On Thursday, September 29, 2016 at 10:08:01 AM UTC-10, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On Thursday, September 29, 2016 at 3:09:56 PM UTC-4, dsi1 wrote:
> > On Thursday, September 29, 2016 at 8:51:08 AM UTC-10, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> > > On Thursday, September 29, 2016 at 2:25:38 PM UTC-4, dsi1 wrote:
> > > > On Thursday, September 29, 2016 at 7:41:03 AM UTC-10, The Greatest! wrote:
> > > > > Okay, so we are finally getting Island food here in Chicago...this new place opened near me. What do you think...comments...???
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> > > > > https://www.yelp.com/biz/pokiology-chicago
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> > > > > --
> > > > > Best
> > > > > Greg
> > > >
> > > > I'd say I like the mainlander's idea of a poke bowl better than ours. You guys have more varied toppings. Typically we don't have a choice - it's just poke on hot rice. The mainlanders think of it more as a salad. That's a good idea. I'm a little surprised that people in Chicago would want to try masago, pickled ginger, seaweed salad, or raw fish.
> > >
> > > Dude, we've had sushi bars here in Ann Arbor since the 1970s. Why
> > > should a big city like Chicago be any less cosmopolitan?
> > >
> > > I haven't looked recently, but I think I can buy seaweed salad at
> > > one of the Kroger stores here. You seem to have a very antiquated
> > > idea of life on the mainland.
> > >
> > > Cindy Hamilton
> >
> > I can get sushi on the mainland but chances are slim that I'll be able to get my paws on a poke bowl - unless you know something that I don't know.. I doubt that my ideas are antiquated but I am always surprised at how things are different when I do get over there.
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> Generally, food trends follow immigration trends. We don't have a lot
> of Hawaiians here. There are some restaurants experimenting with poke,
> here in Ann Arbor, and in nearby Detroit.
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> > If you want to trade personal jabs, I will say that, like most people in your profession, you have a certain inflexibility with words and tend to take things too literally. Your turn dude.
>
> Of course I take things literally. Symbols have meaning.
>
> Cindy Hamilton

I understand that and it has served you well. My father-in-law was like that - it served him well. My mom may have been that way. She and my father-in-law worked together in the data processing section of the Army. They were both good at whatever the heck they were doing.