-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 07-30-19  03:28 <=-

 >  >  ML> that the Ethiopians eat the raw fat separately - a
 >  >  ML> wrinkle that has not yet arrived in the restaurants
 >  >  ML> here in the US.
 >  > Do they grind or chop it, or just leave it in a chunk...?
 >  ML> Don't know. I've eaten at Ethiopian restaurants in
 >  ML> a few countries, but Ethiopia is not one of them.
 > Hmmm.... might have to ask someone that's been there... or maybe came
 > from there, even.... 
 ML> Could do - you might ask your Abyssinians, and they
 ML> might say, oh, we don't do that because the
 ML> Rochesterians get weirded out by it, or possibly they
 ML> might say, eww, who ever thought of such a thing.

No way to know until/unless one does ask, I guess...  

 >  >  ML> Yeah, but we're talking about people at the top of
 >  >  ML> their profession - Neubauer and Vernon being principals
 >  >  ML> at New York and Cleveland (or was it Chicago?) and McCarty
 >  >  ML> being the de facto principal (nominally Burt Fine was) in
 >  >  ML> Boston.
 >  > Being at the top of the profession doesn't guarantee feeling
 >  > secure, though.... 
 >  ML> That IS true, but one might hope for a tougher
 >  ML> skin at the top.
 > One might hope, I suppose... 
 ML> Of course, we see some counterexamples every day.

Indeed.

 >  ML> Yep. So you are lost and come to a crossroads, where
 >  ML> you find the Easter Bunny, a bad viola player, and a
 >  ML> good viola player. You ask them which way to go. The 
 >  ML> Easter Bunny says, turn left. The bad viola player
 >  ML> says, go straight, and the good viola player says turn 
 >  ML> right. Which way do you go? Well, you go straight. The 
 >  ML> Easter Bunny is obviously a hallucination, and a good
 >  ML> viola player is, well, obviously a hallucination.
 > GROAN.  
 ML> That was told me by a German viola player.
 
It would have had to be a viola player, to get away with it... 

 > ... Appetisers are those little bits you eat until you lose your appetite.

Actually, I've come over into your camp of making a meal from them,
especially at Fu's when we are there at suppertime...  

ttyl         neb

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