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Skriven 2014-12-13 15:20:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: Dr. Pepper/spoiled 42
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 12-11-14  16:42 <=-

 ML>> True. But depends on one's level of deprivation.
 ML>> After a month without red meat, even a rather
 ML>> mediocre example was super-welcome.
 NB>> Oh, I wasn't saying we wouldn't make do with lesser...
 ML> Had lunch with my friend Bill (yet another Bill) at the
 ML> East River Smokehouse, where I got the ribs sandwich
 ML> and a large beer. The sandwich was the usual thing - the
 ML> meat, with bone, on a plate with a couple slices of
 ML> squishy white bread (listed on the menu with a dismissive
 ML> and insulting name that I forget - toddler bread or
 ML> something like that). 

That does sound dismissive...  were they trying to encourage
substitution (at an additional cost)...?

 ML> The ribs were hugely smoked, to the
 ML> degree that the cartilage had gone all tender and gooey
 ML> and the meat had gone all tough and wiry. But I enjoyed
 ML> them and half of one of the slices of bread because I
 ML> hadn't had bbq in a while or in fact meat of any kind in
 ML> several days; plus I was well and truly hungry. The best
 ML> parts of the lunch special, in this order, were the Coke
 ML> (came with, so I had to have it), big fat onion rings from
 ML> a big fat onion ring factory (nicely done - very crunchy
 ML> but not overbrowned, tender but not too slippery inside),
 ML> and dirty rice from another factory - you can tell it
 ML> wasn't a Copeland's/Popeye's enterprise, because it was
 ML> the second commonest kind (converted rice cooked in very
 ML> salty bouillon and little flavoring). 

Ok, I'll accept your mediocrity assessment.  (G)  Especially if the meat
was worse than the rice... ;)  I can understand enjoying it despite,
though, with long deprivation...  ;)  The onion rings sound just
wonderful, though.  :)

 ML> I was thankful too for the beer, a Goose Island IPA,
 ML> despite my being off both Goose Island and IPAs, the
 ML> former a Chicagoland company trying to colonize the rest
 ML> of the country, the latter as a tad too bitter for my
 ML> current taste. The rest of the draft offerings were Bud,
 ML> Bud Light, Coors Light, Stella, some Hefeweizen, Blue
 ML> Moon, Yuengling (another recent colonist too big for its
 ML> britches), and a couple others of that ilk. I asked for a
 ML> pint of the beer, which turned out to be not too too hoppy,
 ML> and the bartendress asked large or small, so I figured 22
 ML> or 16 and chose large. Turns out the large pint is a quart
 ML> and the small pint, which Bill had, was a pint. 

Sometimes one has to do with what one has...  ;)  Useful that you
enjoyed the beer, having received more than expected...  ;)
 
 NB>> but one is almost always making comparisons.
 ML> When I am dining with Lilli at McDonald's I try not to
 ML> make comparisons, but, oddly, she always does, thanking
 ML> the heavens that she's not at Burger King, which for
 ML> some reason she detests.

I think that Richard rates BK over McD... for some reason he detests the
latter, but he's not keen on either of them...  I'll eat at either, but
it's more a need-to-eat basis...  Below the level of making comparisons.
 
 NB>> That makes very good sense...  A once-in-a-lifetime experience
 NB>> is a memory to be cherished, not really a yardstick to measure
 NB>> others against...  :)
 ML> True. I've been spoiled by having lots of them, though.
 ML> Spoiled enough for several lifetimes, I guess. Maybe in
 ML> my previous one I was a beggar in Calcutta or something.

I don't take being spoiled too seriously... at least not for spoiling
total pleasure in lesser things...  It's more a pleasantry, mostly...
a recognition that it doesn't match the best...  ;)
 
 ML>> of WWII, but the claim is made that the deliberate choice
 ML>> was made to preserve or reconstruct that flavor, because
 ML>> the public wanted it. 
 NB>> Ah.  Interesting claim. 
 ML> Back when I had Internet (won't have it for a day or
 ML> two, when I will upload this packet if I can't find a
 ML> telephone to use) I tried researching this claim but
 ML> found only vague corroboration - but it is plausible
 ML> to me, as I can't imagine deliberately making chocolate
 ML> taste like that. I did have a bit of Lindt milk the
 ML> other day, and it actually tasted kind of good.

Perhaps it's a truth that they prefer not to acknowledge now, given a
change in climate, so to speak...  :)
 
 ML>> I never made any claim that my more peculiar urges
 ML>> are tinged with any rationality at all.
 NB>> Merely recognizing that...  ;)  I have similar peculiar urges...
 ML> My fondness for puddingy (and often dairyful) is not
 ML> shared by many of my friends, so when I make a gallon
 ML> or so of almond float or sticky rice with coconut I
 ML> end up having to eat most of it myself - if I make egg
 ML> custard or tapioca pudding they can force themselves
 ML> to choke it down.

Almond float, I'd help you eat happily... sticky rice with coconut,
perhaps not quite as readily, although if the coconut flavor isn't too
pronounced I'd be ok with it.  :)  A good egg custard or tapioca pudding
is a treat.  :)

 ML>> Dr. Pepper (3)
 NB>> Now that could be an experiment... try that against Dr. Pepper itself,
 NB>> and see how well approximated the taste really is...  ;)
 ML> I had a Dr. Pepper today before the ribs escapade, having
 ML> discovered that the New American Airlines serves it; having
 ML> long ago gotten rid of my beverages of choice, Courvoisier
 ML> and later Glenlivet, they have had to provide at least some
 ML> smaller and cheaper consolations. There is the caffeine
 ML> issue, which has largely kept me away from infantile-based
 ML> deliciousnesses such as Dr. Pepper and cola drinks, but I
 ML> was desperately trying to get alert for finding Bill and his
 ML> black Jetta after waking up prematurely at 2 am for a 5:24
 ML> shuttle van to the airport.

So, a good excuse to give in to childish urges...  ;)  This is Bill
the conductor...? 

ttyl      neb

... Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

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