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For real the grocery store right across the street has a sushi chef who really seems to know his stuff. I'm in NW Indiana so definitely not by an ocean. His Calamari Salad is divine.

Also we've had a great convo about FW eels, and he knew 100% exactly what I was talking about when I started comparing Anguilla japonica/A. rostrata/A. anguilla.

There just isn't enough Unagi or American Unagi being produced and the Europe market they tend to eat the elvers.
 
Hello; there are some foods i do not intend to eat. Eels being one. Snails another. Not made up my mind about calamari. I did eat mountain oysters once even after i found out what they are.
 
skjl47 said:
Hello; there are some foods i do not intend to eat. Eels being one. Snails another. Not made up my mind about calamari. I did eat mountain oysters once even after i found out what they are.
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I enjoy all three of these immensely. I'd probably be an even bigger fan if they were something I could obtain and prepare myself, but that's not the case. The only one that I have ever done myself is eel. My father watched me experimentally filleting a couple one day long ago, and commented that someday (I was about 12 at the time) I would get to enjoy the spectacle of a future wife's reaction to the sight of what looked like a three-foot-long leech being prepared for the dinner table. :)

My wife...the current, one and only, so not a huge sample size...has eaten and enjoyed eel and calamari in restaurants. She won't do escargots, for the same reason mentioned above: she hasn't "made up her mind". I've always teased her about how many decades it will take for her to decide. I must make a point of commenting on the probably record-breaking info-processing and decision-making process you have on the go...not sure if it will make her feel silly or justified...:)

My oldest granddaughter, like me, will try any food at least once. She's a big fan of getting take-out from her local sushi/bait store. :)
 
Hello; I imagine most have had the chance to hear about the huge fraud in Minesota by now. If not presented on your common news sources the information can be had online. Too much political crud for posting links right now but there are at least two topics we can discuss.
One is how a couple of ordinary citizens seem to have done some legwork and uncovered the sites of part of the fraud. At least one man when to a building which is supposed to be a child services day care. But one was an empty building and another is a place with no children. So my first question is why the media missed these things and apparently did not make an effort?

The other topic is how widespread can this sort of fraud be. Fraudsters catch onto these things pretty quick. I wonder if it is in TN?

I have and associated question. My WAG is for the government to spend one dollar it must use some number of tax dollars to do so. Even the simplest way to do it would require some office workers to take in the tax money and then hand it out. That simplest method would require a building and employes which would cot something. The real situation is likley more complex. There would be layers, and other agencies such as the EPA, HUD, and other alphabet types taking a cut. In my mind I have been figuring the government must take in $4 in order to spend $1 on anything. So, if the fraud in the news amounts to one billion dollars, then something like four billion tax dollars likely were used. I begin to wonder if my 4 to 1 ratio is too small ?
 
Desert Bus said:
I have no clue what you are talking about. Will you please supply some sources so as that I may have some background before I engage in conversation about it?
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Hello; I will not post links as those will have references to politicians and such. If you search Nick Shirley and his viral video such will give plenty of information.

Also search for the "Quality Learing Center" (Yes the outfit miss spelled learning). Seems it is alleged such outfits have been raking in millions to perhaps billions of taxpayer money. Afew days ago the amount of potential fraud was estimated to possibly be around a $billion. Today the estimate is revised to possibly approach seven $ billions.

May also have been some whistle blowers trying to get something done the last few years.

One aspect we ought to be able to discuss is the lack of professional media reporting about this. It is on the internet big today and on at least two TV news stations for several days. Getting big coverage today as more and more rocks are overturned so to speak.
 

Hello; Another link with a dog involved. However, the dog did not attack anyone and far as I can tell the dog is fine. Seems three people involved all lived in an apartment building. A woman had a habit of letting her dog out of her apartment to roam the buildings hallways. Went on for some time I guess.

Seems a couple of the neighbors got fed up with the dog and confronted the dog's owner. A fight breaks out. The dog owner gets stabbed by woman #2 while woman #2 holds the dog owner down. She lived long enough to name her attacker. So dog owner dead and two neighbors in jail. Happened in NYC so a toss-up as to what will happen in the courts.

Begs the question, does it seem nuts to let a dog roam the hallways? I think so. We have to pass a test to drive a car and most places require insurance (Not TN by the way). Why not some sort of test for dog owners and a means requirement to show the owner will have a place to keep a dog without a burden on neighbors?
 

Hello; Not about dogs. Seems air-traffic controllers (ATC) who took time off from work during the recent shutdown are not happy they will not get a cash bonus. Some missed shifts. Some called in sick. Some refused to work overtime. They do not get the bonus.

Well HUH! The bonus plan seemed pretty clear to me at the time. Some ATC stood in and did not miss any work or requested overtime, so they get the bonus. That was how it sounded to me at the time. The calling in sick ploy did not work out too well. Showing up was the point of the bonus, DUH.

Reminds me of a taxpayer refund some years ago. Folks who did not pay any taxes were mad because they did not get the refund. DUH. It was for actual taxpayers (May have been a tax credit & not a refund) Those non-taxpayers were likely already getting some form of a check or maybe were children.

Made me think of everybody gets a trophy thinking.
 
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