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Skriven 2015-03-18 13:25:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: spicy or not 349
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 03-13-15  10:20 <=-

 ML> I had just been thinking that the Marie Callender food
 ML> I have tasted would have benefited from a goodly dose of
 ML> one of the peppers or another.

One of the less-bland store offerings is their herb-roasted chicken,
which has been probably our favorite of the offerings... not the least
because the chicken is a leg and a thigh...  :)

 ML> - begin quote from old post -
 ML> After I got picked up at the rather tiny Fresno Yosemite airport,
 ML> guess where I took my friends for a treat? Marie Callender's. Their
 ML> choice. Salad bar was decent, food wholesome but not distinctive. Their
 ML> idea of garlic sauce is a whole pile of Boursin-style cheese melted on
 ML> top of your pasta or whatever. I had chicken-fried steak: two big
 ML> pieces, probably both mechanically and chemically tenderized, breaded
 ML> to make them look even bigger, served with decent mashed potatoes and a
 ML> cream gravy with diced up big link sausages in it (I used 30 or more
 ML> pills on this meal). I tasted everything from ribs (nothing special) to
 ML> two dishes with that garlic "sauce" (nothing special) to their famous
 ML> potato-cheese soup (nothing special) to New England clam chowder
 ML> (bleah). Big portions. 
 ML> - end quote from old post -

Wholesome but not distinctive...  I think that probably is a good
summation... :)  We've found the frozen meals sufficiently wholesome to
have them as a ready back-up supply of food...  :)  I'm sure that the
frozen meals are even less distinctive than the restaurant food was,
though... :)

 ML> Note: this post was from before Lactaid came out with
 ML> extra-strength pills, so the 30 translates to 10 new style.

That's still a fair bit of dosing needed... ;)
 
 ML>> I've tried and still can't get past 50 seconds, much less
 ML>> into the minutes.
 NB>> Guess it needs building up again... or maybe it's something that
 NB>> aging bodies don't do so well...  ;/
 ML> 56 seconds as of today.

Progress, anyway...  :)
 
 ML>> This was at OS flight attendant training school. For decades
 ML>> I have suggested to United that it offer safety training to
 ML>> its better customers - perhaps offering this opportunity to
 ML>> be paid for with miles -, but it has been Austrian and Delta,
 ML>> that actually have reached out to frequent flyers in this way.
 ML>> Not United, and as far as I know not other airlines.
 NB>> Some things just seem so obviously good fits... and surprisingly
 NB>> not picked up on...  :)
 ML> Seems to be a win-win. The training centers are sometimes idle,
 ML> the airline has lots of liabilities on the books in the form of
 ML> frequent flyer miles; and lots of passengers would probably be
 ML> interested in safety training. So figure out the cost of a
 ML> training session, translate that into miles, and add a percentage,
 ML> and boom, everyone's happy.

Sounds reasonable to me...  ;)

ttyl       neb

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