Travel Time Twenty Ten

[Mr. Mephistopheles]

This is veal piccata. Veal piccata, this is Quatloos. Say hi, everyone.

Does the military have veal piccata MRE's?

[Doktor Avalanche]

This is veal piccata. Veal piccata, this is Quatloos. Say hi, everyone.

Does the military have veal piccata MRE's?

No and I wouldn't trust it if they did.

However, I do happen to have a list of my favorite MREs. I have tried them all and I think there are quite a few that are winners. They are:

Chili Mac (always a favorite)
Beef Teriyaki
Chicken and Noodles
Chicken and Salsa
Beef Stew
Cheese Tortelloni (this and Chili Mac is universally loved throughout the services)
Meatballs w/BBQ sauce
Sloppy Joe
Pork Rib
Manicotti w/Vegetables

And my least favorites?

Jambalaya (whatever this is, it ain't Jambalaya)
Meat Loaf w/Gravy (how the hell do manage to f*ck up meat loaf? Ask the military!)
Cajun Rice & Sausage (they really need to stop doing cajun cuisine)
Veggie Burger w/BBQ Sauce (I'm not kidding - they really have this abomination)
Pasta w/Vegetables in Tomato Sauce (It's more like tomato soup that's been through someone)
Beef Patty (more like possum patty if you ask me. Aborted attempt at salisbury steak)
Beefsteak w/ Mushrooms (Why, Lord, why?)
Chicken Breast (This should be banned by the Geneva Convention)
Chicken w/Cavatelli (The only saving grace is this one comes with Fig Newtons!)

[Mr. Mephistopheles]

This is veal piccata. Veal piccata, this is Quatloos. Say hi, everyone.

Does the military have veal piccata MRE's?

No and I wouldn't trust it if they did.

However, I do happen to have a list of my favorite MREs. I have tried them all and I think there are quite a few that are winners. They are:

Chili Mac (always a favorite)
Beef Teriyaki
Chicken and Noodles
Chicken and Salsa
Beef Stew
Cheese Tortelloni (this and Chili Mac is universally loved throughout the services)
Meatballs w/BBQ sauce
Sloppy Joe
Pork Rib
Manicotti w/Vegetables

And my least favorites?

Jambalaya (whatever this is, it ain't Jambalaya)
Meat Loaf w/Gravy (how the hell do manage to f*ck up meat loaf? Ask the military!)
Cajun Rice & Sausage (they really need to stop doing cajun cuisine)
Veggie Burger w/BBQ Sauce (I'm not kidding - they really have this abomination)
Pasta w/Vegetables in Tomato Sauce (It's more like tomato soup that's been through someone)
Beef Patty (more like possum patty if you ask me. Aborted attempt at salisbury steak)
Beefsteak w/ Mushrooms (Why, Lord, why?)
Chicken Breast (This should be banned by the Geneva Convention)
Chicken w/Cavatelli (The only saving grace is this one comes with Fig Newtons!)

The "good" ones don't sound too bad, but the bad ones sound horrible. I've heard horror stories from others about the chicken breasts.

[Prof]

Just finished dinner in San Jose with our son (his MFA thesis show is Tues., but I have to be back in Texas, so I came out to see the pieces and his mom will stay). The weather is perfect! And, the son had a piece at the De Young student show on Friday night. Life is good, as CKB says.

I just had dinner in San Jose on April 25 at Original Joe's. I'm just checking off items on my Bucket List.

And this is what I had for dinner.



This is veal piccata. Veal piccata, this is Quatloos. Say hi, everyone.

When in San Jose, I stayed around the block; had dinner with my son at McCormick and Schmick's down the street.

[Doktor Avalanche]

When in San Jose, I stayed around the block; had dinner with my son at McCormick and Schmick's down the street.

I had cocktails there earlier that afternoon - tee martoonis.

[Doktor Avalanche]

A bit of advice my dad learned 60 years ago from men who were Old Corps - always pack some Tabasco sauce and some garlic powder. Words to live by. Something the new Army has obviously forgotten........

Actually, CK, MREs come with little bottles of tabasco. We'd stick the heating element of the MRE into a water bottle, add a little water, empty a few tabasco bottles into the mix, cap it off, let the hydrogen gas fill up the bottle real nice and then throw it on a fire where your fellow shipmates are huddle around.

Instant pepper bomb.

[Doktor Avalanche]

You wish! I learned that from the Marines.

[Nikki]

Pathetic. You skipped at least thirty excellent bars.

[Pottapaug1938]

Too bad our paths couldn't have crossed while you were here. Among other things, I could have showed you what restoration projects my Scouts did aboard the Salem....

BTW, I'm in the New England Law School Class of 1978.

[webhick]

EAGLE SCOUT!

[Prof]

P, when we were both in Boston (I was a grad student in '78-'79), there was a bar in one of the squares between HU and MIT, on the Red LIne, that served more Moosehead than any other joint in the city, and perhaps in the States. Maybe it was at Central. Do you remember the place?

[Cathulhu]

May I submit a suggestion for next year, Cap'n? Found this place when I was taking spouse's truck for emission test, had no idea it was there, but there are plans now for a family Christmas picture under the sign...

http://www.city-data.com/picfilesc/picc44500.php

You want Americana, I'll be happy to help!

[Prof]

New Orleans is in early October for me this year and next year I may not do much of anything, so that I can save up for a big, 14 day driving tour of Ireland.

I say save up, because I like to pay cash for my trips and have the spending money set aside so nothing is on credit card(s).

I'll be in New Orleans from the 13-16 for something called the NCBJ. That will be my Fall trip.

[Prof]

National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, wisea#@.

[Judge Roy Bean]

NCBJ = North Carolina Banjo Jamboree?

I was going to write something(s) prof probably would like even less . . . never mind.

[Prof]

NCBJ = North Carolina Banjo Jamboree?

I was going to write something(s) prof probably would like even less . . . never mind.

Fill in the blanks:

Everybody likes a _______, no one likes a wise _____________.

[Cathulhu]

I heard attendance was 120,000 people, which is a bit too much for me. Just try dealing with a crowd when you need your cane or walker; depending on how bad a day I'm having I use them when I must. I have been bowled over by rude little twerps running in the hallways, and the cane is much handier than the walker for instant justice. (But a throwing dagger is what I really want to use.) Pick up any art?

[Pottapaug1938]

P, when we were both in Boston (I was a grad student in '78-'79), there was a bar in one of the squares between HU and MIT, on the Red LIne, that served more Moosehead than any other joint in the city, and perhaps in the States. Maybe it was at Central. Do you remember the place?

No; I tended to do my drinking in the Back Bay, which is where my law school was....

[Cpt Banjo]

NCBJ = North Carolina Banjo Jamboree?

Sounds good to me.

[wserra]

Capt. Lincoln F. Sternn (from the movie Heavy Metal, signed by Bernie Wrightson)

Q: How in the world did you get that?
CKB: I got an ... angle.

Very cool.