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     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: the party food 468
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Hey Michael!

-> 
-> My favorite (but few others') was very pale, nearly raw skewers
-> of beef with raifort sauce. Somehow raw beef squicks people out.
-> This was filet, very lean and tender and suitable for an
-> upscale party that had been publicized by the yuppie newspaper
-> of the millennium. It constituted the bulk of my meal.
->
Not surprising!

-> 
-> The main dish room was true to the tradition, featuring all
-> things turkey, including substantial leftovers of a roast one
-> and a smoked one; this latter was kind of comically overdone,
-> the wings shiny ebony black, the white meat shreddy like
-> excelsior. I found one of the spoon meats, the little oval
-> muscle that nestles at the junction of the thigh and the back;
-> this is one of the most sought-after pieces of every bird in
-> every culture that has any culinary sense: it was barely edible.
-> 
Sounds like Annie would have loved that
bird! (grin)
-> 
-> Many kinds of stuffing, all nearly identical, none having the
-> sausage or giblets that make stuffing worth eating, so I didn't
-> bother; five cranberry sauces - one classic whole-berry, two orange
-> (one whole-berry, one raw chopped), one canned whole-berry, and
-> one canned jellied with the circumferential can marks still visible.
-> 
YICK!

-> Three Brussels sprout dishes, of which I had none.
-> 
Shame on you for that! 
-> 
-> I spent much of my time when I wasn't stuffing my face or fetching
-> drinks for Rosemary (one of several hawt grannies) or Josie (the
-> hawt great-granny) talking to this amusing person from the Getty
-> Museum. Much more entertaining than the financial and political
-> types. She was kind of cute, too.
->
Which Getty? The one in L.A.?
 
-> Dessert: various pies and cakes, mostly changes rung on the
-> pumpkin, nuts, and cranberries themes. I had a couple of chocolate-
-> dipped macaroons and called it a night, not having overeaten or
-> overdrunk and somewhat proud of myself for that.
->
A laudable effort, and I'm sure 
it will mark well on your Karma 
chart (grin)!
 
-> Oh, yes, I fixed the coffee dispenser, to which the kitchen help
-> clucked and told me I must be as smart as an engineer (last year,
-> it took an engineer to fix that same urn). The help were very
-> (very) cute, and it is a reflection of my age and debilitated
-> state that I didn't look twice at them but confined my attentions
-> to great-grannies and such.
-> 
It's more a sign of your age when they
completely ignore you and call you "cute".
It's sort of like not even being there.
chat with you soon!
hap
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