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Skriven 2008-09-28 23:29:08 av Michael Loo (1:18/200.0)
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We went to Porter's, the home restaurant of the guy who does
the BBQ concession down at Safeco Field. Apparently Porter
had a rib joint (the echo picnic in '01 went there) that
made him such a name that he started catering, and he was
so successful at catering that he closed the restaurant up.
But after a while he missed restauranting and opened up a
new place by La Quinta in Tacoma.

It doesn't look or smell like a Q place. But decent Q does
come out. Annie had a brisket sandwich that looked like
enough for 3 meals. Hap had a rib plate that looked like
enough for 2 meals. I had the Dixie again, a hot link
smothered in brisket smothered in sauce, on a sub roll.
I'd had it at the ballpark once, and it was okay. This one
cost less and was at least 3 times as big, Anticipating the
puny thing I'd had at the park, I asked for sides of fried
okra and stewed collards. Hap chimed in with an order of
hushpuppies. Let's see. The fried okra and hushpuppies came
out first - though we'd ordered $2 sides, $5 appetizer
baskets came out - about a quart of each, just enormous.
Both were quite good, the pups small and round and oniony,
the okra slices from many different size pods and varying
from crunchy throughout to crunchy and snotty to crunchy and
a little fibrous. Hap's ribs were pretty good, though in the
soft presauced style that I disprefer. The brisket was a tad
better than the norm, though a little dry. My hot link was
this flabby thing not much better than what I'd had at the
ballpark some years ago. A Black Butte porter went quite
nicely with the food.

We took home as much food in to go boxes as we did in our tummies.

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I'd had a heck of a time with the wireless at Commencement Bay,
so I wanted to check if my machine were okay (it's been acting
up in other ways). 

UA5797 SEA PDX 0850 0938 EM2 9B

The flight took off and landed five late. It was fine,
though the EM2 made really weird noises throughout the
flight, at least the part where I was awake (takeoff
and landing). A pleasant Chinese flight attendant.

UA  75 PDX SFO 1024 1208 752 3D

The purser was having a difficult time reading the welcome
announcements from the crib book, so he got someone else to
give the tougher ones and read the shorter, easier ones.

No "Flight attendants prepare for takeoff" announcement!
Which might have had weird results if one of the FAs hadn't
noticed that we were entering the runway, so they all
scattered fast. Ours was a very pretty young black woman
who I wouldn't have minded landing in my lap.

Decent service. Courvoisier.

I asked for Channel 9 with a refusal, but the pretty FA did
apologize.

A mostly smooth and uneventful flight.

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