Wow, that’s the first time I’ve ever heard “safeties” used as a euphemism for condoms and not only am I in my 50’s I used to work in the area of the store that sells the things. Thought I knew all the slang terms already.
Yeah, me too.
Yeah, I think I’d have to go long on my mental list before getting to “safeties = rubbers,” if I ever got there at all. I might think it’s slang for safety razors, maybe, then safety pins (why my mind thought of them in that order, I don’t know, as the latter should be the more immediate thought, I would think), then … I got nothing.
Remember, kids: Don’t point that thing at anyone without the safety on!
Back in the dark ages (50’s and 60’s), safeties was a common term for condoms here in my part of Maine. Safeties, rubbers or trojans were the common terms in use. Very rarely did anyone use the propah name.
Back in my days as a volunteer firefighter, we all had one in our pockets. It was called a “spring loaded prick punch” and used to break out safety glass windows in auto wrecks when doors were locked. Glass crumbles and there’s no risk of someone being hurt.
Ask the butcher. It’s the fat stores on the pig that are rendered for lard
Suet is typically beef or lamb/mutton. I’m not sure I’ve ever heard it used in reference to pork.
I did ask the butcher. He wouldn’t sell me any. It seems they considered it a health risk (and not just to your arteries). Midwestern Meats, Mesa, AZ. If anyone would know about the best fats, it expat Wisconsinites. 
Oops. I thought it was porcine because lard is.
So the pork equivalent to suet is “leaf lard”, and the beef/mutton equivalent to lard is tallow.
Huh, when Bob and I made Christmas pudding, the butcher gave it to us for free
(then Bob chickened out and used lard instead)
Rendered pork fat is usually called lard. Suet is from the cow.
Nope. Walgreens still carries alcohol and tobacco. Got a lot of grief from CVS “Hey! We’re trying to be healthy here!”; Walgreens reply was “Their choice, but we’re going to push the nicotine patches and gum on them at the same time.” CVS dropped their tobacco after a number of fines from states for selling to underage; I guess Walgreens is just better at carding, so that the profit still outweighs the fees.
Whether Walgreens or C(onjugal)V(isits with)S(atan) carry tobacco or alcohol probably depends more on state or local laws than corporate policy.
No, CVS stopped tobacco products corporate wide in 2014, affecting all of its then 7500 stores nationwide.
Target’s pharmacies were bought out by CVS a few years ago. Because Target stopped selling tobacco products many years ago, this may have also had something to do with it.
How do I know Target used to sell tobacco? I worked there in the early 1980s, and for most of that time, we sold cigarettes only by the carton. I’ll never forget the guy who asked me where the chewing tobacco was, and while I thought, “Oh, puke”, I told him that we didn’t sell it (which was true) and he pointed to the cigarettes and said, “You sell those filthy things, but you don’t have chewing tobacco?”
Yeah, some do; some don’t. My local Walgreens stopped carried tobacco 6-12 months ago. I feel like others within Chicago do have cigarettes, but I’m not positive. I know I’ve seen them somewhere in the area, but it may have been a suburb. Similarly, whether they stock alcohol or not varies by, I assume, zoning laws or licensing. There’s definitely plenty of Walgreens around here that don’t have it. I know my local Walgreens didn’t start carrying beer, wine, and hard alcohol until about 10 or 15 years ago. Before then, they only carried cigarettes, of the two.
In the states I’ve lived in substantially all Walgreens locations have liquor, but in a separate store with a separate front door vs. the main store. Which I find really weird. Sell it or don’t.
State law probably is behind such things. Maybe stores that sell “x” can’t also sell alcohol. But it’s State Law, so Walgreen’s worked around it.
Was one of them Pennsylvania? They’re seriously anal here. You can only buy liquor in stores run by the state (AKA, “state stores”). Except beer – then it’s beer outlets/distributors and a lot of those are family owned. At least, most of the ones I go to.
In some ways it’s a pain in the ass, although it does keep the prices down, from what I’ve been told. I don’t know if that’s true or not.
This was MO & FL. Not blue-nosed at all.
Ah. Never mind then.