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  1. saf
    We were at the game last night. It was dollar dog night. I like hot dogs, so I decided to have dogs since they were reasonably priced. Now, I know it was cold last night, so the dogs probably got cold as we were walking back to the seats. But I'm really not sure about that. They were cold right to the middle. I don't think they were ever heated. No more Nats dogs. Well, at least not until I forget about this.
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    Anyone been recently? We're considering it for dinner tonight and have not been in YEARS.
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    Oh well. Thank you for trying! (For good ballpark funnel cakes, go see the Potomac Nationals in Woodbridge,)
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    Really? A portable one or a permanent one? Our seats are in 308. I was there last Sunday. I did not see this. I have never seen this. I need to see (and try) this. I shall be looking for it, and will take any hints on what it is called. ETA: You don't mean the funnel cake folks, do you? I like some funnel cake, but that is not fried dough. Also, they are not very good funnel cakes, IMO. I am wishing for the fried dough that is yeast dough, stretched out, deep fried, and served with cinnamon and sugar. And while I'm at it, in case someone knows where I can get sugar waffles (without making them myself), this is what I mean by sugar waffle.
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    Will have to try that. We've had a 20 game package since 2005 and so have gotten very tired of all the options. And the prices. We take food a lot. When I worked at AU, Vace was on the way to the park. We often had subs for dinner at the game. Wish I could still do that! Now it's random sandwiches from other places. For Sunday games we go to breakfast before we go. We also bring water, pistachios, and peanuts. Sometimes I make caramel corn too. Still have to buy beer and ice cream there though. One of our group really likes the nachos from Hard Times. They are ok IMO, but get soggy too quickly. I wish that fried dough and sugar waffles were available.
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    Wow, I think you may have that backwards? (I really like meringue. Not so much coconut.)
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    Whenever I go to Virginia, no matter WHAT I do, I seem to end up on Glebe Road. Then I become confused, and despondent.
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    Three Stars has a homebrew shop.
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    My friend D insists that is the only way to eat apple pie. He is from Connecticut.
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    I used to find it at Giant. They may still have it, but I got the last jar I bought at Rodman's. It was British.
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    The one AT the flea market, with the accordion playing singer? That wasn't the one I was thinking of, but I remember that one too.
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    Once I went to a restaurant in Paris that had the menu on a chalkboard set on an easel. They brought it to the table when you were seated. If someone else was reading it, you had to wait. Food was REALLY good.
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    I used to feel that way. I have an iPad to read on now. My reading vision has gone bad enough that it's hard to read regular books. (No, I am not even 50 yet. I am just very nearsighted. I can read with contacts and reading glasses, but am too nearsighted to read without any glasses and hate my bifocals.)
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    Come to Petworth. The Upshur Street tiny business district would work. There's LOTS of unused space in the building above the Georgia Ave metro stop. I believe there's space in the row where 3 little pigs is. There's also space over at 14th and Quincy/Spring.
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    Yes, they will (or maybe do. I forget.) slice the bread at Breads Unlimited. Caprice is good. Adams Morgan - have you checked if Heller's has rye?
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    Where are you? I like the rye from the bread place in the shopping center next to Strosneider's in Bethesda a lot. (Sorry. Forgot the bakery's actual name.) Czech friends say the breads from there are much like those in Czech. (I thought the bread in Czech was better, but this is good) Oh, and you might also try La Caprice DC on 14th and Oak. (Where the old Giant was.) They make nice bread, although I have not had the rye.
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    Yes, square tiles set at a 27 degree angle (I think - it's been a while). Here, have another http://www.corkfloor.com/pics.html top row, third from the left, is a good friend's floor. It was done about 6 months after mine. They are also still quite pleased with it. (As you can see, our personal styles differ tremendously.) I don't know about floating floors. Mine was: Install new subfloor, as the old floor was in VERY bad shape. (You could see the basement through parts of it.) Lay tiles on floor with glue. Seal tiles with special sealer. Walk on lovely new floor. Re-seal every year or two. Ah, looking at the website, it can also be done as a floating floor. I think the tiles are cork all the way through. They certainly look and feel as if they are. I can't find that on the website. If you look at the picture of my kitchen again, you will see that the cabinets match the scarlet inset tiles in the floor. We could NOT find the colors that we wanted for the cabinets, so we bought the cabinets unfinished, and then my kitchen dude bought scarlet stain from Globus to exactly match the doors to the tiles (along with ebony stain for the boxes).
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    We have cork - it's been 8 years now and it has held up well. 2 people, multiple cats. No dogs. http://www.corkfloor.com/pics-2.html My floor is the alabaster and scarlet, right end of the middle row of pictures.
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    And Nova Scotia. (Sadly, Gio's Seafood Chowder Bus in Sydney, Nova Scotia, does not appear to have a website.)
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    They make very nice popsicles.
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    I moved here in the early 80s. It was my Mom's cousin's go-to place, and apparently had been for quite a while. She was born in China, lived there until she was about 10, and had returned numerous times since. (Not Chinese. Her parents had been educators in Shanghai.) She died in the early 90s, and her husband died not long after. I haven't been back since then. I should have. I used to like it when we went there. And as a college student I did SO love being taken out to nicer places than I could afford by people that I was a bit in awe of.
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    Didn't notice that on the menu.
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    That's certainly possible. The friend enjoyed the salmon far more than I enjoyed the chicken (and I really really love a good roast chicken.) The +1 was tepid on the steak - he liked it ok, but would rather have been at Ray's. And I admit, I do NOT eat seafood (or snails.), so that part of the menu is lost on me. Vegetables, meat, poultry. And dessert. I love dessert.
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    I'm having that problem, sometimes, in Firefox 18.0.1
  25. saf
    We finally made it to Mintwood Place for the first time last night. It was fine. The drinks were good. The chopped liver was wonderful. There were three of us. One had steak frites, one had salmon, I had Amish chicken. Then we had apple pie and pecan pie. The pies were stellar. The service was fine, although we did feel like we were getting up-sold every time. Everything else was good, but.... nothing else was stellar. And the mains came out REALLY QUICKLY, before we had a chance to finish the chopped liver and the pre-dinner drinks. Oh, and every time we set down a fork, the very nice but ubiquitous busser tried to clear our plates. The wine list was awfully expensive. And the food seemed expensive for something that was good but not great. We determined that for that price point we prefer Cashion's. Also, the wine list at Cashion's has some more affordable selections. So, glad we got there, enjoyed the dinner, but feel like it was a bit too expensive.
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