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Skriven 2015-12-02 11:49:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: that too 564
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 11-27-15  10:58 <=-

 >  ML> hot dogs, saying something like, once in a while
 >  ML> there's nothing like a good wiener. Of course,
 >  ML> nobody I know will contradict that those once in
 >  ML> a whiles never come eight in a row, so why buy a
 >  ML> package of the darn things.
 > Precisely... ;)  Generally my once in a whiles are well satiated by the
 > times that hot dogs are the only bill of fare... Then I can get my one
 > or two for the season, and be done with it...  Just like s'mores, and
 > similar foods...  ;)
 ML> Courtney brought a pack of marshmallows to top her
 ML> sweet-potato-in-a-pumpkin with, but everyone vetoed
 ML> that, so she threatened to make s'mores, only nobody
 ML> had any graham crackers, and I wasn't about to let
 ML> on that I had chocolate.

Just as well... :)  Although your chocolate probably would have made
them more tasty...  ;)  I used to love getting stale marshmallows as a
child, nice and chewy... but the new sort just aren't the same...  Now I
can easily live without them, fresh or stale... but I don't mind the
occasional one or two...  ;)
 
 >  ML> I used to be fond of the work of an artist named
 >  ML> Anselm Kiefer, but that was in my younger more
 >  ML> warped days. Anyone who entitles a painting "The
 >  ML> Sixth Trombone" can't be all bad.
 > I don't think I'm familiar with his work... abstract or
 > representational...?  Nice title, though... :)
 ML> Both - his works are usually representations of
 ML> recognizable things but symbolic of concepts, so.

Ah, ok...  :)

 ML> By the way, the trombone is actually a trump ...
 ML> I did say that I enjoyed his work in my younger
 ML> more warped days - he deals with unpleasant or
 ML> hard-to-take issues a lot.

Warped helps there... ;)
 
 >  > of the fruit would hold up during baking, since it's rather more a
 >  > smushy sort....
 >  ML> That too.
 > Some things just are better fresh...  ;)
 ML> Dragon fruit is kind of yucky fresh as well.
 ML> You might appreciate it if you were parched,
 ML> but otherwise it's bland and useless. The
 ML> appearance is striking, though.

I've had it a couple of times... interesting for a try, but not worth
spending the premium price to have regularly..  :)  I think the first
time was when I visited xxCarol after my family's camping at Virginia
Beach... and then when I saw them here, got one so that Richard could
try it too...  :)

 >  ML> I'm never sure. One thing is that I periodically
 >  ML> refer to something that has happened recently, but
 >  ML> it goes into a trip report later as well.
 > There is that, too... And I've become sufficiently used to that to
 > figure out that "oh, now the reference has become part of an official
 > report"...  :)  
 ML> I often describe something in a post shortly
 ML> after it happens, but the report doesn't get
 ML> finished for a month or three.
 
Exactly.  :)

 >  ML> Maybe if we got a nice big echo picnic sometime, with
 >  ML> 20 people or so. Or am I dreaming (probably).
 > Probably...  But even with half that, maybe it wouldn't that far-fetched
 > to have it as a featured item at a picnic... ;)  Maybe we could find a
 > home for the leftovers... ;)
 ML> Not if it turns out to be crummy ... and I originally
 ML> raised the possibility that there might be several
 ML> grades of sausage gravy - regular, premium, and Kosher,
 ML> maybe. Imagine having gallons of leftover gravy.

Point.  If it were good, it could be used as a soup/drink... but
crummy... would take forever to use up... unless one knew a likely,
non-discriminating soup kitchen that would welcome the donation... ;)
 
 > SOW, I think I figured out how to get the right heat level for me at
 > King and I (Thai) for their phat prigkin... Asked for level 3, and got
 > something that actually had enough ginger pieces in it, and a nice
 > heat... ;)  Now, if I can replicate that next visit, I'll be more
 > confident I did get it figured out... :)
 ML> I went to an Indian place in the North Bay once with 
 ML> an Indian friend, and the dishes could be ordered on
 ML> a scale of 1 to 10. I ordered a 7 for calibration's
 ML> sake, and the proprietor said that we looked like 5s,
 ML> so he brought us 5. Neither of us could detect much
 ML> heat, so we had to call for the hot pepper, ah well.

You'd probably want to go higher here, too, then... ;)  Rather
presumptuous of the proprietor, I'd say, though... :)  Did you go back
there, and get the level you asked for, afterward...?
 
 >  > The chameleonic aspect tends to confuse things mightily...  :)
 >  ML> Isn't that the most frequent point of chameleonism? ...
 > Even when not exactly intentional... ;)
 ML> More so when not consciously intentional.

True.  :)

 ML> Pear honey
 ML> per 1 qt Kieffer pears
 ML> A tasty variation is to substitute orange and nutmeg 
 ML> for lemon and ginger.
 ML> Source: backwoodshome.com

I think I'd stay with the lemon and ginger...  :)

ttyl      neb

... Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

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