meat in Texas only meant beef;
poultry was for sissies and pork for deviants.

And we won't even talk about what the cattle ranchers thought about
sheep herders and eating lamb!

When I lived there, there weren't any shepherds
left (except at Rice University's first-rate
Shepherd School of Music), as they'd all been
run out of the state on a rail or at gunpoint.
It is still, despite a goodly Greek population,
not much in the way of lamb. How the pig people
managed to get a foothold I don't know. BBQ ribs
are good things, but they're alien to Texas, and
they're incredibly salty down there.

Interesting that most of my friends don't like
olives (but love olive oil). For me olives were
okay and olive oil anathema, but now both the
fruit and its products are much appreciated,
though only in moderation.

Growing up, homemade pickles were frequently on the table, usually
dills, and olives were an expensive store bought treat and so
rationed. "There are 18 olives on the relish tray; you can have 3
each." Consequently I love them and not just in moderation. Neekha

There's no sauce like deprivation. Did you
grow up with green or black, canned or
salted or pickled, and are they all equally
delicious to you? I used to despise the
canned ones, but now they're the only kind
I get to have more than like two of. Still
am not thrilled.

shares my tastes in that regard and when she lived with us I would
buy restaurant sized half gallon bottles (quite inexpensive per
ounce that way) and we would have bowlfuls together.

I'd swell up like the Hindenberg.

the Chateau Lafayette, Ottawa's oldest bar [...] young Dan
Aykroyd drank there when he wasn't hanging out at a nearby coffee
house called Le Hibou which was THE Ottawa blues venue in the
1970s.

It's possible I bumped into him at one of those two places.

I've apparently bumped into well-known entertainment
figures, but the embarrassing thing is that I have
generally not recognized them until someone let me
know. Last time was when Lilli told me that the lady
who had sat diagonally across from me at breakfast was
Judi Dench. The less believable part of the story is
"breakfast??" - but it was a buffet that offered
smoked salmon, chickpea curry, long-life noodles,
and other relatively delicious things.

One thing that people forget about Aykroyd and Belushi -
especially the former - was that they were aficionados and also
pretty proficient practitioners of blues, the movie being a
tribute

A fun film.

One of the few that I have actually paid to see.

On a food note, one of my all time favourite Belushi skits was the
one about the Greek Dinner.

Not sure I'm familiar.

Title: Carl's Jr. Western Bacon Cheeseburger
Preheat a clean barbecue to medium grilling heat.

You lost the authenticity right there. [g]

Lady Kills the Blues
cat: booze
servings: 1

30 ml Gin
10 ml White Vermouth
30 ml Grapefruit Juice

Shake with ice, strain into cocktail glass.
Serve straight up.

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