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Re: NO, IT'S NOT A HITCHCOCKIAN THRILLER
« Reply #60 on: May 28, 2024, 08:34:30 AM »

I had enchiladas once, at a HHW gathering. They were good, as I recall, but I never had the urge to revisit the experience.

That was after we saw Desperate Measures! It was quite a crowd.

Yes! And whatever I had was great. Which place was that, DR Elmore?

I think it was La Cucina.
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« Reply #61 on: May 28, 2024, 08:36:44 AM »

I don't know if the pandemic killed it or not, but I used to know the owners.
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« Reply #62 on: May 28, 2024, 08:38:18 AM »

I love this new lab! I gao there really early and was seen immediately, about 45 minutes before my appointment time. AAR was good for both trips, and I'm home. I'm wating for breakfast to arrive, and then I will get to work on my score.
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Re: NO, IT'S NOT A HITCHCOCKIAN THRILLER
« Reply #63 on: May 28, 2024, 09:14:11 AM »

Glad to hear your morning went so smoothly, DR Elmore 😘
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« Reply #64 on: May 28, 2024, 09:38:50 AM »

Good news DR ELMORE.
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« Reply #65 on: May 28, 2024, 09:40:11 AM »

I'm going to start calling my kitchen El Nibble Nook.

I like the chimichongas at a local place called El Guavos.

I liked my first meal at Chipotle a few weeks ago, but it was a bit expensive.
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« Reply #66 on: May 28, 2024, 09:48:33 AM »

I'm going to start calling my kitchen El Nibble Nook.

I like the chimichongas at a local place called El Guavos.

I liked my first meal at Chipotle a few weeks ago, but it was a bit expensive.


About Chipotle, I was surprised last time I was there at how quickly you can get your dish up to $20 without really being extravagant.
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« Reply #67 on: May 28, 2024, 10:19:54 AM »

At least $20 DR FREDDIE.
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« Reply #68 on: May 28, 2024, 10:44:33 AM »

Glad to hear your morning went so smoothly, DR Elmore 😘

And I'm glad to hear you and Richard are feeling better!
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« Reply #69 on: May 28, 2024, 10:45:46 AM »

I find it so ironic that Trump's lawyers keep harping on what a liar Michael Cohen is when they are working for a man who never tells the truth.
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« Reply #70 on: May 28, 2024, 10:49:01 AM »

Glad to hear your morning went so smoothly, DR Elmore 😘

And I'm glad to hear you and Richard are feeling better!

Thank you!  We still sound kind of like Darth Vader, but we’re getting there.
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Re: NO, IT'S NOT A HITCHCOCKIAN THRILLER
« Reply #71 on: May 28, 2024, 11:05:47 AM »

I had enchiladas once, at a HHW gathering. They were good, as I recall, but I never had the urge to revisit the experience.

That was after we saw Desperate Measures! It was quite a crowd.

That's right!

Let's see, Elmore, Richard, Ginny, Me, weren't John G and Freddie with us too?

Or am.i getting my events scrambled?
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Re: NO, IT'S NOT A HITCHCOCKIAN THRILLER
« Reply #72 on: May 28, 2024, 11:08:23 AM »

There used to be a Mexican restaurant not far from here, part of a chain, I believe, called El Torito that had wonderful steak and chicken fajitas.  But they went out of business about 35 years ago and the restaurant became an Olive Garden .

That's an interesting tidbit to me, because I knew El Torito in California. It was kind of a staple there among friends and/or co-workers, but I can't remember for the life of me where it was located. When I moved down to Redondo Beach there was one at the Pier, and it's still there, but I must have known one somewhere around Beverly Hills or maybe Marina del Rey. I see there's one at the Marina now, but it's not in a location that rings a bell.

Anyhoo...I'd always figured it was only a Southern California chain, and maybe it mostly was, but when I moved east in 1989, what did I find right here in Danbury but an El Torito? It was just like the CA ones, and a nice comfortable place, and I was sad when it and its neighbors got completely razed for a business park. And now it is revealed that vixmom had one in Lawn Guyland as well. I wonder how those east coast ones came about, and why they completely disappeared.

It's not that El Torito is a primo Mexican restaurant, by any means. It's probably quite average as those things go, but I'm going on 30-year-old memories. It apparently is thriving in California as we speak, with some 69 locations.


I think the first one i ever visited was in California when I visited my cousin , probably about 40 years ago.  It was on the water , she lived in Newport Beach but I don't know if that's where the restaurant was.

The one on LI was in Massapequa
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Re: NO, IT'S NOT A HITCHCOCKIAN THRILLER
« Reply #73 on: May 28, 2024, 11:10:55 AM »

I'm feeling much better. Still an heaviness in my chest, but if I don't speak, i dont cough.
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« Reply #74 on: May 28, 2024, 11:11:12 AM »

I have been silent as the grave today
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« Reply #75 on: May 28, 2024, 11:11:30 AM »

I am sure my coworkers are secretly rejoicing
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« Reply #76 on: May 28, 2024, 11:13:30 AM »

I am sure my coworkers are secretly rejoicing

They're passing around notes:  "Find out what brand she was drinking and send her a whole case of it."
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« Reply #77 on: May 28, 2024, 11:18:12 AM »

I had enchiladas once, at a HHW gathering. They were good, as I recall, but I never had the urge to revisit the experience.

That was after we saw Desperate Measures! It was quite a crowd.

That's right!

Let's see, Elmore, Richard, Ginny, Me, weren't John G and Freddie with us too?

Or am.i getting my events scrambled?


Could that group have been when we saw Larry's show, City Center Encores' restoration of Cole Porter's The New Yorkers, which would have been March 2017.

I wasn't part of the group seeing Desperate Measures. 

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« Reply #78 on: May 28, 2024, 11:20:39 AM »

I am sure my coworkers are secretly rejoicing

That's certainly good news!
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« Reply #79 on: May 28, 2024, 11:25:35 AM »

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« Reply #80 on: May 28, 2024, 12:30:50 PM »

Yuck regarding the skin on pudding ;D
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« Reply #81 on: May 28, 2024, 12:31:09 PM »

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« Reply #82 on: May 28, 2024, 12:31:42 PM »

What's the difference between a beef burger and a hamburger?

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« Reply #83 on: May 28, 2024, 12:36:53 PM »

Vixdad likes chipotle but they put that awful ciltrano in everything so I can’t eat there.

If you ask you can usually get food made without cilantro.
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« Reply #84 on: May 28, 2024, 12:37:10 PM »

I can feel real Mexican food eaters cringing

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« Reply #85 on: May 28, 2024, 12:38:18 PM »

There used to be a Mexican restaurant not far from here, part of a chain, I believe, called El Torito that had wonderful steak and chicken fajitas.  But they went out of business about 35 years ago and the restaurant became an Olive Garden .

I used to love El Torito's, for their blue corn enchiladas and the little round corn balls they served with most dishes.
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« Reply #86 on: May 28, 2024, 12:42:08 PM »

There used to be a Mexican restaurant not far from here, part of a chain, I believe, called El Torito that had wonderful steak and chicken fajitas.  But they went out of business about 35 years ago and the restaurant became an Olive Garden .

That's an interesting tidbit to me, because I knew El Torito in California. It was kind of a staple there among friends and/or co-workers, but I can't remember for the life of me where it was located. When I moved down to Redondo Beach there was one at the Pier, and it's still there, but I must have known one somewhere around Beverly Hills or maybe Marina del Rey. I see there's one at the Marina now, but it's not in a location that rings a bell.

Anyhoo...I'd always figured it was only a Southern California chain, and maybe it mostly was, but when I moved east in 1989, what did I find right here in Danbury but an El Torito? It was just like the CA ones, and a nice comfortable place, and I was sad when it and its neighbors got completely razed for a business park. And now it is revealed that vixmom had one in Lawn Guyland as well. I wonder how those east coast ones came about, and why they completely disappeared.

It's not that El Torito is a primo Mexican restaurant, by any means. It's probably quite average as those things go, but I'm going on 30-year-old memories. It apparently is thriving in California as we speak, with some 69 locations.

When we moved from So. California to New Jersey we couldn't get Mexican food.  I could make good enchiladas, except the avacados were from Floriday and we didn't like them, even for quacamole.

A couple of years after we left NJ we went to stay with a friend who took us to this new Mexican restaurant that had recently opened.  To my surprise and delight it was an El Torito's.
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« Reply #87 on: May 28, 2024, 12:43:48 PM »

Gardens of Taxco was a favorite of my father.

I don't remember that, but then we never went out for Mexican food.
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« Reply #88 on: May 28, 2024, 12:46:15 PM »

I have been silent as the grave today

Smart move.
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« Reply #89 on: May 28, 2024, 12:46:34 PM »

Continue get well vibes for Vixmom, Ginny, and Richard.
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