Parasites are generally macroscopic. Your fish sources
are safe in the one case because the merchandise has
been hard frozen and in the other because Fu has done
the candling work already (plus it might have been
frozen, too).

Most if not all of Fu's fish comes in frozen, I'm pretty sure... I
regularly see him thawing chunks... but maybe he just freezes after
cutting up the whole fish...

Doesn't matter who does the freezing if it's done to
spec. I had a friend whose brother was a tuna
fisherman; Pad swore up and down that his brother's
product went to Tsukiji unfrozen, which I thought
unlikely (impossible, actually). I never found out
if he had invented some miracle way of getting his
fish to market fresh; anyway nowadays he'd be
prevented from trying.

Yup... ;) Ones like that, I always look for the "waffle" factor that invalidates what it seems to be promising... (G)

I've heard of even more audacious promises, such as
"you will not be the one to pay the bill."

Years ago, back when we were in the habit of hosting what we called The Motley Crew on Sunday afternoons at Yangs (mostly college students,
they'd pay in what they could afford), Richard got one that he restated
as "You are a born sucker and will be fleeced regularly"... :) It was actually more like "you are altruistic and give freely"...

Same difference!

... Enter any 12-digit prime number to continue.

Just remember this: 101111111111

Ok, I'll try to... (G)

Pretty easy to remember, just recall that it's the fifth
smallest 12-digit prime. Or you can just remember
555555555551, which has the advantage of having the
different number being on the end.

That works too... :)

Go through a list of primes and you will see some
memorable numbers. Of course, a prime number with all
the same digits except 1 would be impossible.

And yesterday I got a different error message that
indicated that some Firefox process that I hadn't
authorized was working in the background and had
crashed. Heh. In other news, my GOES login has been
wiped (I'm not unauthorized, my account is claimed
never to have existed).

Which account is that...? Computers are really acting up for you
lately....

Ever since hanging out with people who are on
various watch lists.

... A wise man once said nothing.

Wise (wo)men and idiots often agree.
Not that I believe in wisdom, of course.

Sometimes it is the ear of the beholder... ;)

I actually think wisdom is an odious concept,
because it implies a value judgment, either
of oneself or of others.

... Actually I Can Believe It's Not Butter.

When that product came out I tried it to see;
there's really scanty similarity.

+

Funny thing was that I originally appended a moist pear
cake with vegetable oil instead of solid shortening to
the original post but then replaced it with a more
topical recipe.

Ah, that explains that, then... ;)

I try to stay one step ahead in the response
column, but circumstances change, and what might
be an appropriate or apt ontopicizer wight become
less so when I jigger around unsent posts to
conform to my order scheme.

the school of Hard Knocks and has had a disastrous life
path. Both interesting.

I've gathered as much.... :)

One could write well-selling biographies
about them. Not novels about them, people
would think the stories too improbable.

Mark Twain is supposed to have said something like that, to the effect
of truth being stranger than fiction.... I have the "quote" in a tagline
on the other computer... I'm currently in downstate NY at my sister's,
using my laptop, having attended my aunt's funeral procedings
yesterday... will be uploading when I get home tonight...

The traveling life - got to love it.

At rehearsal the other day some very cute young cellist
greeted me - Kanh! I looked blankly at her. You're not
Kanh? she asked. I looked puzzled and shook my head. I
don't look remotely like Kanh, who is Vietnamese, a
decade younger than me, and has still-black hair. Well, he
is an excellent musician, and I noted that I hadn't heard
anything so flattering since someone not apparently able
to tell the difference between a violin and a cello asked
if I was Yo-Yo Ma, .

Some people are easily confused... :) At least you are being mistaken
for well-thought of people.... :)

I suppose!

Not everyone aspires to climb any higher.... ;) Sounds like at least it was a good meeting for the two of you... :)

It was a pretty fun blast from the past.

Good.

I thought so. My recent blasts of that nature have been
generally gratifying.

So this last gig I did had a second bass whom I
hadn't seen in 48! years. We caught up, and his
parting remark was that we should not let it be
another 50 years before we saw each other again.

Said quite dead-pan, no doubt... :) He had a very good point there...

Do you have a tin yurl for it...? It hasn't seemed to do anything noticeable at Wegmans, anyway.... :)

I read tin yurt ... I don't have tin anything.
Try tinyurl.com/raisincrisis

Haven't yet, but will... :)

I read tin yurt again.

By the news coverage whenever there's a project of
this sort, lots of people are paying attention.
It's just that they're buying the bill of goods
sold by governmental and quasi-governmental entities,
similarly with the lottery commissions.

If they paid attention to the right things, they wouldn't be buying the
bill of goods being sold...

But it's so much easier to be sold a bill of
goods, especially a favorable-sounding one.

... Sure money can't buy happiness, but it can buy bacon.

I just had some excellent porky unsmoked uncured
bacon, and I was happy. Until I discovered that
it was from Smithfield (I try to avoid supporting
the Red Chinese economy more than I have to).

Sigh...

... Remember, 'i' before 'e' except in words where it isn't.

Neighbor, weigh, as the rhyme goes, and
sleigh, neigh, beige, and so on.

Tea and spice smoked chicken
categories: main, poultry
Yield: 1 Chicken

1 Chicken, whole
h - For Smoking the Chicken
1/4 c Dry black tea leaves
1/4 c Brown sugar
1.3 c Raw rice
1 Tb Szechwan brown peppercorns
3 Star anise stars
2 Cinnamon sticks, broken into small bits

Brown sugar, for smoking
- the second side of the chicken
More tea, see recipe
2 Tb Sesame oil

Combine the smoking ingredients and spread evenly
in the bottom of the pan.

Pan-smoke the chicken for 10 to 15 min. Turn the
chicken over and continue to pan smoke the chicken
for an additional 5 to 8 min. If necessary, finish
the chicken in 375F oven to an internal temp of 170F.
Rub the outside of the chicken with the sesame oil.
3. Repeat the process twice, using different tea
(e.g. orange pekoe or green tea) for smoking.

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