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Skriven 2016-01-23 17:08:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: aged &c 845
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 01-20-16  18:17 <=-

 >  >  ML> One's body produces more alcohol from the carbohydrate
 >  >  ML> in the brownies than one would get from the Jack.
 >  > Doesn't hold much to those that would be quibbling... ;)
 >  ML> I guess it's a question of volition then in their case.
 >  ML> For me, functionality is more important.
 > And I'd be eating them for their taste... not their alcoholic content...
 > and not avoiding them for the latter...  ;)
 ML> To be quite blunt, most boozy desserts taste worse
 ML> than their nonboozy counterparts. Now a sprinkling of a
 ML> few drops of alcohol might and often does improve most
 ML> dishes, even desserts, when one is trying to obey the
 ML> second master, intoxication, balance and flavor are most
 ML> often out the window.

Probably just as well that I rarely have the opportunity for the boozy
desserts... ;)   Although, at our last church dinner, there were a
couple of rum-soaked cakes available... those were tasty enough... :)
 
 >  > Was she driving erratically...?  And was it actually affecting her
 >  > judgement...?  If so, then you might have a case... 
 >  ML> Apparently yes. She did get stopped, after all.
 > Could be.  Might have been stopped for some other reason, though...
 ML> So I looked the case up, and she was stopped with
 ML> a flat tire, and the breathalyzer was done as a
 ML> collateral thing: she blew 0.40, but after hours
 ML> in the hospital without having drunk any more, she
 ML> blew 0.30, which clued people in that something
 ML> out of the ordinary was happening.
 
Ah... that makes sense then that she beat the rap...  I recently heard
of someone else that has that problem... somebody that a friend of a
friend knows...  ;)  

 >  ML> If there were no chance you or anyone else was going to
 >  ML> buy them, and if giving them to you didn't jeopardize the
 >  ML> possibility of your going back, no reason not to.
 > We were clearly full, the place was empty and it was closing time...
 > and we've been back many a time since...  ;)  We were already regulars,
 > especially our son...
 ML> So the goodwill gesture had no potential negative effects. 
 
Nope.  :)

 >  ML> On the other hand, similar behaviors have got other
 >  ML> industries into some trouble. Like the airlines giving
 >  ML> away upgrades - it got to the point where nobody was
 >  ML> actually buying first class, and worse, some customers
 >  ML> (such as myself) worked out ways of sitting in the front
 >  ML> while paying the rock-bottomest of prices - and complaining
 >  ML> when we didn't! It'll be some time before the effects of
 >  ML> that miscalculation will right themselves. I hope I'm not
 >  ML> around to be victim of the correction!
 > Indeed.   :)  Someone obviously did some sort of major miscalculation
 > there... probably on the ramifications of their brilliant idea to fill
 > the seats... ;)
 ML> The miscalculation took place in maybe the '80s, maybe
 ML> earlier, and it has been entrenched in the system. The
 ML> airlines finally tumbled to the idiocy of it all, but
 ML> nobody has been willing to dismantle the system for fear
 ML> they give a competitive advantage to the enemy. Delta bit 
 ML> the bullet a few years ago, followed by United about two
 ML> years ago, and American is going to follow suit by 
 ML> mid-'16. The free ride is over! A sad effect is that I
 ML> may be flying back next week at least partway in coach.

Sigh.  A nice ride while it lasted, though...  :)

 >  ML> As few jurisdictions any more allow donations of that sort 
 >  ML> to shelters and food banks, that strikes me as the best of
 >  ML> all ways. Or perhaps have a cleanup party on the first day
 >  ML> of vacation.
 > That would work, too...  :)   Williamsport might be still a place that
 > would allow the donations, though... not exactly a major hub of a
 > city...  ;)
 ML> Yes and no - it's been a surprising cultural-economic
 ML> battleground for a number of years, with many weird
 ML> clashes among ethnic and other cultural entities.
 
True... there's been the recent fracking, and it is somewhat at a
crossroads location mid-state...  And it clearly had some potential,
since there's been a Wegmans there for years.... ;)

 >  ML> She'd have had a meltdown, the way she pretty much did 
 >  ML> regarding the Christmas consomme. Did I tell you that Anne
 >  ML> (Dan's mother) admitted to using Campbell's?
 > You hadn't... but that's an interesting development... ;)
 ML> An amusement, that's what it was, once the initial
 ML> shock wore off. Of course the woman's well on toward
 ML> 90 and can't be expected to do what a brigade de 
 ML> cuisine would. But then I shouldn't have either.

So, next time, will it be Campbell's...?  Or maybe Swansons or
Wegmans...?  ;)

 >  ML> Easy Old-Fashioned Homemade Marshmallows
 > What I'd really be curious about is what recipe was being used
 > commercially back when I enjoyed the stale ones so much...  :) 
 > Probably something totally unknowable now...  :)
 ML> You could ask Kraft if it has an archivist. Of course, if
 ML> so, the person probably would be half our age and beginning
 ML> to feel like in a backwater.

Probably...  :)

ttyl       neb

... I know the voices aren't real but they have good ideas.

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