Text 35435, 69 rader
Skriven 2016-01-23 17:00:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: lucky/yucky 843
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 01-20-16  17:52 <=-

 > Richard and I were at the Volvo dealer recently, getting something done
 > on my car, sitting in the waiting area... there was this BOOM... turned
 > out a wheel had come loose from a car down the street
 ML> Seems to be commoner than previously thought. I wonder
 ML> there aren't more stories of people getting crowned by
 ML> the things more often.

I suppose it's sorta like the reports of accidents on the radio... many
a time it's somewhere that I drive regularly, but never have seen an
accident happen...  Or that for all the reckless driving one sees and
hears about, that there aren't more serious accidents happening... ;)
 
 >  > Ah, welll.... maybe it's humor......? ;/
 >  ML> The joke, I suspect, will be on the stockholders.
 > I suppose we'll find out eventually...  With any luck, the quality of
 > the food won't slip as a consequence....
 ML> I still hold Popeye's, even if called P, in high esteem.
 ML> I was munching on an ayam goreng (lemongrass fried chicken)
 ML> thigh yesterday and caught myself thinking, this is okay,
 ML> but it doesn't hold a candle to Popeye's spicy.

Strange how one gets spoiled... ;)  And set in one's favored tastes.. ;) 
 
 >  ML> Apparently not. Though she eats pate and such (same
 >  ML> with Lilli, who has acquired a taste for foie gras).
 > I guess some things have such a cachet to them that one forgets what
 > their reality is... ;) 
 ML> Perhaps, though foie gras is a special case, being that
 ML> it is so much better than other liver.

True.
 
 >  > I take it that you cooked up that bit of the chicken... :)  I can
 >  > imagine some thinking that somewhat gross, but I think it sounds quite
 >  > lovely, actually...  :)
 >  ML> She actually sucked it up and cooked the pieces that
 >  ML> she'd normally have thrown out.
 > Including the fat and skin...?  
 ML> Yep; in fact she had no clue what to do with the lumps
 ML> of fat, so she coated them like regular chicken and fried
 ML> it. The first bite was okay.
 
Hmmmm.... ;)

 >  >  ML> cooking than the package indicated; but at the end, it
 >  >  ML> was okay. On reheating it was almost real. 
 >  > That's not too bad then...  :)
 >  ML> Not at all, considering it was reconstituted out of a
 >  ML> mass-market box. Still I think not so good as Popeye's, 
 >  ML> or mine, or anyone competent's made from scratch, if it 
 >  ML> comes to that.
 > And in the right hands, even a mass-market box can turn out not too bad,
 > so long as it isn't nasty to begin with... ;)
 ML> Generally I'd prefer cooking things from scratch, but
 ML> in the case of beans, I can see the point of canned or 
 ML> freeze-dried (or however Zatarain's manages to do it).

Some things are better pre-processed...  ;)   Or at least, as good, with
less effort required...  :)

ttyl       neb

... Did you say that MNP means Modem Needs Pizza?

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