L. Marcus Posted September 28, 2007 Report Share Posted September 28, 2007 Re: The Last Word . . . Pig throat . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted September 28, 2007 Report Share Posted September 28, 2007 Re: The Last Word It also doesn't help to see that stuff out at the Farmer's Market on a hot summer day. No refrigeration, flies buzzing around and crawling on the meat . . . Ew. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 28, 2007 Report Share Posted September 28, 2007 Re: The Last Word Yeah, I rarely see meat products at a farmer's market. There's a (famous) public market in downtown Seattle, where there is a butcher or two, but their stuff is kept under glass. Same with the cheese sellers. The fish (and the seafood vendors are famous and prominent) is on ice and in the open, but the traffic is great enough there's none of the flies-on-it stuff you mention. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted September 28, 2007 Report Share Posted September 28, 2007 Re: The Last Word I'm rather surprised they display it that way at all. I guess it's preserved with salt, or something, so maybe there are people who don't care. All I can ever think is, "Ewwww!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted October 1, 2007 Report Share Posted October 1, 2007 Re: The Last Word It's not that bad. The ice keeps it cool so same as refrigeration. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 1, 2007 Report Share Posted October 1, 2007 Re: The Last Word They make a big show of throwing the fish from the iced display tables back to the cut-wrap table, too, so there's some showmanship involved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted October 1, 2007 Report Share Posted October 1, 2007 Re: The Last Word And what's food without some prep pizzazz? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 1, 2007 Report Share Posted October 1, 2007 Re: The Last Word One of the Pike Place Market's fish vendors -- video links Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted October 1, 2007 Report Share Posted October 1, 2007 Re: The Last Word I was more referring to some of the places where I've gone to eat. Those Japanese steak houses, where they prepare the food in front of you? Yeah, that's definitely worth the price of admission (when I can afford it). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 1, 2007 Report Share Posted October 1, 2007 Re: The Last Word Oddly, I've never been to one of those. When we go to a Japanese restaurant, we get sushi/sashimi. At one of those we go to, you can sit at the bar and watch them prep it, but we never have. One of things you have to forego with kids. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted October 1, 2007 Report Share Posted October 1, 2007 Re: The Last Word You're totally missing out. If you haven't eaten dinner while a guy flips and juggles his cooking equipment in front of you, you haven't lived. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 1, 2007 Report Share Posted October 1, 2007 Re: The Last Word I was there when an aluminum griddle melted and dumped the grease from 8 or 10 burgers into the fire (FOOM!). I was far enough back I didn't get my eyebrows singed, though others were. Does that count? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted October 1, 2007 Report Share Posted October 1, 2007 Re: The Last Word No. It's not quite the same thing, unless you got to eat the eyebrows afterwards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 1, 2007 Report Share Posted October 1, 2007 Re: The Last Word Well, the utensils did get thrown in the air when the fire happened.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted October 1, 2007 Report Share Posted October 1, 2007 Re: The Last Word But not caught again. That's, like, 75% of the entertainment value. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted October 2, 2007 Report Share Posted October 2, 2007 Re: The Last Word Hmm. Maybe they don't train the west coast guys as well. I went with some coworkers and the guy bounced the spatula off one coworkers head. We got a free meal out of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted October 2, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 2, 2007 Re: The Last Word I hear Paris Hilton is going to Rwanda and taking diet coke with her. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted October 2, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 2, 2007 Re: The Last Word I've put up my photos taken around Iona (http://picasaweb.google.com/bazzaclarke/ScotlandPhotos). I hope to put the rest of my photos of Scotland up soon. I hope you enjoy them and hope the tranquility and peacefulness of the place comes through. Please let me know what you think! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 2, 2007 Report Share Posted October 2, 2007 Re: The Last Word But not caught again. That's' date=' like, 75% of the entertainment value.[/quote'] You've never watched drunk young guys try to cook, have you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted October 2, 2007 Report Share Posted October 2, 2007 Re: The Last Word You've never watched drunk young guys try to cook' date=' have you?[/quote'] No. I don't even go NEAR a hot stove when I'm so tired I'm delirious. Hot things + clumsiness = fire! I don't like fire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 2, 2007 Report Share Posted October 2, 2007 Re: The Last Word If there was ever any doubt about your gender, that last statement removed it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted October 2, 2007 Report Share Posted October 2, 2007 Re: The Last Word Or the fact that I've already lost one apartment (and a number of books and electronics) to a fire might be part of that. For about two years after it, I couldn't hear a false fire alarm without panicking, and the smell of smoke put me in a frenzy to find the source. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 2, 2007 Report Share Posted October 2, 2007 Re: The Last Word After the fire in my apartment, I went for fire jokes, sometimes very obscure ones. Now, I wasn't there when the fire happened (which is good, since it started in my bedding), so my reactions were different. OTOH, if I smell smoke, I won't sit still until I identify the source. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted October 2, 2007 Report Share Posted October 2, 2007 Re: The Last Word We were there when the fire happened, and my night owl tendencies paid off, because we were wide awake. We rescued the cat (the one who's gone missing this week ), got out of there, helped neighbors out of their apartments, called 911, and waited for something to happen. All that happened, really, was three miserable months living in a friends' living room, a move to the other side of the Mason-Dixon, and a cat who runs and hides when he hears a fire alarm. And lots and lots and lots of financial problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 2, 2007 Report Share Posted October 2, 2007 Re: The Last Word . . . I was visiting my bro. We sat watching golf, late at night -- something like one in the morning. Tiger was biting. Last hole: ". . . Do you smell smoke?" *snf snf* ". . . Naah." Putting is taking place. ". . . You really can't smell smoke?" *snf snf* ". . . Now that you mention it . . . You didn't burn the popcorn, did you?" "Nope." We walk around his appartment, trying to find where it smells the worst. Bro ends up in the hallway, peeps out through the aptly named peep hole. "Dude!" The stairwell is thick whith white smoke. He steps out and starts yelling fire, and rings on the neighbour's doors, while I haul out my phone to call 112 for the fire department. My phone's batteries dies halfway through. I ask the lady next door if I can use her phone to call 112 again. She reluctantly agrees. V. mysterious. Turns out someone set fire to some clothes on the laundry room. And that someone was, for all intents and purposes, the lady next door. They caught her pretty quickly -- she only had time to do it again one more time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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