Clueless Questions

[MitchW]

2 hours ago, small h said:

Seems to be. Kind if a PITA to make such fussy fakes.

https://despananyc.com/collections/tinned-specialties/products/cabo-de-penas-surimi-baby-eels-in-olive-oil

[small h]

This modern world.

[Orik]

22 hours ago, small h said:

What is this? I bought a piece of yellowtail (buri) at Japan Village, and the vendor gave me three packs of this. It has the texture of al dente pasta. It tastes a a little salty and that’s about it. Anyone recognize it? Is it little tiny fish? I think I see eyes.

 

 

Shirasu as you said, as opposed to chirimen

[small h]

1 minute ago, Orik said:

Shirasu

Thanks. That is what most of the people who responded responded. Dunno what I'm going to do with the other two packs, 'cause the first one was not especially thrilling.

[Orik]

They really don't last once defrosted so they're not going to become any more appealing...

[small h]

I might pitch them. They were free, after all.

[bloviatrix]

1 hour ago, small h said:

I might pitch them. They were free, after all.

How about offer them to your local Buy Nothing group?

[small h]

1 hour ago, bloviatrix said:

How about offer them to your local Buy Nothing group?

It’s literally a couple of tablespoons. I can’t imagine anyone would bother with it.   

[voyager]

Er, I am the only diner to turn down angulas at Etxebarri.    My loss, so I was told. 

[bloviatrix]

1 hour ago, small h said:

It’s literally a couple of tablespoons. I can’t imagine anyone would bother with it.   

I bet someone would - people give away slices of pizza in the group I'm in. It's crazy what people will take.

[small h]

At this point I'm worried that it's not even good anymore. I don't want to poison anyone.

There's a lively exchange in my coop, and I've both given and got a fair amount. It's always kind of hilarious what people will try to sell. Like, one person offers a free monitor 'cause Amazon sent them two by mistake. Meanwhile, another person is asking $50 for a pair of used shoes.

[bloviatrix]

We could have a whole thread about Buy Nothing Groups. And as crazy as the things some people offer is that there are takers!

[relbbaddoof]

Nextdoor just got its moment in the sun, or at least in Shouts and Murmurs. Perhaps its time for Buy Nothing.

[StephanieL]

3 hours ago, bloviatrix said:

We could have a whole thread about Buy Nothing Groups. And as crazy as the things some people offer is that there are takers!

True, but we've also gotten some amazing "gifts", including an Insta-Pot, this expensive tea blend from Bellocq, and homemade Diwali sweets.  I've given away everything from clothes that don't fit me anymore to a gaming chair.

Edited November 11, 2024 by StephanieL

[small h]

I woke up Wednesday morning running through a list of possible countries we could move to. And then I looked around at how much crap was have, and I started panicking about being trapped here. I may be spending a lot of time on Buy Nothing, going forward.

[bloviatrix]

I keep seeing a commercial for the perfume Coco de Chanel. I'm convinced that the music used is a riff on Pulp's Common People. Has anyone else picked up on this? (They just showed the spot on the Giants game)

[splinky]

3 hours ago, bloviatrix said:

I keep seeing a commercial for the perfume Coco de Chanel. I'm convinced that the music used is a riff on Pulp's Common People. Has anyone else picked up on this? (They just showed the spot on the Giants game)

this one? 

it's from the late 70s

[small h]

I have a run-of-the-mill bathroom scale that has worked reasonably well for the decade or so I've had it. Yesterday when I stepped onto it, it made a crunching sound, as if it were full of twigs and pebbles all of a sudden. And it's knocked 30 lbs off my weight.

Anyone know what happened to it?

[small h]

Anyone remember a cocktail bar on the LES that would make bespoke cocktails - you'd tell them your preferred spirit, and your preferences, and they would make you something? It's been closed probably ten years already.

I feel like it was East Side Company Bar on Essex south of Grand.

Edited January 15 by small h

[splinky]

Attaboy does that

[small h]

Yes, but it’s still open.

I’m 99% sure it was ESCB.

[MitchW]

Any good bartender should be able to do that, no?

Perhaps Painkiller, which was located where The Pickle Guys once were. 

[MitchW]

Actually, doing a little looking up, I guess PKNY opened where East Side Company Bar once was as well.

[small h]

Yep. I got confused and thought, must be ESCB, but that was a tiki place. Mais non! It became a tiki place, Painkiller. Now it's, what, East Side Vape Pens and Lottery Tickets?

[Wilfrid]

Milk & Honey did that too, pre-Attaboy, he commented irrelevantly.