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    From MICHAEL LOO@1:123/140 to NANCY BACKUS on Saturday, July 27, 2019 04:59:16
    And does as it sees fit. Not much you can do about
    it except statins, which will no doubt end up killing
    more people than it saves.
    Most people I know well didn't do well with statins... Richard is on something else now, Zetia (azetimibe [or something like that]), which
    seems to not be so nasty to him...

    Ezetimibe works better in conjunction with statins.

    Flying has been one of the obsessions of the
    forward-looking since basically forever.
    True... including Leonardo Da Vinci... :)

    Probably many before him, too, but they all ended
    up a heap of bones at the bottom of a cliff.

    I do recall various discussions of the concept, over the years, hadn't realized or at least remembered if there had actually been one built and tested.... Only seen, that I remember, on the TV show the Jetsons....
    Ah, the almost as silly counterpart to the Flintstones.
    Yup. :)

    The Smithsonian Air and Space museum has a couple
    examples that actually flew and drove. At that time
    the roads weren't so crowded that you couldn't spread
    your wings and fly (along the Alcan highway, Swisher
    and I saw planes parked by the side of the road, so
    that condition still obtains in some of the remoter
    parts of our world).

    McVities should be available, and couverture should
    be available. Wax paper and tongs, and you're set.
    I've not seen the McVities, at least not at Wegmans, that I remember (so at least not recently)... forgot to check the import section, though... Also possible at Lori's maybe.... I did see the Carr's whole wheat biscuits, essentially the digestives, though not with chocolate...
    I'd not speak until I checked out the imports aisle.
    Maybe by the time this comes around again I will have remembered to
    check that out... (G)

    I didn't see any in the Carrefour or the Super U, but
    Letitia brought her own supply of Weetabix and Walker's
    from wherever.

    The Auchan 85% (notes of tropical fruit, coffee, with
    of course a huge chocolate punch, good snap below 90F)
    and the Super U Breton cookies (super buttery sandy
    shortbreads) were good supermarket things that I've not
    seen the equal of in US stores at any price, though.
    The Carrefour viennoiseries (27c each in packs of 10)
    were inferior enough that I had to use up a substantial
    bit of the chocolate to remedy their shortcomings, though.

    My preference for kitfo and gored gored is, of
    course, for raw, but I wouldn't cry if offered
    cooked..
    As long as not too much overly done... ;)

    I prefer too little overly done myself!

    Pate de country
    Looks good... :)

    It was better than the (not bad) pate we got at the
    Super U.

    ---------- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.00

    Title: Phipps Famous Shortbread
    Categories: Cookies
    Yield: 48 servings

    2 1/2 c Flour, all purpose 1 lb Butter, soft
    1 c Fruit sugar 1 c Sifted rice flour
    1/2 lb Belgian chocolate

    Spread the all-purpose flour on a cookie sheet and place under a
    pre-heated
    broiler about 4-5 inches from the element. Roast the flour, watching it
    all the time until it is medium brown. Turn the flour with a spatula to
    brown the other side. The entire procedure takes about three minutes and
    gives the flour a rich nutty flavour. Let the flour cool.
    Mix the soft butter with the fruit sugar and add the sifted rice flour.
    Fold in the roasted flour and blend well. Chop the chocolate into chunks
    just a little smaller than a sugar cube. Mix them into the dough, taking
    care you don't soften the chocolate too much. Shape as desired. Bake at
    300F for 1 hour. Cool, then store in an airtight container. Yield
    depends
    upon size and shape. Source unknown

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  • From NANCY BACKUS@1:123/140 to MICHAEL LOO on Wednesday, July 31, 2019 21:17:00
    Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 07-27-19 04:59 <=-

    And does as it sees fit. Not much you can do about
    it except statins, which will no doubt end up killing
    more people than it saves.
    Most people I know well didn't do well with statins... Richard is on something else now, Zetia (azetimibe [or something like that]), which
    seems to not be so nasty to him...
    Ezetimibe works better in conjunction with statins.

    That may be, but Richard can not take statins at all... I read the info
    on the clinical studies, though, and while ezetimibe made the statins
    work better, there was at least one study done just with the Zetia alone
    (on a group that weren't already taking statins, or couldn't take them,
    so that having some on placebo wouldn't be a case of removing them from care)... and patients on the Zetia alone did at least as well as those
    on the combination therapy, with fewer side effects... a very
    reassuring study for us...

    Flying has been one of the obsessions of the
    forward-looking since basically forever.
    True... including Leonardo Da Vinci... :)
    Probably many before him, too, but they all ended
    up a heap of bones at the bottom of a cliff.

    At least if they tried out their contraptions.... ;)

    I do recall various discussions of the concept, over the years, hadn't realized or at least remembered if there had actually been one built and tested.... Only seen, that I remember, on the TV show the Jetsons....
    Ah, the almost as silly counterpart to the Flintstones.
    Yup. :)
    The Smithsonian Air and Space museum has a couple
    examples that actually flew and drove. At that time
    the roads weren't so crowded that you couldn't spread
    your wings and fly (along the Alcan highway, Swisher
    and I saw planes parked by the side of the road, so
    that condition still obtains in some of the remoter
    parts of our world).

    And that's an area that can benefit from having such... along with the amphibious ones... with the much vaster areas to be covered and the
    terrain and all.... :)

    McVities should be available, and couverture should
    be available. Wax paper and tongs, and you're set.
    I've not seen the McVities, at least not at Wegmans, that I remember (so at least not recently)... forgot to check the import section, though... Also possible at Lori's maybe.... I did see the Carr's whole wheat biscuits, essentially the digestives, though not with chocolate...
    I'd not speak until I checked out the imports aisle.
    Maybe by the time this comes around again I will have remembered to
    check that out... (G)
    I didn't see any in the Carrefour or the Super U, but
    Letitia brought her own supply of Weetabix and Walker's
    from wherever.

    Ok, so I did see them in the UK Imports aisle at our Wegmans... a few
    varieties of McVitties... plain digestives, digestives with milk
    chocolate covering, and digestives with milk chocolate and a caramel
    layer under the chocolate... the last jumped into my cart for tastings later.... ;) Alas, though, no dark chocolate.... Forgot to look at
    Lori's today when we went for supplements... maybe next time...

    The Auchan 85% (notes of tropical fruit, coffee, with
    of course a huge chocolate punch, good snap below 90F)
    and the Super U Breton cookies (super buttery sandy
    shortbreads) were good supermarket things that I've not
    seen the equal of in US stores at any price, though.
    The Carrefour viennoiseries (27c each in packs of 10)
    were inferior enough that I had to use up a substantial
    bit of the chocolate to remedy their shortcomings, though.

    Is this perhaps in France...?

    My preference for kitfo and gored gored is, of
    course, for raw, but I wouldn't cry if offered
    cooked..
    As long as not too much overly done... ;)
    I prefer too little overly done myself!

    Of course... :)

    Pate de country
    Looks good... :)
    It was better than the (not bad) pate we got at the
    Super U.

    Doesn't really surprise me that much... :)

    ttyl neb

    ... It's gonna be like threading a needle with a haystack.

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