-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 06-30-19  10:53 <=-

 ML> Brains, by the way, contain an average 2.1% cholesterol,
 ML> around 10x what most organ meats have and 30x+ regular
 ML> meat and fat. Not that cholesterol makes much difference,
 ML> which all modern research shows (and as Ian has maintained
 ML> all along).

Good for Ian...  I never believed that eating cholesterol did much harm,
either... the body is perfectly capable of manufacturing it on its
own... 

 >  >  ML> If one is lucky. I've had some modest failures
 >  >  ML> thinking that way, never figuring out what I
 >  >  ML> meant to remember..
 >  > That's why luck would be needed... 
 >  ML> I wonder how much luck is involved in
 >  ML> the collection of what comes to be known
 >  ML> as history!
 > Historians are supposed to be better at remembering things....??  And/or
 > at documenting at the moment...?
 ML> It's not that they remember but that they should be
 ML> more careful at getting information from sources that
 ML> remembered and documenting these. But that is a rosy
 ML> view and ignores prejudice, bias, blindness, and ego.
 
Yes, that would require at least a modicum of luck, I'd guess...

 >  > Along with other things touted as just upon the horizon which have yet
 >  > to materialize....
 >  ML> Some of them have happened and then been forgotten.
 >  ML> Flying cars. Chocolate digestives.
 > Were the flying cars a sort of early aeroplane....?
 ML> You sound as though you've been into steampunk.

Not really, but yes, into a wide range of science fiction/fact over the
years... 

 ML> Actually, they were a latter-day airplane, hoped
 ML> for as a commuter vehicle to be piloted/driven
 ML> by ordinary drivers, presumably, if the idea had
 ML> "taken off," with an added component to the 
 ML> operator's license test. Henry Ford was an early 
 ML> proponent of the idea, though he never got one to 
 ML> work.

I do recall various discussions of the concept, over the years, hadn't
realized or at least remembered if there had actually been one built and
tested.... Only seen, that I remember, on the TV show the Jetsons....

 >  > The chocolate iced digestives are something I've bought and enjoyed here
 >  > in the states, though not recently... 
 >  ML> It wouldn't be at all difficult to make or at
 >  ML> least semi-make them yourself.
 > True... I'm going to try to remember to look a little harder to see if
 > they are still available anywhere locally....
 ML> McVities should be available, and couverture should
 ML> be available. Wax paper and tongs, and you're set.
 
I've not seen the McVities, at least not at Wegmans, that I remember (so
at least not recently)... forgot to check the import section, though... 
Also possible at Lori's maybe....  I did see the Carr's whole wheat
biscuits, essentially the digestives, though not with chocolate...

 > ... Apparently, "Now More Cashews!" is code for "Now Only Two Pecans!"
 ML> Well, it'd certainly not be code for "only
 ML> two peanuts."

Now who's making understatements...?!  (G)

 ML> Gored Gored
  (snip)
 ML> Saute at high heat for 1 to 3 min continuously stirring 
 ML> until the meat cooked rare, medium or well done 
 ML> depending on your taste (cooking optional)
 ML> Traditionally, it is served rare. Add a pinch of salt 
 ML> to taste and enjoy with injera or rice. 

What I've had at Abyssinia has been warm, but raw... I'm guessing the
warmth comes from the butter having been melted.... 

ttyl     neb

... Nothing is so good that somebody, somewhere, will not hate it.

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