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Skriven 2013-11-30 21:23:28 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
   Kommentar till text 7274 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
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Hi Michael,

 ML> even that's been done. I'll hold to my original position,
 ML> though, and if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck
 ML> and doesn't taste like a duck, why bother.
 RH> Her choice, not mine. Maybe her original recipe was quacked up?

 ML> Some creamy dairy product would probably helped: it should
 ML> have been quarked up.

Like a German duck? Quark, quark?


 RH> This morning a live turkey was at the market. His pen had a
 ML> Last time I saw live poultry at a market was, oddly, in
 ML> Philadelphia.
 RH> No surprise there--a lot of Amish/Mennonite farmers go there to sell
 RH> their goods. Poultry "on the hoof" would be expected.

 ML> I did eat of two turkeys on Thanksgiving that had been
 ML> alive on Wednesday. Organic. Not tender, but pretty tasty.

We got a fres bird on Friday, not organic but the taste (of crispy skin)
I had tonight was good. Roasted it and will divvy it up for the freezer
tomorrow.


 ML> I try to avoid the near occasion of disaster. A couple years
 ML> ago I rerouted myself to avoid a volcano eruption and then a
 ML> blizzard; lost a bunch of miles but also a bunch of excitement
 ML> of potentially the bad sort.
 RH> Better to lose miles than get caught up in a situation that could have
 RH> been avoided.

 ML> My two rules are: don't put myself in danger and don't have
 ML> anyone else put themselves in danger on my behalf. If I can
 ML> experience 100 mph winds without that happening, all the better.

Good thinking. Stay out of the area near danger and you should be OK. Of
course things like earthquakes can occur anywhere, and usually without
warning.

 ML> Are you proposing that in such cases, one should not bother
 ML> going for an English approximation/translation? I could be
 ML> convinced. Easily.
 RH> Why not?  We've adopted so many other words into our descriptions of
 RH> foods, we might just as well add a few more.

 ML> Okay, you've convinced me.

 RH> Would you rather eat foi(?) gras or goose liver? (G)

 ML> I'd eat either (but bear in mind, they're not synonymous).

Close enough to use as an illustration tho.


 ML> There is a restaurant in Boston that used to have Gansesleberwurst
 ML> on the menu, and I ordered it until the day when it tasted more
 ML> like Schweinsleberwurst. It also had pistachios in it, which I love.

Somebody tried pulling a fast one. Don't know if I'd want leberwurst
with nuts or not; I'm not that much into eating it anyway.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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