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Wow. Who’d have thunked? That is quite a story. We live and learn.

I am happy to admit my total inability to translate this. But I’m curious.

Thanks. Not an easy question to answer.

Can you relate its taste to anything I might recognize? The herb not the bullfrog!

@Kim Shook My grandma was so much better looking than this. She would be smiling as I try, as she did, to overcome challenges. You would recognize by my extraordinary good looks that we swam in the same gene pool!

What kind of food poisoning?

@liuzhou No no no. Everyone knows that the knife needs to be moved further to the right to make room for the phone. Anything else suggests an old fashioned, mannerly attention to one’s dining companion(s) and an interest in the food being served.

He apologises for one-spice Indian food.

I teased her most cruelly about these gadgets. But they have brought her so much pleasure that I have something to expiate: A pettiness (With apologies to D.H. Lawrence).

The man is extremely well read and well educated. Knows better about all of these things. Trying for humour. Exaggeration is a mark of humour. But it’s a little like the timing needed for stand-up comedy. It needs to be handled deftly. Where was his editor I wonder.

It is readily available in the Asian groceries here. Here being Ontario, Canada.

But where is the pretentious little video of you taking that first bite?😂 Now that would be something to see.

I think it was an attempt at humour that largely missed its mark.

Thanks. My heart always beats a little faster when I see anything that uses canned sardines. They are cheap, convenient, tasty and nutritious. Doesn’t get much better than that.

Even though I am a huge fan of kitchen toys, both large and small, I have trouble getting my head around using a slicer when making one single sandwich. But of course I recognize that such decisions are personal choices. Thanks for sharing your experience with this “toy”. I would have been jealous at one time in my life.

Ah yes. I did read that but it went straight over my head at the time!

Very nice. I had to look up your coffee drink.

Thanks. I should never have abandoned that Masters in Classics.

No, I do not.

Ah. I thought you meant that the person you had met was interesting. Thanks for clarifying.

Well I think when you state that someone is interesting that needs a little support.

But you can’t just leave us there!

Second attempt on the shoestring fries. This time 10 minutes at 400°F. Definitely better. Might still add a couple of minutes next time.

Wow! Talk about a first world problem. I am not aware of any bacon shortages here but I live a very sheltered life.

Oh dear. That moulded salad is almost certain to give me nightmares.