Attention!
Today is Mardi Gras/Fat Tuesday/Shrove Tuesday/the day before Ash Wednesday! Go get yourself a Paczki or two. Mmmmmm.
They should film that story and show it every Christmas.
Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Natter 32 Flavors and Then Some
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Steph L. - Feb 08, 2005 5:02:06 am PST #4836 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Frankenbuddha - Feb 08, 2005 5:02:37 am PST #4837 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I always vaguely wondered, seeing them in grocery stores, if someone was trying to pull my leg, selling weeds as food.
Well, they're ferns not weeds. Or ARE ferns weeds?
Jesse - Feb 08, 2005 5:03:16 am PST #4838 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Anything growing where you don't want it to is a weed, no?
DXMachina - Feb 08, 2005 5:03:24 am PST #4839 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Yeah, so you probably wouldn't mind most US tomatoes -- they have no smell, no flavor, and a completely different texture.
Maybe your city tomatoes are like that, but out here in tomato farm country tomatoes are all about the flavor.
Gus - Feb 08, 2005 5:04:34 am PST #4840 of 10002
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
From Steph's link...
"We're not even Polish," owner Mena Castriciano said.
BWAH!
Nilly - Feb 08, 2005 5:05:16 am PST #4841 of 10002
Swouncing
erika, it's the flavor, too. There are a few things in the world that can get such a strong response from me like an innocent raw tomato.
so you probably wouldn't mind most US tomatoes -- they have no smell, no flavor, and a completely different texture
IIRC, I didn't come into any close encounter with a tomato when I was in the USA, so I couldn't check that. Next time, then.
Jim - Feb 08, 2005 5:06:09 am PST #4842 of 10002
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
Fresh sliced tomato smells like ... well ... nothing much.
Uh, that's only true of bad out of season force-grown tomatoes. Proper ones - which require to be fresh and grown in the right climate so you get them only in season - smell of heaven. Which is a shame for nilly, of course, as she'll have to hold her nose for eternity, but them's the breaks.
Steph L. - Feb 08, 2005 5:07:04 am PST #4843 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
"We're not even Polish," owner Mena Castriciano said.
BWAH!
Heh. But it's true -- you don't have to be Polish to enjoy Paczki!
tommyrot - Feb 08, 2005 5:07:32 am PST #4844 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
The wildwood flower grew wild on the farm,
And we never knowed what it was called.
Some said it was a flower and some said it was weed,
I never gave it much thought ......
One day I was out there talking to my brother,
Reached down for a weed to chew on,
Things got fuzzy and things got blurry,
And then everything was gone!
Didn't know what happened,
But I knew it beat the hell out of sniffin' burlap.
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Jesse - Feb 08, 2005 5:07:51 am PST #4845 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Maybe your city tomatoes are like that, but out here in tomato farm country tomatoes are all about the flavor.
Like Jim is saying, that's only true a couple months of the year, no?