Mark Thorazine wrote:
>
>At the Asian supermarket where I shop almost
>every day, the stockers seem to be about 100%
>Hispanic, while the checkers are about 50/50
>Hispanic and Asian. I find the Hispanic checkers
>tend to have a good command of English, while
>the Asians are more hit-and-miss. Perhaps the
>latter make up for it with Asian language skills
>or maybe they're cut some slack because they're
>somebody's cousin. Some of them don't seem to
>understand English at all.

Asians don't need language skills... if they needed language skills
they'd have a real alphabet instead of etch-a-sketch pictures. Asians
are good at math... all Asians need to know is how to count money...
who do you think invented the abacus? LOL

"Brooklyn1" <Gravesend1> wrote in message
...
> Mark Thorazine wrote:
>>
>>At the Asian supermarket where I shop almost
>>every day, the stockers seem to be about 100%
>>Hispanic, while the checkers are about 50/50
>>Hispanic and Asian. I find the Hispanic checkers
>>tend to have a good command of English, while
>>the Asians are more hit-and-miss. Perhaps the
>>latter make up for it with Asian language skills
>>or maybe they're cut some slack because they're
>>somebody's cousin. Some of them don't seem to
>>understand English at all.
>
> Asians don't need language skills... if they needed language skills
> they'd have a real alphabet instead of etch-a-sketch pictures. Asians
> are good at math... all Asians need to know is how to count money...
> who do you think invented the abacus? LOL

Egyptians, Sumerians and Babylonians, about 3000 years
before the Chinese. Why do you ask?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abacus

pavane

Not really news, but certainly accurate.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/...fGW_story.html

At the Asian supermarket where I shop almost
every day, the stockers seem to be about 100%
Hispanic, while the checkers are about 50/50
Hispanic and Asian. I find the Hispanic checkers
tend to have a good command of English, while
the Asians are more hit-and-miss. Perhaps the
latter make up for it with Asian language skills
or maybe they're cut some slack because they're
somebody's cousin. Some of them don't seem to
understand English at all.

"pavane" > wrote in news:A_nIr.472779$Xo4.5635
@en-nntp-13.dc1.easynews.com:

> all Asians need to know is how to count money

Now now...everyone knows it's Greeks who are good at counting
money...been that way for four thousand years...ask anyone in the
Eastern Mediterranean around the time of Christ. Also Greek was
the common language (or koinè) of the region.

Speaking of which, you might want to start learning Chinese because
you'll need it to get a job in twenty years' time.

Other true stereotypes you might want to peruse:

1. Northern Europeans lack natural intelligence, hence the low
foreheads and prognathous miens.

2. Arabs are good at math. After all, they invented algebra (from
the arabic al-jibr, "reunion of broken parts" or in modern
language, "computation").

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=algebra

Chinese ideographic script is incredibly intuitive. Dyslexia is
much less of a problem in China.

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from happening.

-- Barbara Tober

FWIW... here in TX, most of the kitchen help and cooks in Chinese
restaurants are Hispanic.... and in a lot of places, most of the
customers are also Hispanic.

Mexican people seem to love Chinese food. Very strange to hear an Asian
hostess or waitress speaking Spanish.

George L

On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 16:22:23 -0500, Michel Boucher
> wrote:
>
>> all Asians need to know is how to count money
>
>Now now...everyone knows it's Greeks who are good at counting
>money...been that way for four thousand years...ask anyone in the
>Eastern Mediterranean around the time of Christ.

It's 2012... there was no Jesus 4,000 years ago... other than the
Mexican gardeners that worked for the JAPs. LOL

George Leppla > wrote in
:

> FWIW... here in TX, most of the kitchen help and cooks in
> Chinese restaurants are Hispanic.... and in a lot of places,
> most of the customers are also Hispanic.
>
> Mexican people seem to love Chinese food. Very strange to
> hear an Asian hostess or waitress speaking Spanish.

Around here, Vietnamese families own Vietnamese restaurants, so
they hire Vietnamese. It would seem Thai restaurants hire Thais
(or maybe Cambodians).

The ones that are oddball are the take-out pizza places. Except
for ones attached to a well-known Italian restaurant, the bulk of
them are run by Lebanese.

Of course, Ottawa, being an embassy town, has been cosmopolitan
longer than most other cities, barring Montreal and Toronto.

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On 7/2/2012 11:16 AM, Mark Thorson wrote:
> Not really news, but certainly accurate.
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/...fGW_story.html
>
> At the Asian supermarket where I shop almost
> every day, the stockers seem to be about 100%
> Hispanic, while the checkers are about 50/50
> Hispanic and Asian. I find the Hispanic checkers
> tend to have a good command of English, while
> the Asians are more hit-and-miss. Perhaps the
> latter make up for it with Asian language skills
> or maybe they're cut some slack because they're
> somebody's cousin. Some of them don't seem to
> understand English at all.

My son took me to his favorite Vietnamese hole-in-the-wall restaurant a
couple of years ago. I kept hearing little peep-peep noises. It was
quite a shock to see a chicken and her chicks walking past the open
doorway to the kitchen. I didn't find out if they were Hispanic chickens
or not though. If it were a Chinese restaurant, it would be cats walking
around in the kitchen...

On 7/2/2012 5:34 PM, George Leppla wrote:
> FWIW... here in TX, most of the kitchen help and cooks in Chinese
> restaurants are Hispanic.... and in a lot of places, most of the
> customers are also Hispanic.
>
> Mexican people seem to love Chinese food. Very strange to hear an Asian
> hostess or waitress speaking Spanish.
>
> George L

We have been going to the Flor de Mayo restaurant on the UWS in
Manhattan for a long time. They are self described as "Chino-Latino"

http://www.flordemayo.com/

On 7/2/2012 5:02 PM, pavane wrote:
> "Brooklyn1" <Gravesend1> wrote in message
> ...
>> Mark Thorazine wrote:
>>>
>>> At the Asian supermarket where I shop almost
>>> every day, the stockers seem to be about 100%
>>> Hispanic, while the checkers are about 50/50
>>> Hispanic and Asian. I find the Hispanic checkers
>>> tend to have a good command of English, while
>>> the Asians are more hit-and-miss. Perhaps the
>>> latter make up for it with Asian language skills
>>> or maybe they're cut some slack because they're
>>> somebody's cousin. Some of them don't seem to
>>> understand English at all.
>>
>> Asians don't need language skills... if they needed language skills
>> they'd have a real alphabet instead of etch-a-sketch pictures. Asians
>> are good at math... all Asians need to know is how to count money...
>> who do you think invented the abacus? LOL
>
> Egyptians, Sumerians and Babylonians, about 3000 years
> before the Chinese. Why do you ask?
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abacus
>
> pavane
>
>
Shelden is the only one left on aol and clearly their search feature is
really broken...

On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 13:16:53 -0800, Mark Thorson >
wrote:

> Not really news, but certainly accurate.
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/...fGW_story.html
>
> At the Asian supermarket where I shop almost
> every day, the stockers seem to be about 100%
> Hispanic, while the checkers are about 50/50
> Hispanic and Asian. I find the Hispanic checkers
> tend to have a good command of English, while
> the Asians are more hit-and-miss. Perhaps the
> latter make up for it with Asian language skills
> or maybe they're cut some slack because they're
> somebody's cousin. Some of them don't seem to
> understand English at all.

<shrug> The current trend is for Hispanics to be grunt workers in the
food service industry and it's been that way for at least 10 years.
They'll be the owners and management in another decade or two. Years
ago it was Chinese and other Asians. I remember peeking into the
kitchens of seafood and Italian restaurants 30-40 years ago and
noticing that every worker from cook to busboy was Asian; now they're
Mexican. So what?

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On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 18:51:27 -0400, George >
wrote:

> Shelden is the only one left on aol and clearly their search feature is
> really broken...

I don't understand why people are stuck on some AOHell search
function. If it's anything like Facebook's, it sucks as much as the
so called "Help" function does. When I have a question about FB, Help
and the search function don't return an answer (the usual result) -
Google does... and it's a Facebook page more often than not.

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Mark Thorson wrote:
> Not really news, but certainly accurate.
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/...fGW_story.html
>
> At the Asian supermarket where I shop almost
> every day, the stockers seem to be about 100%
> Hispanic, while the checkers are about 50/50
> Hispanic and Asian. I find the Hispanic checkers
> tend to have a good command of English, while
> the Asians are more hit-and-miss. Perhaps the
> latter make up for it with Asian language skills
> or maybe they're cut some slack because they're
> somebody's cousin. Some of them don't seem to
> understand English at all.

OTOH over in Jackson Heights where there's a lot of both, the Chinese
storekeepers sometimes speak Spanish.


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George Leppla wrote:
> FWIW... here in TX, most of the kitchen help and cooks in Chinese
> restaurants are Hispanic.... and in a lot of places, most of the
> customers are also Hispanic.

Bourdain said the best French chefs are Mexican.


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On 7/2/2012 3:50 PM, Sqwertz wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 12:30:03 -1000, dsi1 wrote:
>
>> My son took me to his favorite Vietnamese hole-in-the-wall restaurant a
>> couple of years ago. I kept hearing little peep-peep noises. It was
>> quite a shock to see a chicken and her chicks walking past the open
>> doorway to the kitchen.
>
> Uh-huh. I'm sure lots of restaurants have poultry walking around in
> the kitchen. Especially one with offspring. Nah - they would never
> get underfoot in a busy kitchen.
>
> It's also illegal in every heath code currently in use in the United
> States and would probably be grounds for immediate closure of the
> restaurant. You cannot slaughter live mammals in a commercial
> kitchen. Nor keep them as "pets" or "mascots". Seems pretty risky to
> stake your livelihood on a $4 chicken.
>
> This is where you jump back in and try and backpeddle with something
> like "I was just kidding...".

Smart thinking. It's illegal so it couldn't possibly happen. As we all
know, health code violations rarely happen in hole-in-the-walls. That's
what makes you so special. You're so adamant in your disbelief of even
the smallest of things. Yay! :-)

>
> -sw
>

On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 03:43:07 +0000, MotoFox >
wrote:

> And it came to pass that sf delivered the following message unto the
> people, saying~
>
> > On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 18:51:27 -0400, George > wrote:
> >
> >> Shelden is the only one left on aol and clearly their search feature is
> >> really broken...
> >
> > I don't understand why people are stuck on some AOHell search function.
> > If it's anything like Facebook's, it sucks as much as the so called
> > "Help" function does. When I have a question about FB, Help and the
> > search function don't return an answer (the usual result) - Google
> > does... and it's a Facebook page more often than not.
>
> I don't understand why people are still stuck on AOheLl, period. (Or
> F---book, for that matter.) Even better yet, I don't know how they
> even manage to survive from fiscal year to fiscal year....I'll bet AOheLl
> must be on life support by now.
>
> This is 2012, not 1992; get with it!

Yeah - whatever you said! AOL is now in internet hospice. FB is
still doing just fine, but they will lose a lot of customers after
they force people to go over to Timeline when they don't want it.
There are lots of other social media choices for those who are p*ssed
at FB.

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On 7/2/2012 5:16 PM, Mark Thorson wrote:

> At the Asian supermarket where I shop almost
> every day, the stockers seem to be about 100%
> Hispanic, while the checkers are about 50/50
> Hispanic and Asian. I find the Hispanic checkers
> tend to have a good command of English, while
> the Asians are more hit-and-miss. Perhaps the
> latter make up for it with Asian language skills
> or maybe they're cut some slack because they're
> somebody's cousin. Some of them don't seem to
> understand English at all.

So what is your bigoted point? Why should everyone cater to you?

On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 17:35:56 -1000, dsi1
> wrote:

> On 7/2/2012 3:50 PM, Sqwertz wrote:
> > On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 12:30:03 -1000, dsi1 wrote:
> >
> >> My son took me to his favorite Vietnamese hole-in-the-wall restaurant a
> >> couple of years ago. I kept hearing little peep-peep noises. It was
> >> quite a shock to see a chicken and her chicks walking past the open
> >> doorway to the kitchen.
> >
> > Uh-huh. I'm sure lots of restaurants have poultry walking around in
> > the kitchen. Especially one with offspring. Nah - they would never
> > get underfoot in a busy kitchen.
> >
> > It's also illegal in every heath code currently in use in the United
> > States and would probably be grounds for immediate closure of the
> > restaurant. You cannot slaughter live mammals in a commercial
> > kitchen. Nor keep them as "pets" or "mascots". Seems pretty risky to
> > stake your livelihood on a $4 chicken.
> >
> > This is where you jump back in and try and backpeddle with something
> > like "I was just kidding...".
>
> Smart thinking. It's illegal so it couldn't possibly happen. As we all
> know, health code violations rarely happen in hole-in-the-walls. That's
> what makes you so special. You're so adamant in your disbelief of even
> the smallest of things. Yay! :-)
>
He's so cute.

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On 2012-07-03, Tom Del Rosso > wrote:

> Bourdain said the best French chefs are Mexican.

cite?


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On 7/2/2012 5:22 PM, Michel Boucher wrote:
> > wrote in news:A_nIr.472779$Xo4.5635
> @en-nntp-13.dc1.easynews.com:
>
>> all Asians need to know is how to count money
>
> Now now...everyone knows it's Greeks who are good at counting
> money...been that way for four thousand years...ask anyone in the
> Eastern Mediterranean around the time of Christ. Also Greek was
> the common language (or koinè) of the region.
>
> Speaking of which, you might want to start learning Chinese because
> you'll need it to get a job in twenty years' time.
>
> Other true stereotypes you might want to peruse:
>
> 1. Northern Europeans lack natural intelligence, hence the low
> foreheads and prognathous miens.
>
> 2. Arabs are good at math. After all, they invented algebra (from
> the arabic al-jibr, "reunion of broken parts" or in modern
> language, "computation").
>
> http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=algebra
>
> Chinese ideographic script is incredibly intuitive. Dyslexia is
> much less of a problem in China.
>

What about Japanese? This video blew my mind. I'm really bad at math
and due to that I don't get it. I see how it works, but not *how* it works.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-P5RGdjICo

notbob wrote:
> On 2012-07-03, Tom Del Rosso > wrote:
>
> > Bourdain said the best French chefs are Mexican.
>
> cite?

His Travel Channel show.


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On 7/2/2012 6:09 PM, Sqwertz wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 17:35:56 -1000, dsi1 wrote:
>
>> On 7/2/2012 3:50 PM, Sqwertz wrote:
>>> On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 12:30:03 -1000, dsi1 wrote:
>>>
>>>> My son took me to his favorite Vietnamese hole-in-the-wall restaurant a
>>>> couple of years ago. I kept hearing little peep-peep noises. It was
>>>> quite a shock to see a chicken and her chicks walking past the open
>>>> doorway to the kitchen.
>>>
>>> Uh-huh. I'm sure lots of restaurants have poultry walking around in
>>> the kitchen. Especially one with offspring. Nah - they would never
>>> get underfoot in a busy kitchen.
>>>
>>> It's also illegal in every heath code currently in use in the United
>>> States and would probably be grounds for immediate closure of the
>>> restaurant. You cannot slaughter live mammals in a commercial
>>> kitchen. Nor keep them as "pets" or "mascots". Seems pretty risky to
>>> stake your livelihood on a $4 chicken.
>>>
>>> This is where you jump back in and try and backpeddle with something
>>> like "I was just kidding...".
>>
>> Smart thinking. It's illegal so it couldn't possibly happen. As we all
>> know, health code violations rarely happen in hole-in-the-walls. That's
>> what makes you so special. You're so adamant in your disbelief of even
>> the smallest of things. Yay! :-)
>
> I have at eaten at dozens of Vietnamese hole in the walls - and that's
> well documented over the years. Have seen a bunch of stuff that's not
> "acceptable" to most people.
>
> But not even most stupid restaurant owner is going to risk having some
> haole send a simple email or snap a picture of live chickens in their
> restaurant. Let alone a chicken with her chicks. There is no benefit
> to this at all, only big trouble.
>
> And if you've ever spent any time in a commercial or restaurant
> kitchen you'd know that a 3" chick, no matter how cute, has a life
> span of about 4 minutes during a lunch or dinner rush. And not
> because somebody is going to order it.
>
> So please try understand when I call you full of shit. And I'm sure
> I'm not the only skeptic here.
>
> -sw
>

Personally, I thought it was funny as shit when I saw it. It made me
laugh. Most things in this world I see as funny and highly unlikely.
It's what makes all this a wonderful life.

You're such a sour, unhappy, person that you probably would have tried
to have the joint shut down or try to extort money from the owner. You
cheap, manipulative, netcopping, *******! If you think I care if you
don't believe me or not, you're delusional and think way too highly of
yourself.

I love it when you come up with another declaration of "Bullshit!" I'll
add this to your belief that tablets will never catch on and that I
can't possibly have an induction oven. Have a nice life loser!*






*This means I'm gonna ignore your slimy, nasty, ass. :-)

On 7/2/2012 5:57 PM, sf wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 17:35:56 -1000, dsi1
> > wrote:
>
>> On 7/2/2012 3:50 PM, Sqwertz wrote:
>>> On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 12:30:03 -1000, dsi1 wrote:
>>>
>>>> My son took me to his favorite Vietnamese hole-in-the-wall restaurant a
>>>> couple of years ago. I kept hearing little peep-peep noises. It was
>>>> quite a shock to see a chicken and her chicks walking past the open
>>>> doorway to the kitchen.
>>>
>>> Uh-huh. I'm sure lots of restaurants have poultry walking around in
>>> the kitchen. Especially one with offspring. Nah - they would never
>>> get underfoot in a busy kitchen.
>>>
>>> It's also illegal in every heath code currently in use in the United
>>> States and would probably be grounds for immediate closure of the
>>> restaurant. You cannot slaughter live mammals in a commercial
>>> kitchen. Nor keep them as "pets" or "mascots". Seems pretty risky to
>>> stake your livelihood on a $4 chicken.
>>>
>>> This is where you jump back in and try and backpeddle with something
>>> like "I was just kidding...".
>>
>> Smart thinking. It's illegal so it couldn't possibly happen. As we all
>> know, health code violations rarely happen in hole-in-the-walls. That's
>> what makes you so special. You're so adamant in your disbelief of even
>> the smallest of things. Yay! :-)
>>
> He's so cute.
>

Ha ha, I love this place!

MotoFox wrote:
>
> I don't understand why people are still stuck on AOheLl, period. (Or
> F---book, for that matter.) Even better yet, I don't know how they
> even manage to survive from fiscal year to fiscal year....I'll bet
> AOheLl must be on life support by now.
>
> This is 2012, not 1992; get with it!

At least AOL doesn't use EBCDIC.


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On 2012-07-03, Tom Del Rosso > wrote:

> His Travel Channel show.

He never said that. Granted, he did a show on his replacement at Les
Halles, and gives mega props to Hispanic cooks, no matter what level
or where they may work, but he NEVER said they are the BEST French
chefs. That's jes dumb.

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On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 18:39:31 -1000, dsi1
> wrote:

> you're delusional and think way too highly of yourself.

No kidding.


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On 7/2/2012 7:20 PM, sf wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 18:39:31 -1000, dsi1
> > wrote:
>
>> you're delusional and think way too highly of yourself.
>
> No kidding.
>
>

Oh, you're right! Just call me "Mr. Obvious." :-)

Sqwertz wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Jul 2012 23:55:36 -0500, Sqwertz wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 3 Jul 2012 00:36:01 -0400, Tom Del Rosso wrote:
> >
> > > notbob wrote:
> > > > On 2012-07-03, Tom Del Rosso > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Bourdain said the best French chefs are Mexican.
> > > >
> > > > cite?
> > >
> > > His Travel Channel show.
> >
> > I remember hearing that, tool.
>
> Oops. I wasn't calling you a tool, Tom.

Well, I am a capitalist tool. A running dog of the Wall Street oligarchy of
atomic maniacs.


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Sqwertz wrote:
> On 3 Jul 2012 05:19:25 GMT, notbob wrote:
>
> > On 2012-07-03, Tom Del Rosso > wrote:
> >
> > > His Travel Channel show.
> >
> > He never said that. Granted, he did a show on his replacement at
> > Les Halles, and gives mega props to Hispanic cooks, no matter what
> > level or where they may work, but he NEVER said they are the BEST
> > French chefs. That's jes dumb.
>
> Well, I heard it. And Tom Heard it. And this person heard it:
>
> <http://immigrate2us.net/forum/showthread.php?35149-Anthony-Bourdain-No-Reservations-Mexico-Episode!>
>
> And at least a dozen other cites/sites on the Internet if you care to
> Google it.

Certainly Bourdain would never use hyperbole!

Who's Tom Heard?


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On 3/07/2012 1:26 PM, Tom Del Rosso wrote:
> George Leppla wrote:
>> FWIW... here in TX, most of the kitchen help and cooks in Chinese
>> restaurants are Hispanic.... and in a lot of places, most of the
>> customers are also Hispanic.
>
> Bourdain said the best French chefs are Mexican.
>
Sri Lankan Chefs seem to be present in many of the more famous
restaurants as well.


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On 3/07/2012 8:51 AM, George wrote:
> On 7/2/2012 5:02 PM, pavane wrote:
>> "Brooklyn1" <Gravesend1> wrote in message
>> ...
>>> Mark Thorazine wrote:
>>>>
>>>> At the Asian supermarket where I shop almost
>>>> every day, the stockers seem to be about 100%
>>>> Hispanic, while the checkers are about 50/50
>>>> Hispanic and Asian. I find the Hispanic checkers
>>>> tend to have a good command of English, while
>>>> the Asians are more hit-and-miss. Perhaps the
>>>> latter make up for it with Asian language skills
>>>> or maybe they're cut some slack because they're
>>>> somebody's cousin. Some of them don't seem to
>>>> understand English at all.
>>>
>>> Asians don't need language skills... if they needed language skills
>>> they'd have a real alphabet instead of etch-a-sketch pictures. Asians
>>> are good at math... all Asians need to know is how to count money...
>>> who do you think invented the abacus? LOL
>>
>> Egyptians, Sumerians and Babylonians, about 3000 years
>> before the Chinese. Why do you ask?
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abacus
>>
>> pavane
>>
>>
> Shelden is the only one left on aol and clearly their search feature is
> really broken...
>
I think it's Sheldon that's really broken.

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On 7/3/2012 1:46 AM, Sqwertz wrote:
> On 3 Jul 2012 05:19:25 GMT, notbob wrote:
>
>> On 2012-07-03, Tom Del Rosso > wrote:
>>
>>> His Travel Channel show.
>>
>> He never said that. Granted, he did a show on his replacement at Les
>> Halles, and gives mega props to Hispanic cooks, no matter what level
>> or where they may work, but he NEVER said they are the BEST French
>> chefs. That's jes dumb.
>
> Well, I heard it. And Tom Heard it. And this person heard it:
>
> <http://immigrate2us.net/forum/showthread.php?35149-Anthony-Bourdain-No-Reservations-Mexico-Episode!>
>
> And at least a dozen other cites/sites on the Internet if you care to
> Google it.
>
> -sw
>

I saw that show and heard it too. Is "jes dumb" a French expression?

On 2012-07-03, Tom Del Rosso > wrote:

> Certainly Bourdain would never use hyperbole!

No, never!

And since an okie is the best Mexican chef, what's that make Jacques
Pépin? A hot dog vendor?

morons

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On 2012-07-03 05:46:44 +0000, Sqwertz said:

> Well, I heard it. And Tom Heard it. And this person heard it:
>
> <http://immigrate2us.net/forum/showthread.php?35149-Anthony-Bourdain-No-Reservations-Mexico-Episode!>
>
>
> And at least a dozen other cites/sites on the Internet if you care to
> Google it.

I don't doubt Bourdain said it, since he says such a lot about so many
things. That's why he's famous, really.

On 2012-07-03 23:15:37 +0000, Sqwertz said:

>> I don't doubt Bourdain said it, since he says such a lot about so many
>> things. That's why he's famous, really.
>
> He like the Howard Stern of Cooking, but not nearly as stupid and
> senseless.

He's provocative and incendiary--but damned amusing most of the time. I
particularly like his occasional work as a chef on Top Chef, for which,
I assume, he preps 20 exotic metaphors for backup.

Can't comment on Stern having only seen five minutes of his old TV
show--more than enough.

On Monday, July 2, 2012 at 6:39:31 PM UTC-10, dsi1 wrote:
> On 7/2/2012 6:09 PM, Sqwertz wrote:
> > On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 17:35:56 -1000, dsi1 wrote:
> >
> >> On 7/2/2012 3:50 PM, Sqwertz wrote:
> >>> On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 12:30:03 -1000, dsi1 wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> My son took me to his favorite Vietnamese hole-in-the-wall restaurant a
> >>>> couple of years ago. I kept hearing little peep-peep noises. It was
> >>>> quite a shock to see a chicken and her chicks walking past the open
> >>>> doorway to the kitchen.
> >>>
> >>> Uh-huh. I'm sure lots of restaurants have poultry walking around in
> >>> the kitchen. Especially one with offspring. Nah - they would never
> >>> get underfoot in a busy kitchen.
> >>>
> >>> It's also illegal in every heath code currently in use in the United
> >>> States and would probably be grounds for immediate closure of the
> >>> restaurant. You cannot slaughter live mammals in a commercial
> >>> kitchen. Nor keep them as "pets" or "mascots". Seems pretty risky to
> >>> stake your livelihood on a $4 chicken.
> >>>
> >>> This is where you jump back in and try and backpeddle with something
> >>> like "I was just kidding...".
> >>
> >> Smart thinking. It's illegal so it couldn't possibly happen. As we all
> >> know, health code violations rarely happen in hole-in-the-walls. That's
> >> what makes you so special. You're so adamant in your disbelief of even
> >> the smallest of things. Yay! :-)
> >
> > I have at eaten at dozens of Vietnamese hole in the walls - and that's
> > well documented over the years. Have seen a bunch of stuff that's not
> > "acceptable" to most people.
> >
> > But not even most stupid restaurant owner is going to risk having some
> > haole send a simple email or snap a picture of live chickens in their
> > restaurant. Let alone a chicken with her chicks. There is no benefit
> > to this at all, only big trouble.
> >
> > And if you've ever spent any time in a commercial or restaurant
> > kitchen you'd know that a 3" chick, no matter how cute, has a life
> > span of about 4 minutes during a lunch or dinner rush. And not
> > because somebody is going to order it.
> >
> > So please try understand when I call you full of shit. And I'm sure
> > I'm not the only skeptic here.
> >
> > -sw
> >
>
> Personally, I thought it was funny as shit when I saw it. It made me
> laugh. Most things in this world I see as funny and highly unlikely.
> It's what makes all this a wonderful life.
>
> You're such a sour, unhappy, person that you probably would have tried
> to have the joint shut down or try to extort money from the owner. You
> cheap, manipulative, netcopping, *******! If you think I care if you
> don't believe me or not, you're delusional and think way too highly of
> yourself.
>
> I love it when you come up with another declaration of "Bullshit!" I'll
> add this to your belief that tablets will never catch on and that I
> can't possibly have an induction oven. Have a nice life loser!*
>
>
>
>
>
>
> *This means I'm gonna ignore your slimy, nasty, ass. :-)

Blast from the past!

On 10/20/2017 3:05 PM, dsi1 wrote:
> On Monday, July 2, 2012 at 6:39:31 PM UTC-10, dsi1 wrote:
>> On 7/2/2012 6:09 PM, Sqwertz wrote:
>>> On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 17:35:56 -1000, dsi1 wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 7/2/2012 3:50 PM, Sqwertz wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 12:30:03 -1000, dsi1 wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> My son took me to his favorite Vietnamese hole-in-the-wall restaurant a
>>>>>> couple of years ago. I kept hearing little peep-peep noises. It was
>>>>>> quite a shock to see a chicken and her chicks walking past the open
>>>>>> doorway to the kitchen.
>>>>>
>>>>> Uh-huh. I'm sure lots of restaurants have poultry walking around in
>>>>> the kitchen. Especially one with offspring. Nah - they would never
>>>>> get underfoot in a busy kitchen.
>>>>>
>>>>> It's also illegal in every heath code currently in use in the United
>>>>> States and would probably be grounds for immediate closure of the
>>>>> restaurant. You cannot slaughter live mammals in a commercial
>>>>> kitchen. Nor keep them as "pets" or "mascots". Seems pretty risky to
>>>>> stake your livelihood on a $4 chicken.
>>>>>
>>>>> This is where you jump back in and try and backpeddle with something
>>>>> like "I was just kidding...".
>>>>
>>>> Smart thinking. It's illegal so it couldn't possibly happen. As we all
>>>> know, health code violations rarely happen in hole-in-the-walls. That's
>>>> what makes you so special. You're so adamant in your disbelief of even
>>>> the smallest of things. Yay! :-)
>>>
>>> I have at eaten at dozens of Vietnamese hole in the walls - and that's
>>> well documented over the years. Have seen a bunch of stuff that's not
>>> "acceptable" to most people.
>>>
>>> But not even most stupid restaurant owner is going to risk having some
>>> haole send a simple email or snap a picture of live chickens in their
>>> restaurant. Let alone a chicken with her chicks. There is no benefit
>>> to this at all, only big trouble.
>>>
>>> And if you've ever spent any time in a commercial or restaurant
>>> kitchen you'd know that a 3" chick, no matter how cute, has a life
>>> span of about 4 minutes during a lunch or dinner rush. And not
>>> because somebody is going to order it.
>>>
>>> So please try understand when I call you full of shit. And I'm sure
>>> I'm not the only skeptic here.
>>>
>>> -sw
>>>
>>
>> Personally, I thought it was funny as shit when I saw it. It made me
>> laugh. Most things in this world I see as funny and highly unlikely.
>> It's what makes all this a wonderful life.
>>
>> You're such a sour, unhappy, person that you probably would have tried
>> to have the joint shut down or try to extort money from the owner. You
>> cheap, manipulative, netcopping, *******! If you think I care if you
>> don't believe me or not, you're delusional and think way too highly of
>> yourself.
>>
>> I love it when you come up with another declaration of "Bullshit!" I'll
>> add this to your belief that tablets will never catch on and that I
>> can't possibly have an induction oven. Have a nice life loser!*
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *This means I'm gonna ignore your slimy, nasty, ass. :-)
>
> Blast from the past!
>

Yee HA!