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Skriven 2014-11-01 13:56:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av DAVE DRUM
Ärende: Re: Chinese food
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-=> Quoting Dave Drum to Nancy Backus on 10-30-14  05:50 <=-

 DD>> There is a lot of commonality of naming without direct affiliation I
 DD>> suspect.
 NB>> Again, could be...  Certainly the pictures that appear on the wall over
 NB>> the counter illustrating the available dishes seem to all be from the
 NB>> same supplier...  :)  Even for the few places where one might think

 DD> Especially that huge one with the arched footbridge over the
 DD> stream/pond that seem to be a centre piece in many of the joints.

The fancier sit-down joints, anyway...  :)  I was more thinking about
the food pictures up above the counter area, so that the uninformed
would know what they might be ordering, or to get the gastric juices
going...  ;)
 
 NB>> But the fortune cookies seem to come from just a few suppliers,
 NB>> whether at these little places or at the Asian stores... ;)

 DD> If seen three (or possibly four) varieties of fortune cookies (denoted
 DD> by the little slips with the "fortunes" on them). I seldom read the
 DD> fortunes and pay no attention to the "lucky numbers" if offered on that
 DD> particular piece of wasted paper.

The "lucky numbers" are a joke... sometimes we compare notes, especially
in a larger group, just for the fun of seeing if there are any numbers
in common between them at all...  But mostly, we read the "fortunes" to
see if there is any sense or humor to them...  Sometimes it's just
common wisdom, sometimes the wording is interesting... or interestingly
garbled...  (G)  Richard has, over the years, done paraphrases of
them...  One we got many years ago, back when we were in the habit of
bringing a bunch of college students and other needy souls with us to
lunch at Yang's, he paraphrased as "You are a born sucker, and will be
fleeced regularly".  IIRC, the actual was "You are altruistic, and give
freely."  ;)

 DD>>> Could be. There is another, similar place in another strip mall called
 DD>>> "Hunan Express" which adverted a "lunchtime buffet". So, I wandered in
 DD>>> one day - the place was dingy, the "buffet" was stocked with rice, a
 DD>>> couple nearly empty pans of something in a brown sauce, and little
 DD>>> else. I didn't linger.   Bv)=
 NB>>> Now that might be a chain of sorts...  I've seen a couple of places
 NB>>> named that, in shopping malls and airports...  with similarly
 NB>>> unappetizing offerings...
 DD>> Surely not. Must just be a negative serendipity.
 NB>> Maybe...  If one had scads of time on ones hands, it could be an
 NB>> interesting project, to see if there were any connection other than
 NB>> chance and suppliers...  :)

 DD> I really don't care that much ... so long as the food is tasty and
 DD> inexpensive it's all good with me.

I'm with you on that.. ;)  

ttyl         neb

... OK I'm weird!  But I'm saving up to be eccentric...

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