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>  ML> Not sure, because as after we started on our task,
>  ML> our own attentions were devoted to dealing with
>  ML> hundreds of dollars worth of fat (sold below cost
>  ML> at $99.99 the serving, as a gimmick), and what other'
>  ML> people thought, well, heck with them.
> And how many servings did the restaurant consider that...?  

It was its own separate menu entry, either between the
appetizers and mains or (my memory is fuzzy on this) as
a sidebar parallelling both. The restaurant didn't
suggest what one did with it, just that someone pay for
it. It would have made a main course for 6 to 8, a
generous starter for 8 to 16, or a modest starter for
up to 30 maybe.

Still quite
> the pricy spread, even with the gimmick.... :)  I can see ignoring the
> hoi polloi and digging in de gustibus... ;)

We made a good dent in it, but I didn't seek out foie
gras for some years after that.

>  ML> Yesterday Lilli and I visited the
>  ML> grave of Homer Plessy, the losing plaintiff in Plessy v.
>  ML> Ferguson ... he was recruited as a test case against
>  ML> the segregation laws of Louisiana. Which he tested by 
>  ML> buying a first-class train ticket and sitting in the
>  ML> first-class section. And was busted.
> Somebody ratted on him...?  Or was he already (in)famous by then...?

He sort of ratted on himself. It was originally meant to
prove the silly nature of separate accommodations based
on race - Plessy was a member of one civil rights group
that conspired (in a good sense) with other such groups
to frame a test that they thought they couldn't lose;
apparently according to the guides they were in cahoots
with the railway company, which was getting tired of
putting on extra cars to comply with those laws. With
the cards stacked in one direction, they figured it was
going to be a slam dunk. What they didn't figure on was 
the backwardness of the judicial population - as far as
I am able to discern, they lost at every level from the
trial court, to the state supreme court, to the fedaral
Supreme Court. It was said by the lone dissenting justice
that this would come to be as infamous a decision as the
Dred Scott case, which turned out to be true, but that
prescience was over 50 years in the justifying.

>  ML> Eventually, his case went to the Supreme Court, which
>  ML> ruled against him. I don't know what happened to him
>  ML> after that.
> Not the best chapter of our history....

As with most countries, we've had some bad spells. Even
pacifist neutral gun-totin' Switzerland has a substantial
bloodthirsty history.

>  ML> How is Watertown to get to from the camp?
> Not bad at all, actually...  and now that I know where the airport is
> exactly, probably easier in many ways than Syracuse

Not that one is actually going to get the opportunity ... .

Devonshire Express
category: booze, United Airlines
servings: 1

1 cardamom pod
1 1/2 oz El Dorado Superior white rum
2 ts Kahlua
1 shot espresso
1/2 Tb vanilla sugar
ice cubes
small piece orange zest for garnish

Crush cardamom and combine with ice in shaker.
Muddle rum, Kahlua, espresso, and sugar with
wooden spoon. Shake vigorously for 30 sec.
Strain into chilled martini glass; garnish.

Gianni Albanese, Anise, London, Hemispheres magazine 10/2015
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