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Skriven 2015-03-25 16:18:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: beefy was fishy 401
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 03-22-15  06:20 <=-

 ML>> Someday perhaps soon I will do the obvious and get
 ML>> a 2-lb sirloin and see how much of it I can eat at
 ML>> a sitting.
 NB>> And save the leftovers, if any, for another meal or snack later... :)
 ML> H'm. Perhaps I'd better make that a 3-lb sirloin just in case.

Make sure you have leftovers...?  Or hoping that your capacity has
increased to that degree...?
 
 ML>> Well, the doc thought it ominous enough to give me
 ML>> a prescription for glyburide or glipizide or something
 ML>> and doubling the metformin.
 NB>> Docs find it their business to be overly cautious, sometimes with
 NB>> good reason... but sometimes not... 
 ML> I chose this doc because of his reputation for giving
 ML> patients a lot of leeway. I think on repeat inspection that
 ML> what he's actually good at is making patients think that
 ML> he's giving them a lot of leeway.

Indeed.  Not necessarily the best choice, then..  :)  Sometimes one can
still work with that, though..  Richard's cardiologist strikes me as
being similar... 
 
 ML>> I had the notion once that my life would follow more or
 ML>> less a bell curve; if what you're suggesting fit into that
 ML>> scheme of things, that too would be ominous enough, and I
 ML>> ought to do more in the way of protein-loading before it's
 ML>> too late.
 NB>> I was thinking more of your recent GI issues having cleared out the
 NB>> system to the extent that they did...  I suppose the bell curve theory
 NB>> might have a different bearing on things, too...  I'd tend toward the
 NB>> protein-loading approach myself, either way... :)
 ML> Who knows. I'm afraid it's time for another system failure.
 ML> Maybe the old brain for its second round?

Let's not go there.  ;0  
 
 ML>>> We'll probably be going back St. Paddy's day just for an
 ML>>> experiment. 
 NB>>> And did you...?
 ML>> To be sure, to be sure.
 NB>> And I note it was not a particularly good result...  Maybe it had
 NB>> more to do with the nature of the holiday...
 ML> It wasn't a particularly bad result, and as the meal is
 ML> something any monkey can make, it wasn't a good reflection
 ML> of the kitchen's capabilities. I mean, you boil up a bunch
 ML> of food and make sure it doesn't dry out too much or go
 ML> bad. Not rocket science, as they say.

No, the rocket science is involved in the making it actually be a good
result, not just merely a not particularly bad result...  :)
 
 NB>> What I've seen at Weggie's are flat briskets (marked brisket) and
 NB>> what is marked as round.  What is the point cut...?
 ML> The brisket has two ends, a pointy one and a flat one.
 ML> The pointy one has a bunch of fat and is usually cheaper.
 ML> The one at Bob and Deb's was sort of in between, a
 ML> please all, please all situation.

Ah... I'll look closer at the packages sometime, then... :)   But I've
not seen any sold for cheaper... 
 
 NB>> I bought the smallest round I could find, about 2 1/2 lbs, IIRC,
 NB>> and it had a nice fatty cap on it, maybe only a 1/2 lb worth...
 NB>> maybe a bit more... 
 ML> A nice fatty cap is good, but the meat itself is too
 ML> fine-grained and unmarbled for my preference.

Maybe I'll try the other next year... see if I can tell the
difference...  :)

 NB>>> I might like the "animal style protein style"... if I was ever at
 NB>>> an In'n'Out... don't think there are any of them around here... :)
 ML>> You might; I think there's too much mustard in the
 ML>> goo they put on, though.
 NB>> Probably worth a try once, anyway... if the opportunity presents... :)
 ML> There aren't any east of Texas, and the company has (wisely,
 ML> I think), limited the pace of its growth. 

Doesn't sound too likely that I'd get much of an opportunity then...

 ML> Unlike Five Guys, which when I first went to one was 3% as big
 ML> as In'n'Out and now is 300% as big.
 
That's pretty impressive stats...  As long as one keeps up the quality,
growth isn't necessarily bad... but oversight does become more of an
issue... 

 ML>> The stir-fry would be on demand.
 NB>> Oh, ok...  :)  Otherwise the rest of the meat could just be snacks,
 NB>> I suppose... ;)
 ML> If you recall, the whole point of a picnic is snackage.

In one way or another, true... ;)

ttyl       neb

... Flying saucer: what follows a flying coffee cup during an argument.

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