Subj : Authentics was: Taco Slop
To : Dave Drum
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Tue Jul 11 2023 21:30:20
Hi Dave,
RH> Maybe they think we only like it as ham, bacon or pork chops.
DD> Or sausage, or ribs, or pulled pork, etc, etc, Maybe they're Jewish or
DD> Muslim instead of being in thrall to the Pope and his minions.
RH> At this point, it's anybody's guess.
DD> I was being facetious.
Aren't we all at some time or other?
DD> Did they indicate why they would be closed? It might have been a vital
RH> At the time they said "no staff available", changed later to "family
RH> emergency".
DD> Might have been both. The "staffing issues" thing was quite common at
DD> the depths of the CoVid pandemic.
We had a very enjoyable meal at the other place. The one we wanted was a
local place under new ownership so my siblings in law wanted to see how
much it had changed, for better or worse.
DD> 8<----- EDIT ----->8
DD> He served us pigeon cacciatore - which was appropriate as the dish
RH> is DD> translated as "hunter's stew" and the flying rats were all that
RH> could DD> be hunted downtown - unless you wanted real rats. Bv)=3
RH> No thanks to having a real rat but pigeon would be interesting.
RH> Could have called it "urban quail". (G)
DD> Despite feeding on offal and garbage rats are very clean animals avows
DD> he, who has raised rats (for laboratories) and kept a couple of their
DD> close relatives as pets when younger.
I'd still rather not have street rat.
DD> Rats got a bad rap back in the middle ages for causing bubonic
plague. DD> But it was their hitchhikers, the fleas, which were the
vectore for DD> the plague.
I'd still rather have a cat or dog for pet than rat.
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Catch you later,
Ruth
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