-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 06-29-19  08:43 <=-

 >  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> We'll figure out something sometime.

I'm sure we will... And just a heads up... I leave tomorrow for the Pond
for another almost week, so I'll be not around either bbses or email for
the duration... Then I'll be home for less than a week before I head off
for my family's camping (also without internet access).... I'll try to
stay as current as possible in between, and will be taking the 'puter
with me both trips to be catching up on messages while away...
 
 >  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...
 ML> I find that about to go industrially farmed berries can 
 ML> improve a bit in flavor shortly before their demise.
 
I'm not sure that these were doing so.... 

 > I decided mine needed heavy cream to be edible... at least in that
 > quantity...  
 ML> That treatment doesn't hurt.

It certainly didn't...  

 > 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 biscuits.... 
 ML> Or perhaps made jam.
 
Possibly, but that's generally more effort than I put out... 

 >  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....
 ML> Whatever possesses people to do that, I mean sacrifice
 ML> their own good name and that of others for a fleeting
 ML> and short-term bankability.

No clue at all... seems so counter-productive....

ttyl       neb

... "Haggis is no more revolting than scrapple, if that comforts you."

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