dsi1 wrote:

>> again, that would be more a bang-for-the-buck thing than a fear thing. the
>> stuff can't be *that * much more sublime than fat belly tuna.

Fat bellied fish
You make the rockin' world go 'round


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"Julia Altshuler" wrote

> "Well, I thought Julia was going to have a sushi dinner with Japanese
> people. So what I told her was the advise for non-Japanese person who
> may not know how to dip the side of sushi into soy sauce in a proper
> way. These folks who have gone to Japan are actually right. Japanese
> would eat sushi with fingers. I would."

Interesting! Perhaps it was the area I was in, (Sasebobo in south western
Kyushu and Okinawa mostly) but it was always hashi. I saw only small
children eat with the fingers (at least in public).

No one seemed to mind though if a 'gaijin' used the fingers on the nori
wrapped type. Heck, even seen a few use a fork to spear it which makes the
locals giggle. Me, I learned to handle chopsticks by the time I was 6 and
Don is pretty close to the same as well as Charlotte (our 14yo).

sf wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:54:29 -0400, "Jean B." > wrote:
>
>> sf wrote:
>>> On Wed, 6 Aug 2008 12:27:15 +0100, Janet Baraclough
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> Google Maps is going downhill too.
>>> It is? What's wrong with it?
>>>
>>>
>> Oh! I haven't noticed a deterioration in the maps. What are you
>> seeing, SF?
>>
>> I do notice one vagary, but I figure it's operator error.
>
> Janet made the comment. I thought it was improving, not
> deteriorating. Those street shots are way cool, if somewhat off as
> far as house numbers.
>
>
To me, and I have just started using google's map search
extensively as I scope out my next possible abode, they seem
better than the alternatives. Maybe it's harder to commercialize
this?

--
Jean B.

cshenk wrote:
> "Julia Altshuler" wrote
>
>> "Well, I thought Julia was going to have a sushi dinner with Japanese
>> people. So what I told her was the advise for non-Japanese person who
>> may not know how to dip the side of sushi into soy sauce in a proper
>> way. These folks who have gone to Japan are actually right. Japanese
>> would eat sushi with fingers. I would."
>
> Interesting! Perhaps it was the area I was in, (Sasebobo in south western
> Kyushu and Okinawa mostly) but it was always hashi. I saw only small
> children eat with the fingers (at least in public).
>
> No one seemed to mind though if a 'gaijin' used the fingers on the nori
> wrapped type. Heck, even seen a few use a fork to spear it which makes the
> locals giggle. Me, I learned to handle chopsticks by the time I was 6 and
> Don is pretty close to the same as well as Charlotte (our 14yo).
>
>
I was in Tokyo and didn't see folks using their fingers. That was
in the early 80s. I guess the transition from fingers to hashi
was pretty much complete by then. And actually, even though my
daughter and I eat at Japanese restaurants, frequented by Japanese
people, very frequently, I have only once seen a person use their
fingers, and that was a gaijin.

--
Jean B.

On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:21:54 -0500, Becca wrote:

> sf wrote:
>> On Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:01:25 -0500, Becca >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Blinky the Shark wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm probably not sushially correct; I mix some wasabi into my soy sauce
>>>> and then I dip. Am I a barbarian?
>>> If you are wrong, then so am I. I add the wasabi to the top of my
>>> itty-bitty bowl, mixing it into the soy sauce until it is just right.
>>>
>> Well, your method is just plain wrong. It's wasabi first, then soy...
>> mixing as you pour. Sheesh, do I have to tell you people
>> *everything*?
>
> Somebody needs to educate my husband. He puts ginger on top of his
> sushi before he eats it. I should talk to him about that, but he is too
> new. I don't want to scare him off. hehehe
>
> Becca

i don't eat the ginger with the sushi, but i can't resist dipping it in the
soy-wasabi mix.

your pal,
blake

"Jean B." wrote
>> "Julia Altshuler" wrote

>> Interesting! Perhaps it was the area I was in, (Sasebo in south western
>> Kyushu and Okinawa mostly) but it was always hashi. I saw only small
>> children eat with the fingers (at least in public).

> I was in Tokyo and didn't see folks using their fingers. That was in the
> early 80s. I guess the transition from fingers to hashi was pretty much
> complete by then. And actually, even though my daughter and I eat at
> Japanese restaurants, frequented by Japanese people, very frequently, I
> have only once seen a person use their fingers, and that was a gaijin.

It does 'seem' like a finger food! I did see many with it in a bento box
out at a lunch break use fingers when sitting on the ground outside the
ship. Sipping green tea (ice cold from the drink machines) or a soda and
just relaxing with lunch brought from home. I just never noted any doing
this in a restraunt.

Could well be an area difference or the difference in manners at home vs in
a restraunt?

Jean B. wrote:

> I was in Tokyo and didn't see folks using their fingers. That was in
> the early 80s. I guess the transition from fingers to hashi was pretty
> much complete by then. And actually, even though my daughter and I eat
> at Japanese restaurants, frequented by Japanese people, very frequently,
> I have only once seen a person use their fingers, and that was a gaijin.
>

As a practical matter, eating sushi with chopsticks is a more sanitary
practice and feels right to me.

cshenk wrote:
> "Jean B." wrote
>>> "Julia Altshuler" wrote
>
>>> Interesting! Perhaps it was the area I was in, (Sasebo in south western
>>> Kyushu and Okinawa mostly) but it was always hashi. I saw only small
>>> children eat with the fingers (at least in public).
>
>> I was in Tokyo and didn't see folks using their fingers. That was in the
>> early 80s. I guess the transition from fingers to hashi was pretty much
>> complete by then. And actually, even though my daughter and I eat at
>> Japanese restaurants, frequented by Japanese people, very frequently, I
>> have only once seen a person use their fingers, and that was a gaijin.
>
> It does 'seem' like a finger food! I did see many with it in a bento box
> out at a lunch break use fingers when sitting on the ground outside the
> ship. Sipping green tea (ice cold from the drink machines) or a soda and
> just relaxing with lunch brought from home. I just never noted any doing
> this in a restraunt.
>
> Could well be an area difference or the difference in manners at home vs in
> a restraunt?
>
>
Ahhhhh. I wasn't observing folks outside, and that would make
sense--formal vs. informal. Truth be told, I'd like to eat some
sushi with my fingers. It just seems not the thing to do, so I
refrain.

--
Jean B.

"Gregory Morrow" > a écrit dans
le message de ...
> [x - posted to houston.eats and rec.travel.air from rec.food.cooking...]
>
>
> blake murphy wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 3 Aug 2008 12:37:34 -0500, Gregory Morrow wrote:
>>
>> > [x-posted to houston.eats]
>> >
>> > blake murphy wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Sat, 02 Aug 2008 22:54:09 -0700, sf wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> On Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:06:12 -0500, Janet Wilder
>> >>> > wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>>sf wrote:
>> >>>>> On Sat, 02 Aug 2008 14:46:12 -0500, Janet Wilder
>> >>>>> > wrote:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>> Then you pick up the whole thing with the chop sticks and eat it.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> You must have a really big mouth! I've yet to come across a one
> bite
>> >>>>> roll.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>I take several bites, but the Japanese eat it in one bite.
>> >>>
>> >>> I've tried the one bite method, but it gags me. I don't understand
>> >>> how they can chew so much food all at once!
>> >>
>> >> me either. or a piece of sushi.
>> >
>> >
>> > Reminds me of a famous "incident" from years ago on houston.eats.
> "Sheryl"
>> > was a high - strung bitch poster on rec.travel.air and houston eats (of
>> > course she was a nemesis of mine...). She posted this, which became
> fodder
>> > for much trollerizing by myself and other of her detractors; in
>> > checking
> the
>> > archives I find that I even x - posted it here, some of you kids might
>> > remember it. In any case I felt so sorry for poor Ms. Connie Wong!
>> > Hope
>> > Miyako is doing a THRIVING business, lol :
>> >
>> > Here's the thread; after this message I've included her original letter
> to
>> > Miyako Sushi in Houston TX. You can google "Sheryl", "Connie Wong", or
>> > "Miyako" on rec.travel.air or houston.eats and get all sortsa nonsense
>> > (includng my own, natch):
>>
>> she got that jacked out of shape over a dollar? sounds like a prize
> bitch.
>>
>
>
> I first tangled with her on rec.travel.air c. 1999, when she was a regular
> dispensing "advice". She accused me IIRC of "stealing airline revenue"
> [!]
> when I asked a question about the possibility of standing by for a same -
> day later flight - IF space was available - on a DCA - ORD American
> Airlines flight...this was a cheapo hundred buck round - trip ticket.
>
> Of course, being how I am things degenerated a bit, l called her bluff in
> this thread "Does Sheryl Work". Shook things up a bit, lol:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/rec.t...7386182?hl=en&
>
> Greg Morrow writes:
>
> "Just a general question -- for all the time that our dear sheryl spends
> micro-managing everybody's else's business on this group, and making
> snide comments here and there -- does she have a job?
>
> I always notice she is an eager-beaver ready to jump into the fray with
> her so-called "informed" "facts", "advice", etcetra ad nauseaum (that's
> Latin for "We're sick of sheryl"...).
>
> sheryl puts so much _anger_ and _venom_ into her sour
> replies/comments/"sermonettes"--she obviously takes a lot of time to
> compose her postings here, as her grammar is generally faultless (I'll
> pass on the logic...).
>
> Comments, Comrades?"
> -----------
>
> Sheryl replies:
>
> "I function absolutely fine so you can stop wondering.
>
> Now I'm on the major attack against YOU, you disgusting varment. As
> Bill said, I do not back down when I am attacked. If you don't like
> what I post, you are under no obligation to read anything with my name
> on it.
>
> And a few weeks back, I responded with accurate information to your post
> about circumventing fare rules, but because "Sheryl" was in the header,
> you chose to attack me. Yeah, I could do like you webtv'ers and change
> my e-mail address whenever it fancied me, but I enjoy my credibility."
> -------
>
> DNP writes:
>
> Last month I made a post concerning a low fare I got on United to Los
> Angeles.
>
> Sheryl first called me a troll and then a liar and said that I was
> making the whole thing up.
>
> Her exact words we
>
> "Uhhh...I have never seen CLT-LAX on UA for $127 r/t. I've seen it at
> $249 but never below $200. What itinerary did you use? "
>
> I then posted the itinerary and she claimed it was fabricated.
>
> I then posted a copy of the fare codes with the breakdowns and the
> information regarding the fare and offered to fax the ticket recipt to
> her.
>
> Her exact words again we
>
> "And was a Saturday stay required at the fare? Bet so. The
> original poster is definitely a troll."
>
> A little flame war ensued and basically I found her to be a little
> self centered and definitely an arrogant know it all.
>
> She seems to enjoy attacking people and has a bad case of foot in
> mouthous..."
> ------------------
>
> M. Cordelli writes:
>
> "Don't quote me on this, but I sincerely believe that by everybody ganging
> up
> on her the way it is happening is one of the best things to happen to the
> newsgroup in a while. Perhaps now she will realize how everybody she
> steps
> all over feels. At least any new people will be able to see she treats
> everybody like that, not just them.
>
> Don't like your question? Call you stupid. Have an e-mail address from
> say
> France? Well, you must be a troll working for Air France (of course you
> could also work for a company who sends their e-mails through the home
> office in France). Dare to correct her about something? Well then she
> will
> go to newsgroups all over the place slandering you for no reason. Want to
> fly someplace? Guaranteed the answer will be to drive for six hours, get
> on
> a Southwest flight and drive another three hours to get to where you have
> to
> be.
>
> And how about the people in the lawyers office she works in in Houston?
> (The employee information was in a Yahoo profile or some similar place).
> What a bunch of morons they must be, not able to get anyplace or do
> anything
> without her assistance. "One of the guys I arrange flights for stopped by
> in the mens room on his way to the plane and got lost. He called me at
> home
> and asked if he should turn right or left to get back to his gate. I used
> my superior knowledge of the airport to tall him that if he was at gate 62
> and had to be at 63 he could call the customer service reps at Continental
> and ask for the e-mail address to send for better signs." No, we can't
> fly
> our high priced people into Boston, we have to fly into Providence and
> make
> them drive up to see you.
>
> She admittley takes only 10 flights per year, and uses a corporate travel
> agent for all this "scheduling" she does for the morons. In a recent post
> about her parents going on a cruise, she said they let the cruise line
> arrange for the air tickets. She is just a moron, plain and simple, who
> is
> using the newsgroup to pretend to be an expert who flies less then once a
> month on some quack airline like Southwest..."
>
> </>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>> your pal,
>> blake
>> ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com **
>
>

Runge12 is rendered speechless:

[...]


Wow, scRunge, it's August in Paris and all of France is on vacation. What
are you doing sitting there in your hot flat in the banlieu and responding
to one of my mouldy old posts...???

Do you have no pals, no friends to travel with? Are you barred from all the
public facilities in France - or even the entire EU? Or are you some poor
sod who simply can't afford to join the seaside throngs...???

Poor scRunge! Folks, let's send him a few centimes so he can at least take
the RER to the "end of the line" for a day's holiday...!!!


--
Best
Greg



> "Gregory Morrow" > a écrit dans
> le message de ...
> > [x - posted to houston.eats and rec.travel.air from rec.food.cooking...]
> >
> >
> > blake murphy wrote:
> >
> >> On Sun, 3 Aug 2008 12:37:34 -0500, Gregory Morrow wrote:
> >>
> >> > [x-posted to houston.eats]
> >> >
> >> > blake murphy wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> On Sat, 02 Aug 2008 22:54:09 -0700, sf wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >>> On Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:06:12 -0500, Janet Wilder
> >> >>> > wrote:
> >> >>>
> >> >>>>sf wrote:
> >> >>>>> On Sat, 02 Aug 2008 14:46:12 -0500, Janet Wilder
> >> >>>>> > wrote:
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>>> Then you pick up the whole thing with the chop sticks and eat
it.
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>> You must have a really big mouth! I've yet to come across a one
> > bite
> >> >>>>> roll.
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>I take several bites, but the Japanese eat it in one bite.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> I've tried the one bite method, but it gags me. I don't understand
> >> >>> how they can chew so much food all at once!
> >> >>
> >> >> me either. or a piece of sushi.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Reminds me of a famous "incident" from years ago on houston.eats.
> > "Sheryl"
> >> > was a high - strung bitch poster on rec.travel.air and houston eats
(of
> >> > course she was a nemesis of mine...). She posted this, which became
> > fodder
> >> > for much trollerizing by myself and other of her detractors; in
> >> > checking
> > the
> >> > archives I find that I even x - posted it here, some of you kids
might
> >> > remember it. In any case I felt so sorry for poor Ms. Connie Wong!
> >> > Hope
> >> > Miyako is doing a THRIVING business, lol :
> >> >
> >> > Here's the thread; after this message I've included her original
letter
> > to
> >> > Miyako Sushi in Houston TX. You can google "Sheryl", "Connie Wong",
or
> >> > "Miyako" on rec.travel.air or houston.eats and get all sortsa
nonsense
> >> > (includng my own, natch):
> >>
> >> she got that jacked out of shape over a dollar? sounds like a prize
> > bitch.
> >>
> >
> >
> > I first tangled with her on rec.travel.air c. 1999, when she was a
regular
> > dispensing "advice". She accused me IIRC of "stealing airline revenue"
> > [!]
> > when I asked a question about the possibility of standing by for a
same -
> > day later flight - IF space was available - on a DCA - ORD American
> > Airlines flight...this was a cheapo hundred buck round - trip ticket.
> >
> > Of course, being how I am things degenerated a bit, l called her bluff
in
> > this thread "Does Sheryl Work". Shook things up a bit, lol:
> >
> >
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.t...7386182?hl=en&
> >
> > Greg Morrow writes:
> >
> > "Just a general question -- for all the time that our dear sheryl spends
> > micro-managing everybody's else's business on this group, and making
> > snide comments here and there -- does she have a job?
> >
> > I always notice she is an eager-beaver ready to jump into the fray with
> > her so-called "informed" "facts", "advice", etcetra ad nauseaum (that's
> > Latin for "We're sick of sheryl"...).
> >
> > sheryl puts so much _anger_ and _venom_ into her sour
> > replies/comments/"sermonettes"--she obviously takes a lot of time to
> > compose her postings here, as her grammar is generally faultless (I'll
> > pass on the logic...).
> >
> > Comments, Comrades?"
> > -----------
> >
> > Sheryl replies:
> >
> > "I function absolutely fine so you can stop wondering.
> >
> > Now I'm on the major attack against YOU, you disgusting varment. As
> > Bill said, I do not back down when I am attacked. If you don't like
> > what I post, you are under no obligation to read anything with my name
> > on it.
> >
> > And a few weeks back, I responded with accurate information to your post
> > about circumventing fare rules, but because "Sheryl" was in the header,
> > you chose to attack me. Yeah, I could do like you webtv'ers and change
> > my e-mail address whenever it fancied me, but I enjoy my credibility."
> > -------
> >
> > DNP writes:
> >
> > Last month I made a post concerning a low fare I got on United to Los
> > Angeles.
> >
> > Sheryl first called me a troll and then a liar and said that I was
> > making the whole thing up.
> >
> > Her exact words we
> >
> > "Uhhh...I have never seen CLT-LAX on UA for $127 r/t. I've seen it at
> > $249 but never below $200. What itinerary did you use? "
> >
> > I then posted the itinerary and she claimed it was fabricated.
> >
> > I then posted a copy of the fare codes with the breakdowns and the
> > information regarding the fare and offered to fax the ticket recipt to
> > her.
> >
> > Her exact words again we
> >
> > "And was a Saturday stay required at the fare? Bet so. The
> > original poster is definitely a troll."
> >
> > A little flame war ensued and basically I found her to be a little
> > self centered and definitely an arrogant know it all.
> >
> > She seems to enjoy attacking people and has a bad case of foot in
> > mouthous..."
> > ------------------
> >
> > M. Cordelli writes:
> >
> > "Don't quote me on this, but I sincerely believe that by everybody
ganging
> > up
> > on her the way it is happening is one of the best things to happen to
the
> > newsgroup in a while. Perhaps now she will realize how everybody she
> > steps
> > all over feels. At least any new people will be able to see she treats
> > everybody like that, not just them.
> >
> > Don't like your question? Call you stupid. Have an e-mail address from
> > say
> > France? Well, you must be a troll working for Air France (of course you
> > could also work for a company who sends their e-mails through the home
> > office in France). Dare to correct her about something? Well then she
> > will
> > go to newsgroups all over the place slandering you for no reason. Want
to
> > fly someplace? Guaranteed the answer will be to drive for six hours,
get
> > on
> > a Southwest flight and drive another three hours to get to where you
have
> > to
> > be.
> >
> > And how about the people in the lawyers office she works in in Houston?
> > (The employee information was in a Yahoo profile or some similar place).
> > What a bunch of morons they must be, not able to get anyplace or do
> > anything
> > without her assistance. "One of the guys I arrange flights for stopped
by
> > in the mens room on his way to the plane and got lost. He called me at
> > home
> > and asked if he should turn right or left to get back to his gate. I
used
> > my superior knowledge of the airport to tall him that if he was at gate
62
> > and had to be at 63 he could call the customer service reps at
Continental
> > and ask for the e-mail address to send for better signs." No, we can't
> > fly
> > our high priced people into Boston, we have to fly into Providence and
> > make
> > them drive up to see you.
> >
> > She admittley takes only 10 flights per year, and uses a corporate
travel
> > agent for all this "scheduling" she does for the morons. In a recent
post
> > about her parents going on a cruise, she said they let the cruise line
> > arrange for the air tickets. She is just a moron, plain and simple, who
> > is
> > using the newsgroup to pretend to be an expert who flies less then once
a
> > month on some quack airline like Southwest..."
> >
> > </>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> your pal,
> >> blake
> >> ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com **
> >
> >
>

Gregory Morrow wrote:

> Runge12 is rendered speechless:
>
> [...]
>
>
> Wow, scRunge, it's August in Paris and all of France is on vacation

Morrow is stupid. They don't all take vacation at once.