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Skriven 2014-01-31 15:44:10 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
   Kommentar till text 9318 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: eating cheap 118
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-=> Quoting MICHAEL LOO to NANCY BACKUS on 30 Jan 14  08:25:00 <=-

 ML>> Today I'm alone and have no incentive for eating breakfast
 ML>> at all so won't. That saves a dollar tip (I'm in the US
 ML>> again). I am meeting a friend for lunch who has pretty
 ML>> expensive tastes, though (he is the former desk manager at
 ML>> the Ritz-Carlton Phoenix), so I figure I'll need every
 ML>> dollar I can muster.
 
Back in Boston area...?  Or further flung...?   How did your lunch
go...?  If twere me, I'd be skipping breakfast also to make sure to have
room so as not to waste the higher priced spread...  :)  

 NB>> Another cheap meal...  :)   Did Lilli try a bite?  They sound
 NB>> pretty nice...  :)
 ML> They were very good, and though there was nothing that she
 ML> technically couldn't eat, she pled lack of appetite.

After all, you'd both had that breakfast buffet back at the hotel, so
she could still be rather filled...  :)  And at least, certainly not
starving... :)

 ML> For a friend of mine, she is very white bread, and she has
 ML> not in my memory eaten street food anyplace except Singapore,
 ML> where things are certifiably pretty clean.
 
Perhaps in the distant past, she had a bad experience somewhere... with
that delicate stomach, she probably does feel like she should be extra
careful...  :)  

 NB>> The Friendly Skies of United, indeed...
 ML> They were kind of friendly before that slogan was introduced
 ML> but became quite surly in general shortly after.

I remember it out of the past... they always seemed ok, but not quite
what the slogan (and ad campaign) would have you to believe... :)

 ML> But I got hugged and kissed by a stewardess yesterday (on US Air).
 
A long-time friend, I take it...?   :)

 NB> Indeed...  Beer and liquor/liqueur are the staff of life, wine is
 NB> extraneous, perhaps...?
 ML> What about the borei pri hagafen stuff?

Oh, you know... they all claim to be the staff of life, breads, beer,
Whiskey...  (G)

We were treated to Thai for lunch yesterday... I noticed advertised in
the window that Singha beer you mentioned before...  I made a comment to 
Richard that that was a familar name now, from your travel reports, so
he wanted to know the context...  :)  He was wondering if you'd given it
a review...  :)   I had to say, no, just as a list of what WAS available
at one of the lounges there...  He wasn't really thinking of getting it,
as he doesn't normally order such when we go out, just curious...  :)

As it turned out, the fellow treating us to lunch doesn't like beer very
much either... at least he doesn't hate it quite like I do (being able
to drink a bottle of it once in a while, if pressed), but said he's
never gotten the taste for it...  :)

ttyl        neb

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