Geez! ...cheese! ...puh-leeze!!
On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 11:37:25 -0700 (PDT), Lynn from Fargo
> wrote:
>On Jun 27, 12:06*pm, Lou Decruss > wrote:
>> On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 22:49:37 -0500, Sqwertz >
>> wrote:
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>> >On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 02:35:25 GMT, notbob wrote:
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>> >> I jes got all the stuff fer spanakopita, which you were all so
>> >> helpfull with. *Thank you. *I expected a few high prices, this being
>> >> the boonies, but $10 LB FOR FETA!!! *Holy freaking chryst! *Last time
>> >> I bought feta it was maybe $2 fer 8oz. *It was the "cheap cheese" that
>> >> was good in salads.
>>
>> >I love my Mediterranean deli (Phonecia Bakery and Deli). *I buy
>> >Bulgarian sheep milk feta for $4/lb. *Greek is $5, and french goat
>> >is $8.
>>
>> That's about what it goes for here at a decent store. *It more at the
>> yuppie marts but I don't shop those. *Bulgarian was on sale for 3
>> bucks a pound a couple weeks ago.
>>
>> Lou
>
>You know, it's strange. I don't flinch at paying $18 to $20lb. for
>several of my favorite cheeses. But there's a little Palestinian
>cafe two blocks from my home, with a teeny little deli that has three
>kinds of feta for under $8 lb. Cow's milk from Wisconsin, goat milk
>from Bulgaria and . . . wait for it . . . triple cream sheep's milk
>from Egypt. Also olives in wine. marinated with hot peppers, oil
>cured . . . Very nice felafel too!
>Lynn in Fargo
>(North Dakota - America's best kept secret!)
I like Greek food, other than lamb that is, and I detest fehta cheese,
I usually offer mine, you may dig in to my salad. Actually my
favorite Greek cusine is their pastries and oozo.... and I'll slug
down any booze, but retsina is not potable. Is The Golden Wok still
in Fargo?
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