You can say that again!
17-Across. Tray with egg rolls, fried wontons, etc.: PU PU PLATTER. Everything you wanted to know about the Pu Pu Platter, but didn't know to ask. Apparently, the term comes from the Hawaiian word: pū-pū, which means a small bite.
23-Across. Amorous looks: GOO GOO EYES.
33-Across. Yoga-inspired athletic brand: LULULEMON. A store that sells expensive yoga clothes. There is a Lululemon store near me, but I get my yoga clothes elsewhere.
48-Across. Yogi's cartoon buddy: BOO-BOO BEAR. Cute that Yogi follows Yoga. Boo-Boo Bear is Yogi Bear's friend who tries to keep Yogi out of trouble.
53-Across. Colorful Hawaiian garment: MUUMUU DRESS.
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Any other double-speak in today's puzzle? Nothing dystopian in today's puzzle.
Across:
1. Fruity drink suffix: -ADE. Hi, Lemonade!
4. Hwy. with tolls: TPKE. As in Turnpike. I took the
Massachusetts Turnpike on my drive back from New Hampshire to Louisiana this
past September.
8. Starring roles: LEADS.
13. One in a pod: PEA.
14. Hip bones: ILIA. Plural of Ilium.
15. Traditional Easter wear: BONNET. // And 43-Down.
Easter time: Abbr.: SPR. Easter falls in the Spring.
16. Series-ending letters: ETC.
19. Butler at Tara: RHETT.
21. Bygone Ford: LTD. The Ford LTD was manufactured from
1965 to 1986. // And 23-Down. Classic sports
cars: GTs. The meaning of GT designation.
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22. "... thus wide I'll __ my arms": "Hamlet": OPE.
Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 5.
26. Bygone blade: SNEE. This has become a crossword staple.
27. Slight bit, as of color: TINGE.
28. Cloak-and-dagger org.: CIA. As in the Central Intelligence Agency. Ever wonder where the term Cloak-and-Dagger originated?
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29. Tour of duty: STINT.
30. Big first for a baby: STEP.
31. "__ we having fun yet?": ARE. I am. I hope you are
having fun, too.
32. Concert pianos: GRANDs. The pandemic prevented Michael
Gurt from traveling, so he gave solo performances on his Grand Piano from his
home.
36. Order to relax: AT EASE.
39. Two-outs-in-a-single-AB stats: DPs. As in a Double Play in baseball.
40. Mil. awards: DSCS. As in the Distinguished Service Cross.
44. Ending with wind or air meaning "transmitted by": BORNE.
45. Early Beatle Sutcliffe: STU. Stu Sutcliffe (né Stuart
Fergusson Victor Sutcliffe; June 23, 1940 ~ Apr. 10, 1962) was the original
bass guitarist for the nascent Beatles. He is sometimes referred to as
the Fifth Beatle, because the group initially was a 5-member band. He
left the band to pursue a career in painting. Sadly, he died at age 21
of a brain hemorrhage.
46. Camera setting: F-STOP. Everything you wanted to know
about the F-Stop, but
didn't know to ask.
47. "Phooey!": DRAT.
50. NBA tiebreakers: OTS. As in OverTimes.
51. Muppet chimp __ Minella: SAL. His name is a word play on
the word Salmonella, which is a bacterium that can cause gastrointestinal
discomfort.
52. To this point: AS YET.
57. "__ Abner": L'IL. Famous enough to earn a postage stamp,
back when stamps were affordable.
59. Gofer's job: ERRAND.
60. Drooling comics canine: ODIE. Garfield's side-kick.
61. Having four sharps: IN E. As in the Key of E in music
compositions.
62. They're not options: NEEDS.
63. Like retailers during holiday season: BUSY.
64. Self-esteem: EGO.
Down:
1. Tarzan raiser: APE.
2. Home of Lions and Tigers, but not Bears: DETROIT. Oh, My!
3. Every last person: EACH ONE.
4. Move sneakily: TIP-TOE.
5. Verb meaning "demote" coined in 2006: PLUTO. I was so sad
to learn that Pluto had been demoted. I remember as a grade school
student reading The Search for Planet X, by Tony Simon. The
book really made an impression on me. I really liked learning about
Pluto and Clyde Tombaugh (Feb. 4, 1906 ~ Jan. 17, 1997), its discoverer.
6. Nap, to a Brit: KIP. Here are 10 words that are used in England that are head-scratchers here.
7. Water in la mer: EAU. Today's French lesson.
8. Truckful: LOAD.
9. Rhinitis-treating MD: ENT. As in an Ears, Nose and Throat doctor.
10. Former justice Scalia: ANTONIN. Antonin Gregory Scalia
(Mar. 11, 1936 ~ Feb. 13, 2016) served as an Associate Justice of the United
States Supreme Court from September 1986 until his death nearly 30 years
later. He died in his sleep while on a quail hunting trip in Texas.
11. Diving board site: DEEP END.
12. City map lines: STREETS.
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15. Initial diner orders?: BLTs. As in a Bacon, Lettuce, and
Tomato sandwich. I had a Salmon-Bacon, Lettuce, and Tomato sandwich at Legal Seafood in Boston this past weekend. The Salmon-bacon wasn't actually bacon, but instead was a wonderful smoked salmon filet. It was delicious.
18. Response to a judge: PLEA.
20. Parmigiana choice: EGGPLANT. Yummers. This is a
favorite dish of mine.
24. Beige hue: ECRU.
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25. Not argue with: YIELD TO.
26. Waits for further instructions: STANDS BY.
29. "No seats" sign: SRO. As in Standing Room Only.
31. Pint at a bar: ALE.
32. Baseball VIPs: GMs. As in General Managers.
34. "__ as directed": USE.
35. File format for digital books: E-PUB. As in Electronic Publishing.
36. Stomach: ABDOMEN.
37. Long wait, to some: TORTURE.
38. Solver's smudge: ERASURE.
41. Metal marble: STEELIE.
42. Just enough snow to cover the ground: COATING. As I
write this, it's 19F outside and there was a light dusting of snow on the
ground. Not enough to be considered a coating of snow, however.
45. Auction cry: SOLD.
46. "Gorillas in the Mist" author Dian: FOSSEY. Diann Fossey
(Jan. 16, 1932 ~ Dec. 26, 1985) studied mountain primates in
Rwanda. Sadly, she was murdered in Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda
when she was only 53.
48. Data transfer unit: BAUD. Webster's defines Baud
as: a variable unit of data transmission speed (such as one bit per
second).
49. Desert refuge: OASIS.
51. Catches some rays: SUNS.
54. "Spy vs. Spy" magazine: MAD.
55. Filmmaker Reiner: ROB. Rob Reiner (né Robert Norman
Reiner; b. Mar. 6, 1947) is probably best known for his role as Mike Stivic
on All in the Family. He is the son of actor and comedian
Carl Reiner (1922 ~ 2020).
56. UCLA URL ending: EDU.
58. Sign before Virgo: LEO. Hi, Leo III!
Here's the Grid:
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FIWrong. aPR < SPR. The cross could have been anything.
ReplyDeleteCute theme, that I noticed too late for it to be any help. A lot of t/os and unknowns: PUPU, PLUTO (AC), KIP, DPS, IN E, et al.
STAND BY is another one that could have political connotations. TIPTOE past it!
FIR in 19, loading up my booby prize shelf again I’m sure for slowest solve. Cute theme, which I caught immediately but then couldn’t remember 53A so had to wait for some perps to kick the brain cells into gear. Very nice fun CW, thanx, KK! Nice write up, too, Hahtoolah, thanx. You say “back when stamps were affordable”? They are still MORE than a bargain. I cannot get UPS or FEDEX to come to my home and pick up a letter and send it clear across the country and deliver it to the home of cousin Janet in Oregon for $0.58. They would charge ~$10. We need to support the USPS, they do a great service, at a very reasonable price. My soapbox du jour.
ReplyDeleteGood morning!
ReplyDeleteStumbled twice with PKWY/TPKE and BYTE/BAUD. I've only heard "BAUD" in reference to modem speed. Got the ooh-ooh theme early on, but it didn't really help with the solve. Still it was an enjoyable romp. Thanx, Kurt and Hahtoolah. (I liked the Scottish strain.)
Test Pattern: Spent a lot of time watching it in the early '50s, waiting for Howdy Doody time. WBAY's broadcast day began at 4 PM and ended before midnight.
Map of Houston: We live above the north eastern edge of that map in the "Still pissed about being annexed" region. Our little town (oops, city) incorporated to avoid annexation by ever-growing Houston.
Good Morning, Crossword friends. I hope all of our friends who were in the tornado path are okay. I hope they can check in and let us know.
ReplyDeleteQOD: When people keep telling you that you can’t do a thing, you kind of like to try it. ~ Margaret Chase Smith (née Margaret Madeline Chase; Dec. 14, 1897 ~ May 29, 1995), American politician and former Senator from Maine
FIR, but ERASUREs @ rat, KnP, and tans marred my effort.
ReplyDeleteOur GRAND is a Kranich & Bach, but smaller than the concert variety. Built in 1924 and restored circa 2000, it sounds wonderful. I don't play and DW doesn't play any longer, but we had a Pianodisc system installed when it was restored.
Again, AT EASE doesn't mean "relax".
My little town had a LIL Abner's restaurant. I think their Kickaboo Joy Juice was Mountain Dew in disguise.
I don't think that the definition Hahtoolah found for BAUD is correct. IIRC, we used BAUD for "character rate", which was roughly bits per second divided by 10. (8 bits for the ASCII character, and the rests for overhead.) In any case, I think it's rarely used in these days of packet data communications. Mb/s (megabits per second) and MB/s (megabytes per second) is the spec I see most. I'm sure our Cornerite datacom professionals can fact check my impression.
DW and I love eggplant. We add it to our Italian gravy as well as making parm. I don't think I have ever met anyone who is "meh" on eggplant. Folks seem to hate it or love it.
Thanks to KK for another fun puzzle, and to Ha2la for another great expo.
A fine Tuesday puzzle with another excellent write-up. Like D-O my title would have been this SONG BY JOE E. ROSS .
ReplyDeleteIt was fun to be a CSO at 1A.
Thank you Kurt and Susan.
I came here to CROW, but find it's time to eat CROW. Got caught in a SQUEEZE play at 2nd when I failed to proofread 39A. I'm mean who reads EDUBS?
ReplyDeleteNevertheless thank you Kurt for a fun but too crunchy for me puzzle, and thank you Susan for another sparkling review, sprinkled with tidbits from your seemingly fathomless TOON TROVE.
Can't stay, as I have to help Teri spoil the two youngest grandsons. They're down for the older's 7th birthday. Youngest (4 yrs) is down to help him blow out the candles. We're hoping this doesn't start a fire!ð¥
First a pancake breakfast and then we're going to go visit the massive train garden (should say city) put on by the local fire department. An incredible array of miniature things happening and buttons to push.
If I get time I'll stop back later.
Cheers,
Bill
This one went "bye-bye" in 5:33.
ReplyDeleteI didn't notice "Spr" as an answer until OKL's comment and I also didn't notice "epub" - and don't care for either, but fortunately I didn't notice them mid-solve. I blanked for awhile on muu muu, and I always get tripped-up trying to remember how to abbreviate turnpike.
Fun and fast solve and even more fun blog from Susan! Thought at first it was all going to be Hawaiian themed- but just a partial.
ReplyDeleteI posted yesterday before CC had added the info about Spitzboov's death - my dad was also in the Navy - so I always enjoyed his info about all things naval. Prayers for his family's comfort.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KCiMdR1ox0 The Naval hymn
Following my current pattern of a FIW every other day, I had one bad square in an unexpected place. I had spent more time puzzling out PLUTO, TPKE, and ILIA, only the last of which I recognized a bit at first, giving me a chance. But my downfall was putting EhUB and DhS. Oh sure, EPUB! Publication makes sense. And my baseball lack of knowledge strikes again. Sigh. I have been learning slowly, thanks to the blog.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Kurt, for a Tuesday treat, complete with the obvious theme for easy solving. Too too much fun! And speaking of fun, thanks to Hahtoolah, we have plenty of that to look forward to every Tuesday and today was no disappointment.
Thanks DO for explaining where you live on the Houston map. I hoped we would hear from the people on the Corner who live there.
FLN Thanks CED for the video tribute honoring Spitzboov. Very appropriate and moving.
Hope everyone has a terrific day!
Terrific Tuesday. Thanks for the fun, Kurt and Hahtoolah.
ReplyDeleteI FIRed in good time and saw the OO-OO theme (another CSO to go with LemonADE.).
(LULULEMON is a Canadian company out of Vancouver.)
Last to fall was the central North. KIP did not make it to the Canadian shore. I didn’t remember that meaning for PLUTO but it makes sense.
Another inkblot to change Byte to BAUD.
Who else entered Epee before SNEE? I needed perps for ANTONIN, and Antopin did not seem correct, even to this Canadian.
I noted APE and OPE, ALE and ADE.
Is that Scottish variant airBORNE too?
Playing IN E on that GRAND is one of the more difficult keys.
“Use as directed” is frowned on for Rx directions. Too vague.
Wishing you all a great day.
Musings
ReplyDelete-TORTURE - I am subbing next door to the grade school band room and will be listening to their attempts at seasonal music all day.
-Very little DOO DOO in this puzzle!
-Albert Pujols holds the MLB record for grounding into double plays (GIDP) – 413 times
-Last Saturday we learned what being BOGARTED meant. Today, we get what being PLUTOED is.
-Here in the Platte Valley, farmers are selling TRUCKLOADS of expensive dirt to house and highway builders
-Onboard GPS units might not know new STREETS
-YIELD TO – “Is this a hill worth dying on?”
-Some “live Radio/TV shows” have a tape delay so they can go to STAND BY if someone goes “off the DEEP END”
-Mad Magazine spawned my inclination to sarcasm and iconoclasm
-Fun write-up, Susan. Example of your QOD – Tombstone that reads, “They Dared Me”
Hola!
ReplyDeleteMy EYES are watering and my nose is running today. Here, that means the weather is changing.
Thank you, Susan and Kurt This was a fun romp. How can we not like PUPU PLATTER? It filled very fast without an ERASURE. However, I used wite-out twice, once when I had GTO and changed to GTS/STEP then again at SUNS/TANS. We get plenty of both here.
EGGPLANT seems so bland to me and I've never cooked it. My mother made a tasty treat with it but I never learned the recipe. She could cook anything,
I love seeing RHETT Butler in the grid (Clark Gable). He was eye candy. And Gone with the Wind is one of my favorite films.
CSO to me and other teachers at EDU.
Have a terrific Tuesday, everyone!
Easy puzzle, but one bad cell which an ABC run would have solved, EPUB crossing DPS. Why am I so careless?
ReplyDeleteI greatly enjoy a pupu platter. It is too large for one person and I seldom find a dining partner who wants to order it.
BLTs are one of my favorite sandwiches. Yesterday a friend advised me to freeze individual portions of bacon to use at will.
DO, I remember watching the test pattern waiting for the TV program to start. The test pattern came on again at he end of the day. We had only three channels.
SPR was my first thought.
I don't consider that erasures mar my puzzles. Purposely I lightly write in "maybe" answers, expecting to erase some of them.
Many of the novels I read are by British authors. I am aware of rasher, chin wag, kip and plonk.
I agree that eggplant is a love it or hate it taste. David hates it. I love it. I find an eggplant parmesan platter too large. I order the sandwich and dump the roll. It is less filling and less expensive.
It is nice to see -ade defined as a suffix instead if a stand alone word which makes me cringe.
Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to work I go, albeit reluctantly.
Hi Y'all! Thanks, Kurt, for a very amusing theme & doable puzzle. Hahtoolah, your cartoons are great.
ReplyDeleteFred, you beat me timewise by one second only.
Last to fill was the EPUB/DPS cross. Yep, finally red-lettered it.
Didn't know Scalia's name spelling. Thought it ended in "O".
Snow dusTING before COATING.
Not sure of the TPKE abreviation.
We drove Ford LTD's for years. Good kid-hauler.
DNK: KIP, PLUTO, BAUD.
Have never eaten EGGPLANT. Just wasn't anywhere it was on the menu.
Yesterday was a busy day for the Grim Reaper. Besides Spitz, I learned of the deaths of 5 former school mates, a friend, & another friend's son. Too sad. But when you get to be my age, not unexpected.
Boston had a sports talk guy named Guy Mainilla. Debuted 1969
ReplyDeleteI was wondering what INE had to do with music.
To KIP was to jump and latch onto a platform with wrists pronated and pull oneself up onto it. Marines would stack a half dozen. Descent was the opposite . I see it merely defines a pull-up now. A little hairy at 40 ft.
Salmon BLT. What a great idea
Jinx is correct. REST! would be "Relax"(USMC again)
PLUTOed* is a neat term.
WC
Oh yeah, I live hahtoolah write-ups with those links. Muumuus in the pasture
DeleteI usually Poo Poo a Toosday as an easy run..NOT TOODAY...held on to "Google eyes" way too long (look at the theme, stOOUUpid! ð)
ReplyDeleteInkovers (use pen so not an ERASURE) : sofar/ASYET, pike/TPKE, byte/BAUD ....
So DRAT, In the words of Officer Gunther Toody "ooh, ooh" FIW ð...had "dbs (doubles) crossing Ebub (did not know EPUB)..kinda what Yellowrocks did.
LULULEMON and STEELIES I've learned from CWs. never huurd of PLUTO used that way nor do I think Tiny Tim would "move sneakily" through the tulips. ð·ð·ð·
Tarzan named his pet chimp "Cheetah" but couldn't bother to come up with anything better than "Boy" for his kid. ð
I like the warning "USE only for the purpose for which product is intended" This came with a snowblower I once bought. (So I opted not to use it as a lawnmower in the summer)ð€£
Almost put Focus instead of FSTOP. "Easter time" sometimes in Mar. Our COATING of snow from yesterday has melted. "Stomach" is an organ, (see H2LH's drawering)...ABDOMEN: diaphragm to ILIA.
"They're not options"... subpoenas wouldn't fit but to my astonishment now a days that would be an incorrect answer.
Remember Saturday morning Howdy Doody Show being interrupted by "STANDBY we are having technical difficulties" ð
Mayberry kid nickname nickname.....OPE
Sailing ship need.....ECRU
"You're such _____ " ...ATEASE
Shoemaker's cry.....SOLD.
When doubled, part of the theme....EAU
Have a gOOUUd day.
ReplyDeleteThank you Kurt Krauss for a relatively easy puzzle, so much as, I enjoyed it a lot.
Thank you Hahtoolah for a terrific Tuesday, with all the humor. Your selection of smart cartoons ... makes me think, ( which is good, I need to keep thinking as much as I can, to keep the wolf, Alzheimers, from entering the door ...)
The Houston map is very curious,..... aacordingly, some of my relatives, should have been already 'been shot' by now ... Unfortunately, altho' I have 'laid over' by their airport three or four times, I have never visited the city itself ...
I've had many BLT sandwiches, ... no, not the porcine bacon, but bakin' .... just lettuce and tomato, and slightly baked in a microwave.
Eggplant, which like tomato, is of the nightshade family, and was once, considered poisonous. IT is one of my favorite vegetables, since it can readily absorb oils and most herbal flavors. I am especially fond of the chinese, sicilian and small indian varieties.
Charred and burnt eggplant is a very unique flavor.
have a nice day, all.
Ray - I wonder when we'll get a theme for Francis Muldoon? Thanks for the 54 fond memories.
ReplyDeleteFound a delightful Saturday from CC in the NYTimes archives today. December 17, 2016 for those with access.
ReplyDeleteA fun puzzle and a fun read of Hahtoolah's recap.
ReplyDeletePower outage for a couple of hours because of a terrific storm here in Southern California--why I'm late posting. But loved your puzzle as soon as I got ADE and APE, Kurt, and went on to enjoy the rest. And Hahtoolah, your pictures are always a total pleasure--thanks for those too.
ReplyDeleteAh, RHETT Butler, one of my favorite teenage movie characters.
Loved all the PUPU and GOOGOO and following doubles, but it was MUUMUU that cracked me up.
Never heard of a KIP as a nap.
Speaking of which, I think I need a KIP.
Have a good rest of the day, everybody.
Loved Hahtoolah's illustrations! A feast for the eyes, and a treat for the head!
ReplyDeleteA pretty fair PZL too, from Mr. Krauss!
No poopoohing from moi...
I breezed through it, only to come to a screeching halt (and a DNF) with the nexus of "File format for digital books" and "Two outs-in-a-single..." Ya gotta know the terminology in both directions. It was the "P" that I left b l a n k.
~ OMK
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DR: No diagonals. Just a wet, wet morning in SoCal.
Hi All!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Kurt, for the puzzle; only a few hiccups in an otherwise smooth solve.
Wonderful expo, Hahtoolah. Legal Seafood's fare is de-lic-ious! The Houston map is hilarious. I live south of "Little Mumbai" in the "Displaced Upper Middle Class White People in old homes that all look the same." :-)
Oh, and IAH labeled as ruined by United - priceless. #ContentalAirlines
WOs: epEE (Hi C,Eh!), GTo, Byte->BAUD, taNS which lead to MaUMaU DRESSES for a bit. BoBo BEAR b/f "D'Oh!"
ESP: SAL
Fav: I'll go w/ EGG PLANT. I mean, right Jinx?
So a PU PU PLATTER is like Asian tapas?
WEES - AT EASE is modified (not so rigid) Attention; no talking and you still look straight ahead. "Fall out" is real rest :-)
I always hear the Justice's name as ANTON 'and' Scalia. A judicial duo? :-)
//kinda like when the Secretary of State's name Anthony Blinken is spoken; sounds like AbeLincoln to me :-)
AltGranny: TeeHee - baseball knowledge strikes again :-)
PLUTO had it coming [Neil deGrasse Tyson 5:36]
Play later if I get a KIP before getting back to work.
Cheers, -T
No problems with this puzzle today. Never heard of EPUB, but DPS was solid. I didn't read yesterday's, so it was a shock to hear of Spitzboov's death - so very sad. I've always enjoyed his knowledgeable comments - especially when he recalled his Navy times; he will be missed here at The Corner. Thank you, CED, for the video tribute, although I admit I was getting a wee bit seasick watching the waves break over the rolling ship.
ReplyDeletePer the Judgmental Map, I live in the "Wannabe Pretentious White People" area. Although 45 years ago, when I bought my house there were no pretentious people, just good solid folks. Then gentrification arrived which produced the pretentious and entitled McMansion owners. [end of rant]
Thanks, Susan - I always love your cartoons and your wit!
TxMs, we were talking about TRIS Speaker the other day and I recalled someone in here knew him.
ReplyDeleteWas it you?
He was Connie Mack's favorite because of the combination of speed, hitting, defense and baseball acumen.
Speaking of... OMK, an old Seal fan like you didn't catch DPs?
WC
WC
FIR. I saw the shtick with the long fills, but I was at a loss for putting it into words. Thanks, Susan for letting me avoid a headache. Nice expo!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the nice puzzle, Kurt!
Sorry to hear about Spitzboov's death. His posts were so informative.
I too LOVED the Judgmental Map of Houston! I’m going to have to check out the maps for some of the other cities.
I’m right where the “I’m” in the “What’s the speed limit? I’m….” is on the map. The people who did the map need to come out here and check again. When we moved out here in 2000, ours was the last subdivision west and south. Now, there are nothing but subdivisions at least 12 miles west of us (haven't been past Fulshear in quite a while) and all the way down to the Land of Sugar, where –T lives. It ain’t LMCBP anymore. Yes, all the houses look the same, the only differences being whether they are one or two stories.
Here's another way of putting it: There's a 24-hour McDonald's across the main road right outside the entrance to my subdivision.
The racetrack wasn’t even there when we moved here; it was just railroad tracks and a nice little icehouse. Both have been replace by the racetrack, which happens to charge me to drive one it!
(For all you yankees --- no offense, EVERYONE NOT BORN IN TEXAS, including me, IS A YANKEE TO EVERYONE BORN IN TEXAS --- an icehouse is an inside/outside beer joint. This article explains it better than I can.)
Texas Icehouse
YES! I’ve been to the one pictured in the article (among many others)! It’s called “West Alabama Ice House” because it is on West Alabama Street --- nothing to do with Alabama itself!
Yes, I’m still mad about Pluto too! The Science Channel (I think) program about the New Horizons flyby of Pluto is very interesting.
NO! I DO NOT LIKE EGGPLANT in any way, shape, manner or form --- and I’ve tried (had foisted on me) all of them! It is one of the very few things that I will not eat!
WC @8:49p, re Tris Speaker: it wasn't me, unfortunately. In fact, I had to google who he was (vague memory, kinda). DPs were fairly common when Astros' catcher, Martin Maldonado ("Maldy"), was behind home plate - can't wait for the season to start.
ReplyDeleteLeo, I love icehouses - great times/memories! Have you ever been to Mary Jane's on Bissonnet? Maybe it's been long gone considering the sky-high real estate prices in the area. On to eggplant... my favorite way of eating that slimy vegetable (have to pre-soak it in a salt bath for 15 minutes for most recipes), is how my country mom cooked it. Sliced fresh (from her garden), coated in an egg/cornmeal batter, and quickly fried - nothing better!
I might eat eggPLANT if hot sauce were poured on it.
ReplyDeleteToday I took Mark for the first removal of cataracts and while waiting for him went to the only available eatery nearby, Taco Bell. The call it food! I had pretend tacos only to stave off hunger. The other option was McDonald's. Fortunately his next appointment is in our neighborhood, very close.
Have a good night, all.