Hal Laurent wrote:

> "Mark Shaw" > wrote in message
> news >
>>In article >,
>>"Hal Laurent" > wrote:
>>
>>>Huh? Chile poblanos *are* green.
>>
>>Ha! Yeah, but they aren't green chiles. Like Big Jims, Anaheims
>>or Hatches.
>
>
> Hmm, I see you learned the English language at the Alice In
> Wonderland school where words mean whatever you want
> them to mean. :-)
>

....but you have to pay them extra.

Best regards,
Bob

Hal Laurent wrote:

> "Mark Shaw" > wrote in message
> news >
>>In article >,
>>"Hal Laurent" > wrote:
>>
>>>Huh? Chile poblanos *are* green.
>>
>>Ha! Yeah, but they aren't green chiles. Like Big Jims, Anaheims
>>or Hatches.
>
>
> Hmm, I see you learned the English language at the Alice In
> Wonderland school where words mean whatever you want
> them to mean. :-)
>

....but you have to pay them extra.

Best regards,
Bob

In article <lFd3c.133813$A12.43417@edtnps84>,
"Robin Cowdrey" > wrote:

> Tried to slice the avocado but the pit got in the way so it's McDs again
> tonight!

Take the pit out. It's easy enough. Get a heavy knife, hit the seed
hard with the blade (so that it sticks in the seed), and give it a
twist. The seed comes right out. Then you can carefully remove it from
the knife blade (put a tea-towel in your other hand so it doesn't slip).

> Ate faggots (snickers aside, they are made from ground liver, pork belly,
> herbs and wrapped in caul), peas and chips last Friday at a friend's home,
> had to do a number on my head, but it was tasty, I must admit. Reminded me
> of haggis and haslet. We had an interesting conversation about offal being
> the food of the poor a generation or three ago. Were it not for food
> factories and 'modern' farming practices it's what most of us would be
> eating today. Mad cow, srapie, salmonella, e-coli or offal! What a choice!

Or you could come to New Zealand, where we do not have a problem with
mad cow, scrapie, salmonella or e-coli in our meat.

Miche (mmmm, offal)

--
If you want to end war and stuff you got to sing loud.
-- Arlo Guthrie, "Alice's Restaurant"

In article <lFd3c.133813$A12.43417@edtnps84>,
"Robin Cowdrey" > wrote:

> Tried to slice the avocado but the pit got in the way so it's McDs again
> tonight!

Take the pit out. It's easy enough. Get a heavy knife, hit the seed
hard with the blade (so that it sticks in the seed), and give it a
twist. The seed comes right out. Then you can carefully remove it from
the knife blade (put a tea-towel in your other hand so it doesn't slip).

> Ate faggots (snickers aside, they are made from ground liver, pork belly,
> herbs and wrapped in caul), peas and chips last Friday at a friend's home,
> had to do a number on my head, but it was tasty, I must admit. Reminded me
> of haggis and haslet. We had an interesting conversation about offal being
> the food of the poor a generation or three ago. Were it not for food
> factories and 'modern' farming practices it's what most of us would be
> eating today. Mad cow, srapie, salmonella, e-coli or offal! What a choice!

Or you could come to New Zealand, where we do not have a problem with
mad cow, scrapie, salmonella or e-coli in our meat.

Miche (mmmm, offal)

--
If you want to end war and stuff you got to sing loud.
-- Arlo Guthrie, "Alice's Restaurant"

On 15 Mar 2004 17:07:32 -0500, (Mark Shaw) wrote:

>In article >,
>"Hal Laurent" > wrote:
>>"Mark Shaw" > wrote in message
>>news
>>>
>>> Poblanos are used for rellenos in Texas. Proper rellenos
>>> are made with green chiles, of course.
>>
>>Huh? Chile poblanos *are* green.
>
>Ha! Yeah, but they aren't green chiles. Like Big Jims, Anaheims
>or Hatches.

True enough, but what about the people who call a poblano a pasilla?
Or is it a pasilla a poblano?

Anyhow, i wasn't aware that poblanos rellenos was Tex-Mex, though
doubtless I should have known.

modom

On 15 Mar 2004 17:07:32 -0500, (Mark Shaw) wrote:

>In article >,
>"Hal Laurent" > wrote:
>>"Mark Shaw" > wrote in message
>>news
>>>
>>> Poblanos are used for rellenos in Texas. Proper rellenos
>>> are made with green chiles, of course.
>>
>>Huh? Chile poblanos *are* green.
>
>Ha! Yeah, but they aren't green chiles. Like Big Jims, Anaheims
>or Hatches.

True enough, but what about the people who call a poblano a pasilla?
Or is it a pasilla a poblano?

Anyhow, i wasn't aware that poblanos rellenos was Tex-Mex, though
doubtless I should have known.

modom

On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 15:28:45 -0800, (Dan Abel) wrote:

>Where I grew up, *everyone* knew that chili had beans in it. The idea
>that you could even *call* it chili if it didn't have beans was
>unthinkable. Furthermore, *everyone* knew that a Mexican restaurant was
>the place to get chili. If a restaurant had chili on its menu and it
>wasn't a Mexican restaurant, you *knew* it came out of a can. Furthmore,
>*everyone* knew that chili was made with hamburger.
>
>Our friends from Texas here *don't* know that chili has beans in it, in
>fact the idea infuriates them. Where I live now, the Mexican restaurants
>are all completely 100% staffed by Mexicans, and chili is *never* on the
>menu.

Yup, chili isn't Mexican food.

modom

On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 15:28:45 -0800, (Dan Abel) wrote:

>Where I grew up, *everyone* knew that chili had beans in it. The idea
>that you could even *call* it chili if it didn't have beans was
>unthinkable. Furthermore, *everyone* knew that a Mexican restaurant was
>the place to get chili. If a restaurant had chili on its menu and it
>wasn't a Mexican restaurant, you *knew* it came out of a can. Furthmore,
>*everyone* knew that chili was made with hamburger.
>
>Our friends from Texas here *don't* know that chili has beans in it, in
>fact the idea infuriates them. Where I live now, the Mexican restaurants
>are all completely 100% staffed by Mexicans, and chili is *never* on the
>menu.

Yup, chili isn't Mexican food.

modom

"Dan Abel" > wrote in message
...
> In article >, "Rona Yuthasastrakosol"
> > wrote:
>
>
> > I live in Canada. Not as much suing going on, so employers are not as
> > afraid of giving you a bad reference (though a carefully-worded bad
> > reference).
>
>
> Sometimes so carefully worded that it isn't understood!

True! You really have to ask the right questions but one problem is that
some questions are (at least in Canada) against human rights codes to ask!
With the program I work for (places youths with little to no work experience
in federal goverment internships), people who have criminal records are not
eligible but we're not allowed to ask, "Do you have a criminal record?" How
stupid is that? In the last three months we've had to let go three
participants (and we may have to let go a few more) because they did not
pass the security clearance. Although we tell them at the outset that if
they have a criminal record they need to talk with us, none of them did.
It's annoying because the mentors feel we've wasted their time and other
people without criminal records could have gotten into the program instead.
Oh well, at least we haven't been sued!

rona

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"Dan Abel" > wrote in message
...
> In article >, "Rona Yuthasastrakosol"
> > wrote:
>
>
> > I live in Canada. Not as much suing going on, so employers are not as
> > afraid of giving you a bad reference (though a carefully-worded bad
> > reference).
>
>
> Sometimes so carefully worded that it isn't understood!

True! You really have to ask the right questions but one problem is that
some questions are (at least in Canada) against human rights codes to ask!
With the program I work for (places youths with little to no work experience
in federal goverment internships), people who have criminal records are not
eligible but we're not allowed to ask, "Do you have a criminal record?" How
stupid is that? In the last three months we've had to let go three
participants (and we may have to let go a few more) because they did not
pass the security clearance. Although we tell them at the outset that if
they have a criminal record they need to talk with us, none of them did.
It's annoying because the mentors feel we've wasted their time and other
people without criminal records could have gotten into the program instead.
Oh well, at least we haven't been sued!

rona

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Hal Laurent > wrote:
> "Mark Shaw" > wrote in message
> news
> > >
> > >Huh? Chile poblanos *are* green.
> >
> > Ha! Yeah, but they aren't green chiles. Like Big Jims, Anaheims
> > or Hatches.

> Hmm, I see you learned the English language at the Alice In
> Wonderland school where words mean whatever you want
> them to mean. :-)

At least I know what a green chile is. See the image at
the bottom of this page:

http://southwesthotgifts.com/page2.html#frozen

Them ain't poblanos, son. Roast. Peel. Slit. Stuff
with cheese. Dip in batter. Deep-fry. Now *that's* a
relleno!

> Hal Laurent
> Baltimore

Heh. A Yankee. I shoulda known....

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Hal Laurent > wrote:
> "Mark Shaw" > wrote in message
> news
> > >
> > >Huh? Chile poblanos *are* green.
> >
> > Ha! Yeah, but they aren't green chiles. Like Big Jims, Anaheims
> > or Hatches.

> Hmm, I see you learned the English language at the Alice In
> Wonderland school where words mean whatever you want
> them to mean. :-)

At least I know what a green chile is. See the image at
the bottom of this page:

http://southwesthotgifts.com/page2.html#frozen

Them ain't poblanos, son. Roast. Peel. Slit. Stuff
with cheese. Dip in batter. Deep-fry. Now *that's* a
relleno!

> Hal Laurent
> Baltimore

Heh. A Yankee. I shoulda known....

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================================================== ======================
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I think this is the end." - Uday Hussein, April 2003

>
> Where I grew up, *everyone* knew that chili had beans in it. The idea
> that you could even *call* it chili if it didn't have beans was
> unthinkable. Furthermore, *everyone* knew that a Mexican restaurant was
> the place to get chili. If a restaurant had chili on its menu and it
> wasn't a Mexican restaurant, you *knew* it came out of a can. Furthmore,
> *everyone* knew that chili was made with hamburger.
>

I do not know where the notion of chili w/o beans came from. But chili in
the old west was not a specific recipe-rather it was a stew-type of food
based on that which was available in whatever region the wagon-train(for
lack of a better description) was in. It was a bit of meat, a bit of
whatever wild herbs were available, whatever was left over, etc. The use of
beans was a filler-nothing more.

>
> Where I grew up, *everyone* knew that chili had beans in it. The idea
> that you could even *call* it chili if it didn't have beans was
> unthinkable. Furthermore, *everyone* knew that a Mexican restaurant was
> the place to get chili. If a restaurant had chili on its menu and it
> wasn't a Mexican restaurant, you *knew* it came out of a can. Furthmore,
> *everyone* knew that chili was made with hamburger.
>

I do not know where the notion of chili w/o beans came from. But chili in
the old west was not a specific recipe-rather it was a stew-type of food
based on that which was available in whatever region the wagon-train(for
lack of a better description) was in. It was a bit of meat, a bit of
whatever wild herbs were available, whatever was left over, etc. The use of
beans was a filler-nothing more.