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Re: What I learned today (Take Two)

by Jenise » Sun Feb 01, 2026 2:06 pm

Earlier this week I purchased a rotisserie chicken at Whole Foods and if this was a contest between WF and Costco, well I learned that Costco wins. I'm not even sure the WF chick was rotisserie vs. merely baked, the color and texture of the skin would not support a rotisserie situation.

Anyway, the bones are in a pot making broth now.

Discussing this with my brother in law last night, he who keeps a pot of bone broth on the stove 24/7 with which to make food for their dogs (the headcount of which tragically went from 3 to 2 yesterday with the loss of my favorite Polly), he claims that adding a tablespoon of vinegar to the pot hastens the release of proteins. He doesn't resort to that since his is a long/continuous process, but he mentioned that he knows it's so which is why there's a faint sourness to many commercial bone broths.
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Re: What I learned today (Take Two)

by Jenise » Tue Feb 03, 2026 3:47 pm

Yesterday I ate lunch in a Pho restaurant whose menu, amusingly, had four basic categories: Appetizers, Pho, Specialty Soups and Vegetation.
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Re: What I learned today (Take Two)

by Jeff Grossman » Tue Feb 03, 2026 6:27 pm

Did the Vegetation menu include a Shrubbery?
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by Jenise » Tue Feb 03, 2026 6:57 pm

Not salads as you might think, just their word for 'vegetarian', mostly phos. Cracked me up, though.
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Re: What I learned today (Take Two)

by Mike Filigenzi » Wed Feb 04, 2026 1:28 am

Jeff Grossman wrote:Did the Vegetation menu include a Shrubbery?


Provided by Roger, the shrubber?
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Re: What I learned today (Take Two)

by Karen/NoCA » Wed Feb 04, 2026 1:10 pm

(So that's what I learned: Melinda's Sriracha Wing Sauce is good!!!![/quote]


I was not a fan of Sriracha for a long time until I discovered Lee Kum Kee Sriracha Mayo. That stuff is tasty. I make a killer Bacon, tomato, avocado, sandwich, and that stuff is my secret ingredient. My son loved it, and the next time he came up, I gave him a bottle as a gift.
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Re: What I learned today (Take Two)

by Jenise » Wed Feb 04, 2026 2:16 pm

It's really popular stuff, Karen. Supermarket sushi has contributed a lot to that, I think--the color's so decorative.
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Re: What I learned today (Take Two)

by Jenise » Wed Feb 04, 2026 2:41 pm

I'm currently binging Mad Men, which I'd not seen when it originally aired. The period references are, in general, astonishingly accurate and in many cases surprising. The anti-semitic attitude of the profession they're suggesting were prevalent, for one. Maybe that really was New York at the time, but wow. To a liberal West Coaster, this suprrises. Food and drink--drink especially--play a part in setting up a lot of the scenes. I was especially surprised by an episode where they're having the owners of an Israeli cruise ship company in for a midday meeting and they served Mai Tai's and caviar. Forget any church-lady bias against day drinking, the weirdness of that combination...really? That would have been considered good?
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Re: What I learned today (Take Two)

by Jeff Grossman » Thu Feb 05, 2026 6:37 pm

It certainly sounds splurgey. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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Re: What I learned today (Take Two)

by Mike Filigenzi » Thu Feb 05, 2026 10:56 pm

I don't know. A properly made Mai Tai (as opposed to an overly sweet mashup of fruit juice and rum) might not be too bad with caviar. Not nearly as good as a decent champagne, but maybe not bad?
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Re: What I learned today (Take Two)

by Jenise » Fri Feb 06, 2026 12:42 pm

I would think it would be awful! Just a good example, though, of how tastes have changed.
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