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Bananas aren't ripe until they are brown. The brown banana is the sweet banana. When I buy bananas I put them aside until they turn brown. Yellow bananas are bland and blah.

Harvey

I canceled my subscription to _Gourmet_ several years ago when they were unable to send me magazines without the perfume ads that make me sick. Most other magazines (including many Conde Nast publications) can and do do this, but _Gourmet_ refused. Goodbye, _Gourmet_. And their advertising of a year's subscription for $12.00 and then tacking on an additional $3.00 for postage always made me see red. I am not at all sorry that they are going out of business. To my mind they earned it.

Harvey

Pearl Meat Packing uses natural casings for their hot dogs. Natural casings come from a pig; NOT KOSHER!!!

The hot dogs may be all beef with garlic, but they are not kosher.

Eating out alone is time to read _The New York Times_. It is still big enough that it needs a restaurant table to spread out on.

Harvey

But if you go look at their menu, it says that the hamburger is served ALWAYS well done!! That's not for me; I want my burgers rare or medium rare at worst.

Harvey

Check their latest on-line menu; the cheeseburger is $11.95!! Not cheap.

Harvey

I love bacon just cooked enough to prevent possible trichinosis. The flavor is in the fat, and I consider it criminal to cook the fat and taste away.

Harvey