General Discussion, Saturday, August 3, 2019

Posted on August 3, 2019 by Stella

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  1. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    August 3, 2019 at 12:55 am

    We went and ate today at a quaint neighborhood eaterie, nothing fancy but a rather blue-collar place with an eclectic menu. We started with a muffuletta eggroll and a crab and cheese eggroll that turned out to be crab rangoon and muffuletta in eggroll wrappers, both appetizers deep fried. They were quite good but by the time we’d eaten them they were so rich our appetites were on the edge of gone.

    That didn’t stop us though, we soldiered on and ordered. I got an interesting plate with a shrimp taco, a crab/shrimp burrito and a pile of fried cheese grits with a seafood tamale on top. Czarina got a huge flour tortilla-wrapped pile of food (her memory will be better than mine, there’s a huge fat globule blocking my memory processes between noon and 3 PM). Oh yeah, it came with Cajun flavored fries, only thing that would have made them better was had they been battered and double-fried.

    We’d heard about the place in the NOLA paper, as we were going to be down there anyway we thought that we’d stop by. We didn’t eat breakfast in anticipation of running barefoot thru the menu and, as it turned out, we didn’t need dinner either. We consumed enough calories in one meal to choke a hog, this was a real, pre-Katrina, NOLA working class feed. Thank heaven that there are restaurants in the outlying areas that been infected by the post-K nouveau cuisine snots that have rendered a lot of NOLA eateries snotty boring. We haven’t even scratched the surface of this new place, there are still dozens of fat and flavor filled new things, a wondrous forest of things that would make Oprah blanche.

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    • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
      August 3, 2019 at 1:02 am

      I found their menu, the descriptions don’t do justice to the richness but imagine…

      https://places.singleplatform.com/crave-84/menu?ref=Yahoo

      Don’t be surprised if someone posts, one day, that our bodies were found on the restaurant floor with huge smiles on our faces. Whatta way to go.

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      • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
        August 3, 2019 at 7:59 am

        I don’t eat much seafood except for tuna and salmon, but I looked at that menu and there is a lot that looked delicious. I’m drooling while I am waiting for breakfast here.

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        • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
          August 3, 2019 at 10:55 am

          And the menu doesn’t fully disclose the wonderfulness.

          There used to be dozens of small restaurants in NOLA, many as part of Mom & Pop grocery stores. They’d cook great meals, homestyle, that were inexpensive, tasty and filling. Most would be traditional meals: peppers or mirlitons stuffed with ground meat or seafood, pork chops, homemade spicy spaghetti and meatballs – the stuff that NOLA families ate for decades but right there for lunch, dinner or carryout.

          Katrina drown many, if not most, of them and they couldn’t come back. Now instead of real family food we have a sea of snot restaurants that push non-native food in small, expensive portions as if the exclusivity and snob-factor are more important than taste.

          There are still more traditional fares where you can go wearing work clothes and get great food in a comfortable environment without getting gouged.

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          • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
            August 3, 2019 at 12:48 pm

            I used to work with a guy at Home Depot who once worked at one of the NOLA stores, back in the day (both for the Depot and NOLA – this would have been probably 15 years pre Katrina, at least). He talked about how hard they would work, then go to some gas station and get great big po boy sandwiches and beer and eat sitting on the street curbs people watching. IIRC he said five bucks would get you a great meal and a beer back then.

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            • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
              August 3, 2019 at 2:18 pm

              I worked out by the Lakefront in the early thru late 80s. These was a small family-owned grocery store by my office. T he family was Cuban and had a butcher area at the back where they made their own sausage and cooked it too. I’d get their hot Cuban sausage with jalapenos on French bread, a beer or a Barqs and sit out on the lakefront for lunch.

              There was a place down the road that made double-fried french fried potato po’boys, dressed with lettuce. tomato and mayo – with homemade beef gravy if you wanted it.

              In the other direction was Deany’s where they’d take a whole loaf of unsliced bread, hollow it out and fill it with fried shrimp or fried oysters – or both.
              Then there was Whiteys down on Downman where at certain times of the year all he had was beer and crawfish. You’d sit at original iconic 50s kitchen tables and chairs with pitchers of beer and huge plastic sacks of exquisitely boiled crawfish…

              Changing…demographics…and Katrina killed them but the memories linger.

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      • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
        August 3, 2019 at 12:57 pm

        I need you to recommend a nearby hotel. I think I am just going to go stay near that place for two or three days and eat there every meal. Hope they are open at least for lunch and dinner. I didn’t even make it to the plates before I wanted a dozen things. And I want every side, and all the fried platters too.

        Maybe I should arrange a quadruple bypass for three days later. Maybe I’ll have digested everything by then? Good gosh, that looks good. And they also have shrimp and grits, one of my favorite meals. Don’t get it up here but I always look for a good place to get it if I am in the Lowcountry.

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        • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
          August 3, 2019 at 2:09 pm

          The grits I had with the pseudo-Mexican meal were GREAT. The roasted grits with cheese sauce and the tamale on top were killer. I’m a grits fan but these I’ll marry and take to Paris.

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    • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
      August 3, 2019 at 7:55 am

      Sounds like maybe you need to go ahead and buy the next size clothes if you intend to eat there. LOL

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    • sandandsea2015's avatar sandandsea2015 says:
      August 3, 2019 at 10:16 am

      So glad the meal was everything you hoped for and more!

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    • czarina33's avatar czarina33 says:
      August 3, 2019 at 7:05 pm

      Mine was oysters Rockefeller on a tortilla!

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  2. Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
    August 3, 2019 at 2:05 am

    Stellars…

    “Dying Rose” – Photo by Istvan Benedek…

    “Calla Lily Portrait” – Photo by Bernie Kasper, Madison Indiana Photography…

    “Purple Iris” – Photo by Michael Peychich…

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  3. nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
    August 3, 2019 at 3:50 am

    Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Long Island Iced Tea)
    Mornin’ WeeWeed! (Master Mixologist Extrodinare) 😎 🍸 (Old Fashioned)
    Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎 |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| (Jack Daniels – Single Barrel)
    Mornin’ Ad rem! (Queen Felis catus) 🐱 🍸 (Flaming Lamborghini)
    Mornin’ Sharon! 😎 🍸 🍸 (earthquake)
    Mornin’ ytz4mee! 😎 🍸 (cosmopolitan)
    Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (white wine and perrier)
    Mornin’ partyzantski! 🙂 |_| (Tom Collins)
    Mornin’ texan59! 🙂 |_| (Black & Tan)
    Mornin’ ZurichMike! 🙂 🍸 (fuzzy navel)
    Mornin’ Col.(R) Ken! (hand salute) 🙂 |_| (Boilermaker)
    Mornin’ czarina33! (aka czarina) 🙂 🍸 (Lynchburg Lemonade)
    Mornin’ czarowniczy! 🙂 |_| (Wild Turkey Rare Breed)
    Mornin’ letjusticeprevail2014! 🙂 |_| (Irish Car Bomb)
    Mornin’ Patriot1783-ctdar! (aka “ctdar”) 🙂 🍸 (grasshopper)
    Mornin’ tessa50! 🙂 🍸 (flaming volcano)
    Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (sidecar)
    Mornin’ varsityward! 🙂 |_| (Godfather)
    Mornin’ MaryfromMarin! 😀 |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| (Mortlach)
    Mornin’ Wooly Covfefe! (aka “Wooly Phlox” aka “taqiyyologist”) 🙂 |_| (Roy Rogers)
    Mornin’ Howie! (aka “doodahdaze”) 🙂 |_| (Classic Daiquiri)
    Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂 |_| (Gin & Tonic)
    Mornin’ Sha! 🙂 🍸 (Lemon Drop)
    Mornin’ BigMamaTEA! 🙂 🍸 (Harvey Wallbanger)
    Mornin’ cetera5! (aka “Cetera”) 🙂 |_| (Blackberry wine)
    Mornin’ The Tundra PA! 🙂 🍸 (Gentleman Jack Whiskey Sling)
    Mornin’ lovely! 🙂 |_| (Backdraft)
    Mornin’ michellc! 🙂 🍸 (Salty dog)
    Mornin’ auscitizenmom! 🙂 🍸 (Kiss on the Lips)
    Mornin’ Margaret-Ann! 🙂 🍸 (White Russian)
    Mornin’ Auntie Lib! 🙂 🍸 (Tom and Jerry)
    Mornin’ holly100! 🙂 🍸 (Jack & Coke)
    Mornin’ Pam! 🙂 (Not even water)
    Mornin’ Ms.Tee! 🙂 🍸 (Mojito)
    Mornin’ koolkosherkitchen! 🙂 🍸 🍸 (Cuba Libre)
    Mornin’ ImpeachEmAll 🙂 |_| (Flaming Dr. Pepper)
    Mornin’ Monroe! 🙂 |_| (Stinger)
    Mornin’ Les! 🙂 |_| (Rusty Nail)
    Mornin’ shiloh1973! 🙂 |_| (Jack Daniels)
    Mornin’ TexasRanger! 🙂 |_| (Whiskey Smash)
    Mornin’ Ziiggii! 🙂 |_| (B52)
    Mornin’ oldiadguy! 🙂 |_| (Rum & Coke)
    Mornin’ smiley! (“stuck in spambucket”) 🙂 🍸 (Spanish coffee)
    Mornin’ derk! (“Stellars”) 🙂 🍸 (Kamikaze)
    Mornin’ Jacqueline Taylor Robson 🙂 🍸 (Shirley Temple)
    Mornin’ facebkwallflower! 🙂 |_| (Night Train Express)
    Mornin’ Ms. Cindy! (aka “Ms Cynlynn” aka “ms cynlynn”) 🙂 🍸 (1970 ducru beaucaillou)
    Mornin’ sandandsea2015! 🙂 🍸 (1961 Château Montrose)
    Mornin’ amwick! 🙂 🍸 (Blue motorcycle)
    Mornin’ hocuspocus13! 🙂 🍸 (1970 Chateau Latour)
    Mornin’ Sloth1963! 🙂 🍸 (1971 Moulin Touchais)
    Mornin’ MTeresa! (Ex-lurker) 🙂 |_| (Albanian Raki Moskat)
    Mornin’ rheavolans! (aka “Rhea Salacia Volans”) 🙂 |_| (Hot Buttered Rum)
    Mornin’ joshua! 🙂 |_| (Mudslide)
    Mornin’ John Denney! 🙂 |_| (RumChata)
    Mornin’ litenmaus! 🙂 |_| (Stolichnaya elit, no ice)
    Mornin’ kinthenorthwest! 🙂 🍸 (A Lonely Island Lost in the Middle of a Foggy Sea)
    Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂 |_| (Smoking Bishop)
    Mornin’ patternpuzzler! 🙂 🍸 (Old Lady)
    Mornin’ Senatssekretär FREISTAAT DANZIG! 🙂 |_| (Red Russian)
    Mornin’ G-d&Country! 🙂 🍸 (Blind Russian)
    Mornin’ Gary! 🙂 |_| (Yuengling)
    Mornin’ valeriecurren! 🙂 🍸 (Flaming Sambuca)
    Mornin’ Lucille! 🙂 🍸 (Peach Schnapps)
    Mornin’ Lburg! 🙂 🍸 (Lburg lemonade)
    Mornin’ davidhuntpe! 🙂 |_| (Baileys Irish Cream on the rocks)
    Mornin’ skipper1961! 🙂 |_| (Brompton’s Cocktail – No cherry, no umbrella, no plastic monkey)
    Mornin’ mightyconservative! 🙂 |_| (Benjamin Franklin’s clarified milk punch)
    Mornin’ NC Nana! 🙂 🍸 (Beautiful)
    Mornin’ bjosz! 🙂 |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| (Some of Menagerie’s Jack Daniels – Shhhhhh)
    Mornin’ Angelle Staria Literary Works! 🙂 |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| (Some more of Menagerie’s Jack Daniels – Shhhhhh)
    Mornin’ just stevie! 🙂 🍸 🍸 🍸 🍸 🍸 🍸 🍸 (Chateau Pape Clement Blanc Pessac, 2014)
    Mornin’ whiners and complainers! 😛 (No drink for you!)
    Mornin’ to people posting that I missed. 😳
    Mornin’ to all you lurkers! 😕

    Also just in case someday; mornin’ to Elvis Chupacabra, F.D.R. in Hell and sundance! :mrgreen:

    Breakfast!

    NEW and IMPROVED breakfast with extra bacon for ZurichMike!

    Cinnamon rolls for coffee!

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  4. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    August 3, 2019 at 4:48 am

    10 Smiles

    1) “Solitude is the soul’s holiday.” Katrina Kenison

    2) AO Cortez’s Chief of Staff Saikat Chakrabarti is out as is Corbin Trent. Makes me think AO Cortez is going to be in for some unsavory information being released about her.

    3) Is that momentum I hear knocking?

    4) “I seek righteousness, but I’ll take revenge.” __Emma Cullen, The Magnificent Seven

    5) 10 year old David Bowie ❤️

    6) Todd V. McMurty follows me on Twitter, he likes and retweets some of my legal observations. Given I don’t have a law degree this tickles me. Maybe not a big deal or even a sharable smile, but it makes me smile.

    7) 1970 wrought iron VW Beetle.

    8) Saudi Arabia has lifted restrictions on unaccompanied women being in public. Saudi women can now walk to the corner store, take their children to parks, feel the sunlight on their faces (burka, niqab and hijab laws are changing in some parts of SA also) without a male family member.

    Momentum.

    9) Fresh corn on the cob, soaked in butter and sprinkled with salt.

    10) I think I’m going to get this on a t-shirt.

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  6. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
    August 3, 2019 at 11:15 am

    I got an email just a little while ago. The couple who went last night to see the little doggie I want didn’t take him. I am trying not to get too excited…………….oh, well, that ship has already sailed. 🙄 But, me and my big mouth, told them we are going on vacation the first week in Sept. So, he would have to go into a kennel for a week. They don’t like that, but I don’t know if it will hurt. I just really think he is the right one for me.

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  8. Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
    August 3, 2019 at 5:43 pm

    Here it’s after 2:30 PDT and I’ve not gotten a thing done other than be on the computer…does that make me a bad person? LOL! Just found this lovely picture…

    …doesn’t say where the photo is taken, but wherever I’m going there…once I get off the Internet!

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  9. Stella's avatar stella says:
    August 3, 2019 at 6:30 pm

    This is pretty interesting.

    https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1157066712581365761?s=20

    WaPo and NYT accepted money to run propaganda pieces for the Russian government. China too.

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    • Lucile's avatar Lucile says:
      August 3, 2019 at 7:54 pm

      The Washington Pravda and the Moscow Times. To include China I’d have to look up the state newspaper there…but maybe the Washington Communist and the Yellow (for the river) Times.

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  10. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
    August 3, 2019 at 8:59 pm

    lilbirdee12’s prayer:

    Our Heavenly Father, Your children come to you tonight to ask for healing and peace throughout our country so that we may return to being One Nation Under God. Guide us to be leaders in Your Kingdom, spreading Your Love and Salvation to all. Forgive us our sins and deliver us from evil.

    Lord, we ask for a blanket of protection over all our troops and law enforcement who serve to defend and protect us. Bless our representatives with the strength and wisdom they need to achieve the path You have chosen for us.

    Please place Your Guardian Angels of Protection around Donald Trump and Mike Pence and their families as they seek to lead America back to You.

    Grant us patience, Lord, as the evil ones try to anger us and cause us to fall.
    Spread blessings over Israel and Netanyahu.

    We humbly ask that You please comfort those who are grieving and in pain.
    Thank you Father, for Your Love and the gift of Life.

    In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.

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  11. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
    August 3, 2019 at 9:00 pm

    A prayer for Justice Kavanaugh and Gen. Flynn:

    Prayer to St. Michael

    St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle;
    be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the devil.
    May God rebuke him, we humbly pray;
    and do you, O prince of the heavenly host,
    by the power of God,
    thrust into hell Satan and the other evil spirits
    who prowl about the world for the ruin of souls.

    In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.

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  12. Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
    August 3, 2019 at 10:07 pm

    Good night! God bless!

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