On Wednesday, December 11, 2013 2:23:12 AM UTC-5, Julie Bove wrote:
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> > On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 08:36:46 -0800 (PST), A Moose in Love
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> >> Easy to make. Easy to eat.
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> >> At the local Polish deli, I purchased a smoked Hot Hungarian style
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> >> sausage (aka Czabaj) which I like. I'm also going to try their Hot
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> >> Romanian Farmer's sausage; smoked. European type soft buns, and hot
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> >> small dill pickles.
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> > I'll probably have a crab salad for lunch. I think we're going to
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> > have a late lunch at a long time establishment that will be changing
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> > ownership in January and closing for a year of updating... you know
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> > what that means - fancier inside, higher prices. It has never been
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> > hurting for customers, so I hope the new owners won't forget the
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> > customer base with all their updating and changes. People like it
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> > just the way it is with an old fashioned menu and shabby chic
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> > interior. This is a place where you can buy a $4 martini, waiters
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> > wear tuxedos and most of the double digit prices are still in the
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> > teens. The good part is, I know it will be updated well and brought
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> > kicking and screaming into the 21st century.
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> I hate it when they do things like that. Used to be a good Greek place that
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> we went to. Owner had several places and he sold this one to some of his
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> employees who were half Japanese. They kept his menu for a while but then
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> tried to change things up and make it fancier and of course more expensive.
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> Although the breakfast and lunch things were still reasonable, it was the
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> dinner menu that they changed the most. The food wasn't bad. I'm not
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> saying that at all! It was just very fancy and pretty expensive.
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> This place used to be a Rax restaurant (sandwich place), just to give you an
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> indication of the size of the place and the type of building it was in.
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> Although they did make some nice changes to the interior, the overall look
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> was not the fancy place they were going for.
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> We did try eating there several times after they made the changes. We did
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> like the owners. Then one day the place closed. Not entirely sure why but
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> I was told they couldn't pay the bills. No wonder because I think most of
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> their customer base left.
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> The owner then took it back but changed it to a breakfast place only. They
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> were open till 2:00 p.m. but only sold breakfast foods. Tried it once and
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> liked it but then the next time, none of us liked it because everything was
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> very greasy.
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> Then the place burned down in a fire!

Hmmmm, Jewish lightning. Always happens around 2 am. Ye Olde Grease Fire....