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Skriven 2015-04-06 16:28:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: review 449
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 04-01-15  02:40 <=-

 NB>> Point.  She, along with others, is a free-lancer, or so the byline
 NB>> states...  I'd just like something more helpful in a review... does
 NB>> that make me sophisticated...?  (G)
 ML> But for many people, helpful involves replicating or simulating
 ML> the experience rather than actually evaluating it. So if her
 ML> writing produced a certain desired effect in the brain of the
 ML> target reader, it has served its purpose. Not - in my mind - a
 ML> proper purpose, but the expected and paid-for one nonetheless.

I suppose if it serves the purpose of getting some to at least come
check out the place, it isn't a total waste...  ;)  Some reviews (like
political endorsements) serve to let me know that I DON'T have any
interest in checking them out (or voting for)... not the intended
purpose, I'm sure... ;)

 ML> And yes, that makes you sophisticated.

Ah.   I'd blame it on hanging around with Cooking Echo folk... except
that I've pretty much always been that way... ;)
 
 NB>> She was setting up a time for us to meet away from the restaurant,
 NB>> and I had to put it into my date book... :)
 ML> That's kind of fun and makes me think in contrast of the lack of
 ML> personal relationship of Jim with his Vietnamese restaurant people.

Turned out to be an opportunity for recruitment as consultant and/or
customer for a business she does on the side... but, even though I
turned it down, she's just as friendly as ever, maybe more so, having
broken through reserve...  ;)  She and Fu both worked with my son when
they were at Arigato, so there is that "family" tie...  :)  Plus, I've
known Fu from the days at Yang's, so for decades...  :)
 
 ML>> other types of sounds. Of course, in the nursing home, maybe
 ML>> the sounds of crunching would be more distressing than enhancing.
 NB>> Chances are, they'd be too deaf to hear them anyway...?
 ML> There is that, but there are also ways of enhancing sounds
 ML> to increase the effect. Earphones are the obvious one, but
 ML> maybe it would be possible to replicate only the effective
 ML> appetite-increasing components of, say, the crunching sound.

A worthy (?) experiment, perhaps...  ;)
 
 NB>> ... How can I run amok? I don't even own one.
 ML> I can run a program that I don't own. Even a car, though
 ML> that would be a little far-fetched for me.

True.

 ML> 2 tb Crunchy peanut butter
 ML> 25 g  Sunflower margarine; melted - or butter
 ML> 1    Garlic clove; crushed
 ML> 1 tb Dried mixed herbs
 ML> 2    Thin slices of bread -- crusts removed
 ML> Vegetable oil for frying
 ML> Salt and pepper
 ML> Definitely moreish, these nutty delicacies, full of herbs and
 ML> garlic, make an irresistible snack to go with a drink before a meal.

We know at least one person for whom that wouldn't at all be moreish...
and veritably resistible...  :)

ttyl         neb

... Light Year: regular year with less calories.

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