Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 10-28-18 21:08 <=-

Were they also the first for pistachio ice cream...?

Pistachio was not interesting to me for a long time.
I thought it tasted kind of weird and artificial.

Did it taste different to you than the nuts on their own did...? It was
my aunt Jackie's favorite ice cream... I tried it because of her, and decided I liked it...

Yes - pistachio nuts taste like you know what; the ice
cream at least originally tasted like artificial almond.
Now it tastes like natural almond, somewhat better. Only
once have I had pistachio ice cream whose base tasted
even vaguely of pistachio.

Most places I've had the ice cream it has almonds for the nuts in
pistachio flavored ice cream... But Friendly's makes it with real
pistachios in there... and I think the ice cream may be more
authentically pistachio as well... :) It doesn't clash with the real
nuts, anyway... ;)

Is she extremely sensitive to bitter?

Dunno... maybe I'll ask her sometime.... :)

And then what's her attitude towards coffee?

I'm sure she used to drink it, not sure if she still does....

I've this notion that most likely a distaste for the
one would predispose to a distaste for the other.

Dunno if that's true... as I said, I could try to remember to ask her sometime.... ;) In any case, I think I've known of some that don't like
coffee at all, but are quite fond of chocolate.... which would tend to
dispel your notion... :)

We're apparently not in a diplomatic phase of
history, but there have been a couple of
surprises so far.

Guess we just have to wait and see...

I just hope that any damage is easily reparable, and
that's probably all I should say about it.

Yeah... and agreed...

Balance strikes me as being a good thing. Most of the
time, anyway, and not for me.

Individual balance being less important in the scheme of things than
balance on a larger scale, perhaps.... ;)

Unless medical science gets a lot better really quick.

Which is unlikely at best....

If the artificial heart had been a practicality,
perhaps.

True... but it wasn't as useful as they'd hoped...

Something about getting all gunked up.

Maybe they'll solve that eventually... but at least instead they made strides in fixing the existing ones... and, to some extent, in transplants...

Got to have a generation of computer jock doctors
working on it first, without the money up front to
be an incentive..

Or research docs with a passion for the search rather than the funds...
or perhaps a well-endowed philanthropist willing to fund the
research.... :)

ttyl neb

... Age isn't important unless you're a cheese.

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