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10 THE RURAL VOICE
Mabel's Grill
The
world's
problems
are
solved
daily
'round
rhe table
at
Mabel 's.
"I'm buying the coffee this
morning," said Wayne Bruce the
other morning.
"About time you bought, with the
price you charged me for the last pair
of boots I bought at your store," said
George McKenzie.
"What's got you feeling so good
this morning?" wondered Dave
Winston.
"Hey, according to this assess-
ment notice I got, the value of my
house just went up 20 per cent," said
Wayne.
"And you think you can get that
price?" wondered Cliff Murray.
"Of course not, but it makes me
feel good to think somebody does."
"Yeh I think there should be some
guarantee with these assessment
values," said George. "If I have to
pay taxes on my farm at the value
they say it's worth, say for the next
five years, the government has to
guarantee I'll actually get what they
say it's worth if I sell. If not, I should
get a refund."
"I don't know anybody who
thinks their place is worth what the
latest assessment notices say," said
Dave.
"Hey, it's a great way for the local
politicians to raise taxes without
raising taxes," grumbled George.
"The total assessment goes up so
they can increase what they spend
without really putting a percentage
increase on the mill late. When your
taxes go up on your farm or house,
they tell you that's just the price you
pay for being lucky to have the value
of your property go up."
"I'd like to see them convince me
the price of my farm went up with
the way pig prices are," moaned
Dave.
"Only if some guy from Toronto
buys it for a country place," said
Wayne.
-NA, ell 1 sure don't need higher
taxes what with the Hydro bill going
to go up come spring," said Dave.
"I told you not to vote for the
Liberals," said George.
"I suppose the deficit would have
disappeared if Ernie Eves had been
re-elected," said Cliff.
"Everybody knows the Liberals
just cooked that up as an excuse to
break the ridiculous promises they
made to get elected," said George.
Cliff had his mouth open to argue
with George when Molly Whiteside
delivered Dave's usual breakfast
order, the one with an extra egg and
four slices of bacon.
"I don't know how you can eat all
that fat," said Molly as she stood
back to watch Dave cover it with salt
and pepper.
"I'm trying to eat us into better
pork prices," said Dave.
"Nice help for the egg producers
too," said Wayne.
"Besides, there's no trans -fatty
acids in this unless Mabel cooked it
in Crisco," said Dave. "Haven't you
heard, it's the vegetables you've got
to worry about these days, not the
animal fats."
"I don't quite think that's what the
nutritionists are saying," said Molly.
"It's the hydrogenated fats they're
worried about. Pure canola oil is still
better for you than beef or pork fat."
"Yeh, tell that to the people who
go to those fancy restaurants and pay
big bucks for a steak," said George.
"Here we've been getting our meat
leaner and then people eat imported
beef in restaurants because they say
ours doesn't taste as good, so now we
have to go get the fat back in."
"Yeh and the biggest thing with
the celebrity cooks down in the
States is using lard in their recipes,"
said Wayne. "And bacon with lots of
fat on it, the kind the Americans used
to eat before we gave them our lean
hogs."
"Yeh, it's the same with
anything," said Cliff. "Wait long
enough and all the stuff that's bad for
you will be found to be good for
you."
"That's why I keep smoking,"
said Molly. "I figure sooner or later
they'll find it's really good for you."0