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Skriven 2014-01-15 17:58:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:261/1381)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: parties 36
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 01-09-14  21:38 <=-

 ML>> is inexcusable. One can only hope that that chocolate is as
 ML>> bad for cats as it is for dogs.
 NB>> Wish I could confirm that for you
 ML> Lola was not sufficiently poisoned, though she might have
 ML> gotten some kind of mental weirdness from the chocolate.
 ML> I found her hiding under my bed, as she must have sneaked
 ML> in when I was in the bathroom or something.

It did seem to make our Taco a bit weirder than normal... but perhaps
for Lola it was a case of any port in a storm...?   :)

 ML>> theatrical types, some arteesteek types, bunches of folks from
 ML>> restaurants - I didn't see the Franco guy there, but his
 ML>> brother, who is the chef at Cloud Nine, was, and he said hi.
 NB>> Always nice to run into folks you know at things like that... :)
 ML> It is - they serve as anchor points from which further
 ML> forays can be made. I can deal with groups of complete
 ML> strangers, though that's not my preference. Annie is, as
 ML> she says, like a pig in mud in such situations.

I'm happier with smaller groups, and not particularly keen on complete
strangers... I can deal ok, just not exactly enthusiastic about seeking
that sort of situation out...  ;)

 ML>> Actually, I ended up sharing a few laughs with
 ML>> the former and stories about mutual friends with the latter.
 NB>> Sounds like those were reasonably enjoyable encounters... :)
 ML> They were, and entertainingly a day or two later at the
 ML> restaurant the waitress did not acknowledge me at all.

Her curiosity being satisfied...  ;)  And perhaps the memory partly
expunged...?  ;)

 ML> I have recently tried two bacon substitutes - one smoked then
 ML> fried beef point-cut brisket (two varieties, varying quality)
 ML> and the other smoke-flavored chicken lunch meat (nasty).

The latter does sound rather nasty...  the beef might bear some
resemblance, like the non-cured beef "hotdogs" were to the real thing...
I tended to like those better than the nitrate-loaded piggie things,
actually... but haven't bought them in ages now...

 ML> It's cool living in halal land for a while. Since I was last
 ML> in Malaysia the presence of the haram is much less apparent - 
 ML> I took Lilli to a tapas bar where I'd had serrano ham before,
 ML> and it's all halal things now, even though it offers alcohol.
 ML> Religious conservatism is coming to the fore all kinds of
 ML> places now. 

Interesting.  Apparently not a total thing yet, if the alcohol is still
available...?  Nothing wrong with halal food, though...  :)
 
 NB>> Does sound good.  :)  I noted in further reading that the early dinner
 NB>> didn't come off... I forget whether you eventually made a stroganoff..

 ML> Nah, the meat disappeared into the freezer, sigh, but
 ML> better than the garbage.

True, in the freezer it might even stay intact for further use... :) 
So, also better than the fridge... although then it would have been more
convenient...  ;)  

 ML>> One of the best stroganoffs I ever
 ML>> had was at Red Square, a pseudo-Russian bar/restaurant/den of
 ML>> iniquity in Las Vegas - it was just this, nothing more, and
 ML>> it was totally delicious. Of course, it's hard to make a bad
 ML>> stroganoff (unless you omit meat or sour cream). 
 NB>> Since meat and sour cream are the signature ingredients... :) 
 NB>> Red Square sounds like a fun place...  ;)
 ML> I've had stroganoff with the sour cream omitted, and it was
 ML> not surprisingly beef stew. Red Square was a very noisy place,
 ML> but what in Las Vegas isn't? Fun, who knows. Depending on my
 ML> budget, I figure I could have picked a wide variety of
 ML> entertainment from what was there.

Not at all surprisingly beef stew without sour cream... :)  I don't
think I've ever been to Las Vegas, but the noise doesn't surprise me...
Closest I've come was a trip just over the Idaho border with my m-i-l's
twin sister to show us the casino she and her husband once ran...  As to
fun and entertainment... guess it depends too on what one's idea of
entertaining is..  :)

ttyl      neb

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