• Re: 997 was overflow + Co

    From NANCY BACKUS@1:123/140 to MICHAEL LOO on Saturday, February 23, 2019 22:41:00
    Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 02-22-19 12:36 <=-

    They were very nice... Had you made more, they'd probably still all
    been eaten... or at least mostly so.... ;)
    It was a pretty big tray.
    And plenty of people happily eating them.... :)
    Which left me with mixed feelings, as I
    wanted more for myself. The solution would
    have been to make an impossibly large batch,
    but I'd thought that the offering was enough
    (a rule of thumb is to make enough for 4,
    which in my admonitions for the echo picnics
    is amended to 2 to 4, but as I recall that
    dish would have fed 8-10 as a main course).

    I think the usual suggestions at our dinners is to make for 12... Partly
    taking into account the fact that not everyone is making that sort of
    dish, probably....

    One has been known to make the comparison with
    the fabled jeweler Cardillac, who would create
    and sell pieces but then rob their in his mind
    undeserving new owners of them, but that's not
    quite apt, because I actually don't mind others
    enjoying the fruits of my labors (just so they
    don't get in my way of doing so myself). It may
    be the only Cardillac syndrome I don't have.

    (Is that perhaps a play on cardiac...?) You just should have taken a
    proper serving to begin with... :)

    ... RTFM: Read The Fact-filled Manual.
    "Fun-filled," perhaps?
    Sometimes, I suppose.... :)
    The fun may not all be intentional on the
    part of either the writer, the consumer, or
    the manufacturer.
    Point.
    It's serendipitous, as are many of the disasters
    that also befall (if a disaster can be said to
    be serendipitous).

    Unplanned, anyway.... ;)

    That sounds like the Pyrex dishes.... when I think of Corningware, it's the white dishes (with or without nice patterns on the outside of the pot)...
    I was imprecise - it's plain glass but in the white
    tinting of the former hardened glass.
    Ah...
    In fact, it's like the old knockoffs that were
    essentially identical in appearance but not
    necessarily in function.

    Which I was careful not to get.... Basically, then, it's a new knockoff,
    but thinks to get away with using the good name of the original... Not
    unlike the Scottissue you and Ruth have been discussing... it's not been
    the same since KimberleyClark took it over.... been going downhill ever since.....

    think the brand should return to its roots, but
    that won't happen; it's too expensive.
    And that's sad....
    For sure. ties in with our issues about
    corporate squeezing of every possible dollar.
    And their failing to recognize that quality would actually produce more dollars rather than less....
    But it doesn't. If it actually did, they'd
    do it.

    No, only if it was perceived to do so... Instead, people will
    eventually just stop buying it, and there will be less dollars
    produced.....

    When I was in school, the Coop was managed by a
    largely student directorship and was teetering at
    the edge of insolvency. It took a professional
    manager in the form of a guy from my class (rather
    than a large corporation) to bring it back to life.
    It continues to prosper to this day.
    Nice to hear a success story now and then.... :)
    It is. Not without bumps in the road, but
    it's been a half-century survival, better
    than a lot of enterprises.

    Indeed.

    ... Burgers with no onion rings is like a movie with no popcorn.
    And potatoes and onions cost not much different,
    so why do the burger places offer fries as the
    default?

    Good question... and probably the answer also lies in perceptions.... as
    they charge way more for the onions....

    Ooooooo.... that DOES sound good..... (G)
    Easily doable with a few extra hands to help with
    stuff like shredding cheese.
    So a good picnic project... :)
    As Ruth also noted.

    I saved that into my 'picnic' file... ;)

    Can't really do much else... I'm getting to an age now that I
    understand mine and Richard's grandparents a lot better.... both in the looking back to a simpler time, and in feeling the pinches of losing friends and family, some of which are younger.... and increasingly so,
    as one continues to age....
    Oh, for sure, but I'm still not a filing the
    edges off person, even if my way involves a
    little more heartache now and then.
    The brave face often only masks the heartache...
    Did I write that sentence? Weird.

    You're in a weird frame of mind, perhaps....? :)

    I just got a notice of a friend passing, but she
    had an excuse - she was 85, and her husband went
    a year or two ago. But things do weigh heavy.
    Indeed....
    For the longest time our class death notices
    were way below those of even several classes'
    behind us, but we're catching up.
    I don't really keep up with my college class (except for reading the
    alumni stuff in the back of the alumni/college news magazine)... My high school class was like your class... I think we're starting to catch up, too...
    I've kept up with 3 or 4 in each class with
    a few others fading in and out. The high school
    crop was only 54, though; college had 1600
    entering freshmen, most of whom graduated.

    No idea how many potential college classmates I have... RIT was pretty
    big even back then.... High school, even though I was only there for my
    senior year, I've ended up paying more attention to, since I've been
    involved in planning and going to the reunions.... 350+ in my class... I
    know more of them now than I did when I was in school, thanks to the reunions....

    ttyl neb

    ... A woman's place is in the home, in front of her computer.

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