I remember getting my very 300baud modem thinking I was someone important, at $1200 it was several months pay but OMG did the World get bigger all of a sudden!!
No Mexican restaurants around here, I only know one in Berlin. It wasn't good. I remember the names of some dishes but have no idea what it is. Better to look into a dictionary before accidentally ordering fried snake. As you know... down there... deep in the countryside... where I grew up, the people are very stubborn, we only eat what we know, that is potatoes, sauerkraut, and quark. That's why they call us "Kartoffeln", "Krauts", or "Boche".
So I'm guessing you have a wider menu of things you eat know that you aren't "deep in the countryside" anymore? I live in between 2 fairly large tourist areas, the city of Wilmington, NC and Myrtle Beach, SC, where the US shot the Chinese balloon down, so have LOTS of restaurants etc to choose from especially seafood ones since I live in a neighborhood 1.5 miles from the beach. There are some very good steak ones too and of course alot of chain and mom and pop restaurants and even lately more and more food trucks. If you don't know a food truck is a mobile restaurant on wheels that they drive around to different places and see their food to people who walk up to it until they sell out of whatever they are selling.
If you don't know a food truck is a mobile restaurant on wheels that they drive around to different places and see their food to people who walk up to it until they sell out of whatever they are selling.
A food truck is a modern day version of the street vendor who sell hot dogs and the like, except that they can pick up and move to anywhere they want to go in a heart beat.
Where I used to live, Glen Ellyn, IL., (U.S.A.) we had tons of varieties of food choices too. But where I live now in Rockford, IL., we have less. There is still the "variety" of choices but nowhere near as many as in Glen Ellyn.\
When I went to my daughter's H.S. graduation in Florida, I asked where she would like to go for dinner. She chose "Sharky's", a restaurant on the Gulf Coast in Venice, Florida. It was all decked out with Shark teeth, a big (3' dia) bowl FULL of sharks teeth, and shark jaws all over the place. Even the table mats (though paper) had many different shark pictures to I.D. them by. So... I ordered a Shark Steak! I was informed that they didn't sell shark.
WHAT!!
Yes, I know... sharks are somewhat an endangered species, but you would think that with all the shark paraphernalia they had, and even called the restaurant Sharky's, that you could get a shark steak.
Have you ever had shark meat? I think it is very good. It has a flavor as distinctive as Tuna, but not the same, and the texture of pork, easy to chew. I couldn't believe that a place called Sharky's on the Gulf Coast of Florida wouldn't sell a shark steak.
I forgot to put irony tags. Specialties of the international cuisine are known here—even the British. In a mining region in decline for a long time, with on average older population (saving their money) and hardly tourists ... there are few restaurants: mostly Italian, Greek, Indian, almost no German ones (not like in Bavaria)... otherwise Fast Food from takeaways or trailers: mostly Turkish, Vietnamese. Trailers need approval and an assigned stand—everything is regulated in Germany. No pop-up food trucks (can be found on marketplace on market days) ... and no Mexicans here.
Back to the word link:... I'm thinking: "Appendicitis". Had it as a kid.
Yes, I know... sharks are somewhat an endangered species, but you would think that with all the shark paraphernalia they had, and even called the restaurant Sharky's, that you could get a shark steak.
Have you ever had shark meat? I think it is very good. It has a flavor as distinctive as Tuna, but not the same, and the texture of pork, easy to chew. I couldn't believe that a place called Sharky's on the Gulf Coast of Florida wouldn't sell a shark steak.
Oh well, life goes on...
I've had that before and it WAS delicious!! They DO sell shark steaks around here but not at every seafood place, there are rules on what kind and size you can keep and all kinds of other stuff.
I've had that before and it WAS delicious!! They DO sell shark steaks around here but not at every seafood place, there are rules on what kind and size you can keep and all kinds of other stuff.
I agree!! I can't get enough... I haven't found anywhere around Rockford that sells Shark Steaks. There is a place that opened up within the past year or so, Storming Crab, and when we went in there I tried to order Shark Steak. The server looked at me like I had two heads! Never went back. I'll keep looking though.
Even in California I found Shark Steaks very few and far between. Had it twice, though. Once was Mako Shark, and the other was a Thresher shark fillet. The filleted Thresher Shark was absolutely to die for. It may have been the cook, but either way, it was great!
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So I'm guessing you have a wider menu of things you eat know that you aren't "deep in the countryside" anymore? I live in between 2 fairly large tourist areas, the city of Wilmington, NC and Myrtle Beach, SC, where the US shot the Chinese balloon down, so have LOTS of restaurants etc to choose from especially seafood ones since I live in a neighborhood 1.5 miles from the beach. There are some very good steak ones too and of course alot of chain and mom and pop restaurants and even lately more and more food trucks. If you don't know a food truck is a mobile restaurant on wheels that they drive around to different places and see their food to people who walk up to it until they sell out of whatever they are selling.
mikey wrote: If you don't
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A food truck is a modern day version of the street vendor who sell hot dogs and the like, except that they can pick up and move to anywhere they want to go in a heart beat.
Where I used to live, Glen Ellyn, IL., (U.S.A.) we had tons of varieties of food choices too. But where I live now in Rockford, IL., we have less. There is still the "variety" of choices but nowhere near as many as in Glen Ellyn.\
When I went to my daughter's H.S. graduation in Florida, I asked where she would like to go for dinner. She chose "Sharky's", a restaurant on the Gulf Coast in Venice, Florida. It was all decked out with Shark teeth, a big (3' dia) bowl FULL of sharks teeth, and shark jaws all over the place. Even the table mats (though paper) had many different shark pictures to I.D. them by. So... I ordered a Shark Steak! I was informed that they didn't sell shark.
WHAT!!
Yes, I know... sharks are somewhat an endangered species, but you would think that with all the shark paraphernalia they had, and even called the restaurant Sharky's, that you could get a shark steak.
Have you ever had shark meat? I think it is very good. It has a flavor as distinctive as Tuna, but not the same, and the texture of pork, easy to chew. I couldn't believe that a place called Sharky's on the Gulf Coast of Florida wouldn't sell a shark steak.
Oh well, life goes on...
Proud member of the Old Farts Association
Food trucks and restaurant
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Food trucks and restaurant variety...
I forgot to put irony tags. Specialties of the international cuisine are known here—even the British. In a mining region in decline for a long time, with on average older population (saving their money) and hardly tourists ... there are few restaurants: mostly Italian, Greek, Indian, almost no German ones (not like in Bavaria)... otherwise Fast Food from takeaways or trailers: mostly Turkish, Vietnamese. Trailers need approval and an assigned stand—everything is regulated in Germany. No pop-up food trucks (can be found on marketplace on market days) ... and no Mexicans here.
Back to the word link:... I'm thinking: "Appendicitis". Had it as a kid.
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I've had that before and it WAS delicious!! They DO sell shark steaks around here but not at every seafood place, there are rules on what kind and size you can keep and all kinds of other stuff.
mikey wrote: I've had that
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I agree!! I can't get enough... I haven't found anywhere around Rockford that sells Shark Steaks. There is a place that opened up within the past year or so, Storming Crab, and when we went in there I tried to order Shark Steak. The server looked at me like I had two heads! Never went back. I'll keep looking though.
Even in California I found Shark Steaks very few and far between. Had it twice, though. Once was Mako Shark, and the other was a Thresher shark fillet. The filleted Thresher Shark was absolutely to die for. It may have been the cook, but either way, it was great!
Proud member of the Old Farts Association
Preston is a town a couple of
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Preston is a town a couple of miles from Bamber Bridge, Lancashire.
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Bamber Bridge was the scene of a battle in 1943 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bamber_Bridge
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maser -> Godzilla https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maser#In_popular_culture
Quick Draw
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Quick Draw McGraw!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quick_Draw_McGraw
Ideas are not fixed, nor should they be; we live in model-dependent reality.
Tonight Show with Stephen
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Tonight Show with Stephen Colbert!!
Sometimes he's funny other times his lines take time to digest and therefore aren't as funny as they could be.