Close up of a homemade sandwich created using Thanksgiving LEFTOVERS, with shredded turkey, jellied cranberry sauce, mayo, and white bread, Lafayette California, November 28, 2022. Photo courtesy Sftm. (Photo by Gado/Getty Images)
SURFEIT DEP’T.
November Is a Dried-Out Carcass in the Fridge
WE WERE IN such a tryptophan stupor from our Thanksgiving driving to Thanksgiving feasting and then driving home that we forgot to handle our Getty Images business on Monday.
So, it’s a little late, but there’s still time to share with you, the subscribers and the paid subscribers of Indignity, the remaining bounty of our monthly Getty Images Photo Roundup. Indignity has purchased an annual subscription to Getty, allowing us to choose from Getty’s vast selection of topical and newsworthy photographs, and to make sure all of us get our money’s worth, at the end of each month, Indignity prepares a bonus collection of photos, to keep using up our annual allotment at the appropriate rate.
Because a feast remains a feast whenever you get around to eating it, Indignity presents our November photographic theme: LEFTOVERS.
Save Your Bacon: Two women put their food scraps in a bin, aiding a scheme set up in Cheltenham, where bins were distributed around the town for people to get rid of their LEFTOVERS. This provided 20 tons of pig food weekly. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)Archive director Birgit Huneke holds up a yellow cross, the symbol of the anti-nuclear activists from the 1980s at the Gorleben Archives in Luechow, Germany, 13 February 2017. Anti-nuclear activists erected a small village of huts and proclaimed an own republic in 1980. Even though this did not happen too long ago, the LEFTOVERS are already of interest to archeology. (Photo by Philipp Schulze/picture alliance via Getty Images)Bavaria, Munich: A raven pecks the LEFTOVERS from a plate on a wet beer table at the Chinese Tower in the English Garden in the early hours of the morning. A powerful thunderstorm had driven away the guests the night before. (Photo by Peter Kneffel/picture alliance via Getty Images)MAR 6 1979, MAR 7 1979; Radiation-Detection Flight Readied; Engineer John Cleland readies equipment in a helicopter for the craft to fly over Denver in search of radio-active contamination from a once-flourishing radium industry. The flight by the U.S. Department of Energy began Wednesday morning to determine whether widespread radiation was left behind in the city. About two-thirds of Denver is to be surveyed in the flight by the specially equipped helicopter that will fly grid patterns at an altitude of about 300 feet. The survey will show whether radioactive tailings or LEFTOVERS that remain after radium extraction and other contaminated materials may have been left or used in construction.; (Photo By Duane Howell/The Denver Post via Getty Images)Sheikh Nabil Qawuq, Hezbollah's military chief in south Lebanon, sits in front of the militia's flag in Tyre, 20 November 2006. Qawuq said today the katyusha rockets and explosives seized by the UNIFIL peacekeepers in southern Lebanon are LEFTOVERS from the previous war. UN peacekeepers policing a ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel said over the weekend they had seized the rockets similar to those used by the Shiite militia during the summer war. (Photo by RAMZI HAIDAR/AFP via Getty Images)MCALLEN, TX - JANUARY 15: Passports, ID's and various LEFTOVERS dumped by the border wall on January 15, 2014 in McAllen, Texas. According to the Border Patrol, undocumented immigrant crossings have increased more than 50 percent in Texas' Rio Grande Valley sector in the last year. Border Patrol agents say they have also seen an additional surge in immigrant traffic since immigration reform negotiations began last year in Washington D.C. Proposed reforms could provide a path to citizenship for many of the estimated 11 million undocumented workers living in the United States. (Photograph by Charles Ommanney/Reportage by Getty Images)A dromedary stands next to LEFTOVER Christmas trees decorated with fruits and vegetables in its enclosure at the Tierpark zoo in Berlin on January 3, 2020. (Photo by TOBIAS SCHWARZ/AFP via Getty Images)Snow LEFTOVERS: Areas around Reading are still clogged with snow. A van on Perkiomen Avenue by City Park is still snowed in a week later. Photo by Susan L. Angstadt 1/31/2016 (Photo By Susan L. Angstadt/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images)HOLLYWOOD - DECEMBER 01: Actress Kirstie Alley (L) and actor Tait Ruppert perform in "Christmas LEFTOVERS" during the Church of Scientology's Christmas Stories XIV "An Evening of Holiday Joy" benefiting the Hollywood Police Activities League at the Church of Scientology Celebrity Centre on December 1, 2006 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for COS)
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★★★ The bare branches out back were a lattice against a sky like wallpaper of clouds on blue. A woodpecker flew in for a brief landing, then flew away again. The cold was not too much for bare toes in slides, on the way out with the garbage the children had been running too late to take care of. Here was the old, long-missing distinction between below 40 degrees and above—the coat could be left dangling safely open for a while in the afternoon; the hat could stay tucked away. A dog sniffed the edge of the patch where the lawn above the Pool went bright yellow with ginkgo leaves, a solid mat of them. Individual leaf edges stuck up above the surface, catching the sun in a brighter gold. Sweetgum leaves lay shocking purple-pink on the ground, the dust of their predecessors like spilled blush around them. A trio of green-winged teal cruised between the mallards and the shore. Squirrels hunched where branches met tree trunks, heads outward and tails flipped forward to almost reach their necks, calling back and forth across some 25 yards of open space.
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SANDWICH RECIPES DEP'T.
WE PRESENT INSTRUCTIONS in aid of the assembly of a sandwich selected from Fruit Recipes: A Manual of the Food Values of Fruits and Nine Hundred Different Ways of Using Them, by Riley M. Fletcher Berry, published in 1919 and available at archive.org for the delectation of all.
CHERRY SANDWICHES Mix equal parts of candied or Maraschino cherries, and chestnuts which have been boiled, blanched, and simmered in a little syrup (letting stand in this till cold). Spread long narrow saltines or thin bread and butter with the mixture; placing two together and, if bread is used, cutting diagonally to form triangular sandwiches. A sprinkling of cress will add piquancy to the flavour.
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