Comments on Mean Girl to the Rescue!: In which I discuss food at length, again

Db, thanks for the tip. The herbal supplement is m...

2005-11-28T21:12:00.000-05:00

Db, thanks for the tip. The herbal supplement is meant to aid memory and stave off Alzheimer's. I don't take it ... yet.

Wordgirl, what a great guest you are! Have you noticed, though, how easily impressed folks are by home-baked goods? My in-laws do not bake much, not even box cakes, really, and I about knocked my sister-in-law down when I showed up with a cheesecake (it was super easy to make, I used a pre-made crust and all). People will think you worked like a slave on food, even when you tell them it took half an hour. It's great!

WG, I am formally inviting you over.Oh and sure, b...

2005-11-28T09:41:00.000-05:00

WG, I am formally inviting you over.
Oh and sure, bring something if you really want.

I, too, find it difficult to show up to someone's ...

2005-11-28T00:53:00.000-05:00

I, too, find it difficult to show up to someone's house without a food offering. Even when I'm invited, I usually ask if I can bring anything. When a guy asks, he's usually referring to booze or ice. I always feel I need to bake something.
We were asked to a party the other evening and I brought two chocolate cheesecakes!

Ginkos are cool trees. Do all yours bear fruit? ...

2005-11-27T22:44:00.000-05:00

Ginkos are cool trees. Do all yours bear fruit? Only the females do according to OSU.

They're plentiful around here and they don't seem to smell. Maybe they're so plentiful around Philly because the "deal" was that they were all of the stinky type.

They make herbal supplements from the berries right? Maybe that's why someone was collecting them. But before you break out your basket note that the supplement is another item to avoid.

I never knew about the butyric acid, but that cert...

2005-11-27T17:05:00.000-05:00

I never knew about the butyric acid, but that certainly explains the smell! Ginkgos are plentiful here, too. In my youth, kids at recess would call the berries "stinkbombs" and hurl them at at each other, along with the more pleasant-smelling but larger fruit of the osage orange tree. One can often find people gathering them at our local park, presumably to toast and eat the seeds.