Some of the big chains (think Clown and Royalty) have
made a big thing of using only white meat in their
chicken products. That alone would ensure my not getting
any of them there.
Likewise... It's struck me that white chicken, like white bread, has had connotations of "coming up in society", but always seemed misguided, as sturdy "brown" bread and dark meat chicken are so much preferable... :)
Whiteness and pure goodness, darkness and
earthy corruption. Racism in food. But
sometimes things backfire, as in the
southeast Asian beriberi phenomenon, where
eating unprocessed rice with the bran
protected against vitamin B deficiency,
so the lower classes thrived and the
mercantile (largely of Chinese origin)
died in droves.
In the Dunkin case, it was no doubt expedient
to toss them until Mr. Bolaffi found a way to
make them into a profit generator.
Possibly having seen the like in some little donut shop... (G)
Possibly - I don't think something like that
was patentable, even though the Cronut has
been (nothing of big interest or any creativity,
by the way).
Perhaps the name could be patented.... just not the item itself...
The name could be trademarked, not patented.
Effect similar, but details including length
of protection quite different.
She lives in an interesting kind of obscurity, in
which people who know what she did look at her with
some awe and respect but generally don't bother her.
With the renaming of the Engineering school at RIT to Kate Gleason, and
the push for encouraging female engineers there (my niece-daughter being
one of them, in Mechanical engineering), I'd guess that would have been
the context in which I'd've heard of her...
A similar context to that in which I'd have
heard of Kate Gleason.
I know that Act exists.... It didn't stop Kodak from laying off people just before they'd reach their full retirement benefits... or countless other companies from not even acknowledging applications/resumes... And
to fight it in the courts, the burden of proof is on the employee or applicant to prove that the major (or in some cases, only) reason for
the layoff or non-hire was the age... the companies bring up all sorts
of other things that counted in their decision, and get away with it...
I wonder what happens when someone in the legal
department approaches the magic 65.
Interesting question... At Kodak, it was the magic 85... age plus years
of service... Richard had 29 1/2 years of service, and was just under 55
or so when he was laid off...
Not the nicest thing in the world - similar
to what happened to Bodle a couple decades ago.
But over in these odd countries the job, no matter
how lowly, is invested with some kind of dignity,
which I see no evidence of here. Might be reflective
of expectations made grandiose by the American
mindset of upward mobility.
Even here, it would depend somewhat on how much those grandiose
expectations had become ingrained... and what circles one travels
within...
It's probably largely the upward striving at
class borders, but I'm sure film, the news, and
television have fueled unrealistic expectations
as well.
We supposedly get to the airport at 5:05, at the hotel
before 6, plenty of time to take the tram to the opera
house; if the flight is an hour late, we might have to
take a taxi direct, but then it might be even more
problematic getting out of a taxi in a demonstration.
Hope it all works out sufficiently easily... :)
We'll find out tomorrow.
And it turned out that our Nuremberg host's
b-i-l is a physician who came to Lilli's rescue
when she had some of her weak spells in the last
couple days.
That was indeed fortunate... I trust she is doing better now...?
Off and on, though a couple days ago she had to talk
her way into the Cologne Zoo to use the bathroom.
The guard was going to require the admission price
as deposit, but then he saw me and said, he is your
deposit, and I had a funnish 15 minutes chatting
with him.
Snowy strawberry cookie bites
categories: odd
servings: 8
8 strawberries
1/2 c thawed whipped topping
1 Tb blue colored sugar
8 Chips Ahoy cookies
Dip bottom 2/3 of a strawberry in whipped
topping. Dip bottom 1/3 in sugar. Spread
remaining topping on cookies. Top cookies
with prepared strawberries.
Mondelez via Stater Brothers
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