Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 06-13-19 09:58 <=-

With a raw or really really rare piece of meat,
I rather enjoy lean, but as soon as the grain
develops, I'm needing that fat.

I guess I wouldn't say I need the fat, but I certainly do enjoy it... ;)

Insofar as anyone needs anything, I say I need the fat.
It's more the taste than anything else.

That's certainly the case for me with milk.... hadn't paid that much
attention to meat and fat...

On special occasions when I was a kid we'd get a
porterhouse, and my father would go for the tenderloin,
and I'd ask for a piece of the "toughloin" and would
always be corrected for the neologism. We had one of
those ovens with the broiler unit beneath heating to
maybe 500F, so the meat sort of broiled and sort of
stewed, so the sirloin was actually kind of a toughloin.

And so, made perfect sense to call it such....

My mother would always take the fat and gristle with an
air of self-abnegation, and it was a while before my
sister and I discovered that those parts were at least
as tasty as the sirloin and definitely more so than the
tenderloin, which at its best tastes sort of like liver
and at its worst tastes sort of like nothing.

Looks like your mother had at least that good inflence on you... :)

When I made zucchini I tried to serve it with this
(made with wine vinegar, preferably white) -
Title: Skordalia

Looks good, might try making it--and yes, I've got white wine
vinegar (as well as red) in my pantry.

Is that a hint? It could be done, but again
memory has to be jogged.

Saved, but no promise of jogging... ;)

I'm not expecting to make the stuff, but if I do, the
ingredients are spuds, garlic, oil, and white or wine
vinegar or lemon. Salt to taste.

Maybe Ruth will make it... :)

... "Are you mad?" - "Only when the moon is full."

"Are you mad?" - "Only when my glass is empty."

Different sort of mad, probably... :)

Probably many a person thought about it, but decided it wasn't worth going after.... the effort, anyway.... :)

Company lawyer: we said I can't believe it's not butter;
we never said you couldn't believe it's not butter.

Exactly.... lawyers are good at waffles....

There's something (a lot) to be said for precision
in language, but there's a lot to be said against
deliberate misleading of the public by skating around
semantics. My views would hae been better reflected
if Shakespeare had written First, we kill all the
dishonest lawyers and leave ten or twenty honest
ones to prevent their extinction.

Reminds me of the tagline (which probably isn't on this computer) about
90% of lawyers give the other 10% a bad name.... At one time in MEMORIES
we had a lawyer (presumably one of the good honest ones) as a regular
poster, so I was careful not to use my derogatory lawyer taglines...
generally still I avoid using them... snag them, still, though... ;)

Yes... and foreshots accepted, too.... But you appear to have either missed my point or ignored it... :) All the words I listed don't sound like A as in neighbor or weigh, but generally like I (or E, in the case of either and neither)....

Probably read right over it. I'm not supposed to
ignore anyone's posts, but things may occasionally
fall through the cracks.

I guess that could explain it... ;) I mentioned Eiderdown and Eidetic, along with Either and Neither.... When I chant the rhyme, I'm likely to
add the latter two, pronouncing them as though it were an A sound... The point being that there are other exceptions that don't get put into the rhyming rule.... :)

If you tot them up, the rule probably has more
exceptions than adherents. Speaking of all these
things, you know that whether something ends in
-ent or -ant depends on the conjugation of the
Latin original, with one signal exception, that
being defendant, which evolved because not only
are lawyers liars, they don't know their Latin.

Interesting theory.... :)

live up to my standards. Not a good attitude for a
commercial person, but I wasn't great at that either.

And I was never a commercial person... :)

Sometimes I wonder if it would have been more
fun had I been a wealthy man, but there was that
guilty conscience thing - did I cheat 'em too much,
and did their children starve in the gutter as a
consequence?

The one time that I actually charged for my counseling, a client
referred to me by my massage therapist friend Deb, I was told how much
to charge, too... I think I might have charged less, but Deb said I was easily worth that much and not to worry about whether or not the client could afford it.... :)

We also seem to have a more vexed relationship with
the dollar than most.

It does seem so... :)

Eh, it probably is better for your psyche not to
have to rush rush and scramble scramble.

Probably... I didn't have to make a living at it... which was a good thing... ;)

And there's that too.

Might have had to scramble a lot more if I had....

Sometimes I forget that corporations have their uses.

Yeah... they can be useful to employ some people... at least until they
lay them off.... ;)

ttyl neb

... I went to a seafood rave last week and pulled a mussel.

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