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Skriven 2015-09-02 19:11:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 08-30-15  10:57 <=-

 ML>>> in the US, it's called floxacillin, which means that I might
 ML>>> have gotten it at one time.
 NB>>> I don't think I have, but I'm pretty sure that MJ did... :)
 ML>> It's not a front-line fighter in the US.
 NB>> She was allergic to many other antibiotics...  
 ML> With the allergies learned through unpleasant experience
 ML> not unlike Glen's, I presume.

Mostly before I was having to take care of her, but probably... :)

 ML> Which reminds me that Keflex (the one Glen turned out to be
 ML> sensitive to) was heavily advertised in the medical magazines
 ML> my father (a mere Ph.D. and an M.D.-wannabe) used to have
 ML> lying around the house 50 years ago.

So it was a new "miracle" drug back then... ;)  It sounds familiar
enough to me that MJ probably had that one more than once, too...

 ML>> I'd have gotten the 500 g Angus "porterhouse" (i.e., 18 oz
 ML>> sirloin strip) for two bucks less.
 NB>> And have had something to compare tastes to with the wagyu as well...
 ML> More meat, probably tastier meat, more chance of getting what
 ML> I'd ordered, etc. I should have called the waiter back and
 ML> asked to change my order, but I was too inertial and lazy.

And lived to regret it... ;)
 
 ML>> Though the clever journalists have claimed that it was
 ML>> impossible to get the real thing in the US, they were as
 ML>> most 21st-century journalists are not so clever as they
 ML>> thought themselves - certainly less clever than those who
 ML>> managed to get true wagyu beef into the mouths of red-blooded
 ML>> Americans of means (and their friends).
 NB>> Money made the difference, no doubt...  One can import anything if one
 NB>> is rich enough... ;)
 ML> Impossible is different from can't afford - especially
 ML> for the likes of me who can get the rich and famous to
 ML> show their influence by feeding me choice viands that
 ML> make me feel (only a little) beholden to them.

No doubt it was impossible for those clever journalists to get the real
thing unless they had the right connections themselves...  Just as well
you aren't feeling totally beholden, anyway...  :)

 NB>> I'll keep that in mind...  one sorta "bucket-list" has been visiting
 NB>> Japan, where we have had missionaries for many years, some of whom
 NB>> I've been relatively close to... :)  They aren't in (or near, IIRC)
 NB>> Tokyo...  
 ML> Tokyo, though a great city, is disproportionately
 ML> modern and disproportionately expensive. I'd suggest
 ML> flying into Fukuoka or Osaka and taking the train
 ML> someplace from there. Fukuoka has good Wagyu grown
 ML> near it, and Osaka has Kobe, which is however
 ML> disproportionately expensive.

Yamagata and Sendai come to mind... we may have some work in a couple
other places... :)
 
 NB>> Many of the hearts I've cooked have been cut in half already when I
 NB>> bought them, thus simplifying things somewhat
 ML> ... but they already looked like a dissection.

I suppose, if one looked at it like that... ;)

 ML>> Which reminds me, Mrs. Gates, the least inspired of my
 ML>> elementary school teachers and presumably no relation,
 ML>> once handed out a boiled chicken heart to each of the
 ML>> kids with the admonition to cut it open and draw a
 ML>> picture of what we found. I didn't bother and instead
 ML>> ate it. Next day, we were asked to turn in our drawings,
 ML>> and half of us said, gee, we didn't see anything, so she
 ML>> said, draw what you saw, so we drew a wiggly vaguely
 ML>> heart-shaped figure with nothing. I might have elaborated
 ML>> by putting in a chamber that I knew was there, maybe not.
 ML>> I doubt this exercise influenced any of us in our choice
 ML>> of professions.

Did anyone else eat theirs...?  I'm sure she meant well... ;)

ttyl       neb

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