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May 05, 2003

100 Things about me

  1. Olive loaf is my favorite meat, although my wife cooked me a very delicious steak yesterday.
  2. Ferns are my favorite plant. I love the way their fronds unfurl in the late spring, I'm fascinated by the way they spread via an intricate root system. Maybe not so intricate, just sending runners out from which young ferns sprout, but it's still beautiful. And I love the foresty way the soil smells when you have to transplant several hundred of them from one shady corner of your yard to another because your wife decides she wants to put the mother of all wading pools in the first, fern-populated, shady corner.

      2 down, 98 to go.

      Posted at May 5, 2003 11:58 AM
Comments

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Posted by: kismet at May 5, 2003 12:32 PM

heh. Good one.


bastard

Posted by: bauke at May 5, 2003 02:56 PM

I think Olive Loaf is more of a "meat product." But I could be wrong.

Posted by: Adam at May 5, 2003 03:38 PM

Wow... I could make a book about my favorite "meat products." Mig, one that you can appreciate is the Hot Dog Spezial mit Scharfen Senf from the Wuerstelstand near Schwedenplatz. Yum! The BBQ Senf that place used to use is the stuff of dreams, and the hollowed-out and internally toasted baguette that serves as the roll... Ooof!

Posted by: scottyt he body at May 5, 2003 09:31 PM

Maybe I lack taste, but I don't have a favorite Wuerstelstand. I find them all equally charming, with a few disgusting exceptions. The hotdogs are good, but I prefer, when I'm dining with my wife, "what she's having". I do that a lot - let her order, then order the same thing. Normally I'll get a "Haase" or one of the other sausage products. I do order spicy mustard, though, whereas she prefers the sweet.

On the topic of hotdogs, at my younger daughter's recent birthday party (1 May, a national holiday here, Labor Day, i.e. for the working man, not "Loyalty Day" as President Bush apparently proclaimed recently but that's another topic) I even sharpened a 3/4" dowel to hollow out mini-baguettes, after which ketchup was squirted into the holes before sticking in frankfurters or mini-bratwurst.

Posted by: Mig at May 6, 2003 05:56 AM

Oh, and of course you're right, Adam. I do not want to know how olive loaf is made. It is a guilty pleasure. But one can't be a purist all the time.

Actually, I find it hard to be a purist at all anymore but that's another story.

Posted by: Mig at May 6, 2003 05:57 AM
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