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Skriven 2006-05-01 11:02:00 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HANSCHKA
Ärende: Kosher for 604
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 RH> My neighbors keep Kosher in their home, but in restaurants they eat
 RH> shellfish and everything else.  I guess it goes back to the "kosher"
 RH> Chinese food people used to get as kids - the restaurants were open on
 RH> Sunday night, and was considered Kosher unless known to be
 RH> otherwise....   

That's loony, and I haven't much patience for people who won't
let pork and shellfish into the house but go out and have
bacon-wrapped shrimp at restaurants or (and I've seen this) a
lobster boil in their backyard.

 RH> So course I bought deli ham and discounted Passover goodies in the
 RH> supermarket today.  

As your w.q. is high, you should have gotten discounted
Passover ham at the store.

 -> I hate those starchy slightly-stale-tasting things.
 RH> I'll eat your share then.  I like plantain chips too, but as those are
 RH> deep-fried you might not find them as objectionable.

You've figured me out.

 ->  RH> Ever hear of a modern French composer named Roger Calmel?
 -> Sorry. The modern composers whose names and work I'm familiar
 -> with are usually of the bleep burp fwee school.
 RH> Oh dear.  That bad?  

There's good bleep burp fwee and bad bleep burp fwee.

 ->  RH> be a blast to sing, and not bad to play.
 -> Does that mean easy to play or not boring to play? Usually
 -> for me those conditions are mutually exclusive.
 RH> Not boring.  Decidedly not boring.  Six part harmony vocal un-boring.

Well, as an instrumentalist, I would say that the music
might be boring to play without being boring to sing or
to listen to. Yesterday's concert was at the two poles -
much of it was boring to play, and the rest was next to
impossible to play. Plus several (four, my friend Ellen
asserts) of the pieces we "performed" fell by the wayside
at rehearsal, so we were sight-reading them at the concert.
Very interesting, and one notes that interesting does not
always mean good.

=

 -> when I took the Weirdness Test, I was unable no matter how I tried
 -> to get below 60 percent.
 RH> I just hit 86%.  I tried again and got 89.  I guess I can give up on
 RH> ever being normal.

The thing is that I tried my best, several times, to think like a
normal person, and I always got above 60%. Of course the test
itself is dubious, as the person who compiled it in the first place
had to be mightly weird indeed. By the way, if you choose all the
first choices, your weird quotient is 96 (46% weird), If you choose
all the third choices, it is 137 (98% weird). Choosing all the last
choices yields 158 (100% weird) - altering the response to "think
of a word" to "abc" changes the score to 155 (99%).

Vegetable meat dish (TURLU)
cat: Armenian, main, stew
Serves: 4 to 6 

3 Tb olive oil
1 lg onion, sliced
2 lg cloves garlic, crushed
1 1/2 lbs lamb or beef cubed, fat removed and browned
2 lg green peppers, cubed
1/2 lb green beans (strings removed, cut into thirds)
3 sm zucchini, sliced into circles
1 md eggplant, peeled and cubed
20 oz frozen whole okra (2 pkgs)
35 oz can Italian tomatoes
3 ts cumin
1 Tb salt
1/2 ts pepper freshly ground
1/8 ts red pepper 
1 lemon, juice of

Saute onion in oil in 6-qt saucepan, stirring occasionally
until onion is golden, not burned. Add garlic, cook 1 min more. 
Add remaining ingredients except lemon juice. Simmer 5 min, add
lemon juice, and simmer on top of stove for 1 1/2 hr. Serve the
next day to give the flavors a chance to blend. Turlu is best
served hot over bulghour pilaf.

by Bethal Charkoudian 
From Armeniapedia.org

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