Text 18290, 61 rader
Skriven 2007-07-29 12:31:06 av Carol Shenkenberger (3:800/201)
  Kommentar till text 18283 av Barbara McNay (1:382/48)
Ärende: Re: DRUNK CHICKEN  70721
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*** Quoting Barbara McNay from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***

 > products once normal to me that I've forgotten even
 > existed.

BM> Your freshened views of the U.S. promise to provide interesting readin

Hopefully!  Expect a little 'oh man, this is bad' as well.  We fully expect to
not be happy with the fish and other seafood variety or prices.  Beef and pork
though will be a happy thing on prices and fruit will be too.

Tomatoes that taste like something will be a plus.  It's a good thing we arent
major tomato fans because thats one thing the Japanese versions are worse than
USA supermarket versions at.  Even the Tonoo Market ones are palid tasting
with almost no flavor.

It will be good to not have to ask Elise to go to Fukuoka to get other than
wheat or white flour.  Thats a 2 hour drive or slightly less by train from
here. (Probably can find it in Saga or Tosu but neither of us know the markets
there and thats still 1 hour by train).  While the commisary sometimes now has
it in stock, the really *good* flours are up in Fuk.  (Pronounced 'Foook').


BM> The variety of available products has really burgeoned.

Which is great for us travellers!

 > Oh not likely I will be bickering the price of a bag
 > of spice whilst being batted by a hanging meat bit
 > that looks an awful lot like a dog leg (and probably
 > is from the looks of the toes and nails).  Here I am,
 > yelling at the lady (proper shopper tactic) in my
 > english while insisting she take my won for the bag
 > but add more spice (giggles).  Here she is,
 > screatching back 'enough, enough' with this swinging
 > dog-leg battering at us (and us dodging most well)
 > while my friends stand back all agaga snapping
 > photos...

BM> Sounds like raucous fun.

Grin, it was!  We both enjoyed it immensely.  I won at the end when I started
smacking my lips and eyeing the dog leg which collapsed her into giggles. 'You
no round-eye have kitchen here!  No look my (inintelligible, presume dog
leg)'. (see, she did have some english, just was hiding it while making the
sale).

Such little odd memories will spring up ever-on in my life.  It's been a good
tour out here.

 > Still, the fun might be there in our eyes once they
 > know this round-eye a bit better ;-)

BM> Sounds good!

That it has been! The future is untold yet but I am sure we will have fun
wherever we go.
                                       xxcarol

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