Certainly the manufacturers weren't under that delusion - it
must rather have been that pistachio is a difficult flavor to synthesize, so why bother. I'd have far preferred unflavored
(sweet cream, they call it) ice cream with nuts in it - truer
in every way as well as more aesthetically pleasing.
They couldn't have used real pistachio flavor....?
Too subtle, too difficult, too expensive. Or
some combination of the above.
So how do they get away with calling it pistachio ice cream when the
nuts they put in it are almonds.... That's usually called pistachio nut
ice cream, rather than pistachio ice cream (which does have pistachio
nuts in it)....
If it has no pistachio at all, I've no idea. Of course,
Neapolitan ice cream isn't Neapolitan, nor does it have
Neapolitans in it; French vanilla isn't French; and so
on. Maybe it's called pistachio because it's green.
So there's this piece we did where the choir sings
eighths and quarters, and the conductor wanted to
do it at MM=76-80, but I told him that it would be
practical at 72 or below (we were playing 32nds),
but just in case I had 1/2 a cup of the real stuff
before rehearsal. I didn't sleep for 36 hours at least.
But you kept up with his conducting....? ;)
Pretty much. I had eight other people behind me
to back me up. Of course, they couldn't keep up
all that well, either.
in our lifetimes, there's some plausibility to some of
the crowing. But consider: who wants to live past 100
anyway?
Very good point. We had a lady in our church that lived to be over a
hundred (we had a party at church for her hundredth birthday), but she
kept saying she didn't know why she was still around.... Another lady
It was Horszowski who was heard backstage at one of
his concerts moaning "oh, lord, why must I keep
subjecting myself to this?" He was in his late 90s
at the time but held on to 100 and then went away.
courted pneumonia when she was in her mid-90's, so didn't stick around
to get to that "magic age".... If someone is in particularly robust
health, and still able to do just about anything, living past 100 might
be not so bad, but there aren't many of those....
I do have those friends of whom I've spoken, couples at
90 and 92 who are still pretty robust, but how long
they'll stay relatively intact I don't know.
Funny thing is that local guides as recent as half a
century ago often used to take that attitude.
Sad.
But that was a common attitude until recently, and it
still is in many circles. Think the foreign
proliferation of McDonald's and Watney's Red Barrel
(in different contexts).
I'm not familiar with Watney's Red Barrel....
Of course not, it's beer. But that was referencing
a Monty Python monologue by Eric Idle about British
gammon tourism.
---------- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.01
Title: Ham Steaks with Whiskey Sauce
Categories: Meats
Yield: 4 servings
4 x Ham steaks 1 oz Flour
2 tb Finely chopped onion 1 oz Butter
1 tb Brown sugar 3/4 c Water or stock
1 tb Whiskey Salt or pepper to taste
Brush steaks with melted butter. Snip fat to prevent curling, and grill
for 7-8 minutes each side. -- To make sauce, gently fry onions in
remainder
of butter until cooked. Remove from heat and stir in flour gradually. Add
stock. Return to heat. Add sugar and bring to the boil. Simmer gently
for
about 2 minutes to cook flour. If sauce seems a little thick, add more
water. Add whiskey and season to taste. Place gammon steaks on a warmed
serving platter and pour on sauce.
Serve with peas and carrots, or sauteed potatoes.
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