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Skriven 2014-12-25 20:35:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: handling things 488
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 12-23-14  02:15 <=-

 NB>>> A little bag of them at Lori's doesn't break the budget...
 ML>> But does a little bag satisfy the urge?
 NB>> Generally...  and I manage to make it last for a little while
 NB>> anyway... it's a balance between making it last and eating them before
 NB>> they go rancid on me... I'll have other nuts around to be nibbling at
 NB>> as well, which makes it go a little farther...  ;)
 ML> Funny, when faced with something like that, I'll eat as
 ML> many as I can hold, and when they're gone, out of sight
 ML> out of mind.

Somewhere along the line I developed the knack of making special things
last for a while... sometimes it does take a certain amount of induced
out of sight out of mindness, but that's where the balance has to come
in, lest the treat go bad for stretching it out...  :)
 
 ML>> of the headlines. Maybe only those of us who have vital
 ML>> interest in flying on airplanes paid attention to this,
 ML>> but it's had quite the buzz in these circles.
 NB>> I imagine it would have made the buzz in flyer circles... And it's
 NB>> the sort of thing that might "go viral" on social media (which I
 NB>> have no part in, at all)...
 ML> One of the few reasons I want to live ten more years is
 ML> to find out what kind of career she now makes.
 
Could be an interesting thing... ;)

 ML>> She's 40 years old. If she were 25, one might almost be
 ML>> able to excuse her overreaction, but at 40 one should
 ML>> perhaps be held to a higher standard.
 NB>> One might think.  I know some pretty childish 40-year-olds, though...

 ML> They shouldn't be vice presidents of major corporations.
 
Indeed.  Unless they were wise/mature beyond their years...

 ML>> But if, as was the case, the restaurant website offered the lower
 ML>> price, the restaurant should be held accountable. This wasn't some
 ML>> Menuism type site, it was the place's own.
 NB>> True, one should honor one's posted prices... Was this something that
 NB>> was delivered, perhaps, and not picked up (or ordered and eaten) at
 NB>> the restaurant...?  I may be naive, but, I'd only expect the restaurant
 NB>> to give me back what they overcharged, and treat it as an accident...
 NB>> unless there was some wide-spread pattern of their overcharging
 NB>> customers, and I was aware of it...  and even then, probably I'd just
 NB>> not bother patronizing them anymore...  :) 
 ML> It was takeout, of course; otherwise the problem would no
 ML> doubt have been addressed on the spot, and further, the menu
 ML> at the restaurant would most likely have been up to date. 

One would have expected, anyway.  The skeptic in me wonders if it had
happened previously, and not been dealt with, and intentionally gone for
again just in order to make the big scene... 

 ML> I admit I've seen cases where that's not the case,
 ML> especially with wine lists, where the prices programmed
 ML> into the check-generating computer may change faster than
 ML> the printed ones. At the Sam & Harry's I go to at the
 ML> DCA airport, though, for a year I was charged a buck less
 ML> than the menu said for the meal I always got. I thought it
 ML> was maybe a repeat customer discount (I came in pretty
 ML> often and was recognized), but then the phenomenon stopped.

Maybe it was indeed a repeat customer discount, but one that was later
discontinued... 

 ML>> Do they make you sneeze? Trader Joe's had a black pepper cashew
 ML>> offering that tasted pretty good but made one sneeze.
 NB>> I think it was just her joke at the name, that sounded like a sneeze,
 ML> Oh, yeah, I think I heard that before, but because I always
 ML> stress the first syllable, that didn't come to mind in my
 ML> more senile current state.

Don't feel bad... I think I had to have her explain it to me, the first
time she used the term to me...  :)

 ML>> barge blowing up in the Thames because of an ordnance
 ML>> miscalculation, or was the Water Music?). 
 NB>> I think it was Royal Fireworks...
 ML>> I thought so but was/am not sure. My father had a recording
 ML>> of Beecham conducting both, and I read the liner notes about
 ML>> 55 years ago and not since.
 NB>> That would tend to confuse things a bit...  :)
 ML> One of the first LPs, I think. Not very performance
 ML> practice aware but still the introduction to the
 ML> pieces for a bunch of music lovers.

Wasn't most performance practice awareness a much later deal...?
 
 ML> I tend to appreciate vocal and choral music much less
 ML> than instrumental. Part of it is that the intrinsic
 ML> agility of voices is less, so the musical complexity
 ML> of what can be done is less. Funny thing, though, that
 ML> though Bach worked within the same constraints, I enjoy
 ML> his cantatas and oratorios, which are nowadays performed
 ML> relatively rarely compared to Handel's.

Perhaps that's part of why you enjoy Bach more... it's less often
performed, so the complexities are less well known and so surprise
more...  I think Bach may have written more in that genre than Handel,
too... Quite a bit more, in any case, than the couple of Handel's that
get all the play...  :)

 ML>> I can sort of imagine carob coated malt balls, but they
 ML>> wouldn't fit with my way of eating such candies - sucking
 ML>> the outside off and then letting the middles fall apart
 ML>> in my mouth.
 NB>> I used to like to do that with the original milk chocolate covered
 NB>> ones. I've tried doing it with Lori's versions, and the middle isn't
 NB>> quite like the original either... it's more crunchy and doesn't fall
 NB>> apart quite right... 
 ML> There used to be a brand of malted milk balls with a relatively
 ML> hard center - I forget which it was, only that I liked Whoppers
 ML> better.

I think that if/when I indulged, I only bought the Whoppers... :)

 ML>>> Aloo saag (alu shag)
 NB>>> Was this the source of your comment that spinach and potatoes
 NB>>> don't go well together...?
 ML>> Did I say that? To me potatoes don't really go
 ML>> well with anything, but were I making aloo saag
 ML>> on my own, the level of spicing would be much,
 ML>> much higher, rendering the going well or not
 ML>> kind of moot.
 NB>> Yup.  But I can buy the spicing covering for it...  :)
 ML> I think that must have been in a particular case; I've
 ML> eaten aloo saag at reputable places before, and though
 ML> not particularly wonderful, at least endurable.

If I remember the beginning of this conversation, it was in connection
with your making an aloo saag to someone else's specifications, with way
more potatoes than you thought necessary, and not sufficient spicing..
or spinach.....  ;)

 ML> Title: Crab Combination Soup
 ML> Categories: Chinese, Seafood, Soups
 ML> 1 oz Dried mushrooms
 ML> Boiling water
 ML> 6 oz Fresh or thawed frozen Crabmeat
 ML> 4 oz Frozen sea scallops

That at least looks promising... :)

ttyl      neb

... A hungry man with a seafood allergy looking at a Red Lobster menu

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