Herald food writer Ron Ramey says that imitation crab, while grossly inferior to the real thing, can be acceptable in savory dishes where the crab taste takes a back seat to other flavors.
And what about farmed Atlantic salmon? The Buzz says it’s acceptable if Fido’s hungry and you’re out of dog food.
Less junk, more red ink: There’s good news and bad news about the economy. The bad news is that the Obama administration forecasts a $1.6 trillion deficit. The good news is that junk mail delivery is way down, thanks to the recession.
Worst-case scenario: the economy gets so bad that the government declares all those junk-mail coupons for large pepperoni pizzas, two-for-one tanning sessions and one-room-free carpet cleanings to be legal tender.
Top o’ the morn’, gov’nuh: A few cash machines in London now display prompts in Cockney rhyming slang, asking customers to, for example, insert their “bladder of lard” (card).
The Cockney lingo confused so many people that banks will reprogram the ATMs’ prompts to be just like Dick Van Dyke’s line readings in “Mary Poppins.”
— Mark Carlson, Herald staff
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