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Skriven 2015-07-02 10:10:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: ersatz 915
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 06-30-15  23:04 <=-

 NB>> Definitely perfectly edible... We tend to just think of them as a
 NB>> different sort of sausage, rather than as some sort of substitute
 NB>> for the real thing...  :)
 ML> To me, sausage pretty much is pork by definition. There
 ML> are beef sausages that one can accept, but these are few
 ML> and far between. Otherwise, sing boo to you, pooh-pooh
 ML> to you, and that's what I shall say!

Ok, fine... ;)  Be that way... ;)

 NB>> the brain is a bit of a mush at the
 NB>> moment, so I'm not coming up with the actual varieties...  ;0
 ML> And here I am, at the house, thinking that my brain could
 ML> use a touch of mushing about right now (my brother just got
 ML> home). 

Yeah, could be helpful...  ;)

 ML> Yesterday I was both unhappy and mush-brained - I
 ML> made a plane reservation for 5 hours after I had intended
 ML> to depart, and in fact around when I needed to arrive. I
 ML> called up the airline, and the agent wouldn't give me any
 ML> leeway at all, despite my platinosity and the fact that I'd
 ML> made the reservation minutes before (well, minutes before
 ML> I'd dialed the phone, which means half an hour before,
 ML> given the time the "elite" desk kept me on hold. Upshot -
 ML> I'll have to go to the airport 5 hours early and stand by
 ML> for a seat, not the end of the world, but annoying not
 ML> least because it was my fault.

Sigh.  Another of the perils of doing things online... ;0  Hope you get
your standby seat easily enough anyway... 
 
 ML>> (3 per order) were better than Trader Joe's, I have
 ML>> to give them that, but not by much. The main reason
 ML>> for this foray into exotic deliciousness was that I'd
 ML>> just gotten off a plane that was supposed to offer
 ML>> food but didn't and was transferring at ORD to another
 ML>> flight that wasn't supposed to do so; and I smelled
 ML>> spicy bean curd and so buy buy au revoir ten buckaroos.
 NB>> Nothing like hunger to trigger impulsive responses to stimuli... 
 ML> I suppose not. Used to be that I could go days with my
 ML> stomach rumbling, and it wouldn't bother me too much.
 ML> Now, an hour and I feel put upon. Might be the diabetes
 ML> thing.

Or the age thing... or the combo...  
 
 ML>> The bean curd was actually quite spicy, though the
 ML>> source of the heat was hard to determine - I think it
 ML>> might have been capsaicin. The sauce was cornstarch
 ML>> and soy with a few flakes of pepper - not enough to
 ML>> account for the burn. It did the job.
 NB>> That sounds like it at least hit the spot...  :)
 ML> Oddly, the Manchu Wok has become one of my ports in a
 ML> storm for the spicy bean curd, which often is quite
 ML> edible. Other times, it's wretched, and I've encountered
 ML> the occasional helper behind the counter who claims that
 ML> the dish does not exist, in which case I just go somewhere
 ML> else, such as McDonald's for a couple hamburgers.

So a chance thing... but good enough when it does work out...

 ML>> Strangely, the flight that wasn't supposed to have food did -
 NB>> There's no chance that you got the two flights confused...?
 ML> Not a chance. On the first flight, mainline, the crew were
 ML> surprised that nothing had been catered, not even the snack
 ML> basket, and on the second, an Express flight, the guy working
 ML> up front was equally surprised that food had been loaded.

Ah.  Ok, then... :)  Just a total anomaly... and confused catering
staff... 

 ML> The first flight was smack dab in the middle of breakfasttime
 ML> and was to the airline's largest hub; the second was after
 ML> lunchtime and was to a mere "focus city." I will admit that
 ML> the second flight was longer - 4 miles longer -, but the first
 ML> was scheduled at 5 minutes more, being more into the wind.

I guess some others' brains were mush... or someone put the wrong orders
into the computer... ;)  For once, that sort of confusion worked
somewhat to your benefit...  ;)

 ML>> of ranch dressing; three 1/2 oz slices of roast beef
 ML>> (salty, medium, actually tasting of beef) on the side.
 NB>> Sounds pretty decent.  :)
 ML> It was okay, slightly skimpy, but as I noted, we weren't
 ML> expecting food at all.

And you'd just eaten at the Manchu Wok besides...  :)
 
 ML>> The guy opposite from me had a fit because there wasn't
 ML>> a vegetarian offering (they also had loaded chicken
 ML>> wraps on board, but, hey, there wasn't supposed to be
 ML>> a meal at all), and the steward said, never fear, the
 ML>> meat is in a separate dish, and I don't have to put it
 ML>> on your tray ... but the guy said, oh, just bring it ...
 ML>> and then he ate the meat ,,, ,
 NB>> Maybe he'd heard somewhere that the only way to get a decent airline
 NB>> meal is to go for the vegetarian option... ;)
 ML> Or maybe, as Dale speculates, he was merely a
 ML> garden-variety jerk.

Good point...  ;)
 
 ML>> Chocolate goo corn syrup pie for afters.
 NB>> How can you go wrong with chocolate... (G)
 ML> Add lots of corn syrup!

There is that.   ;)

ttyl          neb

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