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Skriven 2008-04-19 07:21:00 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av DAVE DRUM
Ärende: Humour 165
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 ML> They seemed bigger than the ones at Ritz's Little Fryer, but
 ML> maybe everyone there got pony shoes?
 DD> Well, "they" say that the camera adds pounds .... Having had the horse

I thought that applied to people only; to inanimate
objects, too?

 DD> shoes at both places I can give direct evidence. Ritz' shoes are both
 DD> larger and have better cheese sauce. When Lanny Higgins founded Charlie
 DD> Parkers' it was nip and tuck on both the size and the sauce. But, Lanny
 DD> ain't there no mo' and Brenda buys her cheese sauce in a big "Golden
 DD> Age" can. 

Thanks for the warning - I'm not sure I'd be inclined ever to
eat more than a bite or two of hot brown, pony shoe, or any
such similar thing, so it's moot for me at least.

 DD> There were three joints on this episode. I will be sure to try the
 DD> Tecolote Cafe next time I am in Santa Fe.
 DD> It just loooked intriguing on the glass teat. If Whistledick can manage
 DD> to make me interested in a place through despite all his supercillious
 DD> arrogance then it might be worth checking out.
 ML> It wasn't bad, but the general store/bar/diner at Arroyo Seco a
 ML> few miles from Taos was much better and much more interesting.

Looked it up in my archive: it's called Abe's Cantina, and you'd
not regret going there.

 DD> Thanks for the review heads-up.
 
 DD> Thanks for the warning. I know that I abandoned HN hot dogs in favour
 DD> of David Berg some years ago. But, until now I had always thought of
 DD> them as a decent brand.
 ML> You mentioned these before; I haven't encountered David Berg
 ML> products myself, if you don't count Mad magazine cartoons.
 DD> Our Price 60c - CHEAP!

I remember when the mag was 25c cheap. Mrs. Hader down the
street used to let me read hers (my mother would never allow
such trash in her house). Mrs. Hader was very pretty, but I
loved her for her Mad magazines only (I was in the single
digits at the time).

 DD> Actually David Berg is a Chicago company founded in 1860. If you've
 DD> had a dog at Wrigley, or O'Hare it could well have been a David Berg.
 DD> Especially if they whacked you a goodly amount. DB dogs are ALL beef.

Thanks, but I can whack myself.

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.02
 
      Title: Mancha Manteles
 Categories: Mexican
      Yield: 8 servings
 
      1    Small turkey, in serving
           Pieces, or 2 chickens
    1/2 c  Lard
      2    Ancho chiles, chopped
      2    Pasilla chiles, chopped
      2    Serrano chiles, chopped
      4 oz Almonds,blanched,slivered
      1 tb White sesame seeds
      2    Chorizos, peeled/chopped
      1 lg Onion, sliced thin
    1/2 lb Tomatoes, peeled, seeded,
           And chopped
      1 ts Cinnamon powder
      2 c  Turkey or chicken stock
      1 tb Sugar
      5 ts Cider vinegar
      1 ts Salt or to taste
      4 oz Pineapple, chunked
      2    Firm cooking apples,
           Peeled, cored, & sliced
      1 lg Unripe banana, peeled
           And sliced
 
  This looks very much like Mancha manteles, which Richard [Manchurian
  Candidate] Condon describes in The Mexican Stove:
  
    Two little women staggered in from another room carrying a gigantic
    bowl of something which was jetting hot perfume. The sen~ora hoped
    I enjoyed mancha manteles. Reyes explained that this was the second
    Mexican meal of my life, ... but that he knew that I would -love-
    mancha manteles. The sen~ora beamed and instructed me to eat heart-
    ily, remembering that the translation of mancha manteles was: ta-
    blecloth stainer. I was sweating hard as she overdid me the honor
    of preparing my plate, a very wide plate, perhaps a foot in diam-
    eter. The tablecloth stainer contains the following: one turkey,
    four chorizo sausages, sliced pineapples, sliced apples, sliced
    bananas, some pork; ancho, pasilla and serrano chiles; almonds,
    cinnamon, lard, and tomato puree. Reyes scooped away as though
    he had picked up a fake stomach at Macy's. I got through it. ...
    A very peculiar physiological metamorphosis happened to Reyes
    that afternoon. When he entered the chairman's house he was a
    well-set-up, definitely not stout fellow who spoke American with
    a marked California accent. After that dinner he was not only a
    stout man - and I mean a shorter, rounder, fatter man with a
    pronounced paunch - but his speech changed. He would ramble in
    the diction of a jazz musician or break into voluble Spanish.
    Not that the sen~ora's meal taught him to speak Spanish. He had
    always spoken Spanish. But never to Jewish delicatessen waiters,
    for example, or to austere British bootmakers.
  
  Brown turkey in lard. Remove. Pour off fat, leaving 2 T in the pan.
  Fry chiles, almonds, and sesame seeds together until fragrant. Blend
  to a puree in a blender. Fry chorizo meat in the fat that remains in
  the pan. Remove. In the same fat, cook onions until soft. Add blended
  mixture, tomatoes, and cinnamon. Cook a few minutes and then turn out
  the whole mess into a large casserole. Mix in the stock, sugar,
  vinegar, and salt. Taste for seasoning. Add browned turkey pieces,
  chorizo meat, and fruit. Cover and simmer 45 min to 1 hr. After
  Richard Condon's recipe and description.
 
MMMMM

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