Re: Barbara

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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Happy birthday to you, wherever you are...
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Arizona?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Possibly, bud it's not relevant... the birthday
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> happies applies wherever she is.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> You said 'wherever you are'. So I told you.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Geez!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Actually... *pushes glasses back up on nose* you
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> asked me if she was in Arizona. A fact I do not
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> have. 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I concede (with some satisfaction), that it's a
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> real place in the world... 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> It was less a question and more an offering.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Well, thank you then - but no thanks. I don't want
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Arizona. I understand that it's full of elderly
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Americans... Not really my thing. 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I think you'd fit in perfectly.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> With a bunch of old people who most likely drive
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> around in golf-carts and complain about everything?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> And eat dinner at 17:00? I think not... 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Okie dokie.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> {Nope. Won't fit in at all}
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Well I certainly don't eat dinner at 17:00... that's
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> about the time I might grab a bit of lunch if I feel
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> peckish. 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Which is lunchtime in their time zone.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> This is all working out well for you!
>>>>>>>>>>>>> That will only work as long as the jet lag persists.
>>>>>>>>>>>> And then what happens?
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Then I will want to have dinner at eight and everywhere will
>>>>>>>>>>> have already closed down. And locked up the golf cart
>>>>>>>>>>> parking, one assumes. 
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> You'll have to change your habits. Or go to IHOP for dinner.
>>>>>>>>> Point one: NEVER! Point two: pancakes are for breakfast (or
>>>>>>>>> sometimes for dessert, preferably with ice cream). Pancakes
>>>>>>>>> are not proper food for a growing boy.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I've had pancakes for dinner.
>>>>>>> Yea, but you're an exotic canadian. No telling what strange
>>>>>>> customs you have...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sounds like a yummy custom to me!
>>>>> Perhaps, but strange. Dinner is potatoes and meat and such... Or
>>>>> soup. 
>>>>
>>>> Dinner is based on the people eat, not the food itself.
>>> But but but... different foods belong at different times of the day.
>>> Think of *breakfast* cereal and *lunch* meat and sunday roast
>>> *dinner* where all the family reluctanty interacts. Clearly pancakes
>>> are a dessert - or possibly for afternoon coffee instead of cake.
>>>
>> 
>> I can eat pancakes whenever I want.
>> Try and stop me.
> Barbarism!
> 

Yelling isn't going to make me stop.

>> What if someone works the night shift and their breakfast is at the
>> same time as other people's dinner? Pancakes cover all the bases.
> Breakfast is the first meal after sleeping no matter how someone's 24
> hour cycle is organised. That's when you want some high carbohydrate
> foodstuff to get the motor running, so to speak. Dinner is when the
> high protein food should be ingested to regenerate muscles while
> resting after a day of toil.
> 

If I have chicken and waffles for dinner, the chicken part is protein.

>>>> Anyways,I don't think there are rules about what you have to eat.
>>> There are loads of rules. Just ask your doctor. Also for example
>>> there are rules for the sequence of what you eat if it's a multi
>>> course meal. Dinner is soup - fish - poultry - steak - dessert -
>>> cheese or how many of those you wish to include.
>>>
>> Or waffles and chicken.
>> What does the order of food matter?
> Tradition! It's how it has always been done.
> 

then it's time for a change.

>> Here we eat the entrée last. I heard in some cultures they eat the 
>> entrée first and the salad last.
>> 
>>>> Part the benefit of being an adult is you can eat what you want
>>>> when you want. On the downside, it seems unwise to eat 2000
>>>> calories and then go to bed.
>>> Clearly. One will obviously need a cigar and a couple of glasses of
>>> port after. And then maybe something a little stronger for a
>>> nightcap. 
>>>
>> 
>> I can hear your arteries closing from here.
> I doubt that. The sound will be drowned out by the teevee...
>

Does the tv need to be so loud?
 
>>>>>> Like there are no weird Danish customs.
>>>>> Of course there aren't. On account of us not being foreigners.
>>>>>
>>>> So I need to ask a tourist if there are any weird Danish customs.
>>>> Years ago, when I was on Reddit a lot, one the threads concerned 
>>>> Americans who had a Swedish immigrant friends growing up. A lot
>>>> people posted that they would be playing at the Swedish kids house
>>>> and when the mother called the kid for lunch, the American kid was
>>>> not invited to eat. they had to either wait outside on the doorstep
>>>> or stay in the Swedish kids bedroom while the family ate. Weird. 
>>> Yes well - that's the swedes for you. Weird. Or maybe they served
>>> something strange that they didn't expect the other kids to want to
>>> eat anyway. Like lutefisk or surströmming.
>>>
>> 
>> Maybe. It seemed to happen to a lot of people.
> The swedes eat a lot of lutefisk and surströmming. They are weird
> like that. 
> 
>>>> My mother would have fixed a plate for the visiting kid. And we
>>>> were poor.
>>> I have no idea what would have happened in my home. I never had
>>> friends [over].
>>>
>> Poor you. 
> Quite.
> 
>>>>>>>> You can get them at any Chinese food restaurant.
>>>>>>> That's for spring (or otherwise seasoned) rolls. This is strange
>>>>>>> but acceptable.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You should have the Mooshu pancakes.
>>>>> I would need to find a chinese restaurant first.
>>>>>
>>>> Google is your friend.
>>> Not if the nearest chinese restaurant suggested it 100Km away...
>>> (I don't know I didn't check but there isn't one in Bigtown so
>>> likely quite far anyway.)
>>>
>>>>>>>> A lot of restaurant serve chicken and waffles.
>>>>>>> Not around here they don't. Waffles are for ice cream.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Waffle cones are thinner and crispier.
>>>>> Obviously. If they were all soft an wobbly the ice cream would
>>>>> fall out. 
>>>>>
>>>> I feel like you would have consumed it before that happened.
>>> That would depend on the wobbliness of the cone. It could all end up
>>> on the ground. In any case I only eat one ice-cream per year.
>>>
>> 
>> I avoid it like the plague.
> How come? Ice cream is delicious.
> 

a) It's full of sugar
b) I'm allergic to dairy


>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Also, there's no winter there.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I don't mind winter - it's the cold I can't abide.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> There is no cold there, then.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> It's still filled with 'merkans though.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> And?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> You make some new friends.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Eeekk!
>>>>>>>>>>>> It will be good for you.
>>>>>>>>>>> I have rodents on the loft, what more could I want. Also the
>>>>>>>>>>> neighbours dog is very friendly - very helpful with the
>>>>>>>>>>> garden work. 
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> True, true. Everyone needs to be adequately supervised when
>>>>>>>>>> working. It is also my understanding from tv shows that if
>>>>>>>>>> you have an accident, the dog will run to the neighbours.
>>>>>>>>>> "wroof" "wroof" What's that Lassie? BeH is on the roof?
>>>>>>>>> I would hate to leave my life and well being in the paws of
>>>>>>>>> someone so easily distracted by a stick...
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Sometimes you have to take what you can get...
>>>>>>> OR - and this is the correct choice - stay off the roof.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Agreed. Stay off the roof, it upsets the dog.
>>>>> Reason enough for me. Any reason is enough for me to stay off
>>>>> roofs, really. Ladders too.
>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> I don't know how to drive a golf cart.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> You new friends can do that.
>>>>>>>>>>> But should I trust an ageing american in a rush to make the
>>>>>>>>>>> 5 o'clock dinner time?
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Of course.
>>>>>>>>>> You don't want the soup to get a skin on it.
>>>>>>>>> Isn't that more a porridge thing - skin? Also do they eat a
>>>>>>>>> lot of soup in Arizona - one would think it would be a little
>>>>>>>>> hot for soup. 
>>>>>>> I have no idea what they eat in Arizona. They could be eating
>>>>>>> pancakes for supper for all I know. Also even chicken soup will
>>>>>>> develop skin given enough chicken fat (or ageing I suppose).
>>>>>>>> They make cold soups too, like gazpacho.
>>>>>>>> It's also not hot inside in the air conditioned comfort.
>>>>>>> So I'll have to bring a sweater as well? Maybe a cardigan in
>>>>>>> festive colours.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The kind with leather elbow patches so you look scholarly.
>>>>> Obviously. And if at all possible also cast metal buttons with
>>>>> floral patterns. Pewter maybe.
>>>>>
>>>> I have a sweater with those. We could repurpose them.
>>> You would give up your pewter sweater buttons for me? I'm touched.
>>>
>> 
>> Stop touching yourself.
> I wasn't. It was metaphorical touching. By your kindness and
> sacrifice. 
> 

You're lucky I'm such a nice person.

>>>>>>>> Really eating soup when it's hot is no different than eating
>>>>>>>> ice cream in the winter. Right?
>>>>>>> Not quite. Who even eats ice cream in winter. But hot drinks is
>>>>>>> what one should really drink when it's  hot. Too much (or too
>>>>>>> cold) drinks will hurt one's stomach and also confuse the body's
>>>>>>> heat regulation. I expect soup is similar.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My body regulator is already broken.
>>>>> You probably need to have it serviced. It may just be the
>>>>> thermostat that's stuck. It happens sometimes.
>>>>>
>>>> Is this where you fix it but thumping it with your fist?
>>> Lard no. Thermostats are delicate and sensitive instruments. You
>>> have to carefully wriggle them back and forth a tiny bit.
>>> Repeatedly. 
>>>
>> So I need to get a professional in to fiddle with my knobs?
> If you aren't an experienced thermostat wiggler that is probably the
> best course of action.
> 
>>>>>> I bet tons of people eat ice cream all year round.
>>>>> I bet tons of people jump off bridges each year.
>>>>>
>>>> I bet more people eat ice cream in the winter than jump off
>>>> bridges. 
>>> Possibly. Jumping off bridges is more of a once-in-a-lifetime
>>> experience. Eating ice-cream in winter just requires that the
>>> ice-cream shop is open. And money. And thermostatic misalignment.
>> 
>> Can't you buy ice cream at the grocery store there?
> Yes, but I think that's just left-over stock from summer. The Ice
> cream stalls with the freshly baked waffle cones and the extensive
> selection of ice cream flavours for scooping close for winter, I'm
> pretty sure. It might have changed nowadays what with all the foreign
> tourists and their strange dietary habits.
> 

You need to be more open-minded about food.