-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 06-15-19  13:26 <=-

 >  ML> Oh, yeah - I eventually got your mail and thought
 >  ML> I'd responded to it with a brief answer that went
 >  ML> something like "no wiggle room in July, maybe in
 >  ML> the fall."
 > Never received, had you responded.... the fall might be more open here,
 > too...  
 ML> Let's try again: gist, July, no. September before
 ML> the picnic or sometime in October, maybe.

That email was received... and just answered in email...   Taking a
little while to get back into business here... ;0

 >  >  ML> That's the 1980s ... like last month to me.
 >  > Yes, probably 1984-5 or so...  And that could explain a thing or
 >  > three...  
 >  ML> Might, but not the Volvo issue two decades later.
 > That was a different issue.... of needing higher octane than regular gas
 > could provide... and still is the case today with the Volvos we
 > currently drive...
 ML> I wasn't imagining that a Volvo might be a
 ML> piece of citrus fruit.

Neither of ours have proved to be so... I've heard of some who had less
stellar experiences, but I suppose it could happen with any vehicle...
 
 >  > The Aries was our only really bad experience with ChryslerCorp...
 >  > and it was only a grapefruit, not quite a lemon....
 >  ML> One of your taglines, as I recall, says
 >  ML> something about that.
 > No, I think that was a pineapple.... different yellow fruit (and
 > potentially better)....
 ML> Someone had one that, paraphrased, said a grapefruit
 ML> is a lemon that took advantage of its opportunities.
 
Ah.... I might have that one, too... I'll check when I finish this
message.... 

 >  ML> It must be a pretty big operation if it has separate
 >  ML> labels for the states its produce is grown in. A smaller
 >  ML> or cheaper operation would say simply USA.
 > Apparently.... The one for NC also says, as part of its banner, "got to
 > be NC produce", with a stylized map of NC.... and the NC shape balancing
 > on the other side of the words Blueberries Bluets...
 ML> So I just had some more berries from Mexico - Driscoll 
 ML> strawberries that were giant and cottony like US ones of
 ML> this time of year but fairly sweet and semi-fragrant, so 
 ML> a compromise between real and fake; also a new brand of 
 ML> raspberries, Paradise, which were no good at all.

Speak of a name that doesn't work... (G)  And at the price one pays for
the berries, very sad....  While up at the Pond with the kid, he bought
a couple quart boxes of strawberries (probably Driscoll, don't remember
from where) at the ALDIs there in Potsdam... He ended up gifting me with
one of those boxes, as they were starting to go earlier than he
expected, and needing eating right away... I decided mine needed heavy
cream to be edible... at least in that quantity...   At home, I might
have halved them and sprinkled sugar on them, then let them steep in the
fridge for a day or so before using on buscuits.... 
 
 >  >  ML> American blueberries (product of USA) - a mixture of smallish 
 >  >  ML> very sour berries and medium-to-large sweetish but tasteless 
 >  >  ML> ones. These were inferior to most we've had, which made the 
 >  >  ML> "patriotic berry" nonsense on the box particularly irritating.
 >  > Oh, dear.....
 +
 > ... We're going right to the top to get to the bottom of this
 ML> Oh, dear ...
 >  ML> but some percentage of buyers will be 
 >  ML> swayed more by the flag on the package than the
 >  ML> quality inside. It would have been nice if the
 >  ML> berries were as good as the country they came from.
 > True... 
 ML> There was a similarly patriotically-inspired brand
 ML> of tools, claimed to be made in USA, that were 
 ML> notoriously brittle, not being forged. I don't 
 ML> remember much about them except a broken-off wrench 
 ML> whose exposed part showed telltale crystals and a 
 ML> clear fault line. I hope they weren't exported 
 ML> anyplace.

They probably were exported somewhere, too... not a very good
advertisement of quality, to be sure... I remember hearing of such, but
I don't recall what the brand was, either....

ttyl        neb

... A grapefruit is a lemon that had a chance and took advantage of it.

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