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pantryslutIs there a world shortage of wide rice noodles?
It's one thing when Western markets around town don't carry them. I don't expect them to, even though they do all carry the narrower rice noodles suitable for pad thai.
It's another thing when the closest local Asian grocery, the one that carries everything from fresh galangal to live frogs, doesn't have them. Either fresh or dried. (This is the place where, apparently pleased at the cut of pork and the quantity I was buying, the counter manager cheerfully tried to sell me some live Dungeness crab. He was so enthusiastic, I was almost willing to take him up on it. It's since become my favorite local Asian grocery by far.)
I am fantasizing that the US has impossed a tariff on noodle imports, calibrated to the width of the noodles. This would explain the surfeit of rice sticks I saw.
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imnotandrei suggests, more ominously, that it is obvious only terrorists eat rice noodles, and I'm lucky I've not been arrested yet. I'm probably on a watch list somewhere. Accompanied by photos of my pantry.
Fortunately for dinner, I have one final packet of noodles left. Tomorrow I am going to walk down to Chinatown and go into every single grocery I see until I find some. If I come back empty-handed, then we know there's a conspiracy.
It's one thing when Western markets around town don't carry them. I don't expect them to, even though they do all carry the narrower rice noodles suitable for pad thai.
It's another thing when the closest local Asian grocery, the one that carries everything from fresh galangal to live frogs, doesn't have them. Either fresh or dried. (This is the place where, apparently pleased at the cut of pork and the quantity I was buying, the counter manager cheerfully tried to sell me some live Dungeness crab. He was so enthusiastic, I was almost willing to take him up on it. It's since become my favorite local Asian grocery by far.)
I am fantasizing that the US has impossed a tariff on noodle imports, calibrated to the width of the noodles. This would explain the surfeit of rice sticks I saw.
imnotandrei suggests, more ominously, that it is obvious only terrorists eat rice noodles, and I'm lucky I've not been arrested yet. I'm probably on a watch list somewhere. Accompanied by photos of my pantry.Fortunately for dinner, I have one final packet of noodles left. Tomorrow I am going to walk down to Chinatown and go into every single grocery I see until I find some. If I come back empty-handed, then we know there's a conspiracy.
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Date: 2004-01-20 05:28 am (UTC)Be Careful! It's Bait!
Date: 2004-01-20 05:49 am (UTC)They're watching it to see who buys big wide noodles. They're watching it to see who buys a particular brand of curry powder. They're watching it.
Now all we need to figure out is who they are. :)
"Would you like a side order of paranoia with that?"
"Sure. Super-size mine."
Re: Be Careful! It's Bait!
Date: 2004-01-20 05:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-21 02:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-20 06:13 am (UTC)they had some pre-cut, but they also had just big strips of uncut noodle that the cashier explained i could easily cut into chow fun sized strips.
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Date: 2004-01-20 07:26 pm (UTC)BMiB
Date: 2004-01-20 04:42 pm (UTC)Jeez, all you radicals and your paranoia.
Now, take this blue pill, and stop calling me "they". It's offensive.
Re: BMiB
Date: 2004-01-20 07:59 pm (UTC)BiMiB seeks BiSM/F for NSA fun. You'll never remember having a better time.