There was some bratty kid at the baseball park the
other day expounding (if a 10-year-old can be said to
do so) on how ice cream was a summer food. I refrained
from noting that some of the biggest consumers of that
treat are the Northeastern states, and some of the
most profitable months are in the winter.

Indeed. Winter's never stopped us from getting our ice cream... in
fact, just last night Richard had what we dubbed "Taste of Japan"
neapolitan ice cream at Fu's, one scoop each of chocolate, vanilla and strawberry.... I had yokan... :) A couple of weeks ago, I had Fu's chocolate with a scoop of ginger ice cream on top....

The stuff packs a mighty caloric punch.

And I've heard plenty of 10-year-olds expounding seriously on various topics.... ;)

This one was getting his practice in the
expounding department, just not in the
considering all angles department.

+

The reading group did Haydn 76/2 and Beethoven 18/4
and 18/6 a week ago - in order of my familiarity as well
as when I learned them, as well as of the program. I
played the first almost flawlessly; the second
enjoyably; and the last sort of okay.

Makes sense... it does help when things are ingrained.... And good that
there is still enjoyment to be had there.... :)

Yeah - the first could be put up to performance
standard in a day or two; the second in a week;
the third, who knows if ever.

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.

Or impatient!

That, too... particularly that sister... :)

The New York Times just had an article about
procrastination, and how it has little to do
with actual laziness. It didn't go, though,
into great depth as to what is involved in
laziness.

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 wonder if that has to do with the degree of
"supertasterdom," whose scientific as well as
popular definitions most often rest on the
sensitivity to various kinds of bitter.

Dunno. I've not been adverse to other sorts of bitter, anyway...

Taste is a multifaceted thing, and to assess
tasting on narrow criteria is silly.

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...

So not the dreaded but often-encountered fish jello
scallops.

No... Um... fish jello as in not really scallops, but formed from
something else....? A couple were just a bit less overcooked, which was nice... of course, I like them best raw or just cooked.... :)

It's not a question of the degree of cooking or
the biological family nor even the freshness. It
has to do more with the rate of growth (slow is
good) and the habitat (cold is good). Also the
degree of processing, especially the water added
(which is bad).

Ah, thanks for that. lately I've been at a few places
of greater or lesser Chineseness, and none, from the
most nativist to the most fashionable American Chinese,
offered the dish, which I know as more or less what you
have described (and what those recipes suggested).

I'll keep an eye out for them, now... I think they are still fairly
commonly found around here....

They're a kind of caricature dish but not
bad for that. Sort of like Cincinnati chili,
which can be really quite good if made with
al dente passta (which it almost never is).

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....

It's a spinoff of the Harry Potter things.

Oohhhhhhhh.... right... seen the title, probably seen the book.... and
still don't remember if I read it... ;)

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. I;ve
seen bits of it half a dozen times or more on
airplanes.

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

Fair enough, but some people stop thinking only
when the picture is sufficiently complete.

One could hope for more of that.... ;)

One could.

goes well with ice cream. I would of course use all
butter.

Butter Pound Cake
cat: airline, Hawaii
yield: 1

1/2 lb butter
1/2 lb margarine
1 lb powdered sugar
6 eggs
3 c cake flour, sifted

Cream butter and sugar. Mix in eggs one at a time;
add flour and mix together. Bake in angel cake pan
at 350F for 50 to 60 min.

Connie Laderta, (the late) Aloha Airlines
--- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5
* Origin: Fido Since 1991 | QWK by Web | BBS.FIDOSYSOP.ORG (1:123/140)