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Skriven 2014-01-03 18:42:55 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
   Kommentar till text 8346 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: fu 667
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-=> Quoting MICHAEL LOO to NANCY BACKUS on 29 Dec 13  13:20:00 <=-

 ML>> I'm not squeamish.
 NB>> I'm mostly not squeamish... (G)  How squeamish was your dining
 NB>> companion that day...?
 ML> She's a good dining companion - she's the one who claims to
 ML> endorse veganism but does not practice it when we dine together.
 ML> It's not that she will eat all the peculiar things that I do,
 ML> but she actually doesn't quail when I do - in contrast to Lilli,
 ML> who will take my habits with a sense of humor for a couple days
 ML> but begins to turn green on the third or fourth day of tentacle
 ML> tempura.

Ah... so Lilli is trying to be accepting, but it's surface, and the
green ends up showing through eventually... One can give her a lot of
credit for trying, though...  Perhaps it is best not to push her limits
too very far...  (But tentacle tempura is SO good... sigh... I can
understand wanting it more often than once in a blue moon... ;0 )  I
guess that Link isn't put off by odd things, whether or not she decides
to check them out personally...

 ML> This one, Link, is my regular companion at Texas Roadhouse.
 ML> It's not that either of us prefers it (I do, sort of), but
 ML> there's one near the rehearsal place that we frequent.

Convenience is a good thing.  :)

 NB>> I'm sure it was still quite fine.  :)
 ML> It was quite okay - Annie keeps her fridges pretty cold.
 ML> She's been getting on my case about my putting food out in
 ML> the mud room instead of the fridge. Whose fault is that -
 ML> she had a hundred bottles of whatever stored there for the
 ML> party, and anyhow, it was 40F or less in the mud room, not
 ML> much different from the fridges anyway.
 ML> It doesn't seem as anyone at the party found the food bad or
 ML> got sick.

I totally agree with you...  of course there are those that think I'm
woefully uncareful about such things... ;)  But not having been sickened
by, nor sickened others, I see nothing wrong with it either.  :)

 ML>> complain. Annie of course is inconsistent in her guidance,
 ML>> sometimes shooing Lola from the table but also occasionally
 ML>> letting her eat off her plate or even the serving plates.
 NB>> See, it's nothing personal... ;)
 ML> Welll .... just because I didn't lose any money to Bernie
 ML> Madoff doesn't mean I can't hate him.

No, but you can't claim that he lost any of your money...  (G)

 NB>> Just as with other children/teenagers, one needs to
 NB>> be consistent with one's discipline... they still
 NB>> may not always obey, but they know when they aren't...
 ML> Therein lies the rub.

Whether it bothers me depends on the attitude... one who is repentant is
much easier to take than one who is insolent about the transgression...

 NB>> Question... doesn't dirty rice start as regular rice...?  Or do
 NB>> all the extra ingredients go in while the rice is cooking...?
 ML> What I do is cook the rice in stock, then add the tasty
 ML> ingredients. I think the normal way, though, is to cook the
 ML> liver with the rice; but that leads to overcooked liver.
 
I could see cooking something like gizzards with the rice, but I can
agree that the liver would be better left to add later...

 ML>> As it turns out, we went to the restaurant's Christmas party,
 ML>> and the chef wasn't particularly friendly to me;
 NB>> Probably a safe indicator...
 ML> And didn't show up at the party, another safe indicator.
 ML>> but one of her waitresses was, as Annie puts it, all over me
 ML>> like a cheap suit. The waitress, actually quite attractive,
 ML>> is not invited to our party.
 NB>> One less potential complication, at least...  :)
 ML> But Syd showed up and asked me to dine at the Herdic with her
 ML> sometime this week. Not her sister, whom I find attractive
 ML> but who flirted a little and then shut me down. I think no.

All the potential complications totally defused... one then wonders,
which is better, potential complications or no complications...  ;)

ttyl       neb

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