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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">===========================================<br>
L O W L A N D S - L - 09 April 2009 - Volume 08<br>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><br>
From: <span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Brooks, Mark</span> <<a href="mailto:mark.brooks@twc.state.tx.us" target="_blank">mark.brooks@twc.state.tx.us</a>><br>
Subject: LL-L "Travels" 2009.04.08 (07) [E]<br>
<br>
Ron waxed poetic: “And feed them fish sticks…”</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Ah, talk about a memory of childhood! Fish sticks and
ketchup along with something obligatorily green like canned green beans or canned
green (English?) peas. Not green in the sense of healthy or
environmentally-friendly, mind you, just the color green. Thus, the
canned vegetables. No, we wouldn’t want any actual nutrition delivered,
would we? Fish sticks probably have less nutritional value than the
infamous Twinkie. </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Personally, I never went for Twinkies so much, but I did
like a product from the same company that we always called Snowballs. I
don’t know the real name, but it consists of a mound of chocolate cake with
some white sugary filling injected inside and a sort of tough marshmallow
(preferably pink) covering that had coconut sprinkled on top. Oh man,
what a treat!</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">I see that Hostess actually named them Sno Balls. But,
I’ve got to say that the orange Glo Balls really border on blasphemy!</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.freshchocodiles.com/hostess/snoballs.html" target="_blank">http://www.freshchocodiles.com/hostess/snoballs.html</a></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Regards,</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Mark Brooks </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><br>
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<br>
From: <span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Roger Thijs, Euro-Support, Inc.</span> <<a href="mailto:roger.thijs@euro-support.be" target="_blank">roger.thijs@euro-support.be</a>><br>
Subject: LL-L Delectables, was Re: LL-L "Travels" 2009.04.08 (07) [E]<br>
<br>
> From: <span style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);">R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>></span>
</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">> Subject: Travels</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">> Boiling fresh fish robs it of most nutrients and
flavor. It should be outlawed. ;-) But I realize that's a cultural matter and I
may be an aberration</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Similar to the US,
the fish I could get served in Cape
Town a couple of months ago was also fried, grilled or
barbecued.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">When I was a kid in the fifties just "<b>stokvis</b>"
(stockfish) was boiled and served with a cream sauce (later with a milk sauce
when one became aware of calories). Mussles were also boiled obviously.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Other fish was fried. The variety in inland Limburg was limited, what I remember we got on Fridays
was one of these:</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">- Fried in real butter:</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> - <b>kabeljauw</b> (cod) with quite some pieces of
onion</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> - '<b>zoete'</b> (sweet) <b>bukkem </b>with quite
some pieces of onion</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> - exceptionally <b>pladijs </b>(plaice), but I
remember it could also be prepared as boiled, and serrved with milky sauce.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">- Fried in its own fat "op de tang" (fried on open
fire (layed on 2 bars of iron)</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> - <b>'zoute' </b>(salted) <b>bukkem</b></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Bukkem is "bokking" in Dutch and is a kind of
smoked herring.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">The latter, zoute bukkem, was that salted, that it
preserved, and could be consumed raw.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Herring</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> was prepared in venegar with much onions and served cold;</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Rolmops</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> was rolled herring filet with onion and cucumber inside, kept in a pot
of mayonnaise.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">We didn't know maatjes at the time (I guess it did not
preserve for inland transportation);</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">but we got "<b>sprot</b>": little herrings,
slightly smoked.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Makreel </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">(macarel) slightly smoked, was also served as cold fish.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">At festivities (cold) boiled <b>salmon</b> was often
part of the cold dish. It was generally bought as prepared.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">At the time we only got light-pink boiled salmon, and didn't
get the sliced smoked salmon that became popular later.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">In school we got boiled cod every Friday. It was served with
melted butter. The fish was tasteless and<span style="color: red;"> I hated it</span>.
I guess it was easy to prepare: boiling all cod at once in a big kettle, melt
some butter in a pan and combine things at the very last moment.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">In restaurant at the time we preferred trout, fried in real
butter ("<b>truite meunière"),</b> often served with little almond
chips in the butter.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Things changed however, and already in the eighties we saw
an evolution with less-calorie food.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">What we offered our guests at Monsanto was boiled <b>sole</b>.
I don't know whether the restaurant "Het verloren brood" in Antwerp still exists. The
sole filets were not cooked into desintegration, but could still be
rolled-up. Traditionally the guest got 3 rolls with eventually 3 different
sauces, in the national colours of his country of origin. The basics of this
sauces were not things as musterd, but extracts from the head and bones of the
fish, with some binder and with limited seasoning (and without ketchup and
Worchester sauce).</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Boiled fish is offered in all Belgian restaurants nowadays.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">In the Lunch Garden Chain <b>boiled Tilapia</b> is on the
chefs menu this week.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Lunch</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> Garden</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> is a Belgian self-service
restaurant chain, once owned by the GB-group. This group sold its large
warehouses to Carrefour and its downtown more exquisite Innovation warehouses
to the German Galleria group. As a result one still finds a Lunch Garden
at virtually each Carrefour parking lot as well as on one of the floors of an
Innivation shop.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">url: <a href="http://www.lunchgarden.com/" target="_blank">http://www.lunchgarden.com/</a></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">So I had a quick dinner in the (bilingual) Lunch Garden
in Kraainem East of Brussels
this evening.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">The menu + a little coke:</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.euro-support.be/tmp/sfo/1lg.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.euro-support.be/tmp/sfo/1lg.jpg</a></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">I removed the sauce a bit for making the fish visable:</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.euro-support.be/tmp/sfo/2lg.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.euro-support.be/tmp/sfo/2lg.jpg</a></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">The ticket:</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.euro-support.be/tmp/sfo/3lg.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.euro-support.be/tmp/sfo/3lg.jpg</a></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">(tickets in Belgium
are allways all taxes, tips etc incl.)</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">So I paid for the menu without the coke: 9.95 euro</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">The <b>chefs menu of the week</b> combines things for a
reduced price.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Bought individually the items would have costed:</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">- 8.25 euro for the tilapia</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> incl: potatos, rice or French fries (supplements can
be asked for free)</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> incl also: warm vegetables, to be taken from a
self-service bar with generally 4 choices</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">- 2.45 euro for the salad bar</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> (self-service from the salad-bar booth, with a
variety of choices)</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">- 1.40 for the desert, a vanilla-rice pudding '"Condé
rijst natuur, Riz Condé Nature)</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">One can eventually replace the salad bar by soup (value 1.60
euro) if one prefers to do so.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Soupes of today were:</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">- soupe oignons - uiensoep (onion soup)</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">- soupe aux chicons - witloofsoep (chicory/endive soup)</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Actually the boiled fish dishes are becoming the expensive
dishes.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">The choice of fish varies from week to week.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Often a mixture is served as a "vispannetje".</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">The sauce often contains also some mussles and shrimps
(without shell).</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Fried fish</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> with a crust is standard always available as one of the
cheapest dishes:</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">- 6.25 euro: <b>zeesteak / steak de mer</b></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> with potatos, rice or French fries</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> as well as warm vegetables from the self-service bar.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Prepared fish food for the microwave is often also boiled
fish,</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">an example:</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">- <a href="http://www.euro-support.be/tmp/sfo/4cf.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.euro-support.be/tmp/sfo/4cf.jpg</a></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">- <a href="http://www.euro-support.be/tmp/sfo/5cf.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.euro-support.be/tmp/sfo/5cf.jpg</a></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">I'm not saying fried fish is not popular or not served in Belgium,</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">I'm just saying I cannot find boiled fish dishes in the
States.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Regards,</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Roger</span></p>
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