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Skriven 2015-12-31 11:08:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: that's peculiar 738
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 12-30-15  16:24 <=-

 >  ML> We actually had this in the context of a 4-course meal,
 >  ML> of which we cancelled one of the courses. It turned out
 >  ML> to be more like a $200 meal, all told. It was in somewhat
 >  ML> richer and more self-indulgent days.
 > Indeed... :)  Quite the indulgent meal, too... :)
 ML> Benita used to get huge airline discounts on hotels, which
 ML> was good, and then blow the savings and more on these over
 ML> the top meals. Between her and Nicholas (whom I have not
 ML> seen in a long time), my budget took a huge beating, which
 ML> I am now accomplishing by myself.

It's a way of living... ;)   Have you heard anything of Nicholas...?
 
 >  > Rather a surfeit of goodness, I imagine... ;)  Did either of you take
 >  > the leftovers home...?
 >  ML> Yep, she did, and they went bad.
 > She couldn't eat it fast enough, or couldn't face anymore after all...?
 ML> Well, no matter how good a hotel room fridge may be, it's
 ML> not going to keep a blob of medium-rare liver for as long
 ML> as it took to eat it.

Good point.  :)
 
 >  ML> 1. Someone called Rose, now owned by Boone Brands from North
 >  ML> Carolina, though in my youth you could see Armour brand in
 >  ML> the stores.
 > Armour used to have all sorts of canned meatstuffs in the stores...
 ML> But learned its lesson and now seems to have ceded that
 ML> niche to smaller companies (which probably buy from it
 ML> anyway).

Could be.

 > I take it one should mix the canned brains with scrambled eggs for that
 > one...? 
 ML> It's a pretty common old southern recipe - you scramble the
 ML> two together and remember not to get a blood test for a good
 ML> long time afterward. In this case you probably ought to drain
 ML> off the milk gravy (which is sort of weird anyway) first.

I take it, it's canned in milk gravy, then...?  And what does it do to
one's bloodwork...?
 
 >  ML> 2. Some lunatics from Switzerland. The brand name
 >  ML> is Trek'n Eat.
 > Ah, ok...  UDD suggests that they might be found at a camping/sports
 > equipment store...
 ML> If you're unlucky.

And/or happen to be in such a store... which I rarely am...  :)  Hafflys
might be more likely to run across it...  ;)

 >  ML> Which reminds me that it has been a good long time
 >  ML> since I've had red-cooked pig tripe, which I recall
 >  ML> as being very, very good.
 > Time to search out the raw materials...?
 ML> Easier to go to Asia and find a stall that specializes
 ML> in it. In this case, it'll be either before Lilli gets
 ML> there, or I'll ditch her at the mall long enough to find
 ML> some delicious native food.

There you go...  :)

 >  ML> 2. Maybe. I didn't live your youth so can't tell.
 > I suppose it might have been a little before your time... I remember
 > the tastiness of the stale ones mostly from when we lived in Indiana,
 > so I'd've been no more than 6 at the time... 
 ML> As I'm not that much younger than you, ... .

67 tomorrow...  you might have been enough younger not to have had the
same experience, especially if things changed soon after... plus you
were further south at the time, IIRC...  :)

ttyl        neb

... I'm going to make a prediction: It could go either way.

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