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October 23, 2004
White Chocolate Raspberry
We've been sampling the various store brand yogurts over the last few months. Albertson's and Safeway's seemed pretty good, but we found that Nob Hill's "Sunnyside Farms" brand was a bit too sweet for our taste buds, at least in their berry flavors. However, just a few moments ago I had a "White Chocolate Raspberry" flavor yogurt and it was REALLY delicious! It was very creamy, with a subtle white chocolate smoothness and flavor and a 'tint' of raspberry. It wasn't too sweet at all - in fact, I'd go back just for this one flavor - LOL. Oh, yes, and hardly 'yogurty tangy' at all - almost tasted like pudding, if pudding had live bacteria swimming in it - LOL.
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October 20, 2004
"No Cell Phone" Area & Walnut Strike - Not Related
I think this is a fantastic idea. Just like with the smoking and no-smoking areas within a restaurant, you'll get a little spill over, but it'd be really nice to be justified to ask someone to step away with their cell phone conversation. (Just the other day I was waiting for John to come out of a store, and I listened to a woman's entire cell phone conversation, in which she gave out her address and phone number! HELLO??!??) If cell phone companies really wanted to make people happy (and restaurant people especially) they'd develop a microphone where you can talk low and whisper and still have it be completely easy to hear on the other end, without picking up any background noise. If I'm going to overhear people talking while I'm eating my chicken burrito platter, I want to hear BOTH ends of the conversation and they better only be in the next booth - LOL.
In other foodish news, this article reminds me of the Seinfeld episode with Kramer being on strike at the bagel place. Life imitating art imitating life.
posted by Kristen at 9:17 AM
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October 19, 2004
Inconceivable
 We were the only ones in the fast-food type restaurant, and the clump of kids that came in had to sit in the booth right behind us. Not only that, there were about eight of them and only four of them could fit into the booth, so the rest of them pulled up chairs. One kid pulled up a chair and was sitting RIGHT NEXT to my booth seat, so close that, in fact, he had to move when we got up to leave. And they were loud, in a regular kid kind of way, so that John and I couldn't even have a conversation, at least, not one that this group wouldn't also hear.
I probably should have said something. At least, "Would you mind moving up a little so you're not sitting with US?" but I think I was just a bit stunned. As a solution, I quickly finished up what I was eating (which had ceased to be an enjoyable experience) and we left.
I suppose it could simply be a cultural/familial thing. I was raised to believe that being considerate not to intrude on other people was a nice thing. (As a kid, I also would have wanted a table we could all fit at, and one as far from other people as possible. Go figure.) Other people seem to believe that being close together is a sign of niceness, rather than 'distance'. Overall, I think the best thing for any of us is probably to be aware that there are differences, and not assume either way, but to just PAY ATTENTION. [This has been a public service announcement/rant. You may now continue with your regularly scheduled program.]
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