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Skriven 2015-05-15 09:35:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: pcynicalities 641
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 05-12-15  06:12 <=-

 ML>> for me it would be a pound of brisket in one hand and a chicken
 ML>> thigh in the other.
 NB>> Yup... I was thinking of your brisket and thigh balanced diet,
 NB>> AAMOF...  There are days when the ice cream cone balanced diet appeals,
 ML> The ice cream diet always appeals on some level but fails
 ML> to move me, or perhaps moves me too much, on another.

Indeed.  :)
 
 ML>> Lactose tastes not much different from ordinary sugar,
 ML>> though, being more hygroscopic, it tends to be slightly
 ML>> less sweet and causing a slightly different texture. I
 ML>> don't think it appears in formulas for culinary reasons,
 ML>> though, but because the dairy industry has evilly got
 ML>> its hooks into everything.
 NB>> Just a little cynical, are we...?  ;)
 ML> Oh, maybe. There are other benefits to lactose - a higher
 ML> tolerance for mistakes that would dry out the product (such
 ML> as overbaking and overstorage) and the ability to circumvent
 ML> ingredients lists, allowing sugar to be spread out over
 ML> several ingredients rather than staying #1 on the roster.

Still a trifle cynical... ;)  Given realities of retailing, the first
benefit seems more valid...  and given realities of marketing, yeah...
lots of that making sugar not apparently #1....

 ML>> On the other hand, I've averted more than one accident by
 ML>> casually remarking to my brother that there was a car coming
 ML>> up that he didn't notice. Yes, he's gotten into scrapes by
 ML>> not noticing things that to me would be pretty obvious.
 NB>> One observes different things as a passenger than as a driver... but,
 NB>> agreed, that should have been pretty obvious to a driver as well...
 NB>> unless in his blind spot...  ;)
 ML> I figure the driverless cars have been programmed by Asperger
 ML> programmers, each focusing too strongly on a different part of
 ML> the elephant, and the 11 accidents that they have just now
 ML> acknowledged are results of some issue not addressed, and as
 ML> more Aspies get added to the mix, the loopholes will gradually
 ML> close. Unfortunately, my brother is only one such, and there
 ML> is not an army of helpers in the car when he drives.

Maybe all the loopholes will be closed in time for him to be able to
take advantage of the advance of technology...  :)

ttyl      neb

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