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Excuse me for stating the obvious, but evidently Starbuck's pain au raison
only has one raisin in it. This is probably to keep the calorie count down.

-Bob

On 10/16/07, Libby.Trudell@thomson.com wrote:
>
> Pas de raisins, in my case, vs raison d'etre
>
> —–Original Message—–
> From: Dianne Ellsworth [mailto:ellswortha@earthlink.net]
> Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 6:29 PM
> To: boogkb@tmo.blackberry.net; Vox; Boogs Sack
> Subject: Re: BSMA. Pokomoke
>
> Real-To: Dianne Ellsworth
>
> Jeff,
> One thing I must say–on this trip in particular–I have been struck by
> the fact that you have mentioned (and visited) more towns of which I've
> never heard than I can remember hearing from your previous trips.
>
> I guess that shows my unfamiliarity with towns along the
> Southern/Eastern coastline. Of course, there may be many more
> towns/mile on the East Coast than in the less populated reaches of
> Minnesota. Still.
>
> Now,
> From the department of "you-can-find-anything-you-want-on-Google's
> restaurant":
>
> 1) "Starbucks Pain Au Raison", from a calorie-counting site (not
> Starbuck's own though)
>
> 2) Kelloggs Raisin Bran Individual Box, Kelloggs Raisin Crunch Bran
> Individual Bowl, Kelloggs Raison Bran Crunch Bulk,…", from a food
> service site
>
> and my personal favorite
>
> 3)"pain's raison d'etre", from an scholarly article on pain & pain
> management
>
>
> And I thought I was being facetious? In any event, the real pain raison
> (which I know Jeff loves), should be pain aux raisins, I believe, just
> so you know I know.
>
> Libby doesn't really want to know about raisins in any form (so skip
> this whole part of the message, Libby).
>
> Cheers,
> Dee
>
>
>
> —–Original Message—–
> >From: boogkb@tmo.blackberry.net
> >Sent: Oct 15, 2007 5:35 PM
> >To: Vox <980286c3a15f1c66@moblog.vox.com>, Boogs Sack
> >
> >Subject: BSMA. Pokomoke
> >
> >15. Oct.
> >
> >Maryland. Poke claims to be the friendliness city.
> >
> >Wonderful ride through Puncateague, Onancoke ( a town with many many
> large cemetaries) and other rural Eastern shore villages.
> >
> >Coffee and local history, as well as a good discussion on the number of
> Baptist churches and other sects. The Raisan Bran (in Dee' words).
> >
> >Country ham with eggs as a sandwich, pumkin pie, manhatten clam
> chowder, all at a Stiuckey's.
> >
> >
> >
>
>

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Pas de raisins, in my case, vs raison d'etre

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Jeff,
One thing I must say–on this trip in particular–I have been struck by the fact that you have mentioned (and visited) more towns of which I've never heard than I can remember hearing from your previous trips.

I guess that shows my unfamiliarity with towns along the Southern/Eastern coastline. Of course, there may be many more towns/mile on the East Coast than in the less populated reaches of Minnesota. Still.

Now,
From the department of "you-can-find-anything-you-want-on-Google's restaurant":

1) "Starbucks Pain Au Raison", from a calorie-counting site (not Starbuck's own though)

2) Kelloggs Raisin Bran Individual Box, Kelloggs Raisin Crunch Bran Individual Bowl, Kelloggs Raison Bran Crunch Bulk,…", from a food service site

and my personal favorite

3)"pain's raison d'etre", from an scholarly article on pain & pain management

And I thought I was being facetious? In any event, the real pain raison (which I know Jeff loves), should be pain aux raisins, I believe, just so you know I know.

Libby doesn't really want to know about raisins in any form (so skip this whole part of the message, Libby).

Cheers,
Dee

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15. Oct.

Maryland. Poke claims to be the friendliness city.

Wonderful ride through Puncateague, Onancoke ( a town with many many large cemetaries) and other rural Eastern shore villages.

Coffee and local history, as well as a good discussion on the number of Baptist churches and other sects. The Raisan Bran (in Dee' words).

Country ham with eggs as a sandwich, pumkin pie, manhatten clam chowder, all at a Stiuckey's.

church 173.jpg

small town.jpg

3 dollars a pound.jpg

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These are all good questions, and I'm sure I should know the answer to them
but frankly, I am mystified. The fact is, George is correct. Dementia has
set in and I can't tell my e-coli from a hole in the ground.

As to pig supervision, I have only seen 3 examples of pigs in production.
One was in Spain. It was a family farm of a few thousand pigs. They lived in
very clean spaces and had controlled but natural diets of local grains. The
second was in England where they all seemed covered in excrement and as
happy as pigs in same. The third was the pig wallow behind my brother's
house in British Columbia. Just a mud pit, really. Total filth.

There is no question but that the Spanish make the best ham indicating an
inverse relationship between flavor and excrement levels. Thank God.

-Bob

On 10/15/07, Herb Blumstein wrote:
>
> I believe that European supervision of pork is supposedly much more
> stringent than ours in the US – Bob? As an expert on pork and Europe, what
> do you say?
> RE deaths due to rare hamburgers, I think those were due to a virulent
> strain of e-coli rather than botulism. Another instance of poor supervision
> of meat production in the US. We've go all the laws needed but poor
> supervision and enforcement. Not that you won't get some great cases of
> food poisoning in Europe, mind you. They just call it stomach "flu"!
> Chow!
>
> On 10/14/07, boogkb@tmo.blackberry.net < boogkb@tmo.blackberry.net >
> wrote:
> >
> > 14 Oct.
> >
> > The Chesapeake bay bridge tunnel is an engineering marvel. 17. 3 miles
> > long, cyclists prohibited. Virginia runs a shuttle.
> >
> > To get to the tunnel there was a windy ride along the Atlantic and then
> > the shores of the bay.
> >
> > Four lane highway with a good wide shoulder. Many fireworks, rockets,
> > cheap cigarettes, bacon, and hams for sale. The pic is not nearly the lowest
> > price.
> >
> > Today's food highlights included, appart from the large steamed shrimp
> > -again, were the sweet potato buscuits (excellent) and the pulled pork on a
> > Kaiser roll. One does not bring up beef BBQ in the part of the South.
> >
> > Speaking of food and pork and hams leads to many questions. We saw
> > Felton's ham in a burlap bag, bacon without vacuum packing (tourists need
> > killing?), and then there is Virginia Ham, Parma Ham, Honey Baked, and so
> > many other kinds, some smoked, some air dried. How is one to
> > choose? Which kinds are legal to make in the US?
> >
> > HiHi
> >
> >
> >
>
>

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I believe that European supervision of pork is supposedly much more
stringent than ours in the US – Bob? As an expert on pork and Europe, what
do you say?
RE deaths due to rare hamburgers, I think those were due to a virulent
strain of e-coli rather than botulism. Another instance of poor supervision
of meat production in the US. We've go all the laws needed but poor
supervision and enforcement. Not that you won't get some great cases of
food poisoning in Europe, mind you. They just call it stomach "flu"!
Chow!

On 10/14/07, boogkb@tmo.blackberry.net wrote:
>
> 14 Oct.
>
> The Chesapeake bay bridge tunnel is an engineering marvel. 17. 3 miles
> long, cyclists prohibited. Virginia runs a shuttle.
>
> To get to the tunnel there was a windy ride along the Atlantic and then
> the shores of the bay.
>
> Four lane highway with a good wide shoulder. Many fireworks, rockets,
> cheap cigarettes, bacon, and hams for sale. The pic is not nearly the lowest
> price.
>
> Today's food highlights included, appart from the large steamed shrimp
> -again, were the sweet potato buscuits (excellent) and the pulled pork on a
> Kaiser roll. One does not bring up beef BBQ in the part of the South.
>
> Speaking of food and pork and hams leads to many questions. We saw
> Felton's ham in a burlap bag, bacon without vacuum packing (tourists need
> killing?), and then there is Virginia Ham, Parma Ham, Honey Baked, and so
> many other kinds, some smoked, some air dried. How is one to
> choose? Which kinds are legal to make in the US?
>
> HiHi
>
>
>

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We're such sensitive creatures.  What can I say? Europeans? Thousands of years of antibodies; all lost when they (the europeans, not the antibodies) arrived on our shores.  Who knows? Just making all this up.  It sounds promising.

Well, the Europeans don't have all the "stress" we do either, though they are rapidly taking on all our bad habits.  A pity.  Watch what happens. It's happening already.

As I mentioned to Herb, no one has mentioned yak butter or yak butter tea.  Are you all wimps?

Jeff–I know that e-mails on the run are hard (and we love them.  Photos and all-thanks), but does "raison bran" have anything to do with raison d'etre? pain raison?

Dee

—–Original Message—–
From: Bob Morgen
Sent: Oct 14, 2007 5:41 PM
To: boogkb@tmo.blackberry.net
Cc: Vox <980286c3a15f1c66@moblog.vox.com>, Boogs Sack
Subject: Re: BSMA. Exmore

While generally refusing to rise to the bait, I will point out that the Europeans seem to eat masses of ham free from life-preserving nitrates, and worse yet manage not to die after eating unpasteurized cheeses, even those sporting colorful plumes of foetid moulds.

Yet, feed an American a rare hamburger, and he keels over from botulism, dead as a doornail. Go figure.

-Bob

On 10/15/07, boogkb@tmo.blackberry.net <boogkb@tmo.blackberry.net> wrote:

14 Oct.

The Chesapeake bay bridge tunnel is an engineering marvel. 17. 3 miles long, cyclists prohibited. Virginia runs a shuttle.

To get to the tunnel there was a windy ride along the Atlantic and then the shores of the bay.

Four lane highway with a good wide shoulder. Many fireworks, rockets, cheap cigarettes, bacon, and hams for sale. The pic is not nearly the lowest price.

Today's food highlights included, appart from the large steamed shrimp -again, were the sweet potato buscuits (excellent) and the pulled pork on a Kaiser roll.  One does not bring up beef BBQ in the part of the South.

Speaking of food and pork and hams leads to many questions. We saw Felton's ham in a burlap bag, bacon without vacuum packing (tourists need killing?), and then there is Virginia Ham, Parma Ham, Honey Baked,  and so many other kinds, some smoked, some air dried.   How is one to choose?  Which kinds are legal to make in the US?

HiHi

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May be they've just has those same cigarettes prices signs up for the
past 20 years and haven't bothered to change them…

Actually you see even cheaper prices inland in tobacco country. When I
went to the Durham Bulls game in July there cheap cigs everywhere! I do
not remember if smoking was allowed in the ball park.. But I bet it was.

Libby

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While generally refusing to rise to the bait, I will point out that the
Europeans seem to eat masses of ham free from life-preserving nitrates, and
worse yet manage not to die after eating unpasteurized cheeses, even those
sporting colorful plumes of foetid moulds.

Yet, feed an American a rare hamburger, and he keels over from botulism,
dead as a doornail. Go figure.

-Bob

On 10/15/07, boogkb@tmo.blackberry.net wrote:
>
> 14 Oct.
>
> The Chesapeake bay bridge tunnel is an engineering marvel. 17. 3 miles
> long, cyclists prohibited. Virginia runs a shuttle.
>
> To get to the tunnel there was a windy ride along the Atlantic and then
> the shores of the bay.
>
> Four lane highway with a good wide shoulder. Many fireworks, rockets,
> cheap cigarettes, bacon, and hams for sale. The pic is not nearly the lowest
> price.
>
> Today's food highlights included, appart from the large steamed shrimp
> -again, were the sweet potato buscuits (excellent) and the pulled pork on a
> Kaiser roll. One does not bring up beef BBQ in the part of the South.
>
> Speaking of food and pork and hams leads to many questions. We saw
> Felton's ham in a burlap bag, bacon without vacuum packing (tourists need
> killing?), and then there is Virginia Ham, Parma Ham, Honey Baked, and so
> many other kinds, some smoked, some air dried. How is one to
> choose? Which kinds are legal to make in the US?
>
> HiHi
>
>
>

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14 Oct.

The Chesapeake bay bridge tunnel is an engineering marvel. 17. 3 miles long, cyclists prohibited. Virginia runs a shuttle.

To get to the tunnel there was a windy ride along the Atlantic and then the shores of the bay.

Four lane highway with a good wide shoulder. Many fireworks, rockets, cheap cigarettes, bacon, and hams for sale. The pic is not nearly the lowest price.

Today's food highlights included, appart from the large steamed shrimp -again, were the sweet potato buscuits (excellent) and the pulled pork on a Kaiser roll. One does not bring up beef BBQ in the part of the South.

Speaking of food and pork and hams leads to many questions. We saw Felton's ham in a burlap bag, bacon without vacuum packing (tourists need killing?), and then there is Virginia Ham, Parma Ham, Honey Baked, and so many other kinds, some smoked, some air dried. How is one to choose? Which kinds are legal to make in the US?

HiHi

cig prices.jpg

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