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Skriven 2015-02-11 15:14:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: oddities 183
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 02-07-15  15:14 <=-

 ML>> You can't just bang a chunk of meat into a nuker or a deep-
 ML>> fat fryer and expect anything good to come of it.
 NB>> So all the more reason not to order anything less than rare... (G)
 ML> Or more than rare, as the case may be.

Well, yes, that is what I meant... ;)
 
 NB>> Unless you know for a fact that the establishment in question will
 NB>> take the proper time to do a good and truly well-done... :)
 ML> This may sound really weird coming from me, but I can't
 ML> imagine a more delicious thing than a well done well-done
 ML> rib roast, of which I've had maybe two in my life, both
 ML> courtesy of my mother (strange human being but extraordinary
 ML> cook). The grain has completely let go, so the texture is
 ML> like velvet (a condition that no roast beef exists in between
 ML> extremely rare and extremely well done), and the flavor is
 ML> like pot roast only exponentially better. It's just plain
 ML> concentrated flavor, and someday maybe at a picnic I'll
 ML> attempt to do one this way. It'll be cooked in foil to about
 ML> 180F, maybe even more, and then open for a couple hours until
 ML> crusty on the outside. The fat, most rendered out by this
 ML> point, shall be carefully decanted and saved, as shall the
 ML> dark brown concentrated juices.
 
I certainly hope I'll be at that picnic...  sounds quite lovely... :)

 ML>> I doubt that, as the scrapple doesn't change that much over
 ML>> the course of a day. A longer time, maybe (and even then not
 ML>> if covered and stored properly).
 NB>> I was thinking in terms of getting there while the scrapple was still
 NB>> mostly warm from the original cooking... agreed that once it cools
 NB>> off, there shouldn't be much if any change... :)
 ML> It would be more than I'm worth for me to get downstairs
 ML> while the scrapple was still mostly warm.

Ah.  Point.  :)
 
 ML>>> that again. It has been reported that the Explorers'
 ML>>> Club has sued Diageo for misusing the name, and some
 ML>>> sources say that the line can no longer be offered
 ML>>> under that rubric.
 NB>>> Will they keep the Road/Route part of the name...?
 ML>> Who knows. The ways of the marketing mavens are unknowable.
 NB>> Indeed.
 ML> And further, the Explorers' Club is not made up of stupid
 ML> people, and maybe some mutually agreeable settlement will
 ML> come of it all. After all, a clubhouse in Manhattan is an
 ML> expensive thing to maintain.

That, too.  :)
 
 NB>>> That's what I meant to reference... the use of trade routes to give a
 NB>>> cultural cachet to the liquor...  I have more sympathy to the use of
 NB>>> Silk Road for his cultural exchanging group...  :)
 ML>> Bear in mind that nobody has a monopoly on that particular
 ML>> name, which has been in use for a thousand years.
 NB>> True.  But some uses are more reasonable than others... :)
 ML> But reasonable is in the eye of the beholder. I am sure that
 ML> there are those who appreciate money laundering (according to
 ML> Dirty Dave) who do not appreciate music.

Never know... remember your thugs... ;)  But, true, it conjures up
different things to different people... to one, it's the cultural
exchange, to another, the exotic in drug-induced atmospheres...

ttyl        neb

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