Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I made my wife some Corned Beef Salad tonight (Argentine corned beef, real Duke's Mayo, some Maille mustard, dill and sweet pickle relish. She had a tough day. This will probably give her a burst of energy to keep on supporting this decrepit Kept Man. She had to drive two and a half hours each way today to train a subordinate. I went along, with one of our dogs, and sat in the car reading while she did her thing. On the way up she insisted at stopping for a bite at Burger King and on the way back she wanted to stop at an Outback. Much as a I do love their Prime Rib, I wasn't in the mood, and she fell asleep by the time we went by the Outback, so I got us back to Richmond where I suggested a light meal and bed. The next thing I knew, she had broken off the opening nick on a can of Corned Beef and had to get me to open it. Good stuff: I had a couple of spoonfuls and it came out properly. Bully Beef to the rescue! Burger King confused me, as these fast-food places just will not let you order what you want to eat. They keep coming up with these "combo" meals and seem upset when you won't oversize them -- Burger King now has "medium" and "king-size" and "super-king-size". Gads! I did my job on the carbs, kids: I had a "triple stacker" but finished neither my Coke nor my fries. Burger King is the first US chain, to my knowledge, to offer a FOUR hamburger patty sandwich. That is almost as bad as Hardee's, with those vile concoctions so large you would need to have the jaws of a Jazz singer to eat them. I like sit-down restaurants and try to avoid fast-food places, though I do go back to 1958 with MacDonald's, back in the days when it was eat-in-the-car and it proudly acknowledged having sold 538 hamburgers <he grns: that came along a bit later>. But when I am with my wife or my son, it is hard to avoid their desire to stop at these places. I just wish that I did not have to be the one placing the order, as I can never understand the process and the menu. I have lost 65 pounds in four years by simply resigning my commission in the Clean Plate Brigade. Ten more to go, and then all will be fine. And I do generally eat REALLY high-cholesterol and high-calorie foods but, then, I have naturally low blood pressure and naturally low cholesterol. Genetics helps a lot! Marc msmall@aya.yale.edu Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!