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Skriven 2014-02-18 23:08:41 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
   Kommentar till text 9909 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: chili today and hot 204
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-=> Quoting MICHAEL LOO to NANCY BACKUS on 13 Feb 14  20:55:00 <=-

 NB>> It is indeed a former KFC...  ;)  If I remember correctly, that should
 NB>> have been "no longer lunchtime", as I think the laundromat had taken
 NB>> us into the afternoon...
 ML> Oh ... I just recall that the parking lot, though fullish,
 ML> was not full, and we had no trouble getting a table.

There usually is no trouble getting a table there, although sometimes
they can be almost all in use... much of the steady traffic there is
takeout... 
 
 NB>> It was a medium, since it came with the cabbage as well as the side of
 NB>> mashed green plantain (mangu).  The more common side is yellow rice
 NB>> and beans, which is also decent, and always a huge portion...  We were
 NB>> introduced to the mangu as an alternative by our son who had
 NB>> discovered it in his more frequent visits to El Latino..  :)
 ML>> I'm getting vaguely peckish now thinking about that meal,
 ML>> which was country food at its best (though it could have
 ML>> used quite a bit of spicing up).

We went there for Sunday dinner between services this past Sunday...
can always count on getting a nice satisfying meal there for not too
much outlay... ;)

 NB>> I've never tried their hot sauces, either... did you actually
 NB>> check them all out...?  Probably a Jamaican restaurant would have
 NB>> spicier food... we could try one of those next... ;)
 ML> I think I looked and was not impressed.

Possibly... when we were there Sunday, someone else was looking for hot
sauce... his girlfriend rejected all the choices as being not really hot
sauce...  And, btw, I checked with a friend of mine that would know
Jamaican, she says that she doesn't know of any sit-down Jamaican
places, only takeout...  :)

 ML>> households. Not at her place, though, as I recall.
 NB>> Not sure if you are referring to Jim's friend or to El Latino, but at
 NB>> the latter, there is a selection of hot sauces back on the counter,
 NB>> though they don't put individual bottles of those on the tables.  So
 NB>> far, I haven't experimented with them, though I've seen other
 NB>> customers make use of them.
 ML> El Latino, but now as you remind me there might have been
 ML> El Yucateco green available, a fairly hot but also somewhat
 ML> objectionable sauce that has a lot of that rotten peach
 ML> taste that those peppers get, plus food starch and
 ML> artificial color aplenty. Or maybe that was at the place
 ML> where Burt and Shirley took us?

No, I'm pretty sure that that was at the place that Burt and Shirley
took us... I remember that on the table there...  There's a Tex-Mex
place that a friend took me once, I think they might have had that on
their tables, too...  :)

 ML> Lobster salad in smoked salmon
 ML> Categories: starter, unnecessary, in fact what a waste

Quite.

ttyl           neb

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