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Phred
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>On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 11:27:52 GMT,
>(Phred) wrote:
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>> Brisbane, the capital of the fair State of Queensland (formerly known
>> as the Sunshine State, now officially the Smart State [cringe]
>> courtesy of our current smartarse Premier).
>
>Phred... I live in San Francisco, California (the "other"
>sunshine state - we play second fiddle to Florida, of
>course). Brisbane is only a few miles South of SF, so you
>can imagine my surprise when you mentioned a "smartarse
>premier". We have one of those over here! IMO: He will
>never be greater than a Shrub... and he'll always be scrub
>shrub to me.
:-)
Brisbane CA? Yeah. I can recall my surprise when I opened my first
replacement toner cartridge for a HP Laserjet printer and found a
coupon for free return postage of the old cartridge to "Brisbane". I
thought "Wow" this mob is really into environmental responsibility --
the I noticed the fine print about "Only if posted in the USA"!
Actually, in many ways our smartarse Premier is a "good bloke" and has
a very high approval rating (ironically, because he has modelled
himself on a former very popular Premier from the other side of
politics who is regarded with loathing approaching dementia by the
Premier's own party droids
. My personal objection to the current
bloke is that he introduced a new State tax that is *very* beneficial
to himself but very detrimental to people like me and many others in
somewhat different circumstances, and he calls it "fair" at every
opportunity!
ObRecipe:
[ I was going to post a "Brisbane" prawn recipe; but, quite frankly,
they're all much too fussy, So here's my take on cooking prawns.]
Serves one. :-)
1 to 2 lb [or more] of fresh prawns.
Chuck 'em into a *large* pot of well salted boiling water.
(Else do them in batches so the water doesn't go off the boil.)
Cook until they float, then take 'em out, drain well, and chill.
(A bucket of iced water doesn't go astray here, especially if you're
in a hurry -- and with these to eat, why wouldn't you be? Else bung
'em in the fridge until nicely chilled.)
Serve with an adequate supply of cold beer of choice.
(And ensure a sufficient supply of old newspaper to wrap the shells in
when you've finished -- and freeze the debris if the garbo isn't due
in the next 12 to 18 hours.
Cheers, Phred.
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