Egg Whites! While the Aloe is great we don't always have it on hand. If it was available that would be my first choice too. Couple (ten) years ago when i was working as a line cook I spilled braising liquids on my, covered a good 50% of my torso. (Lesson: never try and left a HOT hotel pan full of corned beef above your head!) The burn was mostly superficial but a little 2nd degree in places. After finishing my shift, hey I needed the job, I soaked a towel in a couple of egg whites and wrapped it around me with a loosed bandage. The burn was still tender the next week or so but at least I was able to sleep.

Elizabeth, just when you think you don't miss home at all someone mentions the one good thing about Rockford.

Sarafirst.. Zippy's is great but anyplace with a decent loco-moco will do right?

Well that is two of my past hometowns, I'm in Mass. now, most sub/pizza shops are pretty good but not the chains. Bedford House of Beef makes a great roast beef sandwich. Other than that the food court at Super 88 provides me with a host of Asian fast food choices.

I went to school in Hawaii and all students at University of Hawaii take a Hawaiian Studies course. We spent a couple of weeks talking about Kalo and agriculture n Hawaii. Despite all the water that flows through the Loi, Kalo is a sustainable crop in the islands. Water rights were not an issue until the sugarcane and pineapple plantations needed more than their fair share.

I pay $4.00 a month for the office coffee fund. I drink about 3-4 8oz cups a day, 5 days a week. 4 weeks * 5 Days * 3 cups/day = 60 cups/month so I sit around 7 cents a cup. We have the same Bunn coffee maker most dinners use and it makes a good strong cup without a lot of bitterness.

It is more likely that I spend more per month on Stevia to sweeten my coffee than the coffee itself.

I think the intended question was how much at a coffee cart etc. Well I live in the Boston area so coffee is largely defined by Dunkin Donuts. I think it is right around ~$2 a cup.

um, no. (my thought)

Feel free to celebrate if you want to. I, for one, will remain on the side that feels beer should taste like beer. I do believe Dennis Lear spoke on this subject at great length and I agree with him. A wedge of lime in a Mexican beer or lemon in a Weizen is as far as I am willing to go. Strawberry, blueberries and the like are fine in cocktails but please refrain from putting them in my beer. If a good Irish Stout or the afore mentioned Weizen is to heavy for your summer pallet I suggest an American beer like Bud or Rolling Rock.

Come to think of it if they add fruit to bud it would finally taste like something besides water! Damn, my comment sunk to an attack on big American beers (maybe the Belgians will fix it). Enjoy August then, I will declare the other 11 months National Beer Tastes Like Beer Month!

Please note that is not just an anti-fruit in beer rant I am pretty sick of everything having to be fancied up not allowing the natural flavors to come through. Ask me about trying to get a Maachito at the airport $tarbuck$ sometime. ;)

@Gobo
My daughter isn't perfect so it may arise that she is misbehaving and I don't notice it. Please tell me about it, or tell the manager, whatever you are most comfortable with. If you approach me I can handle and react to the criticism. If you approach my daughter (or yell at her) I will get VERY defensive VERY quick. I think this holds true for most parents.

Most importantly of all, when you call someone on their bad manners (loud child, cell phone or whatever) the more calm and politeness you put into your delivery the less likely they are to get defensive.

Yell at my child I yell at you, it's natural. (If you don't believe me approach a bear cub near its mom!) Tell me to "shut up" and I'll get defensive. Ask me politely to calm my child down and I'll feel embarrassed but do it. (That's me others may tell you to F-off)

To "The Postindustrialist" do not fret I have been "chewed out" by those fanatical parents already, once while holding my daughter's hand. It was not easy the first time I called out someone's bad behavior, and it certainly makes me very aware of my own bad habits. (Pot calling the kettle black and all.) We, as a society, can all sit back and tsk, tsk things we don't like or we can buck up and DO something about it.

While she may have been only venting Wendy had to know she was opening a can of worms with this post yet she posted it. Everyone that reads it will, hopefully, stop and inspect their actions to see if they are like the offenders. I, when the situation calls for it, like to take it a step further and tell the offender to their face. Does it take a little courage and/or chutzpah, you bet! Like our children and pets does that person now know exactly what they were doing wrong and can they see a consequence to their action, yep!
I will, sadly, agree that you run the risk of receiving the 'F-off' reaction to your constructive criticism. The hardest thing to do is not tell them to 'F-off' right back. My minister once advised me to act like they had just sneezed and say "Bless you." It is non-denominational as Muslims, Christians, Jews and Hindus al wish blessings on each other and it often defuses the situation because they will not know how to react to such an unusual response.

I use Ibarra (http://chocoibarra.com.mx/index-pc.html) you can buy it at your local Whole Foods or Latin Market. Maybe not the best, I kinda get the feeling it is akin to Quick, but it is very good and perfectly sweet.

Please do not generalize parents. While I too have been plagued by the wild children running free in public places (eateries of all kinds, bookstores, movies, etc.). My child has never and will never behave as you described. Now there is a part of me that is live and let live. If the child is not bothering me than I don't feel I have the right to say anything. If, however the child runs into my, or my families', chair than they are disturbing me. If they yell so loud that I cannot hear my wife or daughter they are disturbing me. Now the parents enter the same realm as those who would talk on their phone in a restaurant or movie, and I will inform them of their rudeness.

I'm sorry your dinner was not as peaceful as you would have liked but you were an enabler. If you allow those two women to tune out their children and sip their Margaritas you encourage their poor behavior. I am willing to bet that if you embarrass their moms the two children will be brought to task very quickly.

A quote from my favorite movie, Boondock Saints: "Now, we must all fear evil men. But there is another kind of evil which we must fear most, and that is the indifference of good men. " Apples and Oranges? Maybe but I don't think so, saying nothing to someone else's rudeness only encourages them to repeat the action.

One word: Europe!
Disclaimer: I've never been to NYC, spent a lot of time in Chicago my previous best street food experience

No city, town or village in the USA come close to the street food paid for in Euros. From fresh pretzels and sausage in Germany to crepes in Paris. (Not to mention the ever present Kabab (Americans know them as the Greek Gyros) in all cities) (Yes I nested (), sue me!) ((()))!!

This being said, and I currently live in Bean-Town, Boston has no street food. Unless you count ducking into Modern Pastry for a snack!