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that just made my head hurt.

did sara get a lot of crank calls?

hmm. the only thing missing would be bacon.

just saw your message memesuze - i can eat mango sorbet just fine - it's jsut coming in contact with the peel. I would love to get my hands on eastern fruit to make sure it's not just a sensitivity to western varietals. gald to know i'm not the only one with this wierdness.

doh. a little dyslexia and i read "saw" as "was". we had a guy like that come to my collge once. it is amusing.

Yeah - i should clarify - I often grab takeout from mid-level and up restaurants. the kind of places that don't do a lot of take-out business. Those are the palces i tip. if it's like mcdonalds or someplace that doesn't have waitstaff then no. the only reason i ever even thought about this is when i waited tables at a diner in queens, my customers would tip me roughly 10% on takeout.

you tip for take-out? (as opposed to delivery) i've actually only done take-out maybe twice in my life, and each time i was told by non-cheapskate american friends that they might leave a couple of bucks (regardless of bill) but even that was generous for the service of basically putting your food in a bag and waiting for you to come pick it up. yup. you're basically taking the waiter or waitresses time away from their seated customers.

10% just like for take out from a sit-down restaurant.

hee i know it's on my list of favorite words.

his overexposure was the reason i stopped watching FTV aside from catching tony's and alton's shows.

ranier cherries. sweet corn. strawberries. muscadines and scuppernongs. navel oranges.

please explain. were you hypnotizing jarheads?

good lord. this topic is a recent one in my real life. i went to the redneckiest redneck bar on the behest of my roommate a couple weekends back. there was a pool table. there were older people with few teeth drinking by themselves. shrunken concert t-shirts and trucker caps were in abundance. in speaking with the waitress and bartender i found that mixed drinks weren't very common. yes they get requests for cosmopolitans and slippery nipples every once in a while, but mostly it's beers and shots of jack, bourbon, and tequila. there were 3 men sitting at a table - one was babysitting - the other two could barely walk. one feel out of his chair. it was bay-sitters job to take guide him down the stairs and take him home. he came back with his godfather (the other barely walking drunk) and told me that they had dropped the other guy off on his lawn. there was karaoke. moment of zen - a redneck named scout, with greasy blackish grey-ish long hair and dirty trucker cap. rail thin, with a cigarette hanging from his lip and longneck in his hand, teetering whilst singing a Lynrd Skynrd song. it was classic. so anyways, i get to my office on mondya and tell my certified, bonafide, redneck coworker about visiting the redneck-iest bar ever and he says.... did they have moonshine under the counter? cuz a true redneck bar is gonna have moonshine under the counter and htye won't sya they got it or they won't they'll just make sure no one's looking, reach under the bar and pour you some. so yeah. thanks for giving me the opportunity to share my story. oh a couple other things - 2 cocktails, 6 beers - total tab - 19 bucks. they have a ladies buy one get one free on wednesday nights. there was also a band. i'm thankful to say (and this was a standby on the northern bar scene) there was no singing or playing of brown-eyed girl. Or bruce springsteen. or billy joel. oh and there was also that one girl. y'all know the one. she's either dreams of becoming, currently is, or at one time was a stripper? she was there. drunk and pole dancing to whatever was being played.

as long as primetime doesn't include emeril live, i'm okay with it.

*lol* therese - yeah -it's a side-effect of working in the gym industry.

oh hedoness and GG - that pie was definitely rich. Not light at all, but it was damn good. It was the pie i made for last Thanksgiving's dessert, since no one was particularly wedded to pumpkin or sweet potato.

here's the recipe: http://www.recipegoldmine.com/piemisc/piemisc142.html

What was in the pie? I have an undefined Nutella craving and I want some inspiration... mm..it was a chocolate crumb crust, nutella and homemade whipped cream blended together, and peeled hazelnuts (that was a bit of a problem - high heat til the skinns char off) let me see if i can locate the web recipe i used.

i've made a nutella refrigerator pie before. that was really good.

i've always been told that you tip on the pre-tax subtotal. in practice i tip on the total, but if it were an amount where tax was a significant factor, i would go back to the sub-total and tip on that.

well don't underestimate Alluvia - i still maintain Cheetah has the best wings in Atlanta. haven't eaten anythign elsee there, but did manage to take part in a buffet once. all the food was pretty decent, but the wings were stellar.

here's a question I have? I've eaten mangoes all over the world from when i was a baby. When we lived in new york my folks would get cases of mangoes from the local asian grocery, which i believe came from Mexico. One day when i was about 17 or 18, i ate one of these mangoes in the usual way, and my lips swoll up and were very itchy. Since then i haven't bene able to eat mangoes unless i score all the flesh off the skin, and take good care to wash my mouth with soap as soon as i am finished. I understand that this is linked to poison ivy allergy, but i've nbever actually had poison ivy contact. do y'all think i would get the same reaction from eastern mangoes as i do from western mangoes? do you hear of people getting allergies to mangoes back home?

that's what i suggest, as well tora. I didn't have fresh coconut, but i've got dried indian coconut and leftover coconut milk that i had opened for the risotto. basically i soaked the drid coconut in canned coconut milk. also as mongo said - if oyu don't have them you don't have them. I used dry leaves myself, but my mother has a curry leaf bush at her house and always sends me sprigs from it.

just remembered it. It's called vita-malt.

no no - it wasn't kinnie - it's from a South American country - i've tried a lot of their maltas - Malta Goya, Malta India, and another one whose name I can't remember. That was my favorite of the bunch. Think guinness, but thinner and sweeter. and non-alcoholic.