[Sca-cooks] Pie Shapers: Was Speaking of Beets

[Mike C. Baker]

> > And here I was thinking, "Delis... mmmmm... sopressata... pickled 
> > herring... slobbergargle..."
> >
> > Adamantius
> 
> Delis as in delicatessens...
> 
> For some reason I am reminded of an occasion when I felt 
> compelled, for reasons I cannot explain, to spend much of a 
> work day speaking in a very bad approximation of an east 
> Indian accent while working a carving station (yes, I am a 
> terrible person, deeply and truly). My innocent victims would 
> say something like, "You do that so nicely,"  
> and I'd say something like, "Yes, thank you, I come from an 
> ancient family of roast beef slicers. My mother's family is 
> from Cow-Cutta...  
> [pause] ...my father inherited the family charcuterie 
> business. He was from Deli..."
> 
> Sometimes this stuff just happens and you wonder what evil 
> spirits must have possessed you that day. Probably a good 
> thing most of my clientele tended to have had a couple of 
> martinis before encountering me.
> 
> Adamantius

And, so, does the venerable master *really* wonder where his "evil
spawn" acquires his more bizarre inspirations?

<VBEG>

Adamantius, my keyboard is thanking my timing in reading this -- the
diet cola had been exhausted five minutes before reading "Cow-Cutta", or
there would have been a definite <SPLORF!> incident.

(To be fair, I have done something at least similar when speaking /
writing as "Amra Tarp-Mender" and faced with a somewhat gullible or
presumably inexperienced audience...)

Amra
Kitchen Idiot

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