Subj : Nawlins was: Ale - 8 was: [1] To : Dave Drum From : Ruth Haffly Date : Thu Mar 30 2023 14:14:00 Hi Dave, DD> Wasn't too difficult, I hope, with a clew like " DD> I also had DD> one of the "racks" " Bv)= RH> Yes, but racks can be flat or standing. DD> In my lexicon if it's upright - it's a rack. If it's flat/horizontal DD> it's a grate. It's still a rack to me. Different parts of the country, different names but the same thing. DD> The most ginger taste I get is from Vernor's Ginger Soda - the oldest DD> bottled/cannded soft drink in Continental North America. As some of DD> the adverts may tell you - it's ginger *soda* not ale or beer. RH> I've had that from time to time but probably the ginger ale I've RH> had most often has been Canada Dry. DD> Canada Dry is ..... OK but overpriced (all soda is these days). I'm DD> buying bottles of lemon juice at ALDI and tarting up my tap water for DD> my hydration - if I'm not drinking coffee or tea. We have a reverse osmosis filter on our kitchen sink; most of the time I'll just have water from that. Steve likes the liquid mix in concentrates added to his water. I'll buy a carton of sparkling water from time to time, especially during the summer, as an alternative to the still water. Today, with lunch, I had a peach one--left over from last summer, discovered when cleaning out the R-Pod before we traded it. DD> My go-to ginger ale used to was Seagram's (a Co' Cola label). I'm not DD> a big fan of Pepsi and its products. Overhyped and waaaaaaay too DD> sweet. DD> Even their Zero Sugar stuff. I rarely have a pepsi product for the same reason. Became a Coke fan in college, then my mom inherited some Coke stock so she started stocking the fridge with it. I switched to the diet Coke in the early 90s so I could cut my sugar intake a bit--at the time I was drinking 2 cans of Coke a day. DD> I seem to have totally spaced it. What year was that? I really miss DD> Nancy. She was a tough Scrabble opponent. Made me sprain my brain a DD> couple times trying to best her move(s). RH> That was September, 2019. I miss her too, especially when we go up to RH> NY to see Steve's family. We usually met up with her and Richard at RH> their favorite sushi place for a meal. Steve and I still stop there, if RH> possible, when we're in the area--missed seeing Richard by one day on RH> one visit. DD> Hmmmmmm ... I remember (sort of) now. It was a busy time at work and DD> we were short of help. They didn't want to let me take vacation days. DD> If I remember correctly that was the year I had "Use it or lose it" DD> vacation time and my District Manager approved me being "officially" DD> on vacation for two weeks and also working my normal schedule. DD> Effectively double DD> pay for those two weeks. Pays to be a loyal minion sometimes. Nice! We didn't do a lot, mostly just sat around the kitchen table talking and watching Michael have fun with some of the stuff we brought. Mark brought some leeks which we used in a couple of ways. I've since bought some, made potato/leek soup a time or two. DD> Never got to Mother's - which is a well known .... famous really, DD> place in Restaurant Row. I was going to try one of the places on DD> Restaurant DD> Row ,,, Dooky Chase's, IIRC, but the prices made my throat slam shut. RH> That was our splurge meal and yet, not as much as it could have been. RH> We walked from our hotel, passed one of John Besh's places en route. RH> The menu was posted on the door--we could have maybe afforded an RH> appetiser there but had a whole meal at Mother's. DD> One the the best breakfast's I ever had was in a little DD> hole-in-hte-wall joint on Jefferson Highway near where I was DD> delivering bottles. I spent overnight in their (Sazerac's) parking DD> lot and woke up hungry. So, I dropped my trailer and took the DD> tractor down the street looking for an open place to get a bite. DD> Around the corner I happened upon a place with a parking spot for DD> my behemoth semi-tractor at the curb. So, in I went. The chatter DD> stopped and it got awfully quiet. I was the only pale-face in DD> the joint. The lady behind the counter asked "Do you know where you DD> are?" DD> To which I replied "Sign out front says 'CAFE'. Can I get a meal DD> here?" DD> She grinned and said, "You all right. Whatchou gonna have?". RH> Sometimes those are the best places. In Savannah we were sometimes the RH> only gringos in a Mexican place, also been the only round eye in our RH> favorite Korean place in HI. A little place like you described was in RH> Wake Forest when we came up to visit--had a good meal there. We moved RH> up and the place had closed--reopened a couple of years later as our RH> (now) favorite ice cream shop. DD> We've got an Indian place like that here. Flavor of India is in a DD> small out-of-the-way strip mall. My lunch-bunch tried it one fine DD> afternoon. Sounds like a place we would enjoy. I always have to ask about the heat level tho; since we left AZ my tolerance level has dropped somewhat. DD> We were the only non-brown skinned, black haired, dark eyed patrons in DD> the place. The food on their buffet was most excellent and I was DD> pleased to be introduced to mango I scream. We have a fair amount of DD> South Asian floks here, mostly working in IT for the state or one of DD> our insurance DD> companies. What we most appreciated at "Flavor" was that the spices DD> were not "dumbed down" for the pale faces. I have gotten an education DD> in how >> CONTINUED IN NEXT MESSAGE << --- Catch you later, Ruth rchaffly{at}earthlink{dot}net FIDO 1:396/45.28 .... I hit my CTRL key, but I'm STILL not in control --- PPoint 3.01 * Origin: Sew! That's My Point (1:396/45.28) .