The Green Green Grass of Home.
Ann Green
I'd had my suspicions of course. I always thought the world was a little
doolally. Now I _know_ reality has completely absented itself.
I live about a mile from the route all the cavalcades will travel as
they bring the most powerful world leaders from the airport to the G8
summit, and although it's nice to see Birmingham have a shower and
squirt on the metaphorical deodorant I am truly gobsmacked at the
lengths the City Council have gone to to make the place look good.
THERE ARE ABOUT A MILLION HELICOPTERS BUZZING AROUND UP THERE DESPITE
FOG THICK ENOUGH TO KNIT WITH, AND THERE ARE GUYS SPRAY-PAINTING THE
GRASS VERGES ALONG THE ROUTE A NICER COLOUR GREEN!!!!!!!
I'm going for a lie down; when the nurse comes with my medication please
tell him I'm in the teapot.....
Ann
Vicki Rosenzweig
I thought only the American government was that stupid.
Here, have a nice cup of tea, and don't look out the window for a while.
Can I give you a book to read? _Alice in Wonderland_ perhaps?
Vicki Rosenzweig
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Avram Grumer
In article <6jg00l$gs_...@port.net.interport.net>, v...@interport.net (Vicki
Rosenzweig) wrote:
> In article <355B51...@virgin.net>, ghost...@virgin.net wrote:
>
> >...AND THERE ARE GUYS SPRAY-PAINTING THE GRASS
> >VERGES ALONG THE ROUTE A NICER COLOUR GREEN!!!!!!!
>
> I thought only the American government was that stupid.
Oh, I don't know. I think a Potemkin lawn takes distant second to the
original Potemkin village.
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John Boston
In article <avram-14059...@avram.port.net>, av...@interport.net
says...
>
>In article <6jg00l$gs_...@port.net.interport.net>, v...@interport.net (Vicki
>Rosenzweig) wrote:
>
>> In article <355B51...@virgin.net>, ghost...@virgin.net wrote:
>>
>> >...AND THERE ARE GUYS SPRAY-PAINTING THE GRASS
>> >VERGES ALONG THE ROUTE A NICER COLOUR GREEN!!!!!!!
>>
>> I thought only the American government was that stupid.
>
>Oh, I don't know. I think a Potemkin lawn takes distant second to the
>original Potemkin village.
Don't forget more recent Potemkin villages. In the 1980s, the New
York City government decided that all the burned-out and abandoned buildings
in the Bronx were bad for its image, so they put up decals. They boarded
over the windows and put up huge stickers over the plywood depicting urban
pastoral scenes like windowsills with plants, cats looking out, etc. Often
they would cover an entire building with identical decals so it looked like
a sheet of stamps. They were so happy with the results that they rolled out
the decal policy to other parts of the city, with amusing results. Once I
was taking a cab to Kennedy Airport and the driver went via side streets to
avoid some pocket apocalypse on the main roads, and we drove past some
decalled buildings that squatters had broken into, so two windows would have
a decal of fake plants and in the next one somebody would have ripped away
the plywood and they would have real plants; the next several would have
decals again. Very dialectical.
John Boston
Aria
In article <6jg00l$gs_...@port.net.interport.net>,
v...@interport.net (Vicki Rosenzweig) wrote:
>In article <355B51...@virgin.net>, ghost...@virgin.net wrote:
>>THERE ARE ABOUT A MILLION HELICOPTERS BUZZING AROUND UP THERE DESPITE
>>GRASS VERGES ALONG THE ROUTE A NICER COLOUR GREEN!!!!!!!
>>
>>tell him I'm in the teapot.....
>>
>>Ann
>>
>
>
they know about this world leaders thing then never mind....the only news I
generally get in a week is on _Good News Week_ (aussie fans will know what I'm
on about...how about those dolphin fashion accessories eh?) I know of two
Birminghams for sure, one in central USA and one in UK...Ann doesn't have a
specific .uk email address so (as I've only started reading recently and don't
know everyone yet) which particular government is indulging in this insanity?
Aria
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Ann Green wrote:
>
> I'd had my suspicions of course. I always thought the world was a
> little doolally. Now I _know_ reality has completely absented itself.
> I live about a mile from the route all the cavalcades will travel as
> they bring the most powerful world leaders from the airport to the G8
> summit, and although it's nice to see Birmingham have a shower and
> squirt on the metaphorical deodorant I am truly gobsmacked at the
> lengths the City Council have gone to to make the place look good.
>
> FOG THICK ENOUGH TO KNIT WITH, AND THERE ARE GUYS SPRAY-PAINTING THE
> GRASS VERGES ALONG THE ROUTE A NICER COLOUR GREEN!!!!!!!
How soon is this summit? There is a type of liquid mixture of fertilizer
and grass seed which can be sprayed on bare (but otherwise acceptable)
ground and result in a nice verdant growth of grass in a relatively
short order. It is frequently green (I've boggled more than once at bare
hillsides by construction projects apparently painted green, only to
have them covered in grass the next time I drive by). If the summit is
not for a couple of weeks, it is possible that they are simply putting
down new grass, in effect.
- Ray R.
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Gary Farber
In <355BEB...@learnlink.emory.edu> Ray Radlein <r...@learnlink.emory.edu> wrote:
[. . .]
: How soon is this summit? There is a type of liquid mixture of fertilizer
: and grass seed which can be sprayed on bare (but otherwise acceptable)
: ground and result in a nice verdant growth of grass in a relatively
: short order. It is frequently green (I've boggled more than once at bare
: hillsides by construction projects apparently painted green, only to
: have them covered in grass the next time I drive by). If the summit is
: not for a couple of weeks, it is possible that they are simply putting
: down new grass, in effect.
No: according to the London TIMES, some of the grass turned yellow, so
they're hitting it with green dye.
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Morgan
In this post <6jgiug$hkl$2...@newsman.murdoch.edu.au>, Aria
The real one!
<England!>
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"Come to the edge." he said. They said "We are afraid." "Come
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Gary Farber
In <THdQwMAS...@sidhen.demon.co.uk> Morgan <Mor...@sidhen.demon.co.uk> wrote:
: In this post <6jgiug$hkl$2...@newsman.murdoch.edu.au>, Aria
: The real one!
: <England!>
For the summit of the G8. The Times of London also reported that the
Swallow Hotel, hosting Clinton and aides, was taken aback when the
President's advance folk said that the President and company always
started breakfast with bagels and a schmear, and of course they had this?
The Swallow was prepared to give a full English breakfast, and was found
"bagels" a strange exotically alien artifact, apparently, but they made
arrangements to find them, somewhere in Birmingham.
Lawrence Watt-Evans
On Fri, 15 May 98 17:05:53 GMT, wal...@fizzy.murdoch.edu (Aria) wrote:
> I know of two
>Birminghams for sure, one in central USA and one in UK..
Central USA? Alabama isn't central, it's deep south.
(This may be nitpicking, but to me, "central" at its most generous
means between the Rockies and the Appalachians and no farther south
than Tennessee -- though curiously, I notice I have no northern limit
short of the Canadian border. Anyway, Alabama doesn't qualify.)
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mike weber
lawr...@clark.net (Lawrence Watt-Evans) wrote:
>On Fri, 15 May 98 17:05:53 GMT, wal...@fizzy.murdoch.edu (Aria) wrote:
>
>> I know of two
>>Birminghams for sure, one in central USA and one in UK..
>
>Central USA? Alabama isn't central, it's deep south.
>
>(This may be nitpicking, but to me, "central" at its most generous
>means between the Rockies and the Appalachians and no farther south
>than Tennessee -- though curiously, I notice I have no northern limit
>short of the Canadian border. Anyway, Alabama doesn't qualify.)
>
My definition of "Central US" seems to begin a bit north of where
yours does, and runs south to the Gulf... Interesting.
Hadn't thought about it before now...
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mike weber
Gary Farber <gfa...@panix2.panix.com> wrote:
>In <355BEB...@learnlink.emory.edu> Ray Radlein <r...@learnlink.emory.edu> wrote:
>[. . .]
>
>: How soon is this summit? There is a type of liquid mixture of fertilizer
>: and grass seed which can be sprayed on bare (but otherwise acceptable)
>: ground and result in a nice verdant growth of grass in a relatively
>: short order. It is frequently green (I've boggled more than once at bare
>: hillsides by construction projects apparently painted green, only to
>: have them covered in grass the next time I drive by). If the summit is
>: not for a couple of weeks, it is possible that they are simply putting
>: down new grass, in effect.
>
>No: according to the London TIMES, some of the grass turned yellow, so
>they're hitting it with green dye.
>
That's not unheard of here in the States, either -- just not terribly
common. When we lived in South Carolina, there was a Major Business
((May have been IBM's local HQ)) that painted its lawn green every
winter.
mike weber
Ray Radlein <r...@learnlink.emory.edu> wrote:
>How soon is this summit? There is a type of liquid mixture of fertilizer
>and grass seed which can be sprayed on bare (but otherwise acceptable)
>ground and result in a nice verdant growth of grass in a relatively
>short order. It is frequently green (I've boggled more than once at bare
>hillsides by construction projects apparently painted green, only to
>have them covered in grass the next time I drive by). If the summit is
>not for a couple of weeks, it is possible that they are simply putting
>down new grass, in effect.
>
That kind of stuff is usually sprayed over ground covered in straw
mulch.
Chris Croughton
Gary Farber wrote:
> For the summit of the G8. The Times of London also reported that the
> Swallow Hotel, hosting Clinton and aides, was taken aback when the
> President's advance folk said that the President and company always
> started breakfast with bagels and a schmear, and of course they had this?
> The Swallow was prepared to give a full English breakfast, and was found
> "bagels" a strange exotically alien artifact, apparently, but they made
> arrangements to find them, somewhere in Birmingham.
Bagels can be bought in most supermarkets in England, but what on earth
is a 'schmear'? Lox I know (although in England it's also an
abbreviation for Liquid OXygen).
Chris C
Lawrence Watt-Evans
On Fri, 15 May 1998 15:25:37 GMT, emsh...@aol.com (mike weber)
wrote:
>lawr...@clark.net (Lawrence Watt-Evans) wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 15 May 98 17:05:53 GMT, wal...@fizzy.murdoch.edu (Aria) wrote:
>>
>>> I know of two
>>>Birminghams for sure, one in central USA and one in UK..
>>
>>Central USA? Alabama isn't central, it's deep south.
>>
>>(This may be nitpicking, but to me, "central" at its most generous
>>means between the Rockies and the Appalachians and no farther south
>>than Tennessee -- though curiously, I notice I have no northern limit
>>short of the Canadian border. Anyway, Alabama doesn't qualify.)
>>
>My definition of "Central US" seems to begin a bit north of where
>yours does, and runs south to the Gulf... Interesting.
You include parts of Canada in "central U.S."?
Gary Farber
In <355C75...@amc.de> Chris Croughton <crou...@amc.de> wrote:
[. . .]
: Bagels can be bought in most supermarkets in England, but what on earth
: is a 'schmear'? Lox I know (although in England it's also an
: abbreviation for Liquid OXygen).
A proper dollop of cream cheese smeared over the cut-in-half bagel.
Ann Green
Gary Farber wrote:
> :>Um, Which Birmingham is Ann talking about?
>
> : The real one!
>
> : <England!>
>
> For the summit of the G8. The Times of London also reported that the
> Swallow Hotel, hosting Clinton and aides, was taken aback when the
> President's advance folk said that the President and company always
> started breakfast with bagels and a schmear, and of course they had this?
> The Swallow was prepared to give a full English breakfast, and was found
> "bagels" a strange exotically alien artifact, apparently, but they made
> arrangements to find them, somewhere in Birmingham.
This is, of course, a cunning yet rather lengthy assassination attempt
on the life of your priapic President. No noisy guns for us, ho no,
we've got LARD and we're not afraid to use it. Grab your arteries and
head for the bunker troops, that sausage might be loaded!
Still wibbling,
Ann
Ann Green
THERE ARE GUYS SPRAY-PAINTING THE
> > GRASS VERGES ALONG THE ROUTE A NICER COLOUR GREEN!!!!!!!
>
Today!
Ann
David G. Bell
In article <6jh704$2...@news1.panix.com>
gfa...@panix2.panix.com "Gary Farber" writes:
> In <355BEB...@learnlink.emory.edu> Ray Radlein <r...@learnlink.emory.edu>
> wrote:
> [. . .]
>
> : How soon is this summit? There is a type of liquid mixture of fertilizer
> : and grass seed which can be sprayed on bare (but otherwise acceptable)
> : ground and result in a nice verdant growth of grass in a relatively
> : short order. It is frequently green (I've boggled more than once at bare
> : hillsides by construction projects apparently painted green, only to
> : have them covered in grass the next time I drive by). If the summit is
> : not for a couple of weeks, it is possible that they are simply putting
> : down new grass, in effect.
>
> No: according to the London TIMES, some of the grass turned yellow, so
> they're hitting it with green dye.
It doesn't need dye, just the right nutrients. Or, possibly, better
drainage. The wet weather of the last couple of months did put crops
under a lot of stress, and delay fertiliser applications.
--
David G. Bell -- Farmer, SF Fan, Filker, and Punslinger.
David G. Bell
In article <355C75...@amc.de> crou...@amc.de "Chris Croughton" writes:
> Gary Farber wrote:
>
> > For the summit of the G8. The Times of London also reported that the
> > Swallow Hotel, hosting Clinton and aides, was taken aback when the
> > President's advance folk said that the President and company always
> > started breakfast with bagels and a schmear, and of course they had this?
> > The Swallow was prepared to give a full English breakfast, and was found
> > "bagels" a strange exotically alien artifact, apparently, but they made
> > arrangements to find them, somewhere in Birmingham.
>
> Bagels can be bought in most supermarkets in England, but what on earth
> is a 'schmear'? Lox I know (although in England it's also an
> abbreviation for Liquid OXygen).
I hope somebody has warned the Secret Service about the potential
dangers of the President having a quick fag over his bagels and LOX.
Janice Gelb
In article 2...@newsman.murdoch.edu.au, wal...@fizzy.murdoch.edu (Aria) writes:
>>In article <355B51...@virgin.net>, ghost...@virgin.net wrote:
><snip bits about world leaders and birmingham>
>>>GRASS VERGES ALONG THE ROUTE A NICER COLOUR GREEN!!!!!!!
>>>
>>>tell him I'm in the teapot.....
>>>
>>
>they know about this world leaders thing then never mind....the only news I
>generally get in a week is on _Good News Week_ (aussie fans will know what I'm
>on about...how about those dolphin fashion accessories eh?) I know of two
>Birminghams for sure, one in central USA and one in UK...Ann doesn't have a
>specific .uk email address so (as I've only started reading recently and don't
>know everyone yet) which particular government is indulging in this insanity?
>Aria
>
I've never yet heard anyone from Alabama use the phrase "a lie down" and
so my guess would be it's the Birmingham in England.
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mike weber
lawr...@clark.net (Lawrence Watt-Evans) wrote:
>On Fri, 15 May 1998 15:25:37 GMT, emsh...@aol.com (mike weber)
>wrote:
>
>>lawr...@clark.net (Lawrence Watt-Evans) wrote:
>>
>>>(This may be nitpicking, but to me, "central" at its most generous
>>>means between the Rockies and the Appalachians and no farther south
>>>than Tennessee -- though curiously, I notice I have no northern limit
>>>short of the Canadian border. Anyway, Alabama doesn't qualify.)
>>>
>>My definition of "Central US" seems to begin a bit north of where
>>yours does, and runs south to the Gulf... Interesting.
>
>You include parts of Canada in "central U.S."?
>
*Sigh* This i get for not checking to see the post says what i meant
to say before hitting the "SEND" key. This i do not need.
What i -meant- to say was "... a bit north of where yours ends to the
South ..."
*Sigh*
[["Thank you, Mistress, may I have another?"]]
Ray Radlein
Lawrence Watt-Evans wrote:
>
> wal...@fizzy.murdoch.edu (Aria) wrote:
>
> > I know of two Birminghams for sure, one in central USA and one in UK..
>
> Central USA? Alabama isn't central, it's deep south.
>
> means between the Rockies and the Appalachians and no farther south
> than Tennessee -- though curiously, I notice I have no northern limit
> short of the Canadian border. Anyway, Alabama doesn't qualify.)
My notion of the Midwest -- more or less the same thing as "Central," I
suppose -- includes basically everything east of the Rockies, west of
the Appalacians and Ohio River, and north of Arkansas.
Speaking of geographical curiousities, the local newspaper had a whopper
on its Editorial page the other week, when someone made a reference to
"...the poorer parts of Appalachia, such as the Mississippi Delta..."
And I thought, "Why stop there? I bet there's even *less* economic
development a couple hundred miles out into the Gulf. That's a *really*
poor part of Appalachia."
It was only a week or two before that when the paper made a reference to
the genius of Benjamin Franklin, who "...invented bifocal lenses when he
wasn't busy writing the Declaration of Independence." Which is literally
true, I suppose, inasmuch as how Thomas Jefferson wrote it, giving Ben
Franklin plenty of time to do other things. For that matter, I
understand he invented the Franklin stove while he wasn't busy winning
the 1963 Nobel Prize for Literature, and he founded the first American
public library while he wasn't busy inventing the transistor.
Avram Grumer
> Bagels can be bought in most supermarkets in England,
> but what on earth is a 'schmear'?
Cream cheese.
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aRJay
In an article using recycled electrons Gary Farber wrote :-
>In <THdQwMAS...@sidhen.demon.co.uk> Morgan <Mor...@sidhen.demon.co.uk>
>wrote:
>: In this post <6jgiug$hkl$2...@newsman.murdoch.edu.au>, Aria
>: <wal...@fizzy.murdoch.edu> said:
>:>Um, Which Birmingham is Ann talking about?
>
>: The real one!
>
>: <England!>
>
>For the summit of the G8. The Times of London also reported that the
>Swallow Hotel, hosting Clinton and aides, was taken aback when the
>President's advance folk said that the President and company always
>started breakfast with bagels and a schmear, and of course they had this?
>The Swallow was prepared to give a full English breakfast, and was found
>"bagels" a strange exotically alien artifact, apparently, but they made
>arrangements to find them, somewhere in Birmingham.
>
Don't know about presidential breakfasts but there was some footage of
him on the news last night, he was having lunch in one of the waterside
pubs in Birmingham. Lunch was beer and chips (frys for our US readers)
on the veranda of this pub where it was implied that he' just stopped
off whilst out walking.
--
aRJay
Chris Croughton
David G. Bell wrote:
>
> In article <355C75...@amc.de> crou...@amc.de "Chris Croughton" writes:
>
> > Gary Farber wrote:
> >
> > > Swallow Hotel, hosting Clinton and aides, was taken aback when the
> > > President's advance folk said that the President and company always
> > > started breakfast with bagels and a schmear, and of course they had this?
> > > The Swallow was prepared to give a full English breakfast, and was found
> > > "bagels" a strange exotically alien artifact, apparently, but they made
> > > arrangements to find them, somewhere in Birmingham.
> >
> > abbreviation for Liquid OXygen).
>
> I hope somebody has warned the Secret Service about the potential
> dangers of the President having a quick fag over his bagels and LOX.
I think the American newspapers would be interested in him having a fag,
quick or not ("Yes, I had a fag but I didn't Swallow!"). Perhaps we
should warn Teddy...
(Or perhaps a schmear test?)
Totally unrelated (except that it's about food), do Americans eat
pretzels hot or cold? The ones I've had in England have been served
cold, and I didn't much care for them, but in Germany they're generally
served hot (or at least warm) from the oven and are delicious. They
also do a sort of round bun made out of the same dough which are superb
eaten for breakfast...
Chris C
Chris Croughton
> : is a 'schmear'? Lox I know (although in England it's also an
> : abbreviation for Liquid OXygen).
>
Is there a standard size for "a proper dollop", or is this something one
learns by experience? And does the lox go under the cream cheese or is
it a separate item?
Chris C
Lawrence Watt-Evans
On Sat, 16 May 1998 13:37:02 +0200, Chris Croughton <crou...@amc.de>
wrote:
>Totally unrelated (except that it's about food), do Americans eat
>pretzels hot or cold?
Both. Generally small hard ones are served cold (usually as a snack
with soda or beer), and big soft ones are served hot (especially by
street vendors and at sporting events).
Vicki Rosenzweig
>
>> For the summit of the G8. The Times of London also reported that the
>> Swallow Hotel, hosting Clinton and aides, was taken aback when the
>> President's advance folk said that the President and company always
>> started breakfast with bagels and a schmear, and of course they had this?
>> The Swallow was prepared to give a full English breakfast, and was found
>> "bagels" a strange exotically alien artifact, apparently, but they made
>> arrangements to find them, somewhere in Birmingham.
>
>is a 'schmear'? Lox I know (although in England it's also an
>abbreviation for Liquid OXygen).
>
A "schmear" is cream cheese--I suspect it's a Yiddish-influenced form
of "smear," because you sort of smear the cream cheese onto the
bagel.
But am I the only person who thinks Clinton was pulling their leg?
The man is from Arkansas, used to jog to McDonald's for breakfast,
and has lived in Britain. I'm from New York, raised on bagels, and
had no trouble finding things to eat from a full English breakfast.
The only way this makes sense is that he figured "I'm the Leader
of the Free World, I can have whatever I want for breakfast, so
there!" <sound effect of foot stamping> Or that he figured it never
hurts to ask, and if they'd said "sorry, we don't have real bagels
in Birmingham" he might have been quite prepared to smile and
say "Okay, then, eggs, brown toast, ham, and mushrooms, please."
Vicki Rosenzweig
v...@interport.net | http://www.users.interport.net/~vr/
"Typos are Coyote padding through the language, grinning."
-- Susanna Sturgis
Chris Croughton
Lawrence Watt-Evans wrote:
>
> On Sat, 16 May 1998 13:37:02 +0200, Chris Croughton <crou...@amc.de>
> wrote:
>
> >Totally unrelated (except that it's about food), do Americans eat
> >pretzels hot or cold?
>
> Both. Generally small hard ones are served cold (usually as a snack
> with soda or beer), and big soft ones are served hot (especially by
> street vendors and at sporting events).
It's the small hard ones I'm not keen on. The big soft hot ones are
very good, especially with butter (the Germans butter them, at least for
breakfast)...
Chris C
Chris Croughton
Vicki Rosenzweig wrote:
> But am I the only person who thinks Clinton was pulling their leg?
> The man is from Arkansas, used to jog to McDonald's for breakfast,
> and has lived in Britain. I'm from New York, raised on bagels, and
> had no trouble finding things to eat from a full English breakfast.
> The only way this makes sense is that he figured "I'm the Leader
> of the Free World, I can have whatever I want for breakfast, so
> there!" <sound effect of foot stamping> Or that he figured it never
> hurts to ask, and if they'd said "sorry, we don't have real bagels
> in Birmingham" he might have been quite prepared to smile and
> say "Okay, then, eggs, brown toast, ham, and mushrooms, please."
I suspect the latter, he doesn't strike me as the sort of peson who'd
throw a temper tantrum over not getting his bagels. And the hotel might
have been having him on as well (or it might have been that they just
didn't have any atthat time and didn't have time to go out and get some)
because they're not unknown even in Birmingham.
Which president was it who refused to have broccoli served in the White
House because he'd been forced to eat it as a kid? I always thought
that was a nice human touch, the sort of thing we think as kids ("if I
was president I wouldn't have to eat broccoli")...
Chris C
Elisabeth Carey
Chris Croughton wrote:
> Which president was it who refused to have broccoli served in the White
> House because he'd been forced to eat it as a kid? I always thought
> that was a nice human touch, the sort of thing we think as kids ("if I
> was president I wouldn't have to eat broccoli")...
That was George Bush. He didn't originally set out to make
an issue of the matter. He just had one of those PR
exchanges with some school kids, and casually agreed with
one of the kids that no, he didn't like broccoli, either,
and he wouldn't have it served in the White House. The
broccoli growers expressed outrage, saying that the
_president_ shouldn't be saying things like that; it would
hurt their sales--and in a remarkably dimwitted PR exercise,
they sent a large truckload of fresh broccoli to the White
House, figuring that Bush would have to accept the "gift",
have the broccoli served at the White House, and it would be
a great PR coup for the broccoli growers.
But George Bush refused delivery, and said that he was the
President of the United States and _no one_ could force him
to eat broccoli.
Even I, a broccoli lover from way back, thought it was one
of his finest moments.
Lis Carey
Ulrika
In article <355c4528...@news.clark.net>, lawr...@clark.net (Lawrence
Watt-Evans) writes:
>Central USA? Alabama isn't central, it's deep south.
It is if you operate on a sufficiently limited version of the
bicoastal model of the US.
"Yes, indeed, the Lord is a shoving leopard." -- Rev. W.A. Spooner
** Ulrika O'Brien-...@aol.com**
Ulrika
In article <895262...@zhochaka.demon.co.uk>, db...@zhochaka.demon.co.uk
("David G. Bell") writes:
>I hope somebody has warned the Secret Service about the potential
>dangers of the President having a quick fag over his bagels and LOX.
It's okay, he only diddles female aides.
Ulrika
In article <355D25...@learnlink.emory.edu>, Ray Radlein
<r...@learnlink.emory.edu> writes:
>It was only a week or two before that when the paper made
>a reference to the genius of Benjamin Franklin, who "...invented >bifocal
lenses when he wasn't busy writing the Declaration of
>Independence." Which is literally true, I suppose, inasmuch as
>how Thomas Jefferson wrote it, giving Ben Franklin plenty of
>time to do other things. For that matter, I understand he invented
>the Franklin stove while he wasn't busy winning
>the 1963 Nobel Prize for Literature, and he founded the
>first American public library while he wasn't busy inventingt
>he transistor.
Come to think of it, I hardly do give out any RASFF awards,
do I? I'm never sure if I'm doing it right. But wotthehell.
Give that man a Rasseff award, with "Marry me?" clusters.
Ulrika
>Totally unrelated (except that it's about food), do Americans eat
>pretzels hot or cold? The ones I've had in England have been served
>cold, and I didn't much care for them, but in Germany they're generally
>served hot (or at least warm) from the oven and are delicious. They
>also do a sort of round bun made out of the same dough which are >superb eaten
for breakfast...
Soft pretzels should be served hot, with mustard. I particularly
like the place in Fashion Island that serves different 'flavors'
like bagels, including garlic ones, which are especially nice.
Ulrika
>Is there a standard size for "a proper dollop", or is this something
>one learns by experience? And does the lox go under the cream >cheese or is
it a separate item?
Lox *under* the cream cheese? Images of delicate flinders of
translucent smoked fish (I am, of course, really speaking of Nova,
rather than Lox, since Moshe May Be Lurking) being utterly pulped
into the bagel by the rock hard cream cheese which I forgot
(again) to take out in advance. No, lox definitely goes *on* *top*
of the cream cheese (or are we having Transatlantic Preposition
Problesm?). Sources differ about which order the tomato and red onion go on
in.
Ulrika
In article <6jk38u$2m0...@port.net.interport.net>, v...@interport.net (Vicki
Rosenzweig) writes:
>The only way this makes sense is that he figured "I'm the Leader
>of the Free World, I can have whatever I want for breakfast, so
>there!"
Next he'll be wanting them to pick all the green M&M's out
of the bowls before putting them out in his hotel rooms.
James Nicoll
Chris Croughton wrote:
>
> Vicki Rosenzweig wrote:
>
> > But am I the only person who thinks Clinton was pulling their leg?
> > The man is from Arkansas, used to jog to McDonald's for breakfast,
> > and has lived in Britain. I'm from New York, raised on bagels, and
> > had no trouble finding things to eat from a full English breakfast.
> > of the Free World, I can have whatever I want for breakfast, so
> > hurts to ask, and if they'd said "sorry, we don't have real bagels
> > in Birmingham" he might have been quite prepared to smile and
> > say "Okay, then, eggs, brown toast, ham, and mushrooms, please."
>
> I suspect the latter, he doesn't strike me as the sort of peson who'd
> throw a temper tantrum over not getting his bagels. And the hotel might
> have been having him on as well (or it might have been that they just
> didn't have any atthat time and didn't have time to go out and get some)
> because they're not unknown even in Birmingham.
>
> House because he'd been forced to eat it as a kid? I always thought
> that was a nice human touch, the sort of thing we think as kids ("if I
> was president I wouldn't have to eat broccoli")...
>
George Bush. Pissed off a lot of broccoli growers,it did.
There's a book: Culinary oddities of the Presidents. You get
Bush and Broccoli, Ford and the WH cooks and so on. If you make it Heads
of State you get PM King and the Ladies of the Night.
James Nicoll
Gary Farber
: Totally unrelated (except that it's about food), do Americans eat
: pretzels hot or cold?
Yes. Also either hard or soft.
[. . . .]
Gary Farber
:>
:> : Bagels can be bought in most supermarkets in England, but what on earth
:> : is a 'schmear'? Lox I know (although in England it's also an
:> : abbreviation for Liquid OXygen).
:>
: Is there a standard size for "a proper dollop", or is this something one
: learns by experience?
Enough, to taste. One slices the bagel in half, lengthwise. Schmear on
enough cream cheese on each half to cover. Then either cover with lox and
eat, or cover one with lox, replace one half to cover, and slice in half
in other direction (like a sandwich), and eat.
: And does the lox go under the cream cheese or is
: it a separate item?
On top of cream cheese. If eating like a sandwich, be careful not to
squirt cream cheese and lox out the side. :-)
Rob Hansen
On 15 May 1998 17:35:14 GMT, Gary Farber <gfa...@panix2.panix.com>
wrote:
>In <355C75...@amc.de> Chris Croughton <crou...@amc.de> wrote:
>[. . .]
>: Bagels can be bought in most supermarkets in England, but what on earth
>: is a 'schmear'? Lox I know (although in England it's also an
>: abbreviation for Liquid OXygen).
>
>A proper dollop of cream cheese smeared over the cut-in-half bagel.
Oh, a cream cheese beigel! I had one of these for lunch this very day
(Friday), bought in the 24-hour, 365-day-a-year beigel bar at the top
of Brick Lane. Moshe gave the beigels the Feder seal of approval on
his last UK trip, too, something he rarely gives to any outside New
York (though he was highly dubious of the local Jews way of spelling
'beigel' - only Gentiles spell it 'bagel' over here).
Rob Hansen
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Loren MacGregor
>In <355C75...@amc.de> Chris Croughton <crou...@amc.de> wrote:
>[. . .]
>: Bagels can be bought in most supermarkets in England, but what on earth
>: is a 'schmear'? Lox I know (although in England it's also an
>: abbreviation for Liquid OXygen).
>
>A proper dollop of cream cheese smeared over the cut-in-half bagel.
'swhat I had for breakfast, too. Yum.
-- LJM
Pierre Jelenc
Chris Croughton <crou...@amc.de> writes:
> Gary Farber wrote:
> >
> > A proper dollop of cream cheese smeared over the cut-in-half bagel.
>
> learns by experience?
It depends. In my neighborhood, where its is "Un bagel con shmeer, por
favor!", it's a layer about 1/2 inch thick. A bottle of malta is the
traditional accompaniment.
Pierre
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Alan Woodford
On Thu, 14 May 1998 21:16:47 +0100, Ann Green <ghost...@virgin.net>
wrote:
>I'd had my suspicions of course. I always thought the world was a little
>doolally. Now I _know_ reality has completely absented itself.
>I live about a mile from the route all the cavalcades will travel as
>they bring the most powerful world leaders from the airport to the G8
>summit, and although it's nice to see Birmingham have a shower and
>squirt on the metaphorical deodorant I am truly gobsmacked at the
>lengths the City Council have gone to to make the place look good.
>
>THERE ARE ABOUT A MILLION HELICOPTERS BUZZING AROUND UP THERE DESPITE
>FOG THICK ENOUGH TO KNIT WITH, AND THERE ARE GUYS SPRAY-PAINTING THE
>GRASS VERGES ALONG THE ROUTE A NICER COLOUR GREEN!!!!!!!
>
>I'm going for a lie down; when the nurse comes with my medication please
>tell him I'm in the teapot.....
>
>Ann
>
And just as a further data point, less than 10 miles from the centre
of Birmingham, the (unpainted) grass is currently still growing like
theres no tomorrow!
Alan "My word, that's work popping up again" Woodford
Men in Frocks, protecting the Earth with mystical flummery!
Cally Soukup
aRJay <aR...@escore.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Don't know about presidential breakfasts but there was some footage of
> him on the news last night, he was having lunch in one of the waterside
> pubs in Birmingham. Lunch was beer and chips (frys for our US readers)
> on the veranda of this pub where it was implied that he' just stopped
> off whilst out walking.
Yep, he's been known to do that sort of thing. Gives the Secret
Service fits, it does.
(Does anyone else think the Secret Service is a really stupid name
for the Presidental bodyguard? And that it's weird for the Treasury
Department to be guarding the Prez in the first place? Or do I have
it wrong, and the Secret Service isn't part of the Treasury
Department?)
--
"I may disagree with what you have to say, but I will defend
to the death your right to say it." -- Beatrice Hall
Cally Soukup ma...@mcs.com
Doug Berry
>Is there a standard size for "a proper dollop", or is this something one
>learns by experience? And does the lox go under the cream cheese or is
>it a separate item?
I am informed by a reliable source that "schmear" has become
almost a trademrk of Noah's Bagels in the Pacific Northwest.
Also, the cream chesse goes underneath the lox. Why do we do
this? God tells us to. I'm sure it's in there somewhere...
--
Douglas E. Berry
dbe...@hooked.net
http://www.hooked.net/~dberry/
Proud Hooker since 1995.
Doug Berry
Doug Berry
Artis Trust (SF Central)
The secret service is one of the oldest federal law enforcement branches, second
only to the US Marshals Service. The marshall at one time dealt mainly with
local law enforcement, and until 1972 (I beleive) all Deputy Marshalls were
hired from each fed. district. Originally when the USSS was created, the
largest threat to union was after the civil war when a large amount of conterfit
money existed. As time grew, the USSS became the main law enforcement arm of the
government.
Eventually, after the death of President William McKinley, the secret service
was assigned to protect the president, mainly because there was no other force
that existed in Washington. The USSS is involved with more than just playmoney.
They are involved with credit card fraud, hacking, computer fraud and almost
anything that involved computer/money transactions.
The FBI was originally formed out of Secret Service Agents, btw which was
originally the Bureau of Investigation.
> On 16 May 1998 14:29:25 -0500, Cally Soukup <ma...@mcs.com> wrote:
>
> >(Does anyone else think the Secret Service is a really stupid name
> >for the Presidental bodyguard? And that it's weird for the Treasury
> >Department to be guarding the Prez in the first place? Or do I have
> >it wrong, and the Secret Service isn't part of the Treasury
> >Department?)
>
> It's the Treasury Department. The Secret Service has two major duties
> these days -- guarding the President is one, and dealing with
> counterfeiters is the other. The counterfeiting stuff obviously
> relates to the Treasury.
>
> Originally the Secret Service actually was a proper secret service,
> but their duties got shifted, rearranged, pre-empted, etc., until
> that's what they were left with.
>
> --
>
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In <ZJcQ+TAB...@escore.demon.co.uk> aRJay <aR...@escore.demon.co.uk> wrote:
[. . .]
: Don't know about presidential breakfasts but there was some footage of
: him on the news last night, he was having lunch in one of the waterside
: pubs in Birmingham. Lunch was beer and chips (frys for our US readers)
: on the veranda of this pub where it was implied that he' just stopped
: off whilst out walking.
According to the Times of London, the real mystery is why, as the
President was leaving, one of the Presidential party came and took
Clinton's beer glass away: souvenir? Prevention of being finger-printed
and it being learned that he's a Clinton-double? Prevention of gaining
Presidential DNA for cloning?
You Decide.
mike weber
Chris Croughton <crou...@amc.de> wrote:
>Lawrence Watt-Evans wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 16 May 1998 13:37:02 +0200, Chris Croughton <crou...@amc.de>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >Totally unrelated (except that it's about food), do Americans eat
>> >pretzels hot or cold?
>>
>> Both. Generally small hard ones are served cold (usually as a snack
>> with soda or beer), and big soft ones are served hot (especially by
>> street vendors and at sporting events).
>
>It's the small hard ones I'm not keen on. The big soft hot ones are
>very good, especially with butter (the Germans butter them, at least for
>breakfast)...
>
Mustard is a common condiment with those over here...
--
<mike weber> <emsh...@aol.com>
The history of exploration is mostly the history of finding
new ways to die unexpectedly -- JWCjr, on the Apollo 1 fire
mike weber
ulr...@aol.com (Ulrika) wrote:
>In article <355D7A...@amc.de>, Chris Croughton <crou...@amc.de> writes:
>
>>Is there a standard size for "a proper dollop", or is this something
>>one learns by experience? And does the lox go under the cream >cheese or is
>it a separate item?
>
>Lox *under* the cream cheese? Images of delicate flinders of
>translucent smoked fish (I am, of course, really speaking of Nova,
>rather than Lox, since Moshe May Be Lurking) being utterly pulped
>into the bagel by the rock hard cream cheese which I forgot
>(again) to take out in advance. No, lox definitely goes *on* *top*
>of the cream cheese (or are we having Transatlantic Preposition
>Problesm?). Sources differ about which order the tomato and red onion go on
>in.
>
What about the slice of Canadian Bacon?
Morgan
In this post <6jlpac$e...@news1.panix.com>, Gary Farber
<gfa...@panix2.panix.com> said:
>In <ZJcQ+TAB...@escore.demon.co.uk> aRJay <aR...@escore.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>[. . .]
>: Don't know about presidential breakfasts but there was some footage of
>: him on the news last night, he was having lunch in one of the waterside
>: pubs in Birmingham. Lunch was beer and chips (frys for our US readers)
>: on the veranda of this pub where it was implied that he' just stopped
>: off whilst out walking.
>
>According to the Times of London, the real mystery is why, as the
>President was leaving, one of the Presidential party came and took
>Clinton's beer glass away: souvenir? Prevention of being finger-printed
>and it being learned that he's a Clinton-double? Prevention of gaining
>Presidential DNA for cloning?
>
>You Decide.
>
More likely to stop it being sold as a souivenier - thus spawing four
thousand 'true' beer glasses.
--
Morgan
"Come to the edge." he said. They said "We are afraid." "Come
to the edge." he said. They came. He pushed them...and they flew.
Artis Trust (SF Central)
Oh... Maybe Gary has something there.
Actually, I am sure of the solution. Clinton has been taken over by an alien.
As for Presidential DNA, that doesn't seem to be a problem to get as he seems to
leave it on people's sweaters.
> According to the Times of London, the real mystery is why, as the
> President was leaving, one of the Presidential party came and took
> Clinton's beer glass away: souvenir? Prevention of being finger-printed
> and it being learned that he's a Clinton-double? Prevention of gaining
> Presidential DNA for cloning?
>
> You Decide.
>
> --
> Copyright 1998 by Gary Farber; Web Researcher; Nonfiction Writer,
> Fiction and Nonfiction Editor; gfa...@panix.com; B'klyn, NYC, US
--
Vicki Rosenzweig
In article <355fdc63...@news.wenet.net>, dbe...@hooked.net (Doug Berry) wrote:
>On Sat, 16 May 1998 13:38:26 +0200, Chris Croughton
><crou...@amc.de> wrote:
>
>>Is there a standard size for "a proper dollop", or is this something one
>>learns by experience? And does the lox go under the cream cheese or is
>>it a separate item?
>
>almost a trademrk of Noah's Bagels in the Pacific Northwest.
>
>Also, the cream chesse goes underneath the lox. Why do we do
>this? God tells us to. I'm sure it's in there somewhere...
>
My first thought is that the cream cheese goes underneath the lox
because it does. My second is that, as a purely practical matter,
it's got to be easier to spread cream cheese on a bagel and they
lay lox on top than to lay lox on the bagel and then try to spread
cream cheese on top (because the lox is smooth and even slippery).
Vicki Rosenzweig
v...@interport.net | http://www.users.interport.net/~vr/
"Typos are Coyote padding through the language, grinning."
-- Susanna Sturgis
P Nielsen Hayden
In article <6jgahg$ms7$1...@camel25.mindspring.com>, jbo...@mindspring.com (John Boston) wrote:
> Don't forget more recent Potemkin villages. In the 1980s, the New
>York City government decided that all the burned-out and abandoned buildings
>in the Bronx were bad for its image, so they put up decals. They boarded
>over the windows and put up huge stickers over the plywood depicting urban
>pastoral scenes like windowsills with plants, cats looking out, etc. Often
>they would cover an entire building with identical decals so it looked like
>a sheet of stamps. They were so happy with the results that they rolled out
>the decal policy to other parts of the city, with amusing results. Once I
>was taking a cab to Kennedy Airport and the driver went via side streets to
>avoid some pocket apocalypse on the main roads, and we drove past some
>decalled buildings that squatters had broken into, so two windows would have
>a decal of fake plants and in the next one somebody would have ripped away
>the plywood and they would have real plants; the next several would have
>decals again. Very dialectical.
Indeed. One of my fondest fannish memories is of taking Judith Hanna and
Joseph Nicholas on the Circle Line boat tour around Manhattan, and telling
this story to them as we chugged up the Harlem River between Harlem and the
South Bronx. The choking and gagging noises from Joseph in particular were
worth the cost of the Circle Line tickets.
However, I seem to recall that it was some kind of Federal agency's
initiative, not the New York City government's. I could be wrong about that.
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Ed Dravecky III
Lawrence Watt-Evans (lawr...@clark.net) wrote:
> Chris Croughton <crou...@amc.de> wrote:
> > Totally unrelated (except that it's about food), do
> > Americans eat pretzels hot or cold?
>
> Both. Generally small hard ones are served cold (usually as
> a snack with soda or beer), and big soft ones are served hot
> (especially by street vendors and at sporting events).
We also have a couple of competing chains of stores that
specialize in serving big, hot pretzels in shopping malls and
airports across America. The bigger chains are Auntie Anne's
and Mr. Pretzel but your signage may vary.
I used to make a special point of visiting the Auntie Anne's
in the Pittsburgh airport whenever I had to fly US Air(ways).
Then I discovered a branch had opened at the mall near my
apartment. Now "hot pretzels" is an individual line-item in
my monthly budget (after "electricity" but before "cable TV").
--
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Ed Dravecky III
Ulrika (ulr...@aol.com) wrote:
> lawr...@clark.net (Lawrence Watt-Evans) writes:
> > Central USA? Alabama isn't central, it's deep south.
> It is if you operate on a sufficiently limited version of the
> bicoastal model of the US.
Ah, those of us from Alabama believed we were in the deep south
strongly enough to put "Heart of Dixie" on the license plates.
Perhaps "Central USA" refers to the fact that Alabama is in the
Central Time Zone?
Ed Dravecky III
mike weber (emsh...@aol.com) wrote:
(in response to discussion of Proper Bagel Construction)
> What about the slice of Canadian Bacon?
And the cheese. You can't forget the cheese...
(I'm only half-kidding. The fine folks at Jimmy Dean offer a
Canadian bacon-and-cheese-on-a-bagel as part of their line of
frozen breakfast foods. As a quick breakfast food it's not half
bad but I have my doubts about this being strictly kosher...)
Ed Dravecky III
Artis Trust (SF Central) (edi...@sfcentral.com) wrote:
> As for Presidential DNA, that doesn't seem to be a problem to get
> as he seems to leave it on people's sweaters.
Ignoring for a moment that this was a pure rumor with no basis
in truth or reality, YM "people's black or blue dresses". HTH!
Jo Walton
In article <dsheldonE...@netcom.com>
dshe...@netcom.com "Ed Dravecky III" writes:
> mike weber (emsh...@aol.com) wrote:
> (in response to discussion of Proper Bagel Construction)
> > What about the slice of Canadian Bacon?
>
> And the cheese. You can't forget the cheese...
>
> (I'm only half-kidding. The fine folks at Jimmy Dean offer a
> Canadian bacon-and-cheese-on-a-bagel as part of their line of
> frozen breakfast foods. As a quick breakfast food it's not half
> bad but I have my doubts about this being strictly kosher...)
I believe it was established here that if it's treif you can't
make it double treif by mixing bacon and cheese, as bacon is
treif all on its own.
I really frequently eat bacon and cream-cheese (or chive primula)
bagels, which I consider delicious. Fortunately my religion has
no qualms whatsoever about this.
(Don't remind me about the pigs playing the puter games, OK?)
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In <6jklpd$i...@panix2.panix.com>, rc...@panix.com (Pierre Jelenc)
wrote:
>Chris Croughton <crou...@amc.de> writes:
>> Gary Farber wrote:
>> >
>> > A proper dollop of cream cheese smeared over the cut-in-half bagel.
>>
>> Is there a standard size for "a proper dollop", or is this something one
>> learns by experience?
>
>It depends. In my neighborhood, where its is "Un bagel con shmeer, por
>favor!", it's a layer about 1/2 inch thick. A bottle of malta is the
>traditional accompaniment.
When I worked in Crystal City, we used to get bagels from a deli
downstairs (Fresh Sqeezed Orange Juice!) and they had these giant
rectangular prisms of cream cheese and would cut & toast the bagel,
then slice an inch off the prism, slab it on one half of the bagel &
put the other half on top, wrap it in waxed paper and hand it to you.
The librarian who worked for me got me to try fruit jelly on top of
the cream cheese and that's good, too.
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Lawrence Watt-Evans
>Lawrence Watt-Evans (lawr...@clark.net) wrote:
>> Chris Croughton <crou...@amc.de> wrote:
>> > Totally unrelated (except that it's about food), do
>> > Americans eat pretzels hot or cold?
>>
>> Both. Generally small hard ones are served cold (usually as
>> a snack with soda or beer), and big soft ones are served hot
>> (especially by street vendors and at sporting events).
>
>We also have a couple of competing chains of stores that
>specialize in serving big, hot pretzels in shopping malls and
>airports across America. The bigger chains are Auntie Anne's
>and Mr. Pretzel but your signage may vary.
Around here the big one's Pretzel Time.
Morgan
In this post <895429...@bluejo.demon.co.uk>, Jo Walton
I have exactly the same attempt at a memory lapse.
Problematic, ain't it?
Mary Kay Kare
In article <199805161448...@ladder01.news.aol.com>,
ulr...@aol.com (Ulrika) wrote:
> In article <355D7A...@amc.de>, Chris Croughton <crou...@amc.de> writes:
>
> >Totally unrelated (except that it's about food), do Americans eat
> >pretzels hot or cold? The ones I've had in England have been served
> >cold, and I didn't much care for them, but in Germany they're generally
> >served hot (or at least warm) from the oven and are delicious. They
> >also do a sort of round bun made out of the same dough which are
>superb eaten
> for breakfast...
>
> Soft pretzels should be served hot, with mustard. I particularly
> like the place in Fashion Island that serves different 'flavors'
> like bagels, including garlic ones, which are especially nice.
Garlic pretzels? Oh, be still my beating heart. Where is this Fashion
Island place?
MK
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Mary Kay Kare
>
> Totally unrelated (except that it's about food), do Americans eat
> pretzels hot or cold? The ones I've had in England have been served
> cold, and I didn't much care for them, but in Germany they're generally
> served hot (or at least warm) from the oven and are delicious. They
> also do a sort of round bun made out of the same dough which are superb
> eaten for breakfast...
Well, the enormous pretzels which you buy from street vendors (or at the
mall for us suburban types) are usually hot--or at least lukewarm. There
is a smaller version which comes from the grocery store in boxes and bags
and is served at room temp.
Mary Kay Kare
> Chris Croughton <crou...@amc.de> wrote:
>
> >Lawrence Watt-Evans wrote:
> >>
> >> On Sat, 16 May 1998 13:37:02 +0200, Chris Croughton <crou...@amc.de>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> >Totally unrelated (except that it's about food), do Americans eat
> >> >pretzels hot or cold?
> >>
> >> Both. Generally small hard ones are served cold (usually as a snack
> >> with soda or beer), and big soft ones are served hot (especially by
> >> street vendors and at sporting events).
> >
> >It's the small hard ones I'm not keen on. The big soft hot ones are
> >very good, especially with butter (the Germans butter them, at least for
> >breakfast)...
> >
> Mustard is a common condiment with those over here...
Yeah, but I never liked that--butter sounds *much* better.
Alison Scott
r...@fiawol.demon.co.uk (Rob Hansen) wrote:
>Oh, a cream cheese beigel! I had one of these for lunch this very day
>(Friday), bought in the 24-hour, 365-day-a-year beigel bar at the top
>of Brick Lane. Moshe gave the beigels the Feder seal of approval on
>his last UK trip, too, something he rarely gives to any outside New
>York (though he was highly dubious of the local Jews way of spelling
>'beigel' - only Gentiles spell it 'bagel' over here).
At least one of the Tottenham 24-hour bagel shops spells it 'biegel'.
--
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Alison Scott
aRJay <aR...@escore.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>Don't know about presidential breakfasts but there was some footage of
>him on the news last night, he was having lunch in one of the waterside
>pubs in Birmingham. Lunch was beer and chips (frys for our US readers)
>on the veranda of this pub where it was implied that he' just stopped
>off whilst out walking.
Whilst it's true that they implied this, it's difficult to see how
this could be reconciled with the fact that there were apparently
dozens of aides, journos and other assorted camp-followers
pre-stationed in the pub. The poor couple who he stopped and had a
drink with certainly weren't expecting anything, though.
Ulrika
In article <kare-17059...@ppp-asok04--174.sirius.net>, ka...@sirius.com
(Mary Kay Kare) writes:
>Garlic pretzels? Oh, be still my beating heart. Where is this Fashion
>Island place?
Newport Beach, California. I can't quite see the Four Seasons
at Fashion Island, just across the back bay, there from our apartment, but if I
step out onto 20th, I can. So Cal Nouveau Beach Money. Big
time. But the pretzels are lovely, and there's a very nice fountain.
If you're ever down this way, I'd be happy to point you in that
direction, or even squire you over that way. Not that OC is your
tempting hotbed of fannish fanac or anything, but it's what
we got.
"Yes, indeed, the Lord is a shoving leopard." -- Rev. W.A. Spooner
** Ulrika O'Brien-...@aol.com**
Janice Gelb
In article 0...@port.net.interport.net, v...@interport.net (Vicki Rosenzweig) writes:
>In article <355C75...@amc.de>, Chris Croughton <crou...@amc.de> wrote:
>>
>>Bagels can be bought in most supermarkets in England, but what on earth
>>is a 'schmear'? Lox I know (although in England it's also an
>>abbreviation for Liquid OXygen).
>>
>
>A "schmear" is cream cheese--I suspect it's a Yiddish-influenced form
>of "smear," because you sort of smear the cream cheese onto the
>bagel.
>
As long as we're educating the uninitiated, please note out there that
the only acceptable additions blended into the cream cheese are either
chives or ground-up lox. If you see a bagel place that features cream
cheese with effete things in it like sun-dried tomatoes or pesto, run
the other way!!!
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Lawrence Watt-Evans
On 17 May 1998 22:44:06 GMT, ulr...@aol.com (Ulrika) wrote:
>In article <kare-17059...@ppp-asok04--174.sirius.net>, ka...@sirius.com
>(Mary Kay Kare) writes:
>
>>Garlic pretzels? Oh, be still my beating heart. Where is this Fashion
>>Island place?
>
>Newport Beach, California. I can't quite see the Four Seasons
>at Fashion Island, just across the back bay, there from our apartment, but if I
>step out onto 20th, I can.
Good heavens, is that where you live? We stayed a week in Newport
Beach before and during LACon III, and enjoyed it immensely. Lovely
place. We rented an apartment on... 33rd Street, I think it was.
Ulrika
In article <355f97f7...@news.clark.net>, lawr...@clark.net (Lawrence
Watt-Evans) writes:
>Good heavens, is that where you live? We stayed a week in Newport
>Beach before and during LACon III, and enjoyed it immensely. Lovely
>place. We rented an apartment on... 33rd Street, I think it was.
Small world again. We don't actually live in Newport, but Costa
Mesa is just on the cliff above and behind the bit of Newport
Beach that runs along Pacific Coast Highway. I have to admit
I can't place 33rd -- I'm assuming it's out on the penninsula in
one of the rent-a-place-on-the-beach bits -- but yeah, Newport
is pretty nice. When I take sailing lessons they're down at the
marina there.
Chris Croughton
American mustard I could take but I'm not very keen on it, English
mustard I don't like. Butter works very nicely, it soaks into the soft
inside...
Chris C
Chris Croughton
James Nicoll wrote:
> There's a book: Culinary oddities of the Presidents. You get
> Bush and Broccoli, Ford and the WH cooks and so on. If you make it Heads
> of State you get PM King and the Ladies of the Night.
Is this book generally available? I'll have to look for it when I'm
over for Bucconeer, it sounds great fun.
Chris C
Chris Croughton
Ulrika wrote:
> Soft pretzels should be served hot, with mustard. I particularly
> like the place in Fashion Island that serves different 'flavors'
> like bagels, including garlic ones, which are especially nice.
Ma'am, you're tempting me to come out to your side of the country.
Although I think I'll pass on the mustard, I prefer butter. But garlic
pretzels, oh my. <drool>
Chris C
Chris Croughton
Ulrika wrote:
> Lox *under* the cream cheese? Images of delicate flinders of
> translucent smoked fish (I am, of course, really speaking of Nova,
> rather than Lox, since Moshe May Be Lurking)
Sorry, Nova? That's a small car made by Vauxhall (and now called the
Corsa) <g>...
> being utterly pulped
> into the bagel by the rock hard cream cheese which I forgot
> (again) to take out in advance.
Again? Put it in the microwave to defrost. It works for butter (but
don't leave it in there too long)...
> No, lox definitely goes *on* *top*
> of the cream cheese (or are we having Transatlantic Preposition
> Problesm?). Sources differ about which order the tomato and red onion go on
> in.
The sentence ending "go on in" is definitely a Preposition Problem (and
is the sort of thing up with which I will not put). OK, the order is
therefore bagel, cream cheese and lox, with tomato (with or without an
'e' at the end) and red onion somewhere above the bagel. Got it.
(I had to come to Germany to realise that 'lox' is a variant of German
'lachs' which is used for salmon...)
Chris C
Chris Croughton
Gary Farber wrote:
> Enough, to taste. One slices the bagel in half, lengthwise. Schmear on
> enough cream cheese on each half to cover. Then either cover with lox and
> eat, or cover one with lox, replace one half to cover, and slice in half
> in other direction (like a sandwich), and eat.
By "slice legthwise" I assume you mean what I would call "across", so
that you end up with two round bits instead of two half-round bits,
yes? And then the second cut would make it into two semicircles? (No,
I'm not going to draw ASCII pictures!)
> On top of cream cheese. If eating like a sandwich, be careful not to
> squirt cream cheese and lox out the side. :-)
The same happens with a proper American hamburger, at least when I eat
one. That's what napkins are for <g>...
I hope the Bucconeer people are reading this so they know to serve us
Brits with all these things we don't eat on this side of the pond. Like
the crabs about which I've heard so much...
Chris C
Chris Croughton
Alison Scott wrote:
>
> r...@fiawol.demon.co.uk (Rob Hansen) wrote:
>
> >Oh, a cream cheese beigel! I had one of these for lunch this very day
> >(Friday), bought in the 24-hour, 365-day-a-year beigel bar at the top
> >of Brick Lane. Moshe gave the beigels the Feder seal of approval on
> >his last UK trip, too, something he rarely gives to any outside New
> >York (though he was highly dubious of the local Jews way of spelling
> >'beigel' - only Gentiles spell it 'bagel' over here).
>
> At least one of the Tottenham 24-hour bagel shops spells it 'biegel'.
I would pronounce 'beigel' like "buy gell" and "biegel" like "bee gell"
(with a hard 'g' in both cases). 'Bagel' looks right to me...
Chris C
Loren Joseph MacGregor
In rec.arts.sf.fandom, mike weber <emsh...@aol.com> wrote:
: ulr...@aol.com (Ulrika) wrote:
: >Lox *under* the cream cheese? Images of delicate flinders of
: >translucent smoked fish (I am, of course, really speaking of Nova,
: >rather than Lox, since Moshe May Be Lurking) being utterly pulped
: >into the bagel by the rock hard cream cheese which I forgot
: >(again) to take out in advance. No, lox definitely goes *on* *top*
: >of the cream cheese (or are we having Transatlantic Preposition
: >Problesm?). Sources differ about which order the tomato and red onion go on
: >in.
: >
: What about the slice of Canadian Bacon?
On a bagel? Barbarian.
-- LJM
Lawrence Watt-Evans
On 18 May 1998 02:50:10 GMT, ulr...@aol.com (Ulrika) wrote:
>In article <355f97f7...@news.clark.net>, lawr...@clark.net (Lawrence
>Watt-Evans) writes:
>
>>Good heavens, is that where you live? We stayed a week in Newport
>>Beach before and during LACon III, and enjoyed it immensely. Lovely
>>place. We rented an apartment on... 33rd Street, I think it was.
>
>Small world again. We don't actually live in Newport, but Costa
>Mesa is just on the cliff above and behind the bit of Newport
>Beach that runs along Pacific Coast Highway. I have to admit
>I can't place 33rd -- I'm assuming it's out on the penninsula in
>one of the rent-a-place-on-the-beach bits -- but yeah, Newport
>is pretty nice.
It's a rent-a-place-on-the-beach bit, yes. I'm trying to remember the
geography well enough to describe it for you, but none of the names
are sticking.
If you drive out onto the peninsula, the main road hooks to the left
around a smallish shopping plaza in order to avoid running into the
ocean; to get to 33rd you turn right at the shopping plaza instead of
following the curve, and it's just a couple of blocks away. We walked
up to that plaza to buy our groceries.
The place we rented was owned by the guy downstairs, who was still
living through 1969 -- long hair, VW bus, etc.
P Nielsen Hayden
One of the useful things about barbarians is that they shake usout of our old
food habits and make us try new things. Much of the "new cuisine" of the last
several decades of American cooking would have been dismissed as "barbarian"
by any four-star chef in the 1920s. In fact, Canadian bacon would make a very
nice sandwich with a fresh bagel. I realize it isn't kosher, but it's hard to
see why I should unduly concern myself with this.
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Allen J. Baum
In article <355B51...@virgin.net>, ghost...@virgin.net wrote:
> I live about a mile from the route all the cavalcades will travel as
> they bring the most powerful world leaders from the airport to the G8
> summit, and ....
>
> THERE ARE ABOUT A MILLION HELICOPTERS BUZZING AROUND UP THERE DESPITE
> FOG THICK ENOUGH TO KNIT WITH, AND THERE ARE GUYS SPRAY-PAINTING THE
> GRASS VERGES ALONG THE ROUTE A NICER COLOUR GREEN!!!!!!!
They did those before some president or another visiting Stanford a few
years back. They've also done it when no one was visiting - it (typically)
isn't just green paint (dye, actually) put also contains grass seed and
fertilizer.
I wouldn't be surprised if there were another purpose concerning
security (anybody planting something there would make a noticable disturbance)
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Loren Joseph MacGregor
In rec.arts.sf.fandom, P Nielsen Hayden <p...@panix.com> wrote:
: In article <6jpfkp$9vl$1...@haus.efn.org>, Loren Joseph MacGregor
<lmac...@efn.org> wrote:
*sigh* Very well. I'll endeavor not to make any further jokes
that you will not understand.
-- LJM
Gary Farber
In <35602C...@amc.de> Chris Croughton <crou...@amc.de> wrote:
: Gary Farber wrote:
:> Enough, to taste. One slices the bagel in half, lengthwise. Schmear on
:> enough cream cheese on each half to cover. Then either cover with lox and
:> eat, or cover one with lox, replace one half to cover, and slice in half
:> in other direction (like a sandwich), and eat.
: By "slice legthwise" I assume you mean what I would call "across", so
: that you end up with two round bits instead of two half-round bits,
: yes? And then the second cut would make it into two semicircles? (No,
: I'm not going to draw ASCII pictures!)
Yes, exactly.
:> On top of cream cheese. If eating like a sandwich, be careful not to
:> squirt cream cheese and lox out the side. :-)
: The same happens with a proper American hamburger, at least when I eat
: one. That's what napkins are for <g>...
This happens with an overloaded hamburger; but also, hamburger buns are
soft, and so tend to bond with the burger and cheese, discouraging
squirting, whereas the bagel is much harder and bonds less strongly with
the cream cheese, not to mention that the lox (or nova, which is smoked
salmon, and far more common these days, rather than properly salted lox)
is far slipperier than hamburger.
: I hope the Bucconeer people are reading this so they know to serve us
: Brits with all these things we don't eat on this side of the pond. Like
: the crabs about which I've heard so much...
Oh, the con center is right connected to a huge food concourse/tourist
trap, HarborPlace: you should be able to find lots of American and Balmor
foods there.
--
Copyright 1998 by Gary Farber; Web Researcher; Nonfiction Writer,
Fiction and Nonfiction Editor; gfa...@panix.com; B'klyn, NYC, US
Kate Schaefer
In a previous article, ma...@mcs.com (Cally Soukup) says:
>aRJay <aR...@escore.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Don't know about presidential breakfasts but there was some footage of
>> him on the news last night, he was having lunch in one of the waterside
>> pubs in Birmingham. Lunch was beer and chips (frys for our US readers)
>> on the veranda of this pub where it was implied that he' just stopped
>> off whilst out walking.
>
>Yep, he's been known to do that sort of thing. Gives the Secret
>Service fits, it does.
>
>(Does anyone else think the Secret Service is a really stupid name
>for the Presidental bodyguard? And that it's weird for the Treasury
>Department to be guarding the Prez in the first place? Or do I have
>it wrong, and the Secret Service isn't part of the Treasury
>Department?)
I think it's weird, yes, but I also think it's a good historical accident
that the Treasury Department does it rather than the Army. Keeping the
safety of the head of state under civilian control is a minor but
significant contributor to keeping the military under civilian control.
--
Kate Schaefer
ka...@scn.org
P Nielsen Hayden
??? Loren, I appreciated the joke; I was just making conversation. Sorry, I
didn't mean to make you feel gainsaid...
Gary Farber
In <Et619...@scn.org> Kate Schaefer <ka...@scn.org> wrote:
: In a previous article, ma...@mcs.com (Cally Soukup) says:
[. . .]
:>Yep, he's been known to do that sort of thing. Gives the Secret
:>Service fits, it does.
:>
:>(Does anyone else think the Secret Service is a really stupid name
:>for the Presidental bodyguard? And that it's weird for the Treasury
:>Department to be guarding the Prez in the first place? Or do I have
:>it wrong, and the Secret Service isn't part of the Treasury
:>Department?)
: I think it's weird, yes, but I also think it's a good historical accident
: that the Treasury Department does it rather than the Army. Keeping the
: safety of the head of state under civilian control is a minor but
: significant contributor to keeping the military under civilian control.
An equally or more likely logical alternative would be agents of the
Department of Justice. The historical reasons it is not, of course, is
that there *was* no "Department of Justice" when the Secret Service was
formed, nor for many decades afterwards: there was only the Attorney
General, who was merely legal advisor to the President, not head of a
massive Department, let alone responsible for enforcement of laws, or
protection of anyone. (And until J. Edgar Hoover took over as head of the
obscure, corrupt, and ineffictive tiny Bureau of Investigation in the
1920s, and turned it into the modern FBI, it was an insignificant
organization.)
What I'd like some clarification on, is who is responsible in British law
for protecting the Prime Minister? Is it Special Branch, in all
circumstances? (I'm wondering, because as a trivial element of the
excellent new Stephen Baxter blockbuster, MOONSEED, which you can read in
November when it comes out, he has the PM being guarded by "the Secret
Service," which, even if it refers to MI5 or MI6, seems odd.)
David G. Bell
In article <6jq6mp$m...@news1.panix.com>
gfa...@panix2.panix.com "Gary Farber" writes:
> What I'd like some clarification on, is who is responsible in British law
> for protecting the Prime Minister? Is it Special Branch, in all
> circumstances? (I'm wondering, because as a trivial element of the
> excellent new Stephen Baxter blockbuster, MOONSEED, which you can read in
> November when it comes out, he has the PM being guarded by "the Secret
> Service," which, even if it refers to MI5 or MI6, seems odd.)
There's a book called "The Bullet Catchers" which covers bodyguarding,
and one of the British sources of official bodyguards is the Military
Police (I forget the formal title).
But not Special Branch. The Metropolitan Police do have a diplomatic
protection unit. One of them was inside the Iranian Embassy.
--
David G. Bell -- Farmer, SF Fan, Filker, and Punslinger.
mike weber
Loren Joseph MacGregor <lmac...@efn.org> wrote:
>In rec.arts.sf.fandom, mike weber <emsh...@aol.com> wrote:
>: ulr...@aol.com (Ulrika) wrote:
>No, lox definitely goes *on* *top*
>: >of the cream cheese (or are we having Transatlantic Preposition
>: >Problesm?). Sources differ about which order the tomato and red onion go on
>: >in.
>: >
>: What about the slice of Canadian Bacon?
>
>On a bagel? Barbarian.
>
Janice should recall the open-faced sandwich that "D.B.Kaplan's" ((a
now sadly-defunct Atlanta sandwich shop with a 150+ item menu)) called
a "Chutzpah" -- open-faced on a split bagel -- a nice genersous
schmear, lots of lox, onion, tomato, and a slice-and-a-half of
Canadian bacon on top of each half.
I liked the name -almost- as much as i liked the sandwich...
--
<mike weber> <emsh...@aol.com>
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new ways to die unexpectedly -- JWCjr, on the Apollo 1 fire
Marilee J. Layman
In <kare-17059...@ppp-asok04--174.sirius.net>, ka...@sirius.com
(Mary Kay Kare) wrote:
>In article <355e79ea...@news.mindspring.com>, emsh...@aol.com wrote:
>> Mustard is a common condiment with those over here...
>
>Yeah, but I never liked that--butter sounds *much* better.
Cheese!
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Loren Joseph MacGregor
In rec.arts.sf.fandom, P Nielsen Hayden <p...@panix.com> wrote:
: ??? Loren, I appreciated the joke; I was just making conversation.
: Sorry, I didn't mean to make you feel gainsaid...
Boy, I'm hard to talk with at times, aren't I?
You're right, and I apologize. I think it must be a combination
of the lack of sleep and the presence of pollen; I can't seem to
see things in perspective these days.
-- LJM
Bob Webber
Lawrence Watt-Evans (lawr...@clark.net) wrote:
: On 16 May 1998 14:29:25 -0500, Cally Soukup <ma...@mcs.com> wrote:
: >(Does anyone else think the Secret Service is a really stupid name
: >for the Presidental bodyguard? ...
...
: Originally the Secret Service actually was a proper secret service,
: but their duties got shifted, rearranged, pre-empted, etc., until
: that's what they were left with.
I was walking around in Washington, DC, a few years ago and was quite
taken aback by the sight of a uniformed motorcycle policeman whose
motorbike (complete with red strobe light) and helment were marked
"Secret Service." I felt like going over and saying, "Psst! Buddy!
Your secret is out!"
Of course, I come from Canada, where the secret police where red
tunics and big hats and ride around on horses, so I left him with his
illusions intact.
bob
P Nielsen Hayden
I, of course, have never grabbed the wrong end of the stick and bitten
someone's nose off for a friendly comment, so from my mountaintop of moral
magnificence I condemn you and cast you out of the company of decent fen. Er,
not.
Elisabeth Carey
Gary Farber wrote:
<snip>
> What I'd like some clarification on, is who is responsible in British law
> for protecting the Prime Minister? Is it Special Branch, in all
> circumstances? (I'm wondering, because as a trivial element of the
> excellent new Stephen Baxter blockbuster, MOONSEED, which you can read in
> November when it comes out, he has the PM being guarded by "the Secret
> Service," which, even if it refers to MI5 or MI6, seems odd.)
So would this be another depressing, near-future
techno-not-quite-thriller, instead of the far-future
super-science he used to write? If so, I think I'll skip it.
Lis Carey
Ulrika
In article <35602B...@amc.de>, Chris Croughton <crou...@amc.de> writes:
>Ulrika wrote:
>
>> Lox *under* the cream cheese? Images of delicate flinders of
>> translucent smoked fish (I am, of course, really speaking of Nova,
>> rather than Lox, since Moshe May Be Lurking)
>
>Sorry, Nova? That's a small car made by Vauxhall (and now
>called the Corsa) <g>...
Good lord, haven't you memorized the RASFFrasian oevre?
Nova is what many of us (ignorant goyim) mean when we
say Lox -- it's smoke cured salmon rather than...mmm, salt cured?...
and less strong in flavor, apparently. To hear the descriptions,
I've never had real Lox, only Nova. Which is fine, since I like
smoke cured stuff.
Gary Farber
In <3560FE18...@mediaone.net> Elisabeth Carey <lis....@mediaone.net> wrote:
: Gary Farber wrote:
: <snip>
No, it's a near-future super-science techno-thriller disaster novel; I
liked it quite a bit. It's a *very* big book; nearly nine hundred
manuscript pages: I was paid triple-rates to read it for the SFBC, whom
I've recommended it to. A good summary runs long, but he does manage to
destroy the Earth, terraform the moon, get an expedition to the Moon
before that, and throw in science from the cosmological, to string theory,
to probably having more geology than I've ever seen in any other sf book,
as well as explain how we could throw together one of the more bizarre
trips-to-the-moon, using plausible off-the-shelf technology, topped off
with an even more alternative method of landing. I've yet only read RAFT
of his previous books, which I liked a lot (thanks, Bridget Hardcastle); I
gather you didn't like VOYAGE. I can't say how this compares to VOYAGE,
but I think it's quite good: it's got both alien super-science and
near-future Space Exploration Sense of Wonder in gobs.
I guess destroying Earth is a bit depressing, but he makes up for it. :-)
I did have fun occasionally catching him using British idiom in POV of
Americans; mostly he's very good at correct idiom, but there are a few
slips.
Alan Winston - SSRL Admin Cmptg Mgr
In article <199805180250...@ladder01.news.aol.com>, ulr...@aol.com (Ulrika) writes:
>In article <355f97f7...@news.clark.net>, lawr...@clark.net (Lawrence
>Watt-Evans) writes:
>
>>Good heavens, is that where you live? We stayed a week in Newport
>>Beach before and during LACon III, and enjoyed it immensely. Lovely
>>place. We rented an apartment on... 33rd Street, I think it was.
>
>Small world again. We don't actually live in Newport, but Costa
>Mesa is just on the cliff above and behind the bit of Newport
>Beach that runs along Pacific Coast Highway. I have to admit
>I can't place 33rd -- I'm assuming it's out on the penninsula in
>one of the rent-a-place-on-the-beach bits -- but yeah, Newport
>marina there.
>
I shouldn't pop up here again -- you're only going to ask me where that
article is, and I'm not going to be able to respond for a few days -- but
I have to say, "small world" indeed. I lived in Costa Mesa (on Tustin Avenue)
for my first five years.
-- Alan
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