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Dana H. Myers
 
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wrote:
> Slightly off-topic, but funny:
>
> Back in the late 80's, when the net was still text based and you had to know UNIX to get around,
> I followed a thread for some weeks on the topic of the *worst* fish-and-chips joint in the UK. The
> hands-down winner was a description of a joint in the bowels of the train station in Edinborough,
> Scotland. It was six levels below the street and the deisel fumes tended to settle there,
> especially on still days. That smell got into the cooking oil, and saturate both fish *and* chips.


The irony, to me at least, is that I was at an upscale fundraising
event recently where the folks responsible for the electrical generators
were concerned about the odor from using bio-diesel (diesel fuel made
from used cooking oil).

Life is a big cycle, isn't it?

;-)

Dana