OT: strained kitchen humor

[Bob Stockler]

Brian K. White wrote (on Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 05:27:36PM -0500):

| ----- Original Message ----- 
| From: "Stanley Barnett" <stanley at stanlyn.com>
| 
| >>>But, it was _your_typo, not mine
| >
| >After reviewing the original post, it was spelled as "colander" and
| >certainly not a miss spell on my part...
| >
| >I have no idea of what a "colander" is... so please enlighten me...
| 
| Well that explains it then.
| This is a colander
| http://www.overstock.com/images/products/3/L934634.jpg
| 
| Sometimes they are plastic, sometimes the have slits istead of holes, 
| sometimes they are made out of screen instead of a bowl with holes or other 
| designs punched through.
| Sometimes they are called strainers, and are most often used to drain the 
| water from pasta.
| I think that covers all the various puns made so far.

I've known what a colander was for over 70 years.  My Mother
used one to wash sand off of spinach or kale greens when she
prepared them for dinner (I loved kale, but hated spinach,
though I'd eat some of the sliced hard boiled eggs she always
put on top of the spinach she served).

We didn't have pasta in those days, but had what Mom called
Italian Spagetti - but it wasn't, it was a cassarole that
contained ground beef, spagetti, mushrooms, and assorted
spices and other ingredients.  It was gooood!, but I didn't
learn what *real* Italian Spagetti was until I visited Rome
much later in life.

Bob

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