The Daily Feather – Redneck Chinet
Being “womenfolk” on holidays can make the fairer sex understandably unstable. Full bellies and the call of the Cowboys kickoff beckon the menfolk to their couch’s comfort, abandoning us at the crime scene otherwise known as “the kitchen.” Upon returning from New York Monday night, I learned that my dishwasher had gone kaput. A quick perusal of the closest big box appliance vendor revealed the replacement could arrive by Monday, three days from now. Though I’ve no idea what they’re talking about, my children call it “psycho-mom.” With a nervous tick that would make Clark Griswold chain-sawing off the newel post jumpy, I declared we were going full redneck and that we would like it! The executive decision to use (tasteful) paper plates for Thanksgiving made, I found myself wondering: “When were those handy things invented?” As things turn out, it looks like us Yanks have finally got one up on the Ancient Greeks. In 1904, New Hampshire’s Martin Keyes developed a pie plate out of molded pulp. The devastating fires following San Francisco’s 1906 Earthquake provoked demand for a full carload. That solidified the success of the company that today produces the Chinet brand.
For those on the Street’s relegated to manning trading floors for today’s abbreviated session, paper plates are apt to be filled with yesterday’s leftovers of Turkey and Southern dressing or north of the Mason-Dixon, stuffing. As for dismal scientist rookies, they’ll be wishing for leftovers given the slim pickins’ on the economic docket. The fill-in TV anchors you never see in prime time on Bubblevision are limited to breathlessly reporting S&P Global’s flash November Purchasing Managers’ Indexes for Manufacturing and Services. The consensus went way out on a limb for the factory sector, projecting the slightest contraction, to 49.9 from October’s 50.0. Services, the economy’s biggest driver, are expected to keep expanding, dipping to 50.3 from last month’s 50.6.
Wednesday was the opposite, with two days’ worth of data packed into one including a report we at QI consider a go-to precisely because it’s not closely followed.