A frolic in Cambodia

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
now I want Quaker 100% Natural full of fat and sugar for dinner, not the dinner out I'm supposed to have. I suppose it would be rude to cancel this late.

This is what I want:

• It was at Milanes, a modest Dominican storefront restaurant in Chelsea, that I had the chicken sandwich that sent me into orbit. Grecia Milanes, who opened her doors in 1995, strips the flesh and skin from a quarter roasted chicken and fills a Latino-style hero roll, which she toasts in the sandwich press with the meat and skin before layering lettuce, tomato and mayonnaise on the sandwich.
  
  The crispy skin, in combination with the other components, elevate this sandwich to near-mythic status. The sweetness of the mayonnaise, the gamy meatiness of the dark meat chicken and the crispy skin make for the Dominican equivalent of a Peking duck hero.

Too bad I'm only 2920 miles away.

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by Anne Elk
I'd go, but only if they have Quisp.

Anyone else old enough to remember the Quisp vs. Quake battle?

Was that like Frankenberry and Count Chocula?

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
This is what I want:

• It was at Milanes, a modest Dominican storefront restaurant in Chelsea, that I had the chicken sandwich that sent me into orbit. Grecia Milanes, who opened her doors in 1995, strips the flesh and skin from a quarter roasted chicken and fills a Latino-style hero roll, which she toasts in the sandwich press with the meat and skin before layering lettuce, tomato and mayonnaise on the sandwich.
  
  The crispy skin, in combination with the other components, elevate this sandwich to near-mythic status. The sweetness of the mayonnaise, the gamy meatiness of the dark meat chicken and the crispy skin make for the Dominican equivalent of a Peking duck hero.

Too bad I'm only 2920 miles away.

Skin, dark meat and mayo - sounds like a heart attack waiting to happen. She should consider just deep frying the whole package.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
“I think this would be a good place for a date,” she said. “You could learn a lot about a person by what cereal they choose.”

I think you could learn a lot about a person who takes you to a cereal bar for a date.

He lies about his waist size?

WAITRESS: Menus?

JERRY: No. I know what I want.

WAITRESS: The usual?

JERRY: Yeah.,

WAITRESS: And for you?

JEANNIE: I'll have a bowl of Cheerios , not to much milk.

WAITRESS: Ok Two bowls of Cheerios.

JEANNIE: You too.?...

JERRY: Yeah!!!

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
Was that like Frankenberry and Count Chocula?

Not really. Frankenberry slowly sank to the bottom of the cereal bowl and disappeared. Quisp and Quake had a public ad campaign against each other via commercials. Kids were asked to vote for their favorite and the loser would be off the market.

[Diane_Keaton]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
Everyone knows that GI Joe was the better lay.
Beside, Ken is gay.

Sorry, but GI Joe was also gay. And Spanish, too.

[SlaveNoMore]

Tyrone Slothrop
...hero roll...

Finally, someone gets the name right.

[Anne Elk]

24K gold knitting needles.
$2,585.

Link to ridiculous gift ideas for those who have WAY too much money to spend.

[Flinty_McFlint]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Anne, babe, you are depressing the crap out of me. Have some standards!

Aw Fringey, don't get jealous; I'll still grab your boobs too. But this time, I 'll try to cry less.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
Skin, dark meat and mayo - sounds like a heart attack waiting to happen. She should consider just deep frying the whole package.

It's shit like this that makes me worry that smokers really do have a point about a slippery slope toward paternalist utopia.

The worldwide mortality rate is holding steady at 100%, babe. You pays your money and you takes your chances. Modern science has made living to 80 such a high probability that young people now pay money to do things all previous generations considered lunacy --- recreation for the under-30 set revolves around the adrenaline rush you can only get from the opportunity to die young. We glorify those who embrace a large risk of dying quickly at 26; we tut-tut about those who embrace a small risk of dying slowly at 68.

If you think the sammich is disgusting, don't eat it. But even the NYT had the dignity to assume we already know that crispy chicken skin and mayonnaise ain't exactly Moosewood fare.

[pony_trekker]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
The worldwide mortality rate is holding steady at 100%, babe. You pays your money and you takes your chances. Modern science has made living to 80 such a high probability that young people now pay money to do things all previous generations considered lunacy --- recreation for the under-30 set revolves around the adrenaline rush you can only get from the opportunity to die young. We glorify those who embrace a large risk of dying quickly at 26; we tut-tut about those who embrace a small risk of dying slowly at 68.

and recreation for the over-30 set involves carving up a few of these every once and a while: washed down with one of these or one or two slices of these:




Hardly a risk-free activity.

[Anne Elk]

Baseball player Barry Bonds said he didn't know the substances were steroids when he used them, the San Francisco Chronicle reported today.

From the front page of boston.com

But everyone else who got them from his trainer did?!? Puh-lease. I hope they crack down hard on these guys.

Anne
(Off to find the Chronicle article on-line.)

ETA: What a prick!

Bonds danced around questions, saying he couldn't explain a calendar with the name ''Barry'' on it; he had never seen a bottle that says Depo-Testosterone; he had never heard of the drugs Clomid, modafinil and trenbolone; and he couldn't pronounce EPO.

Bonds testified that he didn't think any of the substances worked but kept using they out of loyalty to Anderson. He also said he never consulted with the Giants about what Anderson gave him.

''No way ... we don't trust the ball team,'' Bonds said. ''We don't trust baseball. ... Believe me, it's a business. I don't trust their doctors or nothing.''

Sheffield also testified to the grand jury that Bonds arranged for Anderson to give him ''the clear,'' ''the cream,'' and another steroid from Mexico, but also said he did not know they were steroids.

Bonds said he never paid Anderson for drugs or supplements but did give the trainer $15,000 in cash in 2003 for weight training and a $20,000 bonus after his 73-homer season.

Bonds said that Anderson had so little money that he ''lives in his car half the time.'' Asked by a juror why he didn't buy ''a mansion'' for his trainer, Bonds answered: ''One, I'm black, and I'm keeping my money. And there's not too many rich black people in this world. There's more wealthy Asian people and Caucasian and white. And I ain't giving my money up.''

boston.com article here

[dtb]

Originally posted by bilmore
Help me (please) give someone a recommendation:

What's the best Italian restaurant in Little Italy?

The answer is none.

[dtb]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
This is pretty funny, especially since I grew up in a black and Puerto Rican neighborhood, and when I was younger looked like I could be Puerto Rican or Dominican or whatever and was frequently asked (and still am sometimes) by old and young hispanics alike if I was spanish.* Nice try, though.

TM

*In fact, one time a Puerto Rican woman started speaking spanish to me and when I said in my pretty authentic puerto rican accent, "No habla español," she looked at me and said, "See? You speakeh spanish! Don't deny your heritage!"

This is going to sound weird, but whatevah...

Every morning, we call a car service to take our oldest kid to school (his school is not easily reachable by public transportation -- it would take about an hour to get there on the bus, and it's only about 3 miles away -- and there are no taxis in the morning, so we call the car service, which costs the same as a taxi anyway -- but clearly, I've digressed here...). So anyway, the two car services we use are run by Spanish-speaking people. One is Puerto Rican, and they have some black drivers who do not speak Spanish -- most of these are Haitian I think. The other one is Dominican (I think), and they have virtually no drivers who speak anything but Spanish.

Anyway, when we go with the Puerto Rican car company, we can always tell who speaks Spanish and who doesn't, even before the driver speaks -- and many of the PR, DR drivers are black, so it's not that. I don't know why, but there it is. My husband always gets it right -- i.e., he speaks English to the non-Spanish speakers, and Spanish to the hermanos.

He should be a diplomat. [Anyone who knows my husband has just fallen out of his/her chair at the very thought of that...]

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Yeah. Don't do it again.

Something ain't right. You're childless and Hank drinks.