Text 14104, 91 rader
Skriven 2011-07-30 23:39:00 av JIM WELLER (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: laughs 635
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 JW> Bottled waters make me laugh.

 ML> In general I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

 ML> One factor is advertising. Another is the shameful
 ML> decline in the maintenance of public water supplies,
 ML> which are being stretched to the breaking point by
 ML> population increases.

We're not having that problem here (yet).

 ML> Washington Deecee. Capital
 ML> of the free world. Sometimes unpotable public water
 ML> supply. It's not the only. LA's bad. Much of the south,
 ML> too. The most unbelievable is the water I tasted in
 ML> Bentonville/Rogers, Arkansas, where in the spring and
 ML> fall there's a phenomenon called the turn, whose
 ML> practical manifestation is the incredibly muddy, dead
 ML> leavesy, turnipy water that emerges from all taps.

We get that briefly in Edmonton every spring, during runoff season.

And I have been on the occasional farm where water is salty or
sulphury.

 ML> And even then I expect to find people
 JW> refilling large multi-gallon jugs at a modest price and not buying
 JW> something throwaway the size and price of a soda pop.

 ML> I'd like to see more of that, but it's a rare phenomenon
 ML> and becoming rarer.

Common here, especially in those areas that do have poor water.
Stores will have tanks holding several hundreds of gallons of
filtered water, trucked in, in bulk and people bring in refillable 5
gallon carboys.

 ML> Title: Turnips au Gratin
 ML> 18 oz Turnips
 ML> 2 oz Canadian Bacon

Ack! What a thing to do to bacon!

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      Title: Mel Sorg on the Lutefisk Question
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  RIChard SWENSON wrote:
  
  > Lutefisk is made from White fish caught in the North Atlantic
  > Ocean and it is placed in barrels head first in a lye solution so
  > the lye can eat all the bones out and generally in the wintertime
  > they take the fish out of the barrels and cut it up and soak it
  > overnight so as to get rid of the lye and then they put it in
  > boiling water and it swells up to three times the size, Most
  > Norwegians eat it with melted butter and also have lefse with it,
  > smells terrible but tastes good, reminds me of the Mexicans and
  > their menudo.

  Well, pretty close.  It's made from cod fish, that is preserved
  with lye and dried to the consistency of those pigs ears that you
  see in the pet food stores. It then has to be soaked in water to
  reconstitute it, upon which it starts to look like a cloudy
  pineapple jello salad, but doesn't taste anything like it.  When
  you go to cook it, its best to remove and dogs from the house,
  since at the smell they are know to start howling uncontrollably.
  If you close your eyes and coat it with enough butter and lemon,
  and have a good imagination, you can pretend that you're eating
  soggy lobster ;-)
  
  madpoet
 
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Cheers

YK Jim


... Tofu cheese tastes like dairy farm pond water.

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