Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 06-12-19 08:11 <=-

I've had some issues with e-mail too. There are
reports not only of nonreceipt of my messages,
which is normal, but messages that have been
received, archived, and disappeared (this on
the recipient's side, which raises the level
of mystery a notch).

SOW, I responded to an email from you a little while ago... did you get
my response...? I heard nothing back from you.

Oh, yeah - I eventually got your mail and thought
I'd responded to it with a brief answer that went
something like "no wiggle room in July, maybe in
the fall."

Never received, had you responded.... the fall might be more open here,
too... ;)

And that is now the case pretty much across the board, both with
the gas having the ethanol, and the cars being all adapted to be
able to use it.... I was talking of a time and a car of at least
three decades ago...

That's the 1980s ... like last month to me.

Yes, probably 1984-5 or so... And that could explain a thing or
three... ;)

Might, but not the Volvo issue two decades later.

That was a different issue.... of needing higher octane than regular gas
could provide... and still is the case today with the Volvos we
currently drive...

As I said, this was at least 3 decades ago.. it was an 82 Aries, and
said car totally died somewhere around 1990... I don't think the ethanol experience hastened the demise... it had plenty of other issues... ;)

That company as I recall didn't have the
greatest of reputations - see recipe below.

The Aries was our only really bad experience with ChryslerCorp... and it
was only a grapefruit, not quite a lemon....

One of your taglines, as I recall, says
something about that.

No, I think that was a pineapple.... different yellow fruit (and
potentially better)....

Driscoll's strawberries (product of USA) - these were
prettty good looking, good rich color. Not much aroma and
less taste. Even the big blushing beauties had a hard white
core and didn't have much appeal. Cooking fruit, you might
say; all I can add is that I hope the US farmers get their
act together before the season is over.

Haven't seen anything local yet.... the season seems to have been slowed down by the cool temps to date....

Pretty much. It's hard to see where the summer will
go, and if the lowered ambient energies will mean a
less severe hurricane season, the way people are hoping.

That would actually be a nice thing.... especially after all the record floodings....

Naturipe blueberries (product of Georgia) - a mix of sizes,

I just the other day was telling Ruth that I got some of that brand (I typoed the a as a u, though) but it said it was from NC, not GA....

It must be a pretty big operation if it has separate
labels for the states its produce is grown in. A smaller
or cheaper operation would say simply USA.

Apparently.... The one for NC also says, as part of its banner, "got to
be NC produce", with a stylized map of NC.... and the NC shape balancing
on the other side of the words Blueberries Bluets...

more smaller ones, some unripe. Okay flavor, not as good as
some of the Mexican and Peruvian Driscoll's ones we've had
in the winter, but certainly better than the strangely fibrous
Mexican ones that Driscoll foisted off on us twice this year
so far.

What I got was a nice mix of sizes and more ripe than not... nice flavor from the ripe ones... :)

As I recall a fair number of redder ones,
which not only were sour but lacked much flavor.

This was much better balanced than that... maybe one redder one, if
that... Maybe NC produce is better than GA, ater all....? (G)

American blueberries (product of USA) - a mixture of smallish
very sour berries and medium-to-large sweetish but tasteless
ones. These were inferior to most we've had, which made the
"patriotic berry" nonsense on the box particularly irritating.

Oh, dear.....

Oh, dear ... but some percentage of buyers will be
swayed more by the flag on the package than the
quality inside. It would have been nice if the
berries were as good as the country they came from.

True...

ttyl neb

... I fed some lemon to my cat and now I have a sour puss.

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