If Grandma Had Wheels (Rebroadcast) - 18 May 2026
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🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:27.4 | and how we use it. I'm Grant Barrett. And I'm Martha Barnett. On our Facebook group, David |
| 0:33.3 | Neil writes that he has a friend in his 80s from North Dakota who loves coffee. But the thing is |
| 0:39.5 | that this friend keeps reusing the coffee grounds all day long, which means that by sunset, |
| 0:45.7 | the guy is pretty much drinking colored water. And his friend likes that brew just fine. He |
| 0:51.2 | proudly calls it Wabash Coffee. And Grant, I don't know, I have strong |
| 0:56.2 | feelings about this. Wabash coffee just sounds, to me, hideous. It's thrifty. It is indeed |
| 1:03.3 | thrifty. And we've talked about this term Wabash before, meaning to add just a little bit of water |
| 1:09.6 | to something, to get a little more out of it, |
| 1:11.7 | to stretch it a little more. Right. We talked about adding water to ketchup, to wabashing it, |
| 1:17.5 | right, to stretch your ketchup bottle a little bit further, like get the stuff that's stuck to the |
| 1:21.4 | side. Yeah, yeah, or watering down your shampoo. And it may go back to an old slang use of the word Wabash meaning to cheat. |
| 1:30.1 | So that might be the connection there. But in any case, this got me to thinking about weak coffee and all the terms there are out there for that terrible stuff. |
| 1:39.2 | Yeah, I posted a bunch of these to the Facebook group. and Martha, not just in English, but every |
| 1:46.1 | language cares a great deal about how good their coffee is. As a matter of fact, the |
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