Text 28681, 110 rader
Skriven 2015-06-30 09:32:00 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av NANCY BACKUS
Ärende: retail 906
==================
 -=> Nancy Backus said to Dave Drum <=-

 DD> meat, pre-sliced,  ready to grill for $25.59/5 lb. That's a lot of
 DD> gyros meat - but, if I owned a  restaurant or was throwing a Greek
 DD> themed party .......... 
 NB> I'd hope that if one owned a restaurant they could get the meat at a
 NB> wholesale price... that's still over $5 a pound... unless going price
 NB> was double that, I suppose...  ;)   Maybe for a Greek themed party,
 NB> spare no expense for authenticity...

I'm wondering if this Humphrey's might have a wholesale
operation, and this offering might be a byproduct of it,
or perhaps the local restaurants might get a percentage
off at the register (easy enough to do in this computerized
day and age). I'd suspect that if it was a regular retail
item they might break it down into pound packages or so.

 -=> Nancy Backus said to Ruth Haffly <=-

 NB> (Aldi's)
 NB>> Sometimes the closing time is when they stop letting people into the
 NB>> store... :)   And probably the cashier hadn't been there since the
 NB>> store opened in the morning... and/or was just cheerful because the
 NB>> end of the shift was at hand... :)
 RH> He's probably not been at the register the whole time but may have
 RH> been in the store doing other things for some hours beforehand. Anyway,
 RH> it was nice to have a cheerful person checking us out, not one that was
 RH> growling about late shoppers.
 NB> Always nice to have a cheerful checker, anyway...  :)

If there were a cheerful checker, it would do something
like this to sad songs such as Eleanor Rigby:

All the [HAPPY] people
Where do they all come from?
All the [HAPPY] people
[OF COURSE] they all belong?

Ah look at all the [HAPPY] people
Ah look at all the [HAPPY] people 

 NB> (durian)
 NB>> I've seen it locally, in the Asian market... Jim White got a picture
 NB>> taken of him holding one... but I don't think he ever actually tried
 NB>> it.... ;)
 RH> T'is a brave person who tries it alone, especially if not in a setting
 RH> where it's a known product.  Had we encountered it in Asia, we
 RH> probably would have tried it as a matter of course, but being in the
 RH> US, it was more of an item of curiosity. Plus, we'd read a lot about it
 RH> over the years on the echo.

I've found that the durians that we've had at the picnics
are a dilute version of the real thing. The first ones at
least were previously frozen, and in any case they've been
transported thousands of miles (can you imagine the smell
of ship's or plane's cargo hold that held them?). Out in
their native territory, they are sweeter and tastier, and
their smell is even more fearsome. Good stuff.

I don't know that a store would take a total flying leap
and offer them if it didn't have a target audience mapped
out ahead of time.

This was the first version of gyros I ever had, at a place
called Omonoia in Boston's theater district -

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v7.07

      Title: Gyros
 Categories: Lamb, Sandwiches, Greek
   Servings: 6

      2 lb Lean ground beef or lamb
      4    Scallions, finely chopped
      1    Clove garlic, minced
      1 ts Dry oregano, crushed
    1/4 ts Cumin
    1/4 ts Parsley, chopped
      1 ts Salt
    1/4 ts Freshly ground pepper
      8 lg Pitas
      1    Recipe sauce (recipe
           -follows)
           SAUCE:
      1 c  Plain yogurt
      2 tb Mayonnaise
      1    Lemon's juice
      2    Scallions with tops, finely
           -chopped

  Mix all ingredients except pita, mixing well and kneading until mixture is
  stiff.  On skewer, pack meat mixture about 5-inches long and not more than
  2 inches in diameter.  Put as many "fingers" as possible on a skewer
  leaving a 1-inch space in between.  Cook over hot coals for 10 to 15
  minutes, turning frequently.

  Take pita and slide gyro onto center.  Drizzle with sauce.  Fold over to
  eat.

  SAUCE: Mix together yogurt, mayonnaise, lemon juice, and scallions.

  Recipe:  The Marin County Greek Orthodox Church

MMMMM

but oddly enough its offshoot in Kenmore Square, Aegean Fare,
served normal gyros on a spit.
___ Blue Wave/386 v2.30
--- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5
 * Origin: Check Out Doc's QWK Mail  Via Web BBS > DocsPlace.org  (1:123/140)