Open Thoughts Friday

Jay, what on EARTH (15.00 / 6)

is in that sandwich?  I can ID the rye bread & something that looks like corned beef, but the rest is a cipher.

Anyway, hope you enjoyed it.  :-D

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
E. B. White  

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by: Youffraita @ Fri Aug 06, 2010 at 05:43:25 AM UTC

Weighing in on a Friday morning: (14.67 / 6)

  While we're on the subject of delicatessens,  There's a good deli in Brookline's Coolidge Corner where I go for breakfast every time I go to get my car serviced at the car dealer's over in Allston.  Since Coolidge Corner is within a good walking distance, I walk up there and have something to eat while I'm waiting.  The Nova (smoked salmon) Combination plate and the smoked Whitefish plates are excellent choices, but I always have the Nova Combination when I'm up there.  Sometimes, I'll even have buttermilk pancakes, either with or without fruit, or even chocolate chips, and sausage links on the side.  Not the greatest food-fare regarding cholesterol (which I don't have a history of problems with), but I figure ...eh...once in a blue moon won't hurt me.  I'm healthy, but I can't take my health for granted anymore, but splurging once in awhile won't hurt, I figure. Heee.  Sometimes,  when I'm going to an evening movie at the Coolidge Corner Theatre, which is also in the vicinity, I'll go and have a bite to eat at the Deli,or some other restaurant while waiting, since they sometimes have good Soups of the Day.  This also won "The Best of Boston" award regarding delis one year, too.  The name of this deli escapes me at the moment, I'll   have to remember it the next time I go back there.  

They've had other delis in that area that've gone out of business, only to be replaced by others;  Jack & Marions, Zathmary's, and now this one.

Furthur up Harvard Street in Brookline's Coolidge Corner, there's a great Japanese restaurant, that serves all kinds of sushi combos and other dishes.  Since raw fish has never, ever appealed to me, I go for a dish called "The Volcano". which is a combination of all kinds of cooked fish and bread crumbs and seasonings, and is piled up so that it looks kind of like a small volcano!  It's delicious, to boot....and very filling.

Oh, and last but not least, there's a JP Licks Ice Cream in Coolidge Corner, too.  Since JP Licks Ice Cream shops are sprouting up all over the place, there's also one in Boston's Jamaica Plain Section, one in Cambridge's Harvard Square, and also one in Arlington Center.  JP Licks Ice Cream is great, but more expensive, and the people who work there are sort of cool also.  

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

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by: mplo @ Fri Aug 06, 2010 at 12:46:12 PM UTC

ok (15.00 / 4)

i'll fess up.
i've never had chopped liver or pastrami.
rye bread (or pumpernickel) is to be toasted & slathered with butter & topped with alpine lace swiss cheese & eaten for breakfast...
but then i can only get rye (or pumpernickel) in the city... about an hour away.

that black cherry is calling my name.

"Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for stealing out of hunger,
how high would the gallows need to be to hang the rich man?"
~The Patrician in 'Snuff' by Terry Pratchett

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by: RiaD @ Fri Aug 06, 2010 at 12:55:46 PM UTC

Oh, btw Youff... (15.00 / 4)

I didn't forget about hitting the KOI taco truck!  Just didn't get a chance this week.  Actually, I did stumble across them in the South Park Blocks downtown on Wednesday, they were there at the farmers' market*, but I was in a rush to do other things and actually to pick up the very meal you see above on the way back home for a late lunch / early dinner. :)

Next week I think I can stop there if I have the time.  I do want to try it...

*oh and there was also some German folk festival thing going on there in the park that afternoon, too.  Bunch of guys dressed in the exact same outfits, with the green suspenders and feathered hats and all, and doing the exact same dancing thing** they did in that scene in National Lampoon's European Vacation, if you've ever seen that movie?  I kept waiting for Chevy Chase to start a slapfight with the guys!  Heh.  Gha, wish I had brought my camera!  It was packed, though.  Huge crowd, beautiful day.

**sorry I don't know what it's called, my knowledge of German customs and traditions is completely nonexistent

Pass me a bottle, Mr. Jones...

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by: JayinPortland @ Fri Aug 06, 2010 at 13:33:13 PM UTC

Preseason Coaches' Poll... (15.00 / 3)

College football's back soon!

:)

The 2010 Preseason USA Today Coaches' Poll is out.

No surprises in the Top 5 - Alabama, Ohio State, Florida, Texas, Boise State.

As for the Good Guys (!) - Rutgers gets no votes (grrrr), Michigan State gets ten votes and Oregon starts the season ranked Number 11 overall.

Surprises - Iowa at 10?  Gtfouttahere!  Nebraska at 9 is about five spots too high, as well.  I'd bump Wisconsin up to Number 10, one spot ahead of Oregon.  Penn State is overrated as usual, by about 3 or 4 spots I'd say.  (sorry Youff!)  

Arkansas at 19?  Eh, I guess.  Sounds kinda high, though.  I don't think they look any better than Oregon State, Georgia, Florida State or West Virginia.  Auburn seems kinda high to me, I'd at least put WVU ahead of them.  Arizona State getting 6 votes (and Temple only getting 2) surprises me.

Hey, where are the mighty Trojans?!  Oh heh, that's right!  Insert that Simpsons' "Ha Ha!" thingy...

;)

Pass me a bottle, Mr. Jones...

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by: JayinPortland @ Fri Aug 06, 2010 at 19:18:19 PM UTC

How Republicans REALLY Behave (14.60 / 5)

This is a re-enactment of your typical day in the House or Senate when a Republican wants to advance one of their typical reverse-Robin-Hood ideas. This is why Democrats cannot stay home this November and let the Tea Party crowd put these children back in power. The American middle class cannot afford another minute of their slimy, self-serving policies.

h/t to DU poster "gadjitfreek"

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by: Timbuk3 @ Sat Aug 07, 2010 at 03:07:40 AM UTC