The news this morning...
Nov. 20th, 2006 08:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fajrdrakoI regularly get my breakfast at the Loeb grocery store on Rideau, across the street from the Ottawa Little Theatre. I get the small caesar salad, costing $3.29. I've been doing this for maybe a year now.
About six months ago, they changed their supplier or something, and suddenly they were making caesar salad with raw onion in it. Grumpy about this, I wrote to the manager of the store protesting - raw onion is just improper in a decent caesar salad. They never answered my letter. So for six months, I've been buying the salad, and then then carefully picking out the onion. Waste of time.
Today there was no onion in my salad. After six months, did they finally listen to my letter? Or was it a fluke, they ran out of onions this mornings? We'll see what I get tomorrow.
And it's cold. Temperatures below freezing. Frozen puddles. Winter coat weather. Of course, two months from now, temperatures of a couple of degrees below zero would sound like balmy luxury, but we're not there yet. I think I need warmer gloves already.
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Date: 2006-11-20 03:02 pm (UTC)And a greatcoat? :)
Anyway, re the Caesar salad...
1. I think you're right about onions in Caesar salad. Never seen it in a real one...
2. But I love onions, so usually I wouldn't pick them out, unless
3. as in your case, it's for breakfast. We don't have clients, but... there's still 7 of us working in an office, and onion has its aroma
4. I don't think they only noticed your letter now. They _may_ have run out of onions, or perhaps you weren't the only one who complained, and they finally collected enough letters (or the supplier did) to stop abusing the recipe... For your sake, I hope it's the latter :)
Cold. It's not really cold here yet - max temperatures still go around 15" Centigrade but... the sun isn't shining. And so I feel cold, even when it isn't really. I so hope for the spring (not that I want to skip Christmas or New Year's... or my b-day... but I so love the return of warmth)
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Date: 2006-11-20 03:13 pm (UTC)Yes! Oh, yes! I desperately need a greatcoat! Period military!
I liked cooked onions better than raw, particularly in salads, particularly if for breakfast, and particularly at work. We'll see if the salad has onions tomorrow!
15 degrees sounds delightfully warm! But Europe is generally warmer than Canada. Except maybe Russia. What latitude are you at? Excuse me, I'll scramble for a map... Okay, Sofia is 42°41′N 23°19′E. Ottawa is 45°25′15″N, 75°41′24″W. Not so very much different - so it's totally unfair that you should have nicer weather.
National karma or something!
On the other hand, it gives me an extra excuse to get a greatcoat.
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Date: 2006-11-20 03:28 pm (UTC)Anyway, Ruse, where I live, is 43.48'N, 25.59'E, a bit North than Sofia... but yes, it's not South enough from Ottawa for great differences. (And we get severe winters here usually - cold air has no mountains to stop it this side of the Balkan, coming South from Russia. Sofia and the rest of the Southern part tend to be warmer, as they're sheltered.)
I think the fact that we screwed up the climate globally is starting to show. We'd usually have snow and muck by this time in November - and we were wondering whether to start the air conditioner to _cool_ last week in the office. Well, it's a stuffy office, and we decided to open two windows instead, but still it's too warm for the season. We did have a bit of snow - I think week before last - but it melted within days and was soon forgot.
(oh my. using the Internet and LJ to talk about the weather. How... British.)
On another note - I speed-watched Dalek yesterday and I was impressed by Rose's words to the rich guy when she came up from the vault - don't do anything, it's starting to doubt myself. Then the Doctor said that it got some of her DNA, and I thought - doubting oneself. How human! Sort of liked the episode, but didn't feel up to watching the next two-set. I'll get them down, sometime this week I hope - and then it's Captain Jack! Yea!
(Another thought I had when I watched the ending of the parting between Ten and Rose - he didn't say he loved her then. Was it really that he lost track of time, or did he time it so that he won't have to say it? I think I have more to watch to answer that one, if I ever can.)
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Date: 2006-11-20 03:46 pm (UTC)It certianly did! Just the thought warms me up. (It's cold in my office right now.)
I love "Dalek"; it seemed to me like a pivotal episode, where we went rather suddenly to having adventure stories about cool people to having stories that touched on deep issues and were only incidentally adventurous. For some reason I particularly like the villain in "Dalek" - the archetype of the rich hoarder.
Another thought I had when I watched the ending of the parting between Ten and Rose - he didn't say he loved her then.
Funny, I've been meaning to post about that again in my LJ, this morning, if I find the time. (I was watching it today while I did my morning exercises.) I have no doubt that he loved her. He could have said so, he had two whole minutes, but he knew she knew it anyway. I love it that he learned his lesson from Sarah Jane so well -the human need to say good-bye when a person is important to you.