Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 03-11-19 09:29 <=-

On rereading I came up with "milk duds untasty,"
which isn't true.

Indeed... Those eyes are getting bad.... Reminds me of the time a

Yeah, getting. That's right, getting.

Ok... there.... Worsening, even.... sigh...

Can't read music well these days - if it's
something I knew from high school or before,
it's pretty good, but much after that, wasteland.

Not good.

younger sister misread "They're Double-Toasted" as "They're Dollabar"... it, of course, became a family saying....

I read Nullarbor.

It being something you'd recognize... :) Instead of the purely made up word my sister came out with... :)

When one has a limited vocabulary because of
youth or otherwise, making stuff up makes
more sense (still not the greatest of things).

At that point, she was old enough that she probably could have sounded
it out (Mommy having been teaching us to read with such tools as
McGuffey's Readers)... but was just a little lazy that morning, I think.

If properly handled, and fresh enough, and not in a cardboard carton it tastes rather nice... ;) Of course, back in the school days, the
school milk was probably fresh enough, but often not well handled,
and was in those little waxed cardboard milk cartons.... :)

Yeah, those. I sort of dreaded them, but on
the other hand facing lunch without liquid
was also a cause for apprehension.

Yup... which is why I'd go for chocolate milk any time I could...

I'd have preferred beer.

I'm sure you would have.... but that wasn't available... and I suspect
I'd still not have liked it had I been introduced at an early age...

I didn't have to call Juanita, my sister made the contact, and we have rescheduled it now... :) Planned for the 11th.... :)

A report is now mandatory!

Forthcoming after the lunch date... presuming that it doesn't get
postponed again... :)

The weather is pretty dubious these days.

So... the weather complied, and the lunch date went somewhat as planned,
except that when MG called to ask about shifting the time a little, she
checked the website for their opening time, and discovered that they are
closed entirely on Mondays (which the 11th was)... So instead of trying
out Bamboo House, we went to a place she had been before but neither
Juanita or I had, Chen Garden... Which turned out to be a fairly nice
Chinese restaurant, with lots of choices.... We didn't do tastes, so I
don't know how their entrees were... but Juanita had sesame chicken
which she enjoyed and took half home, and MG had shrimp in Hunan sauce
which she also pronounced good. I had scallops in garlic sauce which
came with a nice assortment of stirfry veggies as well as a goodly
amount of scallops... tasty enough but a bit overcooked... choice of the
three usual soups and fried or steamed rice came with... MG had the
eggroll for an additional $1... They did have shrimp toasts on the
appetiser list, with a nice photo... In the interests of experimentation
I got an order (which turned out to be as expensive as my lunch entree
was)... four good-sized triangles came, thick toast and even thicker
layer of shrimp stuff... I couldn't tell if there was any sesame seed in
the concoction, but there were plenty of little whole shrimp mixed in...
the fried toast was crunchy and just greasy enough, and the shrimp layer
quite tasty... I ate one piece, and brought the rest home, along with a
bit of my rice with the last bits of the sauce and MG's last piece of broccoli.... Richard had one of the shrimp toasts later (cold), and also pronouncd it good... I'd go back there again... and get the shrimp toast again... even if again no one else there wanted to share... might get it instead of an entree, even... ;)

... Did you hear about the baker who was short of dough?

Yeah, there was a movie not long ago about him.
Don't ask how I know about it, but I didn't see
the movie.

You have a wider network than most for information... ;)

The movie was called, as I recall, Fantastic
Beasts and Where to Find Them.

Hmmm... I've either heard of the movie, then, or at least seen the cover
of the book somewhere (maybe at Lydia's).... didn't know it had anything
to do with dough, though...

From the IMDb plot synopsis:

Inside the bank, Newt meets Jacob Kowalski
(Dan Fogler), a factory worker who is there
to apply for a loan so he can open a bakery.

OK, for sure I've not read or seen it....

The Nullarbor & beyond, edbrennan.com

Is that a location or an establishment....?

The Nullarbor itself is an enormous treeless
plain along the bottom of Australia, extending
more or less from Western (Kalgoorlie) to South
Australia (Woomera or even Adelaide), with one
road and one railroad running through it. Its
name comes from the Latin meaning "no trees,"
whoever settled the country liking to show off
his/her classical knowledge (aboriginal is also
not an aboriginal term).

I recognize the Latin... now that you mention it...

The Website belongs to a guy who wanted to
bicycle trek the length of it and celebrate
others who have done so (including, apparently,
a 10-year old who did 30 back-to-back centuries
to cycle between Perth and Sydney).

Interesting... :) So the website also has recipes from people in the region...?

ttyl neb

... Conclusion: Place where you got tired of thinking.

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