Subj : Taco Sloppo was: Phonetic [1] To : Dave Drum From : Ruth Haffly Date : Wed Jun 28 2023 15:32:50 Hi Dave, DD> I used to half-open the cans of packed in oil fish and let it drain DD> over the kitty kibble. The cats loved it. RH> Kibble disappeared rather fast when topped with fish oil. (G) DD> You betchum, Red Ryder (and if you remember that comix strip you're DD> older than I thought. RH> I've seen references to it but never saw the strip, itself. DD> Red Ryder ran in newspapers through 1965. And there were comix books DD> as well as the Red Ryder BB gun made by Daisy (I had one of those). RH> We were never allowed comic books, RR wasn't in our newspapers either. RH> Main reference I've had with him is from the movie "A Christmas Story" RH> where the main character keeps wishing for the BB gun for Christmas & RH> everybody keeps telling him "You'll shoot your eye out". (G) DD> My grandmother's favourite (one of them) aphorism was "You'll put DD> someone's eye out." One of her other favourites was "You'll catch your DD> death of (insert pejorative)" I can't remember any of my grandmother's sayings like that. Probably because we only saw her sporadically during any year, living a good distance away. That was my mom's mother; dad's mother passed away before my folks got married. DD> I'm not sure that I'm on board with all the "politically correct" DD> renaming that has been going on. Especially the military bases. The DD> people for whom they were named were leaders who fought for the DD> principles in which they believed and were true to their cause .... DD> which even if it was wrong, or has fallen out of favour are still core DD> values that soldiers/sailors or wing wipers should practice. RH> I know, and I'm hoping that with some of the re-names, that someone in RH> the not too distant future will have the sense to change them back to RH> their original names. I know Fort Hood was another of the re-names but RH> it will always be Fort Hood to me. Had my first taste of real real (not RH> restaurant or Tex-Mex) Mexican food while we were stationed there--went RH> on a mission trip to Eagle Pass, TX, Piedras Negras, Mexico and the RH> ladies of the church down there cooked for us one day. Taco Bell has RH> never been the same since. (G) DD> Taco Bell has nover claimed to be "authentic". Bv)= RH> No, but they're as close to Mexican as a lot of people have come in RH> their lifetimes. DD> These days there are authentic Mexican restaurants, run by Mexican and DD> serving the common to all Tex-Mex or Cal-Mex places as well as the DD> food of the region where they grew up. They are much better than the DD> fats food places. DD> We have a mini-chain here called Taco Gringo which is *much* better DD> than Taco Bell. RH> Del Taco is popular in the western states; we've been there a time or RH> two. They offer fries with everything, somehow seems rather RH> incongruous. Also been to Taco John's and other Tex-Mex type places in RH> our travels. DD> When I lived in Southern Califunky we had Del Taco, Taco Tico and Tacl DD> Bell for fats Cal-Mex food. Del Taco was he best of those but at that DD> time (1960s) didn't offer fries. But we also had within a few blocks DD> of my apartment a selection of *authentic* Mexican venues which I DD> preferred. I would too, and enjoy the Mexican places around here. The 2 we go to most often have different styles but both are good. DD> We also had an authentic Chinese place called House of Yee where I DD> first experienced *real* Chinese food. The owner and staff were DD> Cantonese so that's what thet served. Didn't take me long to figure DD> out the Chun King chop suey was *NOT* authentic. We used to call it "cheap Chinese"--filled the belly but a far cry from authentic. My mom made a version of chop suey from time to time if we had leftover pork roast but I could probably count on one hand the number of times she did it. Dad did not like rice. --- Catch you later, Ruth rchaffly{at}earthlink{dot}net FIDO 1:396/45.28 .... If your mind goes blank, remember to turn off the sound. --- PPoint 3.01 * Origin: Sew! That's My Point (1:396/45.28) .