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Skriven 2013-06-08 20:43:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:261/1381)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: for chocolate 646
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 06-02-13  16:26 <=-

 ML>> I was really surprised about the lack of these things in the
 ML>> Stop & Shop, which is in a yuppifying neighborhood.
 NB>> Maybe the store hasn't caught up with the neighborhood...?
 ML> Or perhaps even despite the gentrification the target population
 ML> for such products (Asians and vegans, mostly) hasn't started to
 ML> assert itself.

Possible... also possible that the target population, not finding it
there, are going elsewhere to find such...  What would seem to be
obvious, that if you don't offer something you won't be able to sell it,
seems to escape many a supermarket (etc)...
 
 NB>>> You can give it a try when you come visit here... I'll let you help
 NB>>> pay the grocery bill so that you can be self-indulgently experimental.
 ML>> Okay, speaking of which, how does right before or after the
 ML>> picnic sound? Either that or September 18 to 24.
 NB>> Before misses Fords, right after is kinda tight (I'm home for only
 NB>> about a week before turning around and going to the Pond for the annual
 NB>> BPA meeting) but possible...  September looks fine.
 ML> Let's count on September, then.

Ok, sounds good.  :)
 
 ML>> There's the phenomenon of "seizing" (for some reason not
 ML>> generally called "seizure"). It's rather like instant
 ML>> crystallization such as you get from those reusable heat
 ML>> packs. After chocolate seizes, it can no longer be used
 ML>> as couverture or molded candy, but I actually think it
 ML>> tastes great when in this condition and am surprised some
 ML>> opportunistic entrepreneur hasn't packaged ruined chocolate
 ML>> as "crystalline chocolate" or something like that.
 NB>> I'll try to keep it in mind.  Mostly I'm just ingesting chocolate, not
 NB>> cooking with it... ;)

 ML> Okay, that doesn't pose as many issues.

It still tastes good either way... just not so useful for the fancier
stuff...  ;)

 ML>>> Heh, perhaps true, but my frighten threshold is pretty high.
 RH>>> Rocky Horror Picture Show or Texas Chainsaw Massacre? (G)
 ML>> ...
 NB>> The former is a SF-genre spoof, (mostly) clean fun... became a cult
 NB>> classic, and degenerated to less clean (maybe) fun.  I think she
 NB>> picked it for its title rather than the content.  The latter I haven't
 NB>> seen, and have no intentions of doing so... I think it depicts more
 NB>> than just threats of violence...
 ML> I looked these up. The former appears to be less clean from
 ML> the getgo than you imply; the latter just as horrendous in
 ML> every way. Murder seems to be a main theme in both. I might in
 ML> my dotage take the trouble to see the former if only to cackle
 ML> as Meat Loaf gets massacred. Not planning on seeing the other,
 ML> though.

We all agree on the latter...  :)   I have seen the former, so my
description is from personal experience.  The murder as such is played
down... from my memory, I think it wasn't even actually carried out in
the film, but it's been a long time now since I viewed it (though it was
multiple times... I was the cashier for those showings, my neighbors
were running the cinema and called me in to help out since it drew
crowds and they needed extra help...)  It's more in the Blazing Saddles
genre if anything...

ttyl       neb

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