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RE: All-time Filipino halo-halo
lol! Get out of my hermit shell! That's not going to happen. lol. That sounds like a great idea, I think you should try that in your spare time. But then, you don't HAVE any spare time so you will have to wait until you retire.
Yes, we are on the last month of summer here, that last real hot month although the heat isn't as bad as over there I don't think. Ours hottest three months run about 37 to 43 C. Occasionally 46C.
Oh, and yes..Chow means food here also. In the Old West the food wagons on the cattle drives were called Chuck Wagons but they served up Chow!
Maybe I will have halo-halo business when I retire. 😄
37C is crazy hot. How much more with 46? I don't remember that we ever hit 40C here in Metro Manila. 39C was what I can remember so far. Few years ago, I heard from the news that Cagayan Valley in the northern part of our country hit 41C. That's the hottest we had that I knew of. So it's still hotter over there.
Old West? Are those wagons going around selling food?
Howdy again macoolette! Well the difference here is that we only have that for 3 months and then most of the year the temperatures are very mild and it gets real cold in the winter, around freezing and below. But over there it is warm most of the time right? I love the change of seasons.
Oh, I forgot about your wagons question. Yes, the chuck wagons went with the long cattle drives when they were taking the cattle to market from Texas up to Kansas or farther North, it took months because with herds of cattle they only went about 10 miles each day, sometimes less.
So the chuck wagons were the food wagons with a cook who prepared food for the cowboys. Here is an authentic photo of a chuckwagon and it's cook. They always called the cook "Cookie" lol.
Cookie for a cook. That's cool...
That wagon travels ling distance? It looks faint. I wonder how long the travel is that such wagon would last.
Howdy macoolette! Oh, those wagons were heavy and built very well, they lasted for years and years. They traveled with them for hundreds of miles each trip which lasted for months each trip.