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Skriven 2008-11-24 17:22:10 av Glen Jamieson
     Kommentar till en text av Michael Loo
Ärende: RECOVERY 244  81124
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 -=> Quoting Michael Loo to Glen Jamieson <=-

 GJ> Incontinence on an aircraft can be quite upsetting to other
 GJ> passengers. Talking of which, I had an entertaining time on the
 GJ> Lufthansa flight from Singapore to Frankfurt.

 ML> I'm sure. Beginning to wonder about the possibility of
 ML> using the airsick bag for that kind of activity.

Years ago, in the days when cameras still used films, one of the
airlines here (TAA, Ansett?) provided airsick bags which were sealable
and printed with the address of a mail order film processor.
Passengers were encouraged to take the bags and use them for that
secondary application.  I would expect that saved the airline the cost
of sick bags, at least.
 
 GJ> Their response was to get the
 GJ> purser.  She was large, built like a wrestler

 ML> An advantage to not having the age and appearance requirements
 ML> that SQ flight attendants need to conform to.

Jawohl!  Es war Lufthansa!  (Brass band faintly in the background
playing, "Deutschland Uber Alles".)
 
 GJ> FAs didn't hesitate to provide me with glasses of a rather nice,
 GJ> Sicilian red wine - "Nuevad Ola" as far as I can decipher my notes.

 ML> You don't look like the disturbance sort. Anyhow, I imagine
 ML> you'd ring politely for an attendant and ask nicely for a
 ML> glass of red plonk and one for ya buddy, and if you became
 ML> fractious at all, the regular matrons would be able to
 ML> wrestle with you without calling in the first team.

I would be as putty in their hands!  (Particular the delicate hands of
the Singapore girls.  Sigh!)
 
 ML> Oxidation isn't just the formation of oxides, you know.
 GJ> It isn't??  I always thought...

 ML> If I talk about oxidation, I seldom mean oxides. Most of the
 ML> world is under this misconception, owing to reliance on the
 ML> error of Lavoisier. The real meaning of oxidation has something
 ML> to do with electron donation or acceptance or something, I
 ML> forget, with O often not having any role in the reaction.
 ML> Did you ring for a chemist, by the way?

Our Jim has risen to the occasion and brought me up to date with what
has been happening in the 20th century.
 
 GJ> I always try to cook a gulyas, curry or stew at least a day before it
 GJ> is to be consumed, particularly with a dense meat like roo.  Chicken
 GJ> doesn't seem to benefit as much from a long sitting.

 ML> I cook chicken mostly in simple preparations - stir-fries
 ML> and the occasional roast.

I mainly cook wings, as they are so cheap ($2.50/kg today), either as
adobo or annointed and grilled.
 
 GJ> I prefer aluminium, which if properly cared for doesn't have much
 GJ> taste.

 ML> Its taste is almost negligible, and it's both light and sturdy, but
 ML> it went out of vogue when some researcher claimed that aluminum had
 ML> been found in the brains of dementia patients. Later it came out that
 ML> the study was flawed by contaminated instruments, but by that time an
 ML> industry was devastated.

I refused to believe that story about aluminium being connected with
dementia, and never stopped cooking in aluminium pans.  After all,
kaolin is an aluminium compound, and people have been using pottery
made from that clay for millenia.
 
 GJ> Title: Oxtails Roman Style
 GJ> 4 lb Oxtails in 2-3 inch lengths
 ML> You'ld need a pretty big saucepan to make this dish.
 GJ> One of my pet hates is butchers who saw ox or roo tails into lengths
 GJ> instead of parting them at the joints, as that makes it very difficult
 GJ> to for me to gnaw off the cartilege.

 ML> Cook your stews longer.

If ox tail is cooked long enough for the joints to spontaneously part,
the bones become chalky, and the cartilege dissolves into the soup.

At the moment I am not feeling too good, as this morning I had my
second (and hopefully final, at least for a while) set of skin cancers
cut out and sewn up.  I now have a fine "Mark of Zorro", Z-shaped scar
down the side of my face, from temple to jaw, covered by a dressing at
present.  I can see I will have to invent a story of a duel to the
death to explain it to the grandchildren...
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