Text 12994, 48 rader
Skriven 2014-05-05 12:36:57 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
  Kommentar till text 12915 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: meals 588
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-=> Quoting MICHAEL LOO to NANCY BACKUS on 02 May 14  08:37:00 <=-

 ML> Speaking of not getting it, and humor, I was rehearsing this
 ML> new piece, and there was this guy new to me sitting second,
 ML> and he obviously wanted to be first. After some identifying
 ML> (read dog sniffing) chit-chat I told him (referencing why
 ML> he hadn't run into me frequently) that I was legendary
 ML> [discreet pause], like the kraken or the Loch Ness monster.
 ML> He didn't get it.
 
Dry humor is often lost on the recipient...  ;)  Did he at least finally
accept that you were allowed to be first instead of him...?  ;)

 ML>> sprang for the extra buck but did not question the
 ML>> invisibility of the "cheese sauce." He concluded that it
 ML>> was by far the worst cheesesteak he had ever encountered,
 ML>> which was saying a lot as he had once lived in New Jersey.
 NB>> I'd suspect that the "cheese sauce" was all mixed in with the blob of
 NB>> gray ground beef already... goes along with the rest of the level of
 NB>> (un)authenticity...  ;)
 ML> I looked over, and it appeared to be a cornstarch gravy
 ML> that was mixed into the beef - translucent and gray and
 ML> in no way resembling any cheese anything.

Fake cheese food, maybe...  and only a small amount in the cornstarch...

 ML>> Oh, well, I wasn't hungry anyway. The shrimp
 ML>> were tasteless but salty; the fries were tasteless but
 ML>> unsalty: I tried a few with the cocktail sauce that was
 ML>> meant for the shrimp, and that improved them somewhat.
 NB>> Sigh...  
 ML> I should have sent them back for a recooking, as it seemed
 ML> they were just blanched (in the case of potatoes, it does
 ML> sort of whiten them) and not hit with the proper shot of heat
 ML> afterward. But then ...
  ML>> Pitchers of Yuengling were $8, and that was a good thing.
  NB>> It's a bar, after all... ;)
 ML> The place succeeded where it had to.

And sending back the fries might have only confused them...  :)  That's
probably the step that turns them into the special ones, that cost an
extra dollar...  ;)

ttyl        neb

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