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>  ML> Doesn't seem likely - maybe they're trying something
>  ML> new someplace where there will be only minor consequence,
>  ML> or perhaps there's an attempt to distinguish their 
>  ML> fuller-service operations from this rather streamlined
>  ML> one at the airport.
> Those do sound like reasonable possibilities... :)

And then I saw a picture on one of the fast-food-review
sites (I read some of them for the humor, rather than
the edification). It appears that Popeye's is going in
that marketing direction, and the big P with no pop
is in our future.

>  ML> Not like Chipotle, which I wouldn't be surprised 
>  ML> to see reincarnated as Halapenooz or Tortilla Flats or
>  ML> something. And who'd ever want to say to his friends
>  ML> and relations, I have a hankering for fried chicken,
>  ML> let's go to P.
> Indeed... and true...  ;)

Mommy, mommy, I need P! I am reminded of this kid I knew,
he's now a famous rabbi, among whose first utterances at
age nought and change were Muh! and Sh! - meaning McDonald's
and Shakey's Pizza respectively.

>  ML> Truly. The mild is as spicy as most brands' spicy anyhow.
> I keep trying to get some of the colonel's spicy to compare, but the
> places I've tried don't do that one...

From what I recall of KFC spicy is that it's mostly salty.

>  ML> Friday Annie will fix her famous fried chicken (I have to
>  ML> cut up the bird), and with that the Zatarain's mix will
>  ML> complete the simulated Popeye's experience.
> Waiting for the report....  ;)

Well. We looked in vain - Annie looked in vain - for a
cut up fryer. So I said I'd cut up a chicken and chose a
nice fat 4-or-5-pounder, but she put it back and got this
7 lb behemoth.

So I ended up cutting it into more than the authorized
8 pieces: I did two breast halves, a keel bone, top back,
bottom back, two drummers, two thighs, two wing first
joints (the size of a normal drumstick), two wing second
joints. Pulled the globs of fat out of the cavity. The
thing was blessed with a liver, a gizzard, a neck, and
two hearts. Annie was flummoxed by this, as she is used
to 8 pieces and 8 only. In honor of me she didn't soak
the meat in buttermilk (actually, she didn't have any
buttermilk) but merely did a thorough dredge with lightly
seasoned (s&p only) flour. Cooked slowly in lard in a
heavy cast iron pan, four batches. It came out incredibly
crunchy, but the crunch faded rapidly. I found it way
underseasoned and sprinkled my pieces with cayenne and
garlic powder, at which point the stuff approached what
I had had in New Orleans. This coating didn't take well
to sitting around, and in due time it got soggy soggy,
worse in the fridge. Oh, by the way, the blobs of fat
got floured and fried as though they were chicken. I
ended up eating the outside coating off and dumping the
rest back in the skillet to be refried. Lots of Calories
there. My first meal was the fat, some skin that had
fallen off one of the breast halves, all the offal, and
the lower back. This was the best of it. Subsequent
meals were: one thigh; one thigh; the keelbone and
the top back. This, to paraphrase Nixon, was truly a
huge chicken.

The red beans and rice mix, it turns out, was the
reduced-sodium version, which problem was solved by
the addition of a bit of salt! It tasted pretty decent,
but as has been suggested, a bit of additional onion
helped a lot. Texture - it needed less liquid and more
cooking than the package indicated; but at the end, it
was okay. On reheating it was almost real. 

> And as you've no doubt seen now, a great flood with dates of 6 Dec, 10
> Dec, and a few of the 20s, just showed up at Docs....  Apparently
> nothing untoward happening with them or the family, just the with the
> messages....  :)

When anyone goes absent, I wonder about the family or the them.
Makes me glad when you're in touch with the Fords.

>  ML> That 20 maximum was a traffic cop when the echo was really
>  ML> busy; doesn't seem so necessary now, but I figure it should
>  ML> be kept just in case. I mean who would have thought that the
>  ML> North Pole would ever get above 32 degrees?
> Oh, I know... it makes a reasonable cap for messages anyway, so I don't
> mind abiding by it, pretty much... :)

And as another Annie says,  So you got to hang on 'til 
tomorrow, come what may!

Margarita
categories: booze
servings: 1

2 oz silver tequila
1 oz Cointreau
1 oz lime juice

Shaken, not stirred, with ice, then poured into a salt rimmed 
glass over ice.

http://naturespoisons.com
seriously
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