Subj : Authentics was: Taco Slop                                [1]
To   : Dave Drum
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Sun Jul 09 2023 13:08:04

Hi Dave,

 DD> Just not so much at their restaurants in the USA it seems.

 RH> Maybe they think we only like it as ham, bacon or pork chops.

 DD> Or sausage, or ribs, or pulled pork, etc, etc, Maybe they're Jewish or
 DD> Muslim instead of being in thrall to the Pope and his minions.

At this point, it's anybody's guess.

 RH> Yes, but it would have been nice to have gotten notice earlier in the
 RH> day.

 DD> Did they indicate why they would be closed? It might have been a vital
 DD> part of the place had been compromised - like, no air conditioning, or
 DD> no gas service (for whatever reason) to light the stoves. If they
 DD> could predict what happened it would not be an emergency.

At the time they said "no staff available", changed later to "family
emergency".


 RH> Our favorite Italian place here in town sold out to one of the
 RH> employees a while back. Owner was from the same region of Italy as
 RH> Steve's mom's family so it was "home cooking" for us. We went there a
 RH> good number of times pre covid, once during covid trued their take out
 RH> pizza & were less than impressed. Have only been back once since the
 RH> new ownership, need to go back and see if the chicken cacciatori (our
 RH> favorite) is still as good. Original owner had opened up another
 RH> restaurant in a nearby town; that one was taking all his time so he
 RH> sold out & supposedly sold his recipies to the new owner.

 DD> First time I ever met cacciatore it was served to my by an old Italain
 DD> gent who was a retired coal miner. He lived in an one room
 DD> "efficiency" apartment in my friend's mother's transient hotel. When
 DD> Dennis introduced us and I heard the guys surname I asked if he was
 DD> related to two brothers known to "mobbed up". Sammy replied, "Yeah,
 DD> they're my brothers but they are crooks. I don't have nothing to do
 DD> with them."

Good for him, and it sounds like he was a good cook.

 DD> He served us pigeon cacciatore - which was appropriate as the dish
 is DD> translated as "hunter's stew" and the flying rats were all that
 could DD> be hunted downtown - unless you wanted real rats.  Bv)=3

No thanks to having a real rat but pigeon would be interesting. Could
have called it "urban quail". (G)


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Catch you later,
Ruth
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