Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 04-12-19 09:52 <=-

Why eat rice crackers when you can have
shrimp rice crackers?

Rather rhetorical for the likes of us... for the Lillis and Bills,
they'd rather the plain ones... and I'd think also those with an allergy
or sensitivity to shrimp.... ;)

In that last case, they can't have shrimp rice
crackers. For the others, eh, their problem, Lilli
doesn't much like regular rice crackers either.

True, and true... :)

pond scum.

Yuck... that's one reason I don't do tap water much... one never knows exactly when that will happen.... and one gets a mouthful of it...

I turn my taste buds off, finding the
environmental hit of plastic bottles more
distasteful than the pond water.

I'd be more likely getting cans of flavored sparkling water to have instead... turning off the tastes buds doesn't work so well for me...

I on the other hand find flavored sparkling
waters, especially unsugared ones, largely
an annoyance.

[snicker] We don't agree on everything... (G)

personnel. Fu being a notable exception.

Someday, maybe, he'll get someone else in the kitchen with him... ;) I

But not of his offspring, it seems.

Probably not... unless one of the younger boys shows interest
eventually.... :)

What do you think the chances are of that?

Dunno... possible... Fu doesn't push it... though he does encourage them
at least to feed themselves as they get old enough... :)

just a bit different overall.. still good, though...

There are always personnel adjustments in
restaurants, not always at the owners' will.

True....

Think of it as the tides of life. Hunanese chefs are
famous for coming and going and threatening to sever
their relationship with a restaurant by cleaver to
owner's head.

Hmmmm.... ;)

But the most amusing case I've witnessed
was a Cajun place in Marblehead that had excellent and
authentic cooking, as good as the big-name restaurants
in New Orleans. The chef was this little guy with furtive
eyes and a snarl (I kind of liked him) called Ed. The
inevitable happened, the restaurant suddenly downhilled,
and of course Ed had been caught on an outstanding warrant
and sent to the slammer. After barely squeaking by for a
year or two, word got round that it was good again, and
guess what - Ed had been released from prison and was
back in the kitchen. That lasted for a while, but he
eventually committed some other infraction, and this
time after more struggles the place shut for good.

Indeed an amusing case.... if a bit sad as well... :)

... Ever use capsaicin-based pain ointment as a food additive?

Yes. Next question?

I mentioned your response to Richard, so he checked the tube... says
it's for external use only... (G) I'd ask if you survived it, but obviously you have... (G)

Just because the zinc oxide and petrolatum or
whatever they were have not been certified safe to
eat doesn't mean you can't eat them.

True... and often it's more CYA than actually poison... :)

And went galumphing back.

I remember Daddy declaming that (and other Lewis Carroll poems)... with expression.... (G)

Some of us used to do similar in unison or antiphonally
while hiking in the otherwise tranquil and pristine
White Mountains. We were obnoxious brats ourselves.

There were indeed some that most of us had also memorized... and unison
was not unheard of... ;) I still remember bits and pieces... possibly
more than I realize... (G)

If one had a handy library that had hard copies of
ancient Buying Guides, that might be an impetus for
another hour's procrastination.

Not here... we might have been getting CR back then, but I don't know
where, if existing, they'd be around here now... ;)

There might be a handy public library with at least
microfilm copies.

There might. Dunno as the branch down the street would have any such, though......

... I want to be what I was when I wanted to be what I am now

Me too, more or less, just not so blind, weak, forgetful,
and low-capacitated.

Yeah......

Today's a good day - I can read the screen without
having to scootch up so far that I can see individual
pixels. Focal length is still a couple inches, but
I can discriminate up to 5 (8 with glasses and bobbing
my head around a bit).

Hooray.... :)

ttyl neb

... If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

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