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Slopey, I didn’t walk down your block yet, but I peeked up the block on my way to the doc recently. Did you cut down all the tall lovelies?
Mayo has an interesting history. I believe it was the duc de richelieu whose personal chef wanted to hide the flavor of rancid meat at port mahon in the balearic islands. Available ingredients were olive oil, egg, vinegar. So he whipped up a sauce that became popular and because it was invented at port mahon they called it la sauce mahonnaise. Invented by a frenchie, but loved by anglos.
Ketchup has an interesting history too.
The Chinese invented tea. Drink it the way they drink it…with nothing added.
Guk Sow is my favorite, a mix of Guk Fa (chrysanthemum) amd Sow Mei ( a black tea).
legion — agreed, although not possible without Bonnie and Clyde. RIP Arthur Penn. Big obit yesterday.
COBBLE! Do I have to deport you, too??? For shame!
By daveinbedstuy on October 1, 2010 10:39 AM
There’s no EUROTRASH or hipsters in my building either.
yeah – but bed stuy in general has way more hipsters than my part of williamsburg (living there at least) – they can’t afford it, so they move to the “hood”!
“By daveinbedstuy on October 1, 2010 10:39 AM
There’s no EUROTRASH … in my building …”
You work for frenchie and eat pizza and hamburgers with a knife and fork.
“Forget it Jake, it’s Chinatown.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v_BVNGAfYM
“Etson, mayo is also a product of the devil. Please consult your “How to be a Real American” handbook you received at the border and study it carefully, lest you, too, get deported :-)”
AHEM! Some of your dearest friends LIKE mayo! In fact, I think it’s REQUIRED as stated in the American WASP Handbook, Chapter 12, Section 3 titled “Foods all good American WASPs must eat regularly!” Along with PIMM’s and cucumber sandwiches, of course! : P