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     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: spicy or not 327
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 03-09-15  05:54 <=-

 NB>>> Sounds tasty to me...  :)  I often liberally sprinkle cayenne atop
 NB>>> certain otherwise bland-ish meals, like Marie Callenders chicken
 NB>>> broccoli fettucini... 
 ML>> What are you doing buying that kind of stuff?
 NB>> Having something on hand when time (or energy) gets away from me...
 NB>> and/or for when I'm away, for Richard to fix...
 ML> Being no expert on prepared foods, I cannot offer advice, but
 ML> what I recall of the food served at Marie Callender's restaurants,
 ML> it's quite bland indeed.

Some things are better than others... Never have been to the restaurants
themselves... but we've been getting these for quite a while from the
store... They've been better than the average frozen food dinner...
although they aren't as good as they were when we first started getting
them...  The above-referenced meal used to come with little packets of
black pepper, to be used as desired, but that's gone by the wayside...

 NB>>> your curry, but possibly not substantially less... Mr. Yang's Korean
 NB>>> cook had a liberal hand with the pepper when called for.. :)
 ML>> I'd like to try that just to see.
 NB>> I wish you could... but now it would take a Tardis... ;)  I haven't
 NB>> tried the equivalent dishes in the Korean restaurants that I now have
 NB>> available here... 
 ML> One might try to track down the Korean cook the way you did
 ML> with Fu. Of course, you and I already know how to throw another
 ML> tablespoon of cayenne in a dish.

Certainly true on the latter...  ;)  Mrs. Yang might know if their
former Korean cook is working anywhere locally now... if she kept up
with him...  Actually, I wouldn't put it past Fu to have learned that
from the Korean cook, but he'd need to have the kimchi on hand for
making the dish... :)

 ML>> True enough, but the boy scout motto applies well here.
 NB>> True... if one hasn't kept in practice, one won't be prepared if
 NB>> called upon to use it...
 ML> I've tried and still can't get past 50 seconds, much less
 ML> into the minutes.

Guess it needs building up again... or maybe it's something that aging
bodies don't do so well...  ;/
 
 NB>>> I suspect that's not something that someone that isn't to lift more
 NB>>> than 15-20 pounds would be able to do...  :)  But it actually sounds
 NB>>> almost like a fun thing to be able to do...  ;)
 ML>> Fun and useful. Lilli did this so smoothly that the
 ML>> trainer basically accused her of having done it before.
 NB>> Just a born natural at it...  ;)
 ML> The trainer later asked if she had been a flight attendant
 ML> (Lilli is approximately ideal flight attendant size and shape
 ML> and rather cute in the style of yesteryear).

Maybe she was/is, in an alternate universe/life...   :)

 ML> This was at OS flight attendant training school. For decades
 ML> I have suggested to United that it offer safety training to
 ML> its better customers - perhaps offering this opportunity to
 ML> be paid for with miles -, but it has been Austrian and Delta,
 ML> that actually have reached out to frequent flyers in this way.
 ML> Not United, and as far as I know not other airlines.
 
Some things just seem so obviously good fits... and surprisingly not
picked up on...  :)

 NB>> So, in comparison, would qualify as phall, even if not to the level
 NB>> that phall should be.... :)
 ML> Phall and balti and such are recent inventions that seem to
 ML> have been developed (a la chop suey) to wrest money from the
 ML> gullible in this case British population while at the same
 ML> time foisting second-rate ingredients on them, so what
 ML> qualifies under those names is up in the air.

Ah... I see....  :)

 ML> There's a rather funny sci-fi story that involves a crazy
 ML> inventor on the run out in space who - among other things -
 ML> has made a matter creator, which he uses to make - among
 ML> other things - his dinners. He has taken with him his lastest
 ML> mistress/housemaid, whom he has induced to steal a batch of
 ML> jewels (odd, as he could presumably synthesize them). Anyhow,
 ML> the relevance of this is that he asks for vindaloo for supper,
 ML> the machine has turned out "effing Madras," so he kicks it,
 ML> and smoke pours out of it, and it produces vindaloo though
 ML> threatening to cause an atomic explosion. Anyhow, the relevance
 ML> is that phall looks sort of like effing Madras with a bunch of
 ML> extra cayenne added.

Oh, ok...  (G)   it begins to show some resemblance to such things as
hot wings, hot for hot's sake... ;)

ttyl       neb

... We all have a branch on our family tree we would like to prune.

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