Text 10279, 65 rader
Skriven 2014-02-25 21:50:29 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
  Kommentar till text 10208 av Dave Drum (1:18/200.0)
Ärende: Re: Greek
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-=> Quoting Dave Drum to Nancy Backus on 23 Feb 14  07:02:02 <=-

 RH>> Today we had rain that turned to ice on some untreated pavement.
 NB>> We've been getting that rain, too... and now the temps are dropping,
 NB>> and the soggy snow becomes ice... ;(  I'd been kinda hoping that
 NB>> given the warmer temps and the rain, and the higher winds again,
 NB>> that we'd be getting a close to clean slate for the next layer of
 NB>> snow, but it doesn't look like that's happening...  oh, well...

 DD> The rough thing about the temperatures whip-sawing about is that the 
 DD> snow melt runs onto the pavement during the day. Then the sun goes
 DD> down and the heat goes down and all that snow melt water turns to a
 DD> sheet of ice that is slicker than snot on a doorknob.

There is that, too..  With any luck, that melt will run off or evaporate
before nightfall, but sometimes luck is short... ;0   Our driveway
turned to a sheet of ice, but then it's stone tracks with grass median,
so not exactly plowable/shovelable to clear... the sidewalks have stayed
pretty dry, thankfully... 
 
 NB> RHn>> It happens here, but traditionally a lot of our local pizza
 NB> RHn>> places  are Greek-owned.  They know from olives.
 NB> RHf>> I've no idea what the pizza makers are around here except not
 NB> RHf>> what we like (haven't tried any of the small mom & pop type).
 NB> RHf>> Chain places are all the same, not as good as my home made.
 NB> RHn> Chain places tend to be fairly nasty.  
 NB>> Quite.  I think most of our local pizza places are Italian-owned...

 DD> Depends on the chain. Papa John's is OK. Dominoes sucks rocks. Papa 
 DD> Murphy's Take & Bake is pretty good. Pizza Hut bites bitter carrots.

I think we are all pretty much in agreement there... No experience with
Papa Murphy's, though...  :)

 DD> And so it goes. One of our better Italian places and pizza joints is
 DD> neither Italian nor Greek - rather it's owned by an Anglo-Irish couple
 DD> and the name (Sheppard) is Italianised to "Sheppardo's Ristorante".
 
Ya just never know who might actually be owning/operating some ethnic
joints...  :)  Depends on the area, too.. :)

 NB>> Greeks around here own all the diners, pretty much...  Most any
 NB>> diner-type restaurant here, one can get at least the basic Greek
 NB>> foods... ;)

 DD> The only Greek/Macedonian/Albanian bunch in this area have the truck 
 DD> stop restaurant - and there is always spanakopita on the specials
 DD> board. And from time to time the owner makes moussaka - which I am
 DD> always down for. But, other than 'Greek-style' pork chops that's about
 DD> it. Seems that the Great American Outback is a swamp of "that's not
 DD> what my mommy made" palates.  FEH!!!

Or at least not enough of those that would be more adventurous seem to
be out buying the restaurant food...  :)  I recently had a rather decent
gyro at one of our local diners... wasn't too enthusiastic about most of
the choices, so took a chance of that... It was a group of us that went,
and others' predilections were being catered to this time... :)  I did
notice moussaka and spanakopita on the dinner menu, but we were trying
to keep the cost down somewhat.... 

ttyl         neb

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