Re: Protein fix for T-day tomorrow?

On Thu, 27 Nov 2008, Steve Freides wrote:

"Tom Anderson" <twic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Thu, 27 Nov 2008, Steve Freides wrote:

"Omelet" <ompomelet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In article <6p88r6F6rcjaU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Steve Freides" <steve@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Now a cheesesteak - _that_ is good eats!

Believe it or not, the local University cafeteria makes a decent
one.

Likelihood is that they make something you like but that it's not a
Philly cheesesteak. I don't think I've even had "the real thing"
outside of Philly or it suburbs (which do extend to the Jersey
shore).

I've never been there. Most of my travels have been in the Western
states such as Wyoming, Oregon, Washington, Utah, Nevada,
California, New Mexico, Arkansas, Kansas, Arizona, Tennessee,
Michigan, Illinois, etc. I don't recall ever being East of the
Mississippi except a trip to Miami Florida for Coulter Electronics
training for work.

You owe it to yourself to see the East Coast - so much history,

Look, sorry, but someone from the Old World is contractually obliged
to step in at the point and say:

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA AMERICANS.

That it's not old doesn't mean it's not interesting or not important.
Laugh all you like.

Ah, i'm only ragging you. And i'm lucky there's nobody from Greece or the Middle East on this group to come along and laugh at the fact that my country's recorded history - barring a few piles of rocks, the Romans, and vague memories of various hairy men hitting each other over the head - starts in 500 AD.

But you're quite right - America is an extraordinary place, full of smaller extraordinary place, and all the more extraordinary for having been built from scratch in the last few centuries.

and so much to do in a place like NYC.

True dat.

Although as someone who lives in London, i found New York strangely
familiar in many ways. I liked it a lot, and would love to go back
again, but i think i would have found some bit of the US that wasn't a
metropolis far more interesting. I think all big cities tend to be
alike; the real character of a country comes out in its towns and
villages.

No, the character of a country like the UK comes out in its towns and villages. I wouldn't say the same is true for the US, though. We are much more like several countries than one here, IMHO,

Interesting point.

and the best you can hope for is to experience as much of the US as you can. NYC has its own energy and is like nowhere else, really - if you don't think that, you just haven't seen enough of New York yet.

If you think that, you haven't seen enough of London! :)

tom

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