The AH Coffee Shop and Reading Room 02: A Comma (is a Restful Pause)

[MagicaPractica]

Lunch at thein-laws, I take the dessert. Dinner at my house for my side of the family, everyone brings something.

 

[NotWise]

I live alone, but I enjoy some foods that are memories of when my mother made gigantic meals. I just spread the foods out over the week. This year I had turkey, dressing, potatoes, creamed peas, pumpkin pie, just not all on the same day. LOL

It has to be healthier for you to do it that way.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

But not quite as much fun.

 

[ishtat]

= a Doppio - en Anglais, a double or standard double.

 

[TxRad]

Okay, Okay, I'm make fresh coffee for the midnight crew.

 

[sharingfantasies]

Happy Thanksgiving!!

 

[Handley_Page]

We over here salute you at this happy time.
Meanwhile, the weather's getting colder (no surprise there) and my food arrived this morning. I must organise the Christmas menu. . . .

So; a nice coffee please, to start the morning.

 

[MagicaPractica]

We over here salute you at this happy time.
Meanwhile, the weather's getting colder (no surprise there) and my food arrived this morning. I must organise the Christmas menu. . . .

So; a nice coffee please, to start the morning.

Good Morning!

My munchkin is up entirely too early, but I was up sooner.

Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate.

 

[TxRad]

I woke up early. Rolled over and whispered, "Gobble, gobble" in the Housemate's ear. She did a rolling back flip and ended up sitting on my face. What a way to start the day of feasting.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

The turkey breasts are in the oven and the stuffing is mixed and ready to go in a little later. The fruit salad is chilling in the bottom of the fridge.

There's fresh coffee waiting on the counter, so help yourself.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Happy Thanksgiving. We're visiting my parents for the holiday. Long drive last night. All night. Almost there..... coffee break time and then I get to do the last leg. Sleepy yawn. Good thing I'm used to getting up at any hour.

 

[TxRad]

My non-erotic western is surprising me. One vote for every twenty views. The score was nice until a couple of one bombs got dropped. From a 4.76 down to a 4.54. Oh well, nothing new.

Houseguest just showed up with an apple pie and a pumpkin pie. Things are cooking right along and the food is getting done also.

 

[Hypoxia]

No morning coffee or even tea. Shoot me now. Or wait till after this evening's promised fabulous feast. I'll be an easy target then, even without orange hair.

Yesterday was fun if tiring, walking some favorite San Francisco streets, then noshing on fat Dungeness Crab cocktails at Cliff House, watching the setting sun pour molten lava through the clouds whilst savage waves pounded the seabird-covered rocks just offshore. Nobody skinny-dipping, alas.

We'd booked a table at the supposedly cutting-edge Rambler at Hotel Zeppelin but half of what was on the menu was unavailable. We'd already ordered a Gulf Shrimp starter (over-salted and -sauced) so instead of bailing we had to slurp it down, toss some bills, cross the street, and try Level III. Pretty ordinary and nobody there, just off Union Square. Where's a taco truck when we need it? Turkey tacos, por favor.

Ah well, we'll eat better tonight. And take leftovers home tomorrow. But not coffee.

 

[TxRad]

Everyone over ate as expected. The pies and cake went untouched. Miserable but happy.

Kitchen is cleaned up and the dishes done. Time to vegetate the evening away.

 

[ChloeTzang]

We'd booked a table at the supposedly cutting-edge Rambler at Hotel Zeppelin but half of what was on the menu was unavailable. We'd already ordered a Gulf Shrimp starter (over-salted and -sauced) so instead of bailing we had to slurp it down, toss some bills, cross the street, and try Level III. Pretty ordinary and nobody there, just off Union Square... (

Best we ever did was go to a newish bar and restaurants where the service was just chaos. Ordered and after an hour the only thing that turned up were our drinks. So I ordered Takeout pizza from the place across the road, got them to deliver it to us in the restaurant, ate it their and left. It was pretty funny. Didn't leave a tip either.

 

[Handley_Page]

Lunch at the in-laws, I take the dessert. Dinner at my house for my side of the family, everyone brings something.

What a wonderful idea; a truly 'collective' nosh-up. When my small family 'did' Christmas (or, earlier, Easter) various Uncles & Aunts would often bring a bottle or similar; I never noticed much by way of tray of foodstuff, but then, I was very young). We lived about 150 miles away from the rest of the family, and travelling wasn't too easy in them days.

Best we ever did was go to a newish bar and restaurants where the service was just chaos. Ordered and after an hour the only thing that turned up were our drinks. So I ordered Takeout pizza from the place across the road, got them to deliver it to us in the restaurant, ate it their and left. It was pretty funny. Didn't leave a tip either.

What a truly inventive thing to do;
did they notice ?

I think I've managed to beat my machine into submission.
I installed an obscure driver this afternoon.

Tea, I think

 

[oggbashan]

What a wonderful idea; a truly 'collective' nosh-up. When my small family 'did' Christmas (or, earlier, Easter) various Uncles & Aunts would often bring a bottle or similar; I never noticed much by way of tray of foodstuff, but then, I was very young). We lived about 150 miles away from the rest of the family, and travelling wasn't too easy in them days.

...

Back in the early 1960s peripatetic meals were in vogue. The idea worked best in villages or small communities.

What happened was that the group of people would start in one house with the starter; move en masse to the next house for the main course; to a third house for the dessert; and end up in a fourth house for coffee, cheese and biscuits.

That meant that the hosts only had to prepare part of the meal and bear part of the cost.

It had been working well in my brother's village until my inadvertent intervention.

My sister in law was hosting the main course which was a Provencal Stew or Casserole with baked potatoes - that could be left in the oven while she and the others were at the first house for the starter. As usual with the peripatetic meals alcohol flowed freely because everyone was walking around a small village. While she was getting the main course out of the oven my brother was serving glasses of Fruit Cup - fruit juice with gin and some solid floating fruit. It was good high-proof gin.

BUT - I had recently returned from what was then Communist Yugoslavia bringing a bottle as a present for my brother. It was a litre of plum brandy called Slivovika (Slivovitz was the Austrian equivalent). The bottle was labelled in Cyrillic. My brother had drunk the Austrian version and thought of it as a pleasant light fortified wine, possibly about 17 to 20 proof alcohol. He added the whole litre to the fruit cup.

Throughout the main course the conversation became more animated. The fruit cup was very popular and between the party all of it was consumed. But two of the group was obviously drunk. Embarrassingly they were the local Police Chief and the Chairman of the Magistrates' Bench. Soon several others were suffering. The peripatetic meal didn't move on to the dessert stage. Almost all of them were sprawled across my brother's living room, incapable. Three-quarters of the party didn't get home that night even though the furthest anyone was from their home was two hundred yards.

Eventually someone wondered whether the plum brandy was the cause. My brother examined the label carefully. There was a small note in English on the label - 180 proof alcohol. Only Everclear at 190 proof is stronger. The strong gin had been diluting the plum brandy.

The peripatetic meal continued to the dessert and later stage two evenings later. By mutual agreement those two parts were alcohol-free.

I had warned my brother that the Slivovika was strong. He had forgotten!

 

[blackrandl1958]

My non-erotic western is surprising me. One vote for every twenty views. The score was nice until a couple of one bombs got dropped. From a 4.76 down to a 4.54. Oh well, nothing new.

Houseguest just showed up with an apple pie and a pumpkin pie. Things are cooking right along and the food is getting done also.

Thank you for the story, Mr. TxRad. It is doing well, and I am not at all surprised. It was a very good story. Enjoy the evening and whatever brew you have at hand, Randi.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Well, the three for dinner went down to two as the lady friend has come down with something uncomfortable. However, the cubette and I would like the group to know that for those of you within decent commuting distance of an Urban Farmer should go. Most satisfactory!

 

[TxRad]

Thank you for the story, Mr. TxRad. It is doing well, and I am not at all surprised. It was a very good story. Enjoy the evening and whatever brew you have at hand, Randi.

Thank you for the edit and the compliment on the story.

One vote per 16 views says a lot. Even discounting the one bombers, I'm well satisfied with things. The two comments are worth the price of submission. They tell me, at least two people 'got' the story.

I should take some time and finish the next chapter.

I gave up brews of all kinds many years ago. Now if I could break my addiction to jelly beans....

 

[ElectricBlue]

One vote per 16 views says a lot. Even discounting the one bombers, I'm well satisfied with things. The two comments are worth the price of submission. They tell me, at least two people 'got' the story.

That's an incredibly high ratio!

 

[MagicaPractica]

I'm going in for another glass of cranberry wine, people are talking, talking, talking.

 

[TxRad]

That's an incredibly high ratio!

1078 views and 78 votes. That's 1 for ever 14 views.

I'm going in for another glass of cranberry wine, people are talking, talking, talking.

Talking does make a person thirsty.

 

[ChloeTzang]

1078 views and 78 votes. That's 1 for ever 14 views

Wow! Amazing ratio. Congratulations.

And now, my Mom's home cooking. I am going to look roly poly by the time we head home. It's wonderful seeing family again. Been a few months. No writing for me this weekend!

 

[Handley_Page]

Bright blue skies and bloody cold.
Any coffee left, please ?

 

[MagicaPractica]

Bright blue skies and bloody cold.
Any coffee left, please ?

There better be, I have to work today.