@Sturgis,
Friday, Friday... that should be a song.
On the thing, veddy interesting. Glad you mentioned the radiologist's comment.
The pulmonologist, who is superb and whom I trust completely (also he's a cutie) is making me an appointment with a medical oncologist, just so that I check in there. He doesn't think anything will change.
I will see the pulmonologist again in three months.
Note: I still exhibit absolutely no symptoms. If I hadn't had a CAT scan just to be on the safe side, no one would know it was there. Do I prefer not knowing? No.
I will be lumping tomorrow. Big time. I'm hoping to get more than two hours of sleep in a row.
Would it surprise you if I said I'm tired?
@Roberta,
Lump in joy!!! Having an egg creme?
@dlowan,
No, no egg cream. In an effort to economize, I didn't buy seltzer. No seltzer, no egg cream. However, I had three egg creams last week. Damn good. That's why I'm out of seltzer.
@dlowan,
Carbonated (plain) soda, A.K.A. in Yiddish as 2 cents plain.
(I'm a mineral water girl)
@firefly,
The seltzer, you should schpritz it, not pour it if you're gonna do it right.
The name and the water of Selters in Germany are the prototype of "seltzer".
I've an old (empty) "bottle" of it, from the 1860's
The source actually was in "Nieder-Selters" (Lower Selters), closed in 1999.
@Walter Hinteler,
Damn! You do learn something new every day if you're not careful. I did not know that about the etymology of the word
seltzer. Had never heard of a place called Selters. Amazing what one can still learn at my age!
Viel danke, Walter,
@dlowan,
You had to mention an egg cream, didn't you. And the rest of you had to talk about seltzer. Now I'm $2.29 over budget. I'll have an egg cream some time today.
The supermarket was out of seltzer. I got club soda. Why they have something labeled seltzer and something else labeled club soda is a mystery. This may be only in Noo Yawk where seltzer actually has a following.
@Roberta,
"What's in a name? A seltzer by any other name still tastes the same."
The real question being, do you call it seltza or seltscher or the supposedly correct pronunciationing of seltzer? (or maybe you say it entirely differently)
@Sturgis,
Only in Boston is it called seltza.
What's an egg cream, anyway?
Seltza. Only in Brooklyn and Boston? Bullfeathers. My entire family said seltza, and I may be the only of them that's been to Boston. Coney Island is in Brooklyn, so they were all there at least once.
Margo, bubbele, An egg cream is a Noo Yawk creation. It consists of chocolate syrup, milk, and seltzer. When I was a kid having lunch out with my mother, I'd ask for a Pepsi and she'd say, "Get an egg cream. It's got milk."
The right amounts of syrup, milk, and seltzer are essential for that egg cream rush. Also egg creams are NOT to be sipped through a straw. Straws are verboten. Anybody who gives you an egg cream with a straw doesn't know egg creams. It's almost the equivalent of ordering corned beef on white bread. Feh pooh. And oy.
@Roberta,
Roberta wrote: "Get an egg cream. It's got milk."
Which explains, why it is called 'egg cream': "egg" = a a corruption of the German and Yiddish word
echt ['ekht' in Yiddish] ("genuine" or "real").
