovered my own hot buttered rum

independence! And in another part of this great nation, somebody’s

over-inflated doughy cash cow fell hard.

Now, go forth and apply the principle to

other capitalistic scams. It will warm the cockles of your heart.

Be smart, stay warm, because, Baby, it's cold outside. Brrr!

 Raintreepoet :-)