I got an extra 25 cents for every quart of oil I sold.
If early one morning, bleary-eyed and unshaven, I am walking to the deli for a quart of milk, I might not want that image hung in an art gallery.
And later, "my two awful big sons got into the 20 quarts of hummus i have and now their heading toward The City".
In general, they range from two to three dollars a quart and, since I'd estimate that you can make a quart of the Easy and Fast Vegetable Stock here for about 30 cents -- perhaps twice that, if you use organic vegetables -- you might as well give it a shot.
(One rhyme appears to be missing, at least in our dreams: "On a quart of milk, I saw a picture of crunk, and where would 'Ye be without Daft Punk?") If you didn't follow hip-hop in 2007, a few names will be unfamiliar, but at least you know what to Google.
To make a quart of it, I soaked about 15 square inches of dried kombu seaweed in a little more than four cups of cold water, then slowly brought this to just under the boil.
Although some Catalan writers chose to ignore the prevailing realities and cultivated a literature of artistic escape, the most influential poets of the mid-20th century, Salvador Espriu and Pere Quart (pseudonym of Joan Oliver i Sallarès), began writing poetry that dealt with social issues.
He demands sympathy for insect bites and paper cuts, while I have to lose at least a quart of blood before I get so much as a pat on the hand.
After a little gasping and coughing, I was able to spit out the quart or so of seawater I had swallowed and make my way back to shore.
"And they said, 'Oh, not much -- a couple of quarts.' "And I said, 'Show me where you put it.' Know where they had put it?
