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Skriven 2012-10-27 21:45:06 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
  Kommentar till text 30587 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
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-=> Quoting MICHAEL LOO to NANCY BACKUS on 24 Oct 12  21:14:00 <=-

 NB>> My first introduction to London Broil was from a diet instructor who
 NB>> was training a few of us to also be diet instructors (for the Conway
 NB>> Diet, ever hear of that...?).  She was touting it as a cut that was a
 NB>> good diet cut, as long as one didn't eat the sauce often served with it
 NB>> in a restaurant... It was many years ago...  

 ML> One thing that the various London broil cuts have is that they
 ML> have little fat, and what there is is easy to trim off. So from
 ML> the traditional point of view, they're all good diet food.

Yup.  That was her reasoning.  As I discovered that that particular diet
managed mostly to shut down my metabolism and therefore make me gain
weight, I've left it to tradition, and gone on from there... (G)
 
 ML>> Just me. Annie turns up her nose at such plebeian things,
 ML>> though she admits to a weird fondness for root beer barrels.
 NB>> One never knows what childhood favorites will stay rooted in the
 NB>> taste buds...  ;)

 ML> Pretty much all my childhood favorites have stuck around.
 ML> Their hierarchy may have changed, but if I liked something
 ML> as a kid, chances are I like it now. I had a Coke today; it
 ML> was watered down and iced, but it still brought me back to
 ML> fifty, fifty-five years ago.

Some of my childhood favorites I'd almost be afraid to try nowadays. ;) 

 ML> There are things for which I
 ML> acquired a taste or at least tolerance in college or early
 ML> adulthood; some of these left my favor, zucchini for example,
 ML> which I grew to like through Greek-style fried with skorthalia.
 ML> I still find that dish okay, but my tolerance for other dishes
 ML> with the green monsters is evaporated.

I don't mind zucchini, at least in small doses... ;)  Mostly, things I
don't have much tolerance for now have more to do with how they don't
like me so much...  (G)

 ML>> The fear of fats is a very modern phenomenon, as is the
 ML>> loathing for fat people. How many skinny Buddhas have you seen? 
 NB>> Used to be a mark of prosperity...  :)

 ML> Still is, actually, in many parts of Asia. I am looking forward
 ML> to being eyed with envy when I walk the streets of Yogyakarta or
 ML> Pokhara early next year.

Hmmm... :)
 
 ML>> In Yokohama, just 15 minutes south of Tokyo, and supposedly
 ML>> the most foreign-influenced city in Japan, virtually nobody
 ML>> outside the Sheraton spoke any English at all.
 NB>> I guess foreign-influenced doesn't always include language...?  ;)

 ML> Apparently not. I'd give the place another shot, though,
 ML> hitting the raumen museum and maybe the Kirin factory.

Those could be interesting.  :)

ttyl        neb

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