Barisone Verdict Is In: Not Guilty By Reason of Insanity

[ekat]

I’m so sorry!

I, at least, can get good Mexican food.

I thought I knew good Italian food until the first time I went to Boston. Now I can’t eat it here.

Oh, and good Chinese food too! Nothing here compares to anything I’ve had on the East Coast.

My sister thinks I like to visit her. It’s really about the food.

[dotneko]

@Virginia_Horse_Mom

@ekat

Could I get a good gyro in Pittsfield? Maybe some spanakopita?

Gyro is not REAL Greek food. At least according to the people I know.

But spanakopita? Oh yeah. I can tell you who’s family makes the BEST spanakopita in all of Western Mass, and a few states to the north

Coincidentally, I have some of my home made spanikopita defrosting in the fridge.
My husbands aunt used to make her own phyllo! She would have sheets of it drying on clotheslines in her house. Life is way too short to make your own phyllo.
The best Greek food in MA comes from Lowell and Lawrence btw. Italian from Worcester. The North End is just a poser in the Italian food contest.
There is no such thing as locaniko in the supernarkets in FL. How is that possible? EVERY DeMoulas has it in New England.
I was not offended by the references.
Back to lurking.

[Danvers]

Thank you, good Sir. I shall continue to report on the flogging of deceased equines -

[Knights_Mom]

Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Steubenville, Parma, Columbus, Warren, Youngstown, Akron all have sizeable Greek populations according to the Wkipedia.

That’s where I’d look for authentic Greek food.

[Knights_Mom]

@dotneko

@Virginia_Horse_Mom

@ekat

Could I get a good gyro in Pittsfield? Maybe some spanakopita?

Gyro is not REAL Greek food. At least according to the people I know.

But spanakopita? Oh yeah. I can tell you who’s family makes the BEST spanakopita in all of Western Mass, and a few states to the north

Coincidentally, I have some of my home made spanikopita defrosting in the fridge.
My husbands aunt used to make her own phyllo! She would have sheets of it drying on clotheslines in her house. Life is way too short to make your own phyllo.
The best Greek food in MA comes from Lowell and Lawrence btw. Italian from Worcester. The North End is just a poser in the Italian food contest.
There is no such thing as locaniko in the supernarkets in FL. How is that possible? EVERY DeMoulas has it in New England.
I was not offended by the references.
Back to lurking.

Tarpon Springs? Isn’t that like little Greece?

[FitzE]

I shall now offend all and sundry by declaring that Bulgarian ‘feta’ (white brine serine) is where it’s at!

[Knights_Mom]

@FitzE

I shall now offend all and sundry by declaring that Bulgarian ‘feta’ (white brine serine) is where it’s at!

See now I just have to smite you

[FitzE]

Fair enough. I knew it was going to be an inflammatory post. But, before you strike, seek it out and give it a try. It is soooooo good!

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not mad at good Greek feta; I just prefer the Bulgarian when I can find it.

[Ambitious_Kate]

@Salty

Completely apropos of nothing, but my friend was a cheerleader at a Norwegian HS near Seattle.

“Lutefisk! Lutefisk! Lefse! Lefse! We’re the Mighty Luterans! Ya, sure, ya betcha!”

OMG, that’s hysterical!

[Knights_Mom]

@FitzE

Fair enough. I knew it was going to be an inflammatory post. But, before you strike, seek it out and give it a try. It is soooooo good!

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not mad at good Greek feta; I just prefer the Bulgarian when I can find it.

I’ve had it when I was marooned on a desert isle and there was no other choice. It was either that or death. After tasting I chose death. But just as I was preparing my end I was rescued by Navy Seals.

[Ambitious_Kate]

@Knights_Mom

Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Steubenville, Parma, Columbus, Warren, Youngstown, Akron all have sizeable Greek populations according to the Wkipedia.

That’s where I’d look for authentic Greek food.

I’m in columbus and can’t find any at all. But I came here during the covid crisis, and came to an entirely.empty city, if you drive around, day or night. Things are reopening slowly, but alot of the smaller restaurants and foodplaces didn’t make it. The ones which open now seem to be “ghost” restaurants which are meant to be delivery only, and just awful food. I will make the effort to try to find some good greek places, but the few that I have found which looked promising had just awful food.

I also lived in Dayton for a few years, same, only I found a fabulous Middle Eastern place, called Taste of Jerusalem. Wish I could find something like that here!

There are no greek diners interestingly, in either of these places. Have not found a single diner of any kind (except the excrutiatingly awful Waffle House). I miss the greek diners from Connecticut. Fabulous food, all night long. Le sigh.

[Knights_Mom]

Greeks are churchie so get in touch with their church.

[StB.YM]

I will exacerbate the argument by declaring that piknik beats all fetas!

[Ambitious_Kate]

@ekat

thought I knew good Italian food until the first time I went to Boston. Now I can’t eat it here.

Oh, and good Chinese food too! Nothing here compares to anything I’ve had on the East Coast.

My sister thinks I like to visit her. It’s really about the food.

See?

[Knights_Mom]

I’m surrounded by Neanderthals…

[Ambitious_Kate]

@Knights_Mom

Greeks are churchie so get in touch with their church.

I really think that its that many of the privately owned restaurants were wiped out during The Covid. Some made it, but if there were good greek restaurants here, they aren’t any more. I work with many different cultures, and always ask for restaurant recommendations. Regular Columbusans say they just don’t know any good food, or make a desultory gesture “out there” somewhere. Eh. I’ll be back in the North East, where food lives, in a year or two anyway.

[StB.YM]

[StB.YM]

I grew up eating feta and it was always way too salty for me. Piknik hits the sweet spot for me.

[eggbutt]

@DreadPirateRoberts

@eggbutt

@Danvers

sociopath…

Please! I am deeply offended you used the term sociopath! Sociopaths have rights too and you just violated them. Careful or you will be reported to SS, CPS, IRS, CIA, NSA, AQHA, SCOTUS and @DreadPirateRoberts!

Now you’ve done it. An official complaint to pirates is not something to trifle with, for the process we use to investigate and litigate the complaint is quite complex.

First we circulate the hundreds of posts of varying levels of relevance and absurdity round the entire crew of the Revenge, who serve as jurors to deliberate not about the guilt or innocence of the accused but the seriousness with which anyone should take any post in a series of anonymous posts on a horse forum.

Then Buttercup and I engage in a series of sidebars, wherein we shout “Objection” on behalf of the posters who appear to be aggrieved, and follow this with whispered discussions about recipes we’d like to try involving feta or challah.

The final ruling can go several ways: If we find that both the reported party and the reporter were guilty of bad manners, bad faith, or sheer absurdity the victor will be decided by a duel to the pain. If the reported party’s behavior is not obviously pathological they will be acquitted, feted in true pirate style, and invited to join the crew, while the most unhinged poster involved in the exchange will be asked to walk the plank.

@Danvers, you have been found by the crew of the Revenge not guilty of the crime of perpetuating horse forum nonsense.

Now if anyone wants to bring any charges for flogging deceased equines, playing chess as a member of the species Columba livia domestica, or behaving like an eared seal, please refer your cases to my First Mate, Pierre.

Parlay?

[FitzE]

Interesting, I’m the opposite: I find Bulgarian saltier than Greek and that’s my sweet spot! But, you’re brave bringing Turkish cheese into a Greek feta discussion. It’s going to end in a free for all!

@Knights_Mom is really fighting this feta corner. I suspect she was rescued by Navy sea lions.

(I’ll show myself out)