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Skriven 2013-06-18 08:46:00 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
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 ML> inadequate, so what I got was leftovers the top part of which
 ML> was still dry and hard while the bottom was gooey and wet.
 NB> I've gotten that result at times from freezing a loaf of bread, and
 NB> not using it soon enough... the moisture seemed to migrate to the
 NB> bottom. 

Sounds like a solution to that might to invert the bread
now and again. How long an interval is not soon enough.
My brother, source of much of the comedy I offer here, has
some Trader Joe's onion soup in the freezer that he must
have purchased shortly after my father died. Unlike me, he
eats mostly the same food mostly all the time, and when he
discovered that he liked onion soup, maybe thirty years ago,
he began ordering whenever he was taken out to a restaurant,
even an inappropriate setting, like maybe a Thai place (he
has since learned somewhat). But he was fond enough of it to
buy some as soon as he was able but loony enough to have had
left it in the door of the freezer (easily visible) for
several years.

 ML>> Or how lenient the laws and how vigilant the inspectors.
 NB>> That I'd tend to agree with... especially the latter... if there's not
 NB>> much risk of being caught out, it'd be easier to skirt the law...

Of course there may be the issue of they just don't sweat
the petty things.

 
 ML> In Europe I have frequently seen used bread in the basket
 ML> but never any tampering. Saner diners or just a higher
 ML> respect for the common good I don't know.
 NB> Possibly...  Different cultural mores, anyway....  I might have
 NB> thought it less childish behavior being more evident there, except for
 NB> the behavior of certain European members in the Snooze... which gives
 NB> me pause... 

The USA does not have a monopoly on idiotic behavior.

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 ML> There's not a viable elsewhere. A small TJ's a couple miles
 ML> up the road, but it's also equally hip-product challenged.
 NB> Odd that.  Apparently the retail segment hasn't noticed what the
 NB> population shifts have been... 

Or at least corporate hasn't.

I went to Wegman's yesterday, stocking up for my two-week
stint housesitting for one of my conductors (not the famous
Bill at whose house the house- and catsitting ended up
disastrously owing largely to the crazy lady downstairs).
Anyhow, I found nondairy yogurt, so I got some to try.
Report later. Also I wanted to make seafood laksa for a
going away dinner and found that the calamari were laid out
in nice rows in the display, as before, but they were $9.99
a pound (twice what they had been in March), plus there were
no tentacles - I asked the kid behind the counter to check
if there were any out back, and there weren't. I ended up
getting Belize farmed shrimp (small tigers but sustainably
grown) for $10.99, passing on the only scallops available,
giants at $20.99.

 ML> all since 1984 - it's now a Montessori school. The Picture Show
 ML> showings moved to the Harvard Square Theater, where after 1500
 ML> events the run went kaput on July 7, 2012. Now, I discover from
 NB> The way of all flesh, etc...  ;)

As far as my little brain goes, it's before 1984.

 NB> It's always, in my experience (ie not from the very beginning of its
 NB> existence), been some sort of an audience participation show.

According to the Internet, it has been recut to allow for
more audience participation, as in not just laughing,
throwing things, and howling along with the dialogue, but
real hiatuses for improv led by professional actors.

 NB> I haven't really been paying attention lately... it probably is still
 NB> being shown somewhere locally, but I don't know where, or how it may
 NB> have further evolved...  ;0   Maybe we could research that when you
 NB> are here...?  ;)

Rochester, like Cambridge, doesn't have that rowdy a
reputation (though as in all college towns, wildness
exists if you look for it). I can take that level of
excitement, I think, even with this 60-plus-year-old
ticker. Remember, though, that I have not in the past
seen fit to try the show out despite many opportunities.

Sherpa MOMO Achar
categories: Nepalese, sauce
yield: 1/3 c

2 Tb light soy sauce
1 Tb lemon juice
1 Tb mustard oil
1 ts fresh ginger, finely chopped
1 ts fresh garlic, finely chopped
1 Tb honey
1 ts ground timur (Szechwan pepper)

(Spicy Soy-Based Dipping Sauce for MOMOs)

In a small mixing bowl, combine all the ingredients.
Serve with steamed momos.

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