What did you eat today?
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Have you thought about seeking professional help? Do they have food therapists?
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They use to, but they may have all died from eating only "healthy" food. As the old saying goes, "A Twinkie a day keeps the doctor away."
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My steady diet of preservatives does seem to have kept me from growing mold.
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That's because you're constantly on the move. Sit still for a couple days and see what happens.
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Have you thought about seeking professional help? Do they have food therapists?
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They use to, but they may have all died from eating only "healthy" food. As the old saying goes, "A Twinkie a day keeps the doctor away."
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My steady diet of preservatives does seem to have kept me from growing mold.
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That's because you're constantly on the move. Sit still for a couple days and see what happens.
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That's moss, and my name isn't Keith. :P
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My wife thought she had the flu but it turned out to be covid. This is the 8th day and she is still really sick.
Awful. I am sorry to hear that and wish you and her the best. Has she been hospitalized yet? If not getting on a respirator is probably the best course of action.
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Yeah they don't do that anymore. They finally discovered that respirators is what killed most of the people with covid in the hospitals. Seriously, look it up. You have to be really really sick before they hospitalized you with covid. They sent her home with medication and told her to lock herself in her apartment for 10 days.
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It's great to hear that they don't think it is that serious yet. Hopefully in ten days she will be feeling better.
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My wife thought she had the flu but it turned out to be covid. This is the 8th day and she is still really sick.
Awful. I am sorry to hear that and wish you and her the best. Has she been hospitalized yet? If not getting on a respirator is probably the best course of action.
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Yeah they don't do that anymore. They finally discovered that respirators is what killed most of the people with covid in the hospitals. Seriously, look it up. You have to be really really sick before they hospitalized you with covid. They sent her home with medication and told her to lock herself in her apartment for 10 days.
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It's great to hear that they don't think it is that serious yet. Hopefully in ten days she will be feeling better.
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If it's going to be serious it's going to be in the first three or four days. This is the 8th day, now she's getting better. No fever, throat's no longer swelling up so she can't swallow, ears are unplugged, no more coughing. Still going to be another week though before she's back to normal. Covid is just really bad flu, nothing more.
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What holds the wieners together Super Glue?
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What holds the wieners together Super Glue?
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I don't know, I think it's a secret recipe. Secret 'cause the chef died probably.
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What holds the wieners together Super Glue?
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I don't know, I think it's a secret recipe. Secret 'cause the chef died probably.
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It looks like a frankfurter crown roast.
The franks are typically secured together with toothpicks.
The recipes for these pop up on "vintage recipe" exchanges from time to time, along with Jell-O molded salads and mustard meringue topped meatloaves.
just a tinge of a long-forgotten dish.
I'll finish off the sliced steak-making burritos tonight.
Quote: billryanI had the other half of the spinach and artichoke flatbread pizza and added some leftover flank steak slices. I folded it in half and seared both sides. It looked even better than it tasted. I heated some more slices for a side salad, but they tasted funny. Not bad, but
just a tinge of a long-forgotten dish.
I'll finish off the sliced steak-making burritos tonight.
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With no picture I once again had to resort to using my imagination as to what this delicacy looks like.
Quote: billryanI'd signed up for a local Senior Meal service. Today was lasagna with a really nice pepperoni/salami side salad. I had the salads and saved the two entrees for tomorrow. Meals are $10, all in. No tipping allowed, and was delivered by volunteers. For now, it is twice a week, Tuesday and Friday. Friday is enchiladas, something I have not had in many, many years.
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So you've gone from an expensive shipping food service to getting your meals delivered by volunteers from your local Salvation Army equivalent? You're supporting half the homeless people in your area according to you and you can't even afford your own food? I get my food delivered too but it's uncooked and I pay full price for it at Walmart.
Now you may be thinking " only some kind of ingnoramus eats canned mackerel" but that just shows how ignorant *you* are. I'll have you to know this makes me cutting edge gourmet
That's because I'm smart enough to call it "tinned fish". To a hip foodie today, that word 'tinned' [which I think only the English use normally] makes all the difference
https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-tinned-fish/
Actually this kind of fish is supposed to be good for you. In the picture I'm also showing the dijon type mustard, which goes very well in that sandwich, and my current fave for sandwich lettuce. The label says "artisan lettuce" which impresses uppity people too I guess, but inside is 4 heads which consist of the perfect leafs of lettuce to use for a sandwich, with almost no waste. Also, you can put water in the bottom of the container to keep it fresh. Previously I have recommended "living lettuce" type, which I think is always butter lettuce, but this is much better for crunch and also fits better in the fridge!
PS, scared of the bones? you eat the bones, the 'tinning' process totally softens them
Fish High in Mercury:
Tilefish (from the Gulf of Mexico), 1.123
Swordfish, 0.995
Shark (such as Mako), 0.979
Mackerel King, 0.73
Bigeye Tuna, 0.689
Fish Low in Mercury:
Sardines, 0.013
Anchovies, 0.016
Salmon, 0.022
Pollock, 0.031
Atlantic mackerel 0.05
This is the larger, reclosable variant of the "Polar cleartop" sardine, which is a favorite in certain dark corners of the internet where tinned fish ("deenz") are enthusiastically debated.
These are brislings, which are about the size of a pinky finger. Smoked, lightly salted, and packed in olive oil.
Sadly, they are only "ok" in sandwiches - the size is inconvenient. I can only eat about 4 of these fish (not jars) before satiety sets in.
I didn't have any fish (yet) - I hit up Taco Bell on the way to an early meeting, and grabbed a breakfast crunchwrap and a baja blast. I regret this choice, but may add a few fish if I make a salad later.
yes, it depends on the type of mack. This was Bumble Bee brand and label says it's chub mackerel, which is low in mercury... I'm thinking a TINNED mackerel will be low in mercury while CANNED mack? You're on your own LOLQuote: rxwineAtlantic Mackerel or King.Mackerel. I don't think you need to worry about Mercury though. Not at your age. : )
Fish High in Mercury:
Tilefish (from the Gulf of Mexico), 1.123
Swordfish, 0.995
Shark (such as Mako), 0.979
Mackerel King, 0.73
Bigeye Tuna, 0.689
Fish Low in Mercury:
Sardines, 0.013
Anchovies, 0.016
Salmon, 0.022
Pollock, 0.031
Atlantic mackerel 0.05
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Quote: odiousgambityes, it depends on the type of mack. This was Bumble Bee brand and label says it's chub mackerel, which is low in mercury... I'm thinking a TINNED mackerel will be low in mercury while CANNED mack? You're on your own LOLQuote: rxwineAtlantic Mackerel or King.Mackerel. I don't think you need to worry about Mercury though. Not at your age. : )
Fish High in Mercury:
Tilefish (from the Gulf of Mexico), 1.123
Swordfish, 0.995
Shark (such as Mako), 0.979
Mackerel King, 0.73
Bigeye Tuna, 0.689
Fish Low in Mercury:
Sardines, 0.013
Anchovies, 0.016
Salmon, 0.022
Pollock, 0.031
Atlantic mackerel 0.05
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We're all probably eating microplastics these days. Might as well add it to label of contents.
new research shows it soaks up the mercuryQuote: billryanEdible micro-plastics may be the trend of the future.
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Quote: odiousgambitnew research shows it soaks up the mercuryQuote: billryanEdible micro-plastics may be the trend of the future.
link to original postI just made that up
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I think you make up a lot of good points.
Quote: DieterI I hit up Taco Bell on the way to an early meeting, and grabbed a breakfast crunchwrap and a baja blast. I regret this choice, but may add a few fish if I make a salad later.
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Your cardiologist is not overpaid.. If you look closely at the small print on every Taco Bell order it says almost fit for human consumption.
He has a solar-powered system that converts air into water. In dry Arizona, he gets about twenty gallons daily, and he is saving up to double his future capacity. I think the system costs about $4,000. He composites all his waste. How long until a machine can produce sustenance, seemingly out of thin air?
Quote: billryanA friend in Bisbee just finished his hand-built earth home just east of town. He spent less than $5,000 but put in a solid ten to twenty hours a week for almost a year and had a few volunteers some weeks.
He has a solar-powered system that converts air into water. In dry Arizona, he gets about twenty gallons daily, and he is saving up to double his future capacity. I think the system costs about $4,000. He composites all his waste. How long until a machine can produce sustenance, seemingly out of thin air?
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Are you sure it's twenty gallons? A couple gallons out of dry air would be pretty good.
Quote: billryanAccording to him, he is averaging nearly 20 gallons a day. He says it maxes out at 25. He's a proud papa, as many of us thought he'd never finish it so that he might be prone to exaggeration. You are not the first skeptic.
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Very impressive.
Watergen's sales literature is talking similar numbers of liters.
Quote: DieterQuote: billryanAccording to him, he is averaging nearly 20 gallons a day. He says it maxes out at 25. He's a proud papa, as many of us thought he'd never finish it so that he might be prone to exaggeration. You are not the first skeptic.
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Very impressive.
Watergen's sales literature is talking similar numbers of liters.
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His system starts with A, Aquasomething. Again,I'm just going off his claims. He is very proud of his electric and water systems.
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SeaD Consulting, a food safety technology company, tested shrimp from randomly chosen restaurants in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Biloxi, Mississippi; Galveston, Texas; and Tampa Bay, Florida. Researchers found a significant number of the restaurants were passing off their shrimp as locally sourced, even though they were grown on foreign farms and imported to the U.S.
What's next? French fries not made in France!
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SeaD Consulting, a food safety technology company, tested shrimp from randomly chosen restaurants in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Biloxi, Mississippi; Galveston, Texas; and Tampa Bay, Florida. Researchers found a significant number of the restaurants were passing off their shrimp as locally sourced, even though they were grown on foreign farms and imported to the U.S.
What's next? French fries not made in France!
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Buffalo wings made from chicken. HAMburgers made with beef.
Quote: rxwineShrimp fraud!
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SeaD Consulting, a food safety technology company, tested shrimp from randomly chosen restaurants in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Biloxi, Mississippi; Galveston, Texas; and Tampa Bay, Florida. Researchers found a significant number of the restaurants were passing off their shrimp as locally sourced, even though they were grown on foreign farms and imported to the U.S.
What's next? French fries not made in France!
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Ehh?
I thought they were made in grease.
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just a tinge of a long-forgotten dish.
I'll finish off the sliced steak-making burritos tonight.
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With no picture I once again had to resort to using my imagination as to what this delicacy looks like.
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I would eat that.
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His system starts with A, Aquasomething. Again,I'm just going off his claims. He is very proud of his electric and water systems.
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Oh, did he find it sit-ting on a park bench?
It's possible to get that much water even in the desert. All depends on how much air you blow through it and how much energy you want to use to cool the condenser.
If you want really a lot, you can expose your grey water to the system and then you will get a large portion of that back.
Perhaps the elevation is a factor? I'd estimate the house is at 4,000 feet. I know water boils differently at high altitudes, with thinner air.
He put a lot of research into building his home and used an experimental technology that attracted prospective homebuilders to spend a few days working on his house. It wouldn't surprise me if he took a state-of-the-art system and tweaked it a bit.
After reading up on it a bit, I'm not as impressed with it as yesterday.
Perhaps the elevation is a factor? I'd estimate the house is at 4,000 feet. I know water boils differently at high altitudes, with thinner air.
He put a lot of research into building his home and used an experimental technology that attracted prospective homebuilders to spend a few days working on his house. It wouldn't surprise me if he took a state-of-the-art system and tweaked it a bit.
After reading up on it a bit, I'm not as impressed with it as yesterday.
I read that over 600 similar systems are being donated to the Native reservations around Tucson. It must be a godsend to people whose water is often nearly toxic. Those systems use two solar panels and collect about two gallons a day. My friend has lots of solar panels, but most are for electricity.
Quote: billryanI can't find the company I think he used, but after looking at similar companies, it seems his numbers are "optimistic." As he lives by himself, he wouldn't need another twenty gallons. A photo of a similar system said it produced up to four gallons a day near Tucson.
Perhaps the elevation is a factor? I'd estimate the house is at 4,000 feet. I know water boils differently at high altitudes, with thinner air.
He put a lot of research into building his home and used an experimental technology that attracted prospective homebuilders to spend a few days working on his house. It wouldn't surprise me if he took a state-of-the-art system and tweaked it a bit.
After reading up on it a bit, I'm not as impressed with it as yesterday.
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He gets 20 L not 20 gallons. 20 L is about 5 gallons which would be about right.
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His system starts with A, Aquasomething. Again,I'm just going off his claims. He is very proud of his electric and water systems.
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Oh, did he find it sit-ting on a park bench?
It's possible to get that much water even in the desert. All depends on how much air you blow through it and how much energy you want to use to cool the condenser.
If you want really a lot, you can expose your grey water to the system and then you will get a large portion of that back.
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Your only concern is to prepare those new droids for tomorrow. In the morning, I want them up there on the south ridge working on those condensers.
They offer a family dinner that supposedly feeds five or six for $45, including a family salad and a dozen breadsticks.
There are a bunch of eateries participating. It's limited to 30 lunches and 50 dinners, and the places rotate weekly. Next week, the place I got the lasagna from is offering a pepperoni pizza for $10. Each delivery includes menus and coupons from all the places participating.
Quality, professional food at a significant discount. It seems like its working. Next week, meals are entirely sold out.
The people at Oak Street Health put it together. The joys of retirement.
Quote: billryanThe lasagna was outstanding. Not NY quality, but close. If I order direct from the restaurant, the dinners are $21.95 each, but I suspect they would be a bit bigger.
They offer a family dinner that supposedly feeds five or six for $45, including a family salad and a dozen breadsticks.
There are a bunch of eateries participating. It's limited to 30 lunches and 50 dinners, and the places rotate weekly. Next week, the place I got the lasagna from is offering a pepperoni pizza for $10. Each delivery includes menus and coupons from all the places participating.
Quality, professional food at a significant discount. It seems like its working. Next week, meals are entirely sold out.
The people at Oak Street Health put it together. The joys of retirement.
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No picture so once again I'm forced to use my imagination. I'm sure it was on a par with this wonderful canned lasagna. Now Dich will say "I would eat that."
Denny's. Loaded veggie omelette, wheat toast, seasonal fruit cup upgrade, black coffee.
The omelette was a little oily, and seemed to contain only a trace of the promised spinach. The fire roasted peppers smelled good, but were otherwise entirely lost in the oil. They were out of bananas (one of the perils of eating breakfast before dawn), so the fruit cup featured extra strawberries to fill it up. While the strawberry substitution was an improvement, I feel extra melon (canteloupe?) would have been a better fit.
Yeah, I should go and make oatmeal instead, but I'm getting tired of eating my own cooking, and won't have a convenient way not to for a few days.
Eating "wholesome stuff" in an attempt to "not poison yourself" kinda bites.
Enjoy the day!
-D
The driver delivered the wrong package to me, and wherever my food ended up costing them over $200 in refunds plus the lost food, but a few homeless folks will eat well today.
Quote: billryanCook Unity messed up and delivered the wrong package to me. Of the eight meals I received, only one was anything I would have ordered. They are crediting my account for the meals and giving me a $20 credit for the inconvenience. Later today, I'll microwave the seven meals and bring them to the homeless encampment in the woods off Mission Road.
The driver delivered the wrong package to me, and wherever my food ended up costing them over $200 in refunds plus the lost food, but a few homeless folks will eat well today.
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Logistics type question. When you go to an ‘encampment’ how do you distribute your food? If you bring 7 bags but there are 20 people there do you triage who looks the neediest? Remember from day to day and try and alternate? Leave it in a central area and let them fight it out?
Do you ever feel unsafe on your charity missions? Ever been threatened in any way?
Once again, keep up the good works!
Quote: SOOPOOQuote: billryanCook Unity messed up and delivered the wrong package to me. Of the eight meals I received, only one was anything I would have ordered. They are crediting my account for the meals and giving me a $20 credit for the inconvenience. Later today, I'll microwave the seven meals and bring them to the homeless encampment in the woods off Mission Road.
The driver delivered the wrong package to me, and wherever my food ended up costing them over $200 in refunds plus the lost food, but a few homeless folks will eat well today.
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Logistics type question. When you go to an ‘encampment’ how do you distribute your food? If you bring 7 bags but there are 20 people there do you triage who looks the neediest? Remember from day to day and try and alternate? Leave it in a central area and let them fight it out?
Do you ever feel unsafe on your charity missions? Ever been threatened in any way?
Once again, keep up the good works!
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I make up bags for individuals, but when I go into an encampment I'm familiar with, I usually put several bags worth of food into a box and let them divide it up. I don't go into a camp unless I've dealt with some members and they are present. One time I left a big box of food about 100 feet from a large encampment as I didn't know anyone and wasn't comfortable wandering into it. I won't do that again.
I've felt uneasy a couple of times, dealing with obviously mentally ill people, but I have yet to feel threatened by them. Last month, in the middle of the frost I encountered a man literally in a loin cloth. I stopped and gave him some clothing, food and a blanket while he looked at me like I was a potential meal.
I've been threatened by a church security guard who told me I was criminally trespassing and threatened with arrest for soliciting by a police officer who claimed the two kids I had just given food to were known prostitutes. Perhaps threatened is too severe. Warned by the cop about soliciting
I've been cursed out on several occasions by people I've offered help to, but I drive away.
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I make up bags for individuals, but when I go into an encampment I'm familiar with, I usually put several bags worth of food into a box and let them divide it up. I don't go into a camp unless I've dealt with some members and they are present. One time I left a big box of food about 100 feet from a large encampment as I didn't know anyone and wasn't comfortable wandering into it. I won't do that again.
I've felt uneasy a couple of times, dealing with obviously mentally ill people, but I have yet to feel threatened by them. Last month, in the middle of the frost I encountered a man literally in a loin cloth. I stopped and gave him some clothing, food and a blanket while he looked at me like I was a potential meal.
I've been threatened by a church security guard who told me I was criminally trespassing and threatened with arrest for soliciting by a police officer who claimed the two kids I had just given food to were known prostitutes. Perhaps threatened is too severe. Warned by the cop about soliciting
I've been cursed out on several occasions by people I've offered help to, but I drive away.
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You mean they are not all poor down on their luck homeless people looking for work to get back on their feet? Of course they're not and I've been saying that for 40 years. They are militant drug abusers who love their lifestyle and have no intention or desire to give it up. That describes 95% of them. Society has always had people like this going back thousands of years and the richer a country is the more they have because the easier it is to be a layabout and a drunkard, as they used to say. Homeless is a relatively new term that wasn't even around 40 years ago. We called them street people and bums which is what they are. If you give them a job they'll just steal from their employer to feed their drug habit. They are the dregs of society that are always there waiting to be swept under the rug and ignored like they don't exist. The truth is it costs the government far less to let them run free then to stick them in a prison and feed and house them for the rest of their lives.
Due to an unforeseen delay, I found myself at the neighborhood food hall around lunch time. As usual, the beef with mushrooms is just excellent.
For whatever reason, my "need a little exercise" wander through the store found me at the games section. I'm not about to splurge on a mahjongg table (even a manual shuffle), nor a set of tiles, but I did convince myself that the games shelf was missing a set of Chinese dominoes.
These are the same style as used in Pai Gow (tiles), Tien Gow, and a handful of other games. I still can't imagine myself learning (or playing) pai gow, but I do enjoy having a games shelf full of miscellany.
Interestingly, the prices on the Chinese game apparatus have been roughly stable for as long as I can remember. Dominoes have seemingly always been about $20 a set, and (nonmagnetic) mahjongg tiles around $70.
Back to the on-topic, as I reach the end of the plate, I'm getting a delightful hint of spiciness in the sauce, possibly from the garlic. I don't see any chili, and I'm not trying to dissect the meal - just enjoy it. Back to travels momentarily.
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Back to the on-topic, as I reach the end of the plate, I'm getting a delightful hint of spiciness in the sauce, possibly from the garlic. I don't see any chili, and I'm not trying to dissect the meal - just enjoy it. Back to travels momentarily.
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The only way to get a glossy sheen on the sauce like that is for to have lots of cornstarch and probably sugar. Am I wrong?
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Back to the on-topic, as I reach the end of the plate, I'm getting a delightful hint of spiciness in the sauce, possibly from the garlic. I don't see any chili, and I'm not trying to dissect the meal - just enjoy it. Back to travels momentarily.
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The only way to get a glossy sheen on the sauce like that is for to have lots of cornstarch and probably sugar. Am I wrong?
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Couldn't say with certainty. My Chinese is insufficient to ask usefully, and the staff's English isn't much better. I order the number 4, I get the number 4.
I definitely felt more of a sugar rush when the youngest broke me off a piece of her Kit-Kat bar yesterday, so subjectively, I'm not particularly worried.
