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[Freddie]

Page Three

[elmore3003]

~~~SAFE & EASY TRAVEL VIBES~~~ for DR John G.!!!!

Ditto!

[John G.]

I took French for two years n high school and two semesters in college. The second semester we went from simple writing and speaking to reading Flaubert and Robbe-Grillet in the original. I was exhausted by the end of the semester.

[John G.]

I do remember the teacher wouldn't let us speak in English, so none of us could tell him his fly was open because we didn't know the word for zipper.

[Ron Pulliam]

DR RON PULLIAM is did not mean that snow was imminent but rather that since it's November it will eventually be here.

That's good to know.  At least you can expect some.  It hasn't snowed here in several years.

[Ron Pulliam]

To reveal my French language roots, I have a grievance:

Too many times, I hear folks pronounce Le Creuset as LAY-CREW-SAY or LAH-CREW-SAY.  It's nothing of the kind! It is LUR-CREW-SAY.

Or close to it.

My grievance is generally toward QVC hosts who mispronounce it several different ways during shows when a Le Creuset product is being sold.

Le Creuset has created exclusive colors just for QVC buyers.  David Venable has toured the factory and done a special video of how it is made.  He always pronounces it correctly, but not true with the others.  They just can't quite hear the difference between "Le", "Les" and "La".

[Ron Pulliam]

I expect Rodzinski will master this.

[Ron Pulliam]

I do remember the teacher wouldn't let us speak in English, so none of us could tell him his fly was open because we didn't know the word for zipper.

Yes, no English allowed in my high school classes, either. 

[bk]

I'm up, I'm up - maybe five hours of sleep.

[Jrand74]

DR JOHN G you could have just said la mem chose.

[Jrand74]

Wordle in 5

[Jane]

From DR Laura:

Leonard put on quite a show during the zoom meeting. He zoomed back and forth along the back of the sofa, much to the delight of the other meeting attenders. I didn't realize they could see him until they laughed.

[Jane]

DR Rodzinski I think it is great you are learning French.

[Jane]

From Rodzinski:

The little French cartoon characters I interact with on the app are humorous. Especially Lily, who only wears purple and is a parody of the most blasé and bored-sounding French girl. I like her.

Cute

[Jane]

Topic of the Day:  I don't really care for soups, other than tomato/tomato bisque, or Costco sells a Chicken Tortilla soup that's really good.

I like tomato/tomato bisque soup.

[Jane]

I'm glad Kari lost.

I didn't know this-YAY!

[Jane]

I miss my mother's cream of wheat ball soup. It's akin to matzo ball soup.

While I have never had, or heard of wheat ball soup, it seems to me it would taste more like a polenta ball. than a matzo ball.

[Jane]

I had another dream of working the polls that somehow turned into being offered the chance to assault sexually a migrant worker who had applied for a job. At least in my dreams I had morals. I didn't act on the offer.

Weird, and I am glad you kept your morals in your dream.

[Jane]

My flight leaves at 4.

Safe and easy travels.

[Jane]

Only one restaurant in San Antonio received a Michelin star. Others were singled out and recommended, but the restaurant, good as it is, is not one I like. You can't choose the time you dine there or the food you get to eat. You eat what they serve at one sitting each evening and you are seated with everyone. It's interior Mexican cuisine. I like the guys who run it, appreciate their mission, but I don't want to go there.

Definately not my kind of restaurant.  Does this mean your friends didn't receive any stars?

[Jane]

I'm still lazy and keep a few sodium bombs (a.k.a. the "better" or "deluxe" Campbell's and Progresso canned soups) around because I'm a sucker for their tastes. And I know that's still ridiculous.

Unfortunately I do not care for Progresso or Amy's soups. 

[Jane]

I always loved Campbell's Cream of Mushroom Soup and the Tomato, both made with milk.

[Jane]

It has been so long since I have made those at home I don't know if I would still like them.

[Jane]

When in a restaurant I will order mushroom soup almost every time I see it on the menu.

[Jane]

I adore soups.

CostCo and Sam's Club sell soups in their refrigerated foods areas.  Mostly tomato and broccoli/cheddar soup.  It is very good.

I enjoy a good broccoli/cheese soup or cream of broccoli.

[Jane]

A few favorite restaurant soups in my L.A. years were the lobster bisque ("famous for this") at Hamburger Hamlet, the green pea soups at both Marie Callender's and Pea Soup Anderson's (in Buellton and Oceanside), and a cream of broccoli (as opposed to broccoli and cheddar) at whatever the coffee shop at PCH and Hawthorne Blvd. in Torrance was called.

If I had soup at the Hamburger Hamlet it was their Onion soup.

Anderson's Pea soup.  While not as good, I will buy the canned version when I can find it.  I haven't seen it for a number of years now.

[Jane]

TOD:  My mom's and grandmother's matzoh ball soup was a particular favorite of mine.

My mother's was the only one I really liked as she made turkey instead of chicken soup.  I learned that if a restaurant has a good vegetable soup I can get a bowl of that with matzo balls on the side and mix them.

[Jane]

I do remember the teacher wouldn't let us speak in English, so none of us could tell him his fly was open because we didn't know the word for zipper.

[ChasSmith]

How could I forget the Hamburger Hamlet's ONION SOUP ??!!??   

[KevinH]

Good afternoon!