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I haddock try to post to one of the old threads. Obviously it's all hake in tuna.

Ah... you obviously missed the little "=" between the two pictures in the first post.

I've seen this one in New York. Is pink a gender identifying color in Japan? If so, maybe the strawberry Pocky is "for women", whatever that means. Or not.

At the China 46 meeting, we also had some of this: ...which glenn, who brought it, but reports elsewhere on this board not liking. tommy called it "interesting, but not something i'd drink while eating", which I agree with in a way. It's a really strong ale--11% alcohol--which apparently has to be called "barleywine" to be sold. My thought was that it would go really well with BBQ, and not with the type of food that we were eating. I drank most of mine during the course with the big bottomefeeder fish that nobody at our table ate, and isolated from the food actually enjoyed it. I brought some of this: It wasn't bad, although I'm not sure I'll be a repeat customer of this particular Sam Adams variant. Maybe the Triple Bock next time, since it's ridiculous to fight over 3,000 bottles of the Millenium Beer. :)

Yes, but Jason can be a twit. :D

Had some of this for the first time at the recent NJ eGullet gathering. Jason Perlow and I spoke excitedly about it for almost 10 minutes... about how real Budweiser minus the evil aftertaste is actually pretty darn good.

These were a revelation to me. I think Sandra was the one who noticed that part of the reason that they were so striking was that they were prepared in a way we don't normally see potatoes. We were trying to figure out the cooking method between us, and I'm not sure that we did. I've decided that I could have an entire meal of just Crunchy-Puffy Dumplings, Soupy Dumplings and these "Fries". By the way, when the kitchen crew came out en masse it may not have been clear to everyone who Chef Peter Lau was. He was the older man in the baseball cap. Apparently the cap is his trademark. :) They all very much deserved the applause, but something like those potatoes seems to be Peter excercising his creativity.

In other words, BK is doing people a service, even if they aren't bankrupting themselves by buying duplicate grilling equipment to assure the perfect isolation, yet flame-broiled taste of the BKV. Isn't capitalism great?

I don't like fingers in my food.

Since I know that accent, I can almost hear it in my head. :) You're really got to visit Louisianna now to give a fully accurate report!

Here are some new odd confections I've found... Honees - I just can't get enough of these... they are basically high quality honey in a candy shell. Varieties include Basic Honey-filled, Honey/Menthol/Eucalyptus and Milk-N-Honees. Another new one--although for a change I can't find a picture on the web of it--is a new product from Brachs. Chocolate and White Fudge Covered Caramel Corn. Three or Four of these have the fat/calorie equivalent of... geez. I don't know. It's a lot. The Fudge is really thick, not just a dusting like you get with some Fudge covered Pretzels.

We should start a different thread about ground pepper. All I'm gonna say here is that I'd never had freshly ground pepper before my 18th birthday, and I've never quite forgiven my mother for that. :) In the years since, I've made sure to buy her a peppermill as a present no less than once every four or five years.

Mmmm. Maple beer. Do you need a shotglass to drink this stuff?

Man are you spoiled, Ruby. Have you had tap water in other parts of the country? :) Actually, the worst water I've had locally was at a diner on Staten Island. Euyuck! I won't even try to describe it.

Getting back to restaurant water, I've always wondered why the following isn't done: Waiter: "Would you like bottled water or tap?" Customer: "Tap" Waiter: "Can I bring you a single glass, a half carafe or a full one?" In my opinion, automatic pouring is wasteful of both labor AND water. And while unused water in a carafe might seem wasted as well (I don't think that we want them reusing it for other customers) most restaurants have plant life, either inside or outside, which might take some of the wastage... and frankly I personally wouldn't be that squemish if the water was used for boiling (although I wouldn't want it to wind up inside food in any other circumstance).

Hmm. We've started to branch off into books more appropriate to slightly older kids. It's odd that most of the books I recall for slightly older boys (with the notable exception of Roald Dahl) didn't have much to do with food. Are gender roles somehow being set at that age? Did Nancy Drew have any more to do with food than the Hardy boys... :)

uh uh tommy. It has more than water chestnut, mushroom and other veggie(tables) in it. Your name has to emphasize that meat by-products might somehow have slipped in there.

My belief is a little less stringent than tommy's, but I'll add that in my opinion this whole discussion has very little to do with what "veggie" actually means. It has more to do with what we DO about any potentially disagreement about what veggie means. On the issue of complete food labelling (and by that I mean easily available and ACCURATE nutritional information sheets), I've already agreed with that in this topic, and so has tommy, I think. Make them make it accurate--and penalize the bastards badly if they don't. Again... the real issue here is about what should or shouldn't be "done" to control how B.K. advertises the product. This is where the greatest remaining disagreement seems to lie. In part it has to do with personal responsibility--an issue you've addressed well and correctly, Malawry. Also, in part, it has to do with societal responsibility. We've argued endlessly around whether or not Burger King was trying to mislead people. My own take on this is that as distasteful as it would be if they had, it's ultimately a lesser point. The greater point is where we draw a line in expecting that all shades of meaning and all interpretations of any possible action to have to be explictly spelled out and/or legislated for us. Okay... so veggie is being misused by B.K... we've already all mostly agreed that a lawsuit would be a waste of time... so what's being proposed? Legislation to ensure that every use of "Veggie" be verified by a massive government buerocracy? Legally mandated use of asteriked comments to spell out exactly what "veggie" means in this circumstance? A schedule of fines and a police force to enforce proper use? Or how about paraphrasing to the extent of having an entire new-speak type of language where we've got a million shades of gray for every concept? (so that alternate names are enforced like: Mostly Meat By-Product Free Patty; Vege-Like Burger; Vegetable Patty Prepared in Meat Compromised Conditions; Veggies Charred in Meat Juice; etc. etc.) Yes, I know I'm exaggerating more than a bit. :) But multiply this by all of the other possible words and concepts that can be (and are) used creatively in adverstising, but aren't outright fraudulent. Do we have to define exactly what "large" is and what a "super size" is? Do panty hose have to be inspected for a certain smoothness to be called "sheer"? Do we fine car companies for calling their car "fast" if it doesn't match a legally mandated minimum? Again, I exaggerate. Certainly some forms of legislation in this area are vitally needed. For example, I find it very peculiar how serving sizes on nutritional information charts are adjusted differently for similar products. Exactly how much lobbying money is being pumped into the government to keep those values so relative? Why is Gatorade's serving size 8 ounces and Pepsi's 12 ounces, for example? Who allows Pepperidge Farm to say that a single cookie is a serving in one package, but four similarly sized cookies a serving in another? My ultimate point in all this is that as important as the purity of their vegetarian experience might be to a dedicated Vegan, that it's more than just a bit frivolous to GO AFTER someone like Burger King for an action like this. Demand full disclosure in nutritional information, sure. Write about how disengenuous they are to any magazine that will listen, sure. Stop giving them your business, definitely. But beyond that? Uh uh.

Um, before or After the meal? :p obviously DURING. :D

Being non-observant, the only thing I really ever "miss" (other than better soda) are those wonderful fruit slices. You can get them year-round, of course, but I have old memories of having them around this time of year which adds an inexcusable level of nostalgia. :)

I don't think so Rachel... I think that The Carrot Seed may be an older work than "Harold". I'm ashamed to say that I don't remember for sure... but I'm not sure if the little boy even had a name. I loved The Carrot Seed (I think it may be the first book I have a conscious memory of), but apparently so does Maurice Sendak. A reviewer on Amazon attributed the following to Sendak: In particular it was obviously also the first subversive book I ever read. Basically its a book about how everyone (including adults) tell the boy that he can't grow his carrots from the carrot seed. At it's base level its a book about resistance to authority and learning to think and judge for yourself... although reduced to a story for a very young child. It's got sub-themes about perserverence and the value of nurturing... but for me the defining characteristic was obviously the Zen-like central theme, rendered in a style simple in execution and yet enormously complex in meaning. And I always ate my carrots after reading that book.

You had to go and mention kalbi (which I've seen as galbi) and made me maddeningly hungry for them now. damn you! :D (edit) Seein' as how I just realized you wrote this yesterday... how were they? (It's gonna make me want them even more... but tell the truth!) :)

Has Bux taken over your brain? :D Here we go back to the old argument here about whether or not "consistency" is enough of a reason for chains to exist.

tommy... I'm glad I didn't misjudge you. :)

The Carrot Seed, by Ruth Krauss Since Rachel has set the precident, here's a link to Amazon so you can see the book cover for this masterwork: The Carrot Seed @ Amazon.com This book was illustrated by the same artist who did "Harold and the Purple Crayon", which is why the style might seem familiar.