OH! AIMEE! Thanks to you, on Monday I will with any luck be buying my exact size in pants off eBay. Good times.
I fed off a flowerperson, and I spent the next six hours watchin' my hand move.
Spike ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Natter 46: The FIGHTIN' 46
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.
Jesse - Aug 04, 2006 1:07:41 pm PDT #843 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Polter-Cow - Aug 04, 2006 1:07:44 pm PDT #844 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Sure, there's plenty of passages one can cite to say that this or that is the One True Rueben, but who wrote that passage? And in what context?
And should we interpret the passage literally? Perhaps "sauerkraut" is simply a metaphor for the eternal struggle between cabbage and lettuce, thus making the Reuben a representation of vegetable strife for years of yore and years to come.
§ ita § - Aug 04, 2006 1:08:34 pm PDT #845 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
this is even before we consider the Swiss cheese.
Oh, yes. But it's more possible to camouflage the Swiss cheese--it's the rare cheese that isn't better melted. There's nothing you can do for cabbages. Even sharing a crisper with a cabbage is grounds for, if not damnation, limbo.
Sean K - Aug 04, 2006 1:08:57 pm PDT #846 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
From Jess' link:
The year was 1914. Late one evening a leading lady of actor Charlie Chaplin came into the restaurant and said, 'Reuben, make me a sandwich, make it a combination, I'm so hungry I could eat a brick.' He took a loaf of rye bread, cut two slices on the bias and stacked one piece with sliced Virginia ham, roast turkey, and imported Swiss cheese, topped off with coleslaw and lots of Reuben's special Russian dressing and the second slice of bread. [emphasis added]
juliana - Aug 04, 2006 1:09:33 pm PDT #847 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
I have to stop at safeway anyway, so I can get more if I am out.
You can get Fernet there, I'll bet. IJS.
§ ita § - Aug 04, 2006 1:09:47 pm PDT #848 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I would say it's the whole shebang
Triple decked, with bacon--any further away from the ur-club than this, and it can no longer be considered a variant.
Aims - Aug 04, 2006 1:10:08 pm PDT #849 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
OH! AIMEE! Thanks to you, on Monday I will with any luck be buying my exact size in pants off eBay. Good times.
Anything for the advancement of good fashion.
-t - Aug 04, 2006 1:10:14 pm PDT #850 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
we would have been born with the appropriate condiments in our hands.
That is not a sandwich I want to eat.
Just, no.
Unrelatedly, when I put leftover corned beef and boiled cabbage on light rye, I'm not accidentally making a Reuben, right?
Emily - Aug 04, 2006 1:10:26 pm PDT #851 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Full bottle, Lee. Also, I've just offered to make dinner, so see what you think of my email. It's one of my three meals (four if you include microwave burritos).
Sean K - Aug 04, 2006 1:12:10 pm PDT #852 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Triple decked, with bacon--any further away from the ur-club than this, and it can no longer be considered a variant.
I've seen more than one "club" that was not triple-decker, though I myself sneer at the idea that this can still be called a club.