Subj : Nawlins was: Ale - 8 was: [1]
To : Dave Drum
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Tue Mar 28 2023 12:17:40
Hi Dave,
RH> Probably a rack thing that you drape the bacon over? I could never see
RH> the sense of that one either.
DD> That's wot I sayed, wasn't it?
RH> That's what I deduced without looking up the https. (G)
DD> Wasn't too difficult, I hope, with a clew like " DD> I also had one of
DD> the "racks" " Bv)=
Yes, but racks can be flat or standing.
RH> Maybe a combination of ginger and caffiene? I gave Nancy a can of
it RH> when she came down for the picnic we hosted in 2019; I don't
think it RH> had enough ginger for her tastes. (G)
DD> The most ginger taste I get is from Vernor's Ginger Soda - the oldest
DD> bottled/cannded soft drink in Continental North America. As some of
DD> the adverts may tell you - it's ginger *soda* not ale or beer.
I've had that from time to time but probably the ginger ale I've had
most often has been Canada Dry.
DD> Was that an Echo Picnic? Did I sleep through one?
RH> That was the last official one. Out of town attendees were Nancy,
RH> Michael, Dale & Gail and Mark Lewis. Haven't heard much out of Mark
RH> these days, hopefully it's work keeping him busy.
DD> I seem to have totally spaced it. What year was that? I really miss
DD> Nancy. She was a tough Scrabble opponent. Made me sprain my brain a
DD> couple times trying to best her move(s).
That was September, 2019. I miss her too, especially when we go up to NY
to see Steve's family. We usually met up with her and Richard at their
favorite sushi place for a meal. Steve and I still stop there, if
possible, when we're in the area--missed seeing Richard by one day on
one visit.
RH> Back in 2012 Steve and I were delegates to the Southern Baptist
RH> Convention's Annual Meeting, held in NOLA. He ordered allegator "bites"
RH> one night for supper; got a generous portion of breaded/fried allegator
RH> pieces. While they were hot they were pretty good; after they cooled
RH> off they were rather rubbery. I don't think we'll ever order them
RH> again, but we can say that we've tried it. The next night we went to a
RH> place called Mother's for supper and I had probably the best boiled
RH> shrimp I've ever had, and an even more generous portion than Steve's
RH> alligator. He had to help me finish them. (G)
DD> Never got to Mother's - which is a well known .... famous really,
DD> place in Restaurant Row. I was going to try one of the places on
DD> Restaurant
DD> Row ,,, Dooky Chase's, IIRC, but the prices made my throat slam shut.
That was our splurge meal and yet, not as much as it could have been. We
walked from our hotel, passed one of John Besh's places en route. The
menu was posted on the door--we could have maybe afforded an appetiser
there but had a whole meal at Mother's.
DD> One the the best breakfast's I ever had was in a little DD>
hole-in-hte-wall joint on Jefferson Highway near where I was DD>
delivering bottles. I spent overnight in their (Sazerac's) parking lot
DD> and woke up hungry. So, I DD> dropped my trailer and took the
tractor down the street looking for an DD> open place to get a bite.
Around the corner I happened upon a place DD> with a parking spot for
my behemoth semi-tractor at the curb. So, in I DD> went. The chatter
stopped and it got awfully quiet. I was the only DD> pale-face DD> in
the joint. The lady behind the counter asked "Do you know where you DD>
are?"
DD> To which I replied "Sign out front says 'CAFE'. Can I get a meal
DD> here?"
DD> She grinned and said, "You all right. Whatchou gonna have?".
Sometimes those are the best places. In Savannah we were sometimes the
only gringos in a Mexican place, also been the only round eye in our
favorite Korean place in HI. A little place like you described was in
Wake Forest when we came up to visit--had a good meal there. We moved up
and the place had closed--reopened a couple of years later as our (now)
favorite ice cream shop.
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Catch you later,
Ruth
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