[TheForge] The hard cider is good... OT:

[Andrew Vida]

Bruce Freeman wrote:
> Hmmm.  Mixing Drambuie and Scotch is traditional with some. 

	Oh don't get me wrong - whatever floats yer boat, so long as I don't 
have to partake.  You know I have a narrow-bandwidth, boorish palate. 
Some of the things people will actually put in their mouths utterly 
astonishes me.  In the post-nuclear world, they will flourish and I will 
starve.

 > I knew a
> guy in So. Cal. many years ago who took that as his drink of choice.
> To be sipped.  Of course, he also took his Tahiti Ketch into the ocean
> off San Diego whenever they announced a small craft advisory, and he
> drank hot coffee to cool off.
> 
> You'd'a liked him, Andy.  Your kinda guy.  Renovated a Porsche.  One
> evening he heard noise in his driveway and went out with his pistol,
> ended up shooting out the back window and side mirror of a couple
> pilferers who were trying to steal a wheel from his car.  He didn't
> aim for the kids, but messed up their rich daddy's car pretty bad.
> They must have had some interesting explaining to do when they got
> back home to Beverly Hills, or whatever rich burb they were from.  The
> police stopped by afterwards and chided him that he really shouldn't
> shoot at thieves w/in city limits, but didn't seem too upset about the
> whole thing.

Today the cops would send in a tactical team and shoot him, no questions 
asked.
> 
> As to those wimpy enameled French AGA's -- get yourself a Vulcan
> instead!   If the 6-burner, single-oven job below isn't enough for
> you, they make a 12-burner double oven model as well.  And they make
> gas as well as electric models.

Been looking at Vulcans as well - just had no idea what the quality was. 
  There's a used restaurant equipment site (acitydiscount.com) that has 
plenty of them.  GIven retail prices at $12K, 3-4K seems pretty 
reasonable.  I'd really like to build Bibi a kitchen since cooking is to 
her what blacksmithing is to us.