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Skriven 2014-12-16 20:38:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: other kinds nuts 443
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 12-15-14  04:34 <=-

 ML>>> Not being a traditionally dairycentric cuisine, green tea
 ML>>> and red bean ice cream notwithstanding.
 NB>>> Would they have made those with other than milk, too...?
 ML>> No - they're a pretty new phenomenon and influenced by
 ML>> western tastes.
 NB>> Ah, ok.  :)
 ML> For reasons unknown some of the less appropriate of western
 ML> influences have been taken up enthusiastically in Asia,
 ML> especially Japan. For example, ice cream, burgers, mayonnaise.

No accounting for some things... :)  
 
 ML>> It was still there and is now tucked safely into my
 ML>> ticket wallet.
 NB>> Good, that.  ;)
 ML> Though thinking about it, one reflects that the chance of
 ML> my being held up on the street, though small, is marginally
 ML> greater than that of the kid going bananas and burning down
 ML> the house.

Some things are better not even thought of... ;)
  
 ML>> Turns out that Market Basket has gotten rid of the product
 ML>> altogether, now carrying several varieties of Silk (traditional
 ML>> soy and almond; regular and light; vanilla, chocolate, and
 ML>> plain - in various permutations).
 NB>> Perhaps the house brand supplier did slip in quality, then... or
 NB>> Market Basket just decided not to take up shelf space with their
 NB>> own brand... Wegmans has done that with some things that apparently
 NB>> it gets more return from on the brand than it was on their own house
 NB>> brand... Sad, at times, since some of those were actually better in
 NB>> the Wegmans brand.  
 ML> And in the Market Basket situation there's also the possibility
 ML> that White Wave (the parent company of Silk) is throwing its
 ML> now considerable weight around, and it's just not worthwhile
 ML> providing a house brand any more.

Another possibility is that White Wave had been the house brand
supplier, too... Sometimes I do wonder about where some things come
from... Wegmans is transparent about some of them... particularly the
ones that are local suppliers, like Zweigle for their sausages, and
LeDestri for their pasta etc sauces... :)

 ML> Castroville French-fried artichokes
 ML> categories: airline, California, starter
 ML> After US Airways magazine 12/2014 (the last issue ever)
 NB> Does that mean you actually made them...?   And, is the airline gone
 NB> or just the magazine...?

 ML> I've made fried artichokes but not from this recipe.

Ah, ok.

 ML> The airline will be gone at least in name in March, but
 ML> in reality the smaller US Air is gobbling up American the
 ML> same way Continental ate up United; but it was determined
 ML> that the name recognition of the surviving brands was a
 ML> lot better.

That partly explains why I've not been doing well at retaining which is
who nowadays...  ;)

 NB>> Perhaps it's no worse than many others on the road... But one does
 NB>> wonder why the privilege was pulled in the first place, then... 
 ML> You really want to know?

Sometimes I'm too curious for my own good...  (G)

 ML> In his obsessive reading of every state law and regulation
 ML> available on the Internet, my brother discovered a statute
 ML> that might be interpreted as deeming him impaired to drive.
 ML> And he saw fit to call the state to clarify, and of course
 ML> the bureaucratic reasoning was, if the guy is so nuts as
 ML> to bring up the subject, he's prima facie too nuts to drive,
 ML> but even then, the government didn't actually forbid him
 ML> from driving right away - there was some precipitating factor
 ML> that tipped the balance, I'm no longer clear what, and they
 ML> suspended his licence, or so he says, until the shrink said
 ML> that he could drive again.

Perhaps they hadn't actually suspended it then, just his either
interpretation or his telling of the story...  OCD nutso... ;) 
Perhaps not having received the attention he thought he'd get, it was
just easier to go back to driving... 

ttyl          neb

... When dealing with the insane the best method is to pretend to be sane.

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