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On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 04:35:59 +0000 (UTC), Felis Concolor <concolor@rahul.net> 
wrote:
> Julian Macassey <julian@tele.com> wrote:
> 
>>On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 00:16:41 -0800, Tim May <tcmay@got.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> But, having spent time with Chowhound and with my home food newsgroup,
>>> ba.food, I have to say that Chowhound is a pale imitation of a real
>>> newsgroup.
> 
>>       Web forums like chowhound are for people who don't have a
>>decent newsreader and haven't learned to edit.
> 
> I hope this isn't a blanket statement.

	Care to mention some real exceptions?

> 
> That is, a great many web forums -- not all, and Tim was careful
> to make this distinction -- are pretty dull. A web forum, after
> all, is only as good as the people running it. Most of the time
> they're administered by people who just want to promote their
> business, and discourage anything that doesn't do this.

	You seem to admit they are somewhat execrable.
> 
> Chowhound, which was featured in _The New Yorker_, is a food snob
> forum. 

	Snobs who can't handle an editor?

> ObFood: Today I went into the Ranch 99 Asian market in Cupertino.
> I bought many Oriental goodies, including a durian.

	My fave fruit. Someone bought me one for Christmas.

> She said that was OK, because I didn't have very much stuff. She
> looked at my durian, and said it wasn't a very good durian. She
> told me that she would go back to the durian display and get me
> a better one.

	No one ever helps me find a durian.

> 
> I kept an eye on her stuff. In a few minutes, she came back with
> a better durian. She showed me the bright yellow flesh showing through
> a nick in the side. She handed me the durian, put her arm around me
> and tickled the palm of my hand.

	The Chinese say "Touching hands is touching hearts".

> 
> I'm not sure if this woman was a lesbian, or just being friendly.
> I didn't stick around to find out.

	Who knows.
> 
> I'm left, however, with two questions:
> 
> 1) How _do_ you tell what's a good durian?

	I assume they considered that as it was splitting it was
really ripe.

> 
> 2) If someone was going to be groped in a Ranch 99 market by an
> aging lotus blossom, why, why on earth couldn't it be Julian
> instead of me?

	I have never picked up a chick at the 99 Ranch Market.
Sounds like a good place to troll though.

	They carry some Malay/Indonesian food too.


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