Thirteen Ways to Eat Sailor Boy Pilot Bread

Today's Thursday Thirteen will honor Sailor Boy Pilot Bread crackers! These crunchy rounds of true Alaskana attract at least 5 hits a day from google to my blog Who are you people???? Are you Alaskans far from home craving our favorite snack? Are you survivalists looking for a food guaranteed to survive any disaster? Come on, speak up, I know your there.

13. Sailor Boy and Goober PBJ. Never mind Powerbars. It is the perfect Alaskan bush sustenance and a boating necessity. It's fast, it's easy, it doesn't take up much room.

12. Sailor Boy and akutaq (eskimo ice cream) Akutaq is a mix of caribou fat, seal oil, sugar and Berries. It is high powered Eskimo fuel guaranteed to keep you going sitting out on the ice jigging for sheefish.

11. Sailor Boy Pizza. I wrote about that a while back. It's fast and easy and keeps kids happy.

10. Sailor Boy and cheese. That's what my boy is eating in the picture above. Another kid favorite. It's a fast snack they can get themselves. As you can see my son has a particular way he eats it. He must nibble the cheese around the edges until it fits the round cracker and then eats the rest of it.

9. Sailor Boy and tuna salad.....I guess you also include in this ham salad, egg salad, potato salad, macaroni salad....basically anything that has mayonnaise in it.....which brings me to ....

8. Sailor Boy and Mayo. This is a Kotzebue staple. I know people who cannot possibly eat their supper without this.

7. Toasted Sailor Boy and butter. Take your crackers, throw them in the toaster, butter them up and then try and eat it without the butter dripping through the holes all over your shirt.

6. Sailor boy and SPAM....which of course includes mayonnaise. This is another essential because, as we know, SPAM is one of the food groups.

5. Sailor Boy with crisco and sugar. I'm not kidding. My son's Ahna (grandmother) used to love this when she was a kid she said it's delicious. I'll take her word for it. She usually tells that story as an accompaniment to the story of walking 15 miles to town to buy sugar.

4. Sailor Boy crackers crumbled up in your caribou soup....or moose soup, or rabbit soup, or musk ox soup or fish soup, or duck soup, or goose soup or moose nose soup..........

3. Sailor Boy crackers and fermented salmon eggs........Absolutely vile, but I know plenty of people who love it.

2. These are the best teething biscuits around.

1. And my personal favorite.....Sailor boy and smoked oysters. Another perfect combination to take when hunting. One can of oysters and 5 pilot crackers is a meal. There has been more than one time that I have eaten this while shivering under a blue tarp in a boat, in the middle of nowhere, hunting caribou on a cold, raining, fall day. Aaaahhh....memories.


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Thirteen Reasons Why My State is Better Than Yours

13. 24 hours of daylight from mid April to mid August. I wake up out at camp and don't know if it's 2am or 2pm...who cares!

12. No snakes! Not one. No fleas either...at least not in the arctic. My dog is happy about that.

11. The Noatak River.

10. Muktuk!

9. We have the best ice fishing ever. Where else can you go ice fishing and catch a three and a half foot long, 25 pound fish at 10pm in broad daylight??

8. The Northern Lights! We have plenty of dark in the winter to watch them.

7. No light polution. At night the stars are so bright. I never new there were than many stars in the sky til I moved to Alaska.

6. Caribiou hunting season is 12 months long...at least it is in the Northwest Arctic.

5. The Iditarod.

4. No state income tax.

3. This year the Stat of Alaska paid me $1,654 just to live here....me and everyone else in my household....and every other man, woman or child who has lived in the state at least one year. Next year it will be more (we hope).

2. Miles and miles of remote wilderness.

1. Our Governor is hotter than your Governor.

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Thursday Thirteen- My Favorite 80's Movies

I am a shameless child of the 80's. I love 80's music and I love 80's movies. Here are my 13 favorite....

13. Beetlejuice

12. The Lost Boys......I used to think that Corey Haim was sooooooo cute *gag*

11. Gleaming the Cube.....This movie is kind of lame but Christian Slater was in it and he was yummy.

10. Some Kind of Wonderful

9. Goonies....This is just classic, classic 80's.

8. Labyrinth

7. Sixteen Candles... "OH sexy girrrrrlfriennnd!"

6. Pretty in Pink. Shut up...I don't care what you say. This is a great movie.

5. Say Anything...In Your Eyes is just a bitchin' song. That movie has the all time Feel Good Girly Moment of the 80's where we all sighed and wished a boy would serenade us with Peter Gabriel in a boombox.

4. Better Off Dead...can you tell I like John Cusak. This movie is another classic.

3. Real Genius.......This was a funny movie, and VAL KILMER...need I say more.

2. Ferris Bueller's Day Off....This is an absolute classic. I love this movie, it is one of my guilty pleasures. If I am flipping channels and happen across Ferris I have to watch. I just can't help myself.

1. The Breakfast Club.....I don't know how anyone can argue with that.


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Thursday 13- You Know Your Alaskan If.........

1. You have aluminum foil over your bedroom windows.

2. You can tell how cold it is outside by the frost on the inside walls

3. When you have fly 550 miles in a Boeing 737 just to go to Wal-Mart

4. If you refer to a trip to the “Lower 48” as going “Outside”.

5. If you cannot imagine life without duct tape.

6. If you consider a blue tarp as an essential survival item.

7. If you’ve ever been refused service because a company says it doesn’t “ship outside of the United States”.

8. When you use your frequent flier miles to go school shopping.

9. Driving is better in the winter because the potholes get filled with snow.

10. You know that the term "Break Up" has more to do with the weather than personal relationships.

11. You know that a honey bucket really is a bucket, but it's not really full of honey.

12. If you like spam on your Sailor Boy crackers.

13. you know what Sailor boy crackers are.

(Bonus) 14. The police report is all about dogs, bears, and drunks.

Thursday Thirteen

Thursday Thirteen.....#1

1. I thought I would join this Thursday Thirteen thing as a way to force myself to write more instead of just posting pictures. Anyone who knows me knows that I am not really a blog writer. I have difficulty with long posts.

2. I have absolutely no idea if I am doing this right....I'm supposed to link back to the site and add technorati tags and there are dire warnings on the site that state I will be removed if I fail.

3. I have Attention Deficit Disorder....no really I do. It makes following complex directions a disaster. I avoid "some assembly required" AT.ALL.COSTS! This is the reason the Thursday Thirteen directions become gobbledy gook in my brain.

4. I fear that undertaking this Thursday Thirteen thingie will be too hard for me. I mean I have to think about thirteen things to write once a week. That's haaaaaaaard. I'm only on four right now for crying out loud and I am already getting whiny.

5. I am going to give it a shot though. I am going to try. I figure I will do the thirteen things, go back to the website, read the directions again and try to do the links right. If I get it wrong I am sure some nice person will calmly explain to me what I did wrong without making me cry.

6. Rule #1 for the blogroll states
"You must be a TT Regular. Seems odd, we know, but you should have a few weeks under your belt and intend to stick around."
What exactly does that mean. Do I not link to the blogroll if I am not a member? Do I just do the Thursday Thirteen without linking for a while and then try to link?

7. I suppose that I could skip this Thursday and contact someone who knows what they are doing and have them explain this better to me. I mean, geez, I understand the concept it's just the rules that get me....but I have already written so much it seems like a shame to waste it.

8. Don't all these rules kind of take the fun out of this???

9. I don't know how people think of so many things to blog about. I read other people's blogs and I envy their ability to be able to write about anything.

10. What if I am boring....I mean I have a hard enough time writing as it is.....will forcing me to write result in boring drivel that no one wants to read because....

11. ....frankly, I can understand why people would want to look at my pictures.....

12. but I have a hard time understanding why someone would want to read what I write.

13. Look...I have already made it to number 13 just expressing all of my Thursday Thirteen anxieties. Now I have to go back and read those dang direction and hope I don't get banished for time and all eternity.

(*disclaimer* This is meant to be a bit tongue and cheek...although I am subject to slight social anxiety at times, I am not quite such a basket case.)




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