On 8/9/2014 7:03 PM, sf wrote:
> On Sat, 09 Aug 2014 17:28:32 -1000, dsi1
> > wrote:
>
>> I'm pretty ignorant about those things. I grew up using one of those
>> little hibachis. Now that's what I call "Mickey Mouse."
>
> I think a hibachi was the introduction that most people our age (on
> the West Coast and Hawaii) had to barbecuing. I know it was mine and
> most of my friends who are natives. It fit neatly on apartment fire
> escapes and lived there with our plants. Fire escapes were the poor
> man's balcony back in the day.
>
>

We got a pretty big lanai off our bedroom but we can't even have a
little hibachi fire. What a world!