Re: It's Early, But Will You Have for Dinner Tonight, Thursday, 11/14/2024?

D wrote:

  On Fri, 15 Nov 2024, dsi1 wrote:
 

On Thu, 14 Nov 2024 17:39:47 +0000, ItsJoanNotJoAnn wrote:
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Yes, it's way too early for many to be thinking about
dinner tonight, but I thought I'd ask just the same.
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I'll heading out tonight to an 'investment dinner' my
financial adviser has for his clients every year.
Some of the older ones make it to the restaurant
occasionally, but for the most part none of us pass
up a good dinner.
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The menu they present to us has a choice of about 12
different dinners to choose from.  Two or three seafood
choices, three or four poultry choices, and different
beef selections as well.  Dinner comes with the drink
of your choice, some opting for wine, and a selection
of desserts.
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Bread is offered before dinner with different olive
oils to dip it in.

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Dinner tonight was a bulgogi bento from the Korean store. The Koreans
have traditionally tenderized bulgogi with Korean pear or kiwi fruit.
The enzymes in the fruit breaks down the fibers in the meat. Our dinner
was heavily treated with tenderizer but it wasn't bad. My wife said that
her mom made the best bulgogi - I agree with her on that. I don't know
how she did it.
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https://photos.app.goo.gl/1LztRjZ9hXmicyXC7
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 Good stuff! I had a tonkatsu poke bowl and it was good. The only drawback is too much sallad and mushroom which they use to camouflage the inflation here. There just was an election here and the socialists won, so now we are looking forward to tax increases. In fact, the woke government that just left are doing their share as well by doubling the VAT on food, so a lot of small restaurants are currently closing.
 Classics waiting us later next year are a new progressive income tax and increase corporation tax.
 Europe seldom fails to disappoint the greedy socialists of the world! ;)

That's a succinct and sad summary of socialism's solipsism.
And I call it that because as the collectivists go, it's always about their group-think, not the impact it will have on their nation.
That VAT tax add-on is a real eye-opener, hidden way at the bottom of the price tags and bills:
https://youtu.be/hIk1CkxLR_A
"Is Costco in the UK a total miss? I went to find some exciting new autumn/ fall/ halloween items, but it didn't go quite to plan.."
Still a $3.99 rotisserie chicken with NO VAT added remains a steal!
Looks like you folks don't have that exemption however:
https://marosavat.com/manual/vat/sweden/
Foodstuff 12%
https://www.reddit.com/r/Costco/comments/yevsob/i_went_to_the_opening_of_the_first_costco_in/?rdt=52237
"The $5 chicken was over $9.
As it currently is, I have a hard time seeing Costco survive in Sweden. That breaks my heart, as I would love to have the Costco I've always heard about. Their current offer is for us to pay a membership fee that allows us to drive to a remote location and pay between 80-300% of normal prices for things. This feels like a scam to me."
I can believe it must!
Ya'll deserve a lot LESS giverment than you're again voting for...
:-/
https://imgur.com/a/dxJA7Bo/