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Skriven 2015-07-08 07:28:00 av Michael Loo (1:18/200)
     Kommentar till en text av Nancy Backus
Ärende: gyro etc. 939
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 NB> Could well be...  and, as I mentioned to others, thinking further,
 NB> there isn't all that much meat in the gyro, even in the ones that are
 NB> fairly well stuffed... probably not more than a 1/4 pound at best... 

Rawther ... but 1/4 of $2.50 is, all things being equal,
better for restaurant costs than 1/4 of $5.

 NB>> Always nice to have a cheerful checker, anyway...  :)
 ML> If there were a cheerful checker, it would do something
 ML> like this to sad songs such as Eleanor Rigby:
 ML> Ah look at all the [HAPPY] people 
 NB> Ah, but she said he WAS cheerful... ;)

But the cheerful checker would, like a spelling checker,
check to make sure that others were also cheerful.

 ML> their native territory, they are sweeter and tastier, and
 ML> their smell is even more fearsome. Good stuff.
 NB> Maybe someday, I'll have the chance to taste one in its native
 NB> environs... :) 

It's recommended, but I admit that many people have other
things to do with their money.

 ML> I don't know that a store would take a total flying leap
 ML> and offer them if it didn't have a target audience mapped
 ML> out ahead of time.
 NB> Good point... Apparently there's enough of a target audience here
 NB> locally that the Asian markets find it feasible enough... :)

It was a brave grocer who first stocked a durian.

 NB> That's also just like the first gyros I ever had, too... at a festival
 NB> of some sort here in Rochester, years ago...  :)
 ML> but oddly enough its offshoot in Kenmore Square, Aegean Fare,
 ML> served normal gyros on a spit.
 NB> Perhaps both are valid... one as street food and the other as
 NB> restaurant fare...?   :)

I've seen enough vertical-spitted gyros out on the
street to discount that as the primary explanation.
More likely it's an example of the language morphing
irritatingly and in a way inimical to communication.
A complicating issue is the use of the term souvlaki
to refer to various things, including things often
referred to as gyros.

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 DD>> TGI Friday's, Applebee's and Chili's
 JW>> Haven't been to any of them either.
 ML> I've been to all of these. Cookie-cutter food. You won't get
 ML> sick from it, unless you are sodium-sensitive or fat-sensitive.
 ML> Or carb-sensitive. Or of an aesthetic turn of mind.
 NB> Been to all three myself... and not my favorite places by a long
 NB> shot... I can usually find something I can tolerate there, but don't
 NB> expect to find anything great...  :)

At such places my fallbacks are either unadorned meat
- burgers, wings, and so on -, or fried food, which is
reliably mediocre, though the TGI Friday deep-fried
string beans are pretty moreish. I also remember that
Applebee's used to have an AYCE rib tip deal, which
one could get enough food on at a decent price, if
one was careful to scrape off the cloying sticky
barbecue sauce.

Strawberry & orange swirl
category: booze
servings: 1

h - the infusion
2 c strawberries
1 L vodka
h - the cocktail
2 oz strawberry vodka
1/2 oz Grand Marnier
1 oz simple syrup
1 oz fresh lemon juice
soda to taste

Remove tops of strawberries. Marinate in vodka
for 4 days. Strain.

Stir cocktail ingredients except soda together in shaker
with ice. Pour into highball glass and top with soda.

Nick Passmore, US Airways Magazine 6/2013

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