Text 5518, 52 rader
Skriven 2008-04-16 18:54:31 av Carol Shenkenberger (11547.cooks)
   Kommentar till text 5419 av JIM WELLER (1:123/140)
Ärende: La Choy
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 >  CS> Now, to make your eyeballs bleed <g>.
 >  CS> Title: Xxcarol's LaChoy fixer
 > 
 >  CS> Chow Mein cans!  Of all things to find in my kitchen!
 >  CS> Seriously, it's not at all bad with the additions.
 > 
 > Like Dave's Banquet chicken pot pies, It's a nostalgia/comfort food
 > dish from the past. It's not that bad except the bean sprouts get
 > horribly overcooked in the canning process. I used to like it as a
 > kid before I knew what real Chinese food was or even what Cantonese-
 > Canadian greasy spoon food was. I almost bought a can recently, just
 > for the nostalgia factor.

Hey, go for it.  I found another in my cabinet.  Can't blame moving out
Sasebo folks either!  Don got one to have it handy.  

Though we have a reasonably decent chinese place (mostly take out) about a
mile from home, the weather isnt always conducive to walking down there.

 > I grew up in the country and everyone was fifth generation Scottish
 > I never tasted Chinese food of any kind until we moved to Ottawa
 > when I was 12 in 1962. Dad's office Christmas party had take out
 > Chinese food and he liked it. A month later the family went to the
 > restaurant that had catered the party. The menu was egg rolls,
 > wanton soup, six kinds of chop suey, six kinds of chow mein and six
 > other vaguely Cantonese style dishes, three of which were deep fried
 > and had sweet and sour sauce. It was completely new to me; I loved
 > it.

;-)  My first trial of several cuisines have been like that.  I want too
impressed with Korean until I went to Korea and had it there.

 > (It's still there and the menu hasn't changed much over the decades.
 > Lots of bland overcooked dishes and brown sauce. The clientele has
 > dropped off though; it was almost empty the last time I went five
 > years ago and the waiters (probably co-owners) were truly
 > ancient and still hadn't learned English very well. It was like
 > stepping into a time warp!)

Yeah, I know the place <g>.

 > Anyway, Mom started buying La Choy chow mein shortly thereafter and
 > we had it often for a couple of years. Eventually we started
 > ordering takeout from newer, better Chinese places and left the
 > Lucky Key Restaurant and Tavern and La Choy behind.

We can make better ourselves, it's true.  But...(digging toe in carpet) kinda
like it now and again.  Just as is even!
               xxcarol
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