[Sca-cooks] cook things in the news-servers. .

[Philip W. Troy & Susan Troy]

ruadh wrote:

> CHINESE AIRLINE HOLDS MOON CAKE FEST
>     China Southern -- a major China-based airline with code-sharing connections with a variety of American carriers -- says it's sponsored its first moon cake festival, during a company picnic in Guangzhou.
>     The airline, in its latest newsletter, says that more than 160 guests were in attendance from various parts of the sprawling country, all taste-testing moon cakes, a popular delicacy in Canton Province.
>     Some of the ingredients found in the cakes included: White lotus seed paste; pear paste; five mixed seeds and bean paste. A few new entries were included, one made from coconut paste.

Probably the SE Asian influence. But they forgot to mention the biggest
filling, used normally in conjunction with lotus seed paste: salted duck
egg yolks. Especially popular are those mooncakes that are labelled as
being made with _double_ egg yolks -- you know, those from two-yolk eggs.

>     REGIONAL ACCENTS CAUSE CONFUSION
>     It isn't just countries such as China and Spain that have confusing regional accents. Even here in the states people can be confused over the simplest of words. Recently a quality control inspector for a national fast food chain specialising in chicken told United Press International that three times he has seen the word "meal" throw a wrench into the ordering process.
>     It seems that in some parts of the West and Midwest, "meal" is pronounced "mill."
>     The inspector says in each of three cases an elderly person, accustomed to the "long E" pronunciation didn't realise what a "value mill" was. The inspector, fluent in both pronunciations, had to step in to clear the confusion.
>     It seems that people who have accents can't hear their own.

I have a sister-in-law from Birmingham, Alabama, with whom I have, over
the years, occasionally discussed various food issues. It took me a
while to figure out what s'rim' were. It seems that s'rim' are small
crustaceans that can be used in a variety of ways, including, but not
exclusively, boiling and eating cold with red cocktail sauce. Sometimes
you can make S'rim' Louis out of them. These are the same creatures
which, in some parts of Looziana, are known as s'ram'.

Adamantius
--
Phil & Susan Troy

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"It was so blatant that Roger threw at him.  Clemens gets away with
things that get other people thrown out of games.  As long as they
let him get away with it, it's going  to continue." -- Joe Torre, 9/98