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Skriven 2015-02-23 16:54:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: bitter experiences 24
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 02-20-15  23:26 <=-

 ML>> Not yet. Soon, I promise (tomorrow to be exact). I was going
 ML>> to head out either to the grocery or a restaurant today, but
 ML>> it being ridiculously windy (a solid 30 mph augmenting 13F cold)
 NB>> Pretty severe conditions y'all are having, to be sure...
 ML> The conditions in Washington were nothing that would faze
 ML> an upstate New Yorker. This winter in Boston, another
 ML> story altogether.
 
Oh, I dunno about the first... I'm not terribly impressed with the wind
chills here either... some days they are like yours, some a bit worse,
but when the chills are below zero, there's not a lot to choose between
them, it's all pretty bad....  Boston... now that is degrees worse all
around... I'm thankful not to be dealing with that.

 NB>> I heard flights were cancelled there, too... 
 ML> Thousands a day during the worst days. In Washington,
 ML> again, nothing so severe as Boston, but enough so that
 ML> I had a couple segment runs cancelled, and without them
 ML> it'll be hard for me to make status again on US Air.

Sigh.  Maybe there will be more opportunity later...?   We had flights
cancelled here, too, but I think they were TO places that weren't
accepting flights in... 

 ML> I hear tell of friends and acquaintances who were stuck
 ML> in particularly inconvenient or peculiar places, far
 ML> worse than my own inconvenience.

At least you were somewhat home... ;0   I suppose we'll look back on
this winter someday and just reminisce about how bad things were... ;)

 ML>> It's soupier than before and with less meat. Actually, I
 ML>> first thought it had almost no meat - what there was was
 ML>> little crumbs rather like what you'd find in a specially
 ML>> ungenerous Campbell's soup, but when I heated up the second
 ML>> half of the can (I could tolerate only one half at a time) I
 ML>> found that a bunch of protein had fallen to the bottom - this
 ML>> in the form of undense, almost fluffy, bits of mystery meat
 ML>> with virtually no taste. 
 NB>> It settled in storage, apparently...  One needs to either shake the
 NB>> can before opening, or stir it well before taking one's half... 
 ML> Having to shake a can of chili would be new to me.

Old stock, that's often a wise thing to do... experience, here... ;) 

 ML> To be fair to Hormel, it might have been quite an old can,
 ML> given my brother's habits. To be fair to my brother, it
 ML> could also have been Hormel's fault.

I'd guess some of each... ;)

 ML>>> I really do err on the generous side with onions, more even
 ML>>> than with garlic. OOC I just looked on culinarylore.com, which
 ML>>> has a picture of what it characterizes as medium onions, and
 ML>>> they're tiny and pathetic.
 NB>>> How big are (or aren't) they...?  ;) 
 ML>> I'd say, eyeballing it, a quarter pound tops, more like big
 ML>> shallots than even pygmy onions.
 NB>> So, maybe a couple inches diameter or so...?  Sounds like small onions
 NB>> at best to me...  :)
 ML> 3" I'd say. Under any criteria way too small.

Need more than one at a time, then...  :)   Unless you only need half a
good-sized onion for the purpose... ;)

ttyl        neb

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