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Skriven 2013-06-19 19:26:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:261/1381)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: mores 721
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 06-18-13  08:50 <=-

 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. 
 ML> Sounds like a solution to that might to invert the bread
 ML> now and again. How long an interval is not soon enough.

Possibly... part of the problem is forgetting it's there.  And I'm not
really sure how long the intervals are... it's pretty easy to lose
track.  Probably on the order of at least months...?

 ML> My brother, source of much of the comedy I offer here, has
 ML> some Trader Joe's onion soup in the freezer that he must
 ML> have purchased shortly after my father died. Unlike me, he
 ML> eats mostly the same food mostly all the time, and when he
 ML> discovered that he liked onion soup, maybe thirty years ago,
 ML> he began ordering whenever he was taken out to a restaurant,
 ML> even an inappropriate setting, like maybe a Thai place (he
 ML> has since learned somewhat). 

Not quite what he expected, eh...?

 ML> But he was fond enough of it to buy some as soon as he was able
 ML> but loony enough to have had left it in the door of the freezer
 ML> (easily visible) for several years.
 
One does have to remember it's there, when one is thinking about what to
fix for eating...  ;)  Of course, easily visible should jog the memory,
if one opens the door to check out the supply...  ;)

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

Could be.
 
 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... 
 ML> Or at least corporate hasn't.

True.

 ML> going away dinner and found that the calamari were laid out
 ML> in nice rows in the display, as before, but they were $9.99
 ML> a pound (twice what they had been in March), plus there were
 ML> no tentacles - I asked the kid behind the counter to check
 ML> if there were any out back, and there weren't. I ended up

Seasonal fluctuations, probably...  I just saw some freshly made up
(which at least our store seems to do before the end date, and for
Friday customers that want already cooked) that had both rings and
tentacles... haven't been paying that much attention to the price,
though..  Maybe someone had beat you to the tentacles... ;0

 ML> getting Belize farmed shrimp (small tigers but sustainably
 ML> grown) for $10.99, passing on the only scallops available,
 ML> giants at $20.99.

Wegmans shrimp is worth the cost... it does taste particularly good...
;)  But I do wish sometimes I could just buy the scallops irregardless
of cost... the taste testings I've had of them are always very good, but
I have a hard time buying them at $20+ a pound...  sigh...

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

Oh.  I didn't mind the old audience participation... dunno about that,
though... 
 
 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...?  ;)

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

I shan't force it on you, never fear...  :)  It might be a curiosity
to check out, though... 

ttyl        neb

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