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> Flo Thompson / was a very nice Lady.

She was indeed. Roslind and her really hit it off and stayed in
touch with each other for several years after the Montreal Picnic.

> "Montreal Meat" but I can't remember what was special about the
> meat...

Montreal Smoked Meat is similar to pastrami. Schwartz's is one of
a handful of famous Jewish Kosher-style restaurants specializing in
really thick smoked meat on rye sandwiches, the way the Carnegie
Deli in NYC is famous for its pastrami.

MSM is hard salted, not brined, brisket that is hot smoked, then
re-heated by steaming. Proper pastrami is plate (navel beef) that is
brined, and so has some sugar in it, before smoking and steaming.
Both methods are based on Romanian Jewish pastrama.

(Corned beef brisket is cured by salting [with a little saltpeter
added to preserve it and turn it pink] but it is boiled not smoked.)

Of course one can make corned meat, smoked meat or pastrami from all
sorts of meats including goose breasts, turkey thighs (quite lean)
and beef eye of round (very, very lean) but it doesn't taste quite
the same.

> a whole pig. / Later I think the two Daves and Michael tussled
> over who got to eat the eyes.  Afterward I was sorry I didn't try
> to join in.

Bodle got one of the eyes. You didn't miss much; eyeballs are not
all that tasty a food plus there is the squick factor.

> I will long remember sitting on the ground in Flo's back yard with
> JW, and trying to tear the hair off of the caribou something or
> other he brought. Desperate Times!

That was Native Dene (Indian) dry meat, something like jerky but
just air dried and smoked, not brined or spiced. And up here we
don't have decent fruit and nut hardwood for smoking so the Dene
must make do with birch or willow which is quite acrid. We were
peeling the meat off of the silverskin membrane. There was not
supposed to be any hair on it, but it was not very good quality. I
wanted to bring some nice wild game jerky but got stuck picking that
up at the last minute (it was a barter of meat for cash with an
older Native lady in the parking lot behind a bingo hall where she
needed admission money.)

The Polish sausages I brought were much better. They were house
made, from my parent's butcher shop in Cobden Ontario, outside of
Ottawa. They were the wrinkled, skinnier, very garlicky ones
compared to Dave Drum's offering (or Jim Bodle's which were very
similar to Dave's and from the Polish butcher shop in Clocksville
that Jim used to brag about).

jw-> ... My beer had a molecule of water in it that was once dinosaur piss.

> I assume you're quoting Michael.

I'm certainly quoting somebody but the original person is long lost
in the mists of time.

> Toronto in the clean, very safe Subway system.

A lot of movies where the story setting is NYC are actually shot in
Toronto. There's a story going around that a movie producer leased a
subway station from midnight to 6 AM to shoot a crime scene. To make
it look authentic they spray pained graffiti on walls and spilled
garbage cans over the floors. They took a meal break around 3 AM and
when they returned at $ AM to finish the shoot the night janitors had
shown up, cleaned up and even painted over the graffiti!

> When we went to the Canary Islands, as a intelligent Traveler I
> was very careful not to drink the water. As a unthinking Eat I ate
> quite a bit of nice clean, well washed Salad, and was introduced
> to Montezuma's Revenge ...just in time for the flight home.

One even has to consider the source of the water in the ice cubes in
one's cocktails.

The people from the Canary Islands get sick when they visit us;
their immune systems are not used to our endemic bug culture!


YK Jim


... Immature: a word used by boring people to describe fun people.

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