On Thursday, May 30, 2013 4:49:45 PM UTC-4, Gary wrote:
> I've mentioned several times that I feel blessed that I'm not a picky food
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> eater. I like everything from canned things, frozen things, fast food
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> restaurants, chain restaurants. It *IS* convenient to be so easy to please.
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> That said, I finally met my match last night. I cooked the 2 can combo of La
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> Choy Beef Chow Mein that I bought a couple of weeks ago. Rather than put it
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> on rice, I also bought a can of their crunchy noodles. this is the "Chinese
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> food" that I grew up with and I thought it would be a nice "comfort food"
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> meal after about 45 years or so.
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> Oh so NOT SO! It was the most disgusting thing I ever remember eating.
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> Very tinny and bitter tasting. I suspect that might have come from the
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> vegetable can which was mostly bean sprouts.
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> I tried 3 bites, then took it back into the kitchen to see if I could doctor
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> it up a bit. I added some soy sauce, a nip of sesame oil, and a load of
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> crushed red peppers (the things you might add ot a pizza). It helped and I
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> ate it but I was not happy.
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> I still have the other half left and I might just toss it. It's that bad.
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> I've eaten "not so good food" in the past, and won't make it again, but I've
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> never ever been tempted to toss the leftovers of anything.
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> La Choy bi-paks - don't try this at home, boys and girls. ;-|
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> G.

I'll bet you are suffering from a salt - overload. Ugh.

I had one of those LaChoy dinners on hand for emergencies, like a prolonged illness, hurricanes etc. Horrible doesn't describe it. One bite and that was it. Better to survive on pnut butter and crackers.

Time to start laying in all those 'cane items - thanks for the reminder. June 1st is tom'w.