# Quick Kato! To the Jewelers! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 30, 2004, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-kato-to-the-jewelers/262214 "2004-08-30T12:29:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-kato-to-the-jewelers/262214/81 "2004-08-31T19:44:31Z")
Woohoo! Another Canadian! **Bookkeeper** have you tried the PC Butter Chicken? I wasn’t too impressed. If I were, I would bankrupt us buying lots and lots. Butter chicken is one of my favourite foods. I think Patak’s does a butter chicken paste. Hmm. I think the sauce would probably be good poured an almost anything. I ate french fries (Swiss Chalet) for lunch, but I’m hungry again. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-kato-to-the-jewelers/262214/82 "2004-08-31T19:51:32Z")
> [@Lissla Lissar](#): > > Woohoo! Another Canadian! **Bookkeeper** have you tried the PC Butter Chicken? I wasn’t too impressed. If I were, I would bankrupt us buying lots and lots. Butter chicken is one of my favourite foods. OK, I turned off the silly switch. What is “PC” as in “PC Butter chicken”? 😕 :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-kato-to-the-jewelers/262214/83 "2004-08-31T19:58:25Z")
I’ll do you one better. What’s Butter Chicken? ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-kato-to-the-jewelers/262214/84 "2004-08-31T20:12:43Z")
I just got back from lunch. What did I do? Had a BK veggie burger. Got new batteries for two of my dead watches. Picked up the keys to my new freaking condo! Woo. ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-kato-to-the-jewelers/262214/85 "2004-08-31T20:23:21Z")
> [@vunderbob](#): > > OK, I turned off the silly switch. What is “PC” as in “PC Butter chicken”? > 😕 :dubious: I believe PopCorn. **Swampy** , do NOT use the phone during one of the alphabetically sequencial popcorn storms. Uncle Cec says so. Especially if you live down under. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-kato-to-the-jewelers/262214/86 "2004-08-31T20:46:16Z")
> [@Lissla Lissar](#): > > Woohoo! Another Canadian! **Bookkeeper** have you tried the PC Butter Chicken? I wasn’t too impressed. If I were, I would bankrupt us buying lots and lots. Butter chicken is one of my favourite foods. I wasn’t impressed by the Butter Chicken (it’s all right but I’ve had better), but Mrs. Bookkeeper and I both like the Chicken Khorma a lot. If they ever come out with a good lamb pasanda I would fill the freezer - it’s my favourite. **Vunderbob** - **PC** is President’s Choice, which is the Loblaw’s grocery chain high end store brand, and the reason I shop at Loblaw’s a lot. The products tend to be fairly reasonably priced, have a lot of unusual stuff not available elsewhere except in specialty shops, and are usually as good as or better than name brand if the product is widely available. The line is showing up elsewhere as well, now. I recall a news item that mentioned some stores in the U.S. carrying PC products. **Exgineer** - Butter Chicken is a scrumptious Indian dish with chicken in a smooth yoghurt-based sauce ([recipe here](http://www.indolink.com/Recipe/nonveg/butrChkn.html) ). ---
**Author:** ![Tupug\_Anachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-kato-to-the-jewelers/262214/87 "2004-08-31T21:02:27Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > **Puggy** I thought the hubby already bought one of them battry powered tbs. Or is he like **Ex** who goes shopping for a food processor and brings home a microwave? 😛 > > **Bookkeeper** I bet archery tennis would be fun too. And archery bad minton. But not archery volleyball. The balls are too airy and wouldn’t be bouncy after they got shot. Archery croquet might be fun. Oh! Archery baseball! Archery baseball would be real fun. Specially with flaming arrows being shot at baseballs. That’d liven up baseball a bunch! No, he cheaped out during the last hurricane and didn’t get one. We had to wait and borry BarbeeDoll[sup]TM[/sup]'s after she got her power back but she called last night and wants it back. (Selfishlittlebabyofthefamilydurnsister) And, yes, he is a bit like ex because he keeps coming home with little color TVs instead of the battry one. Whaddya think about Archery Bowling??? > [@Lissla Lissar](#): > > Vunderbob - PC is President’s Choice, which is the Loblaw’s grocery chain high end store brand, and the reason I shop at Loblaw’s a lot. OHMAGAWD! They had a Loblaw’s in my hometown of Binghamton, NY, when I was a kid. I always thought it was one of those family-owned independent stores from back in the stone age. Well, well…ya learn sumpin new every day. ---
**Author:** ![Ashes\_Ashes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@Ashes\_Ashes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashes_Ashes)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-kato-to-the-jewelers/262214/88 "2004-08-31T21:02:26Z")
So **scout** , how are those veggie burgers? Hee! Congratulations you home owner, you! ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-kato-to-the-jewelers/262214/89 "2004-08-31T21:06:10Z")
> [@scout1222](#): > > Picked up the keys to my new freaking condo! Wassamatter - you couldn’t buy an ordinary condo - you had to get a freaking condo? 😛 OK, then, congrats! That’s really coolness personified! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-kato-to-the-jewelers/262214/90 "2004-08-31T22:13:09Z")
**scout** congrats! This calls for a celebrated swampbear: **WOOOOOHOOOOO!!!** **And Now For The Latest From swampbear Land:** I have now officially attained **THE** old fart rite of passage. I now possess my very own gen-yoo-wine AARP Membership Card! Now y’all excuse me while I go scope me out some senior citizen discounts. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-kato-to-the-jewelers/262214/91 "2004-08-31T22:57:59Z")
Well, let’s see here… I’m an eternal old maid[sup]®[/sup] so no wedding rings. In fact I’m not big on jewelry at all. I do have a boar’s head torc that I wear occasionally if that counts. No tattoos. I don’t care for needles that much. I don’t think a ring would cause a cow much consternation as they always seem to picking up bits of metal via the front end. I used to live not far from a factory that made cow magnets for this very reason. Oh, Ashes[sup]2[/sup], if you’re looking for something else that pops try amaranth. It’s teeny but pops right nicely. And speaking of grains, I just bought some [bamboo](http://www.indianharvest.com/catalog/35020a.html) rice recently. It’s a lovely green shade. I can’t wait to try it out. Plop a little basil pesto on top and it should make quite a verdant dish. Hmmm…hurricanes… nope, don’t know much about them being landlocked and all. I like Indian food very much. Yesterday I received a subscription offer from Smithsonian in the mail. It was a senior discount offer. I may never read that magazine again. I’m not _that_ old yet! On an unrelated note (possibly an E#, what key is this thing in anyway?) come friday I will be living with three cats, three kittens, two other adults, and a five year old child. All in my house for a week. [sub]“Help!” she squeaked.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-kato-to-the-jewelers/262214/92 "2004-09-01T00:05:52Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > I now possess my very own gen-yoo-wine AARP Membership Card! Welcome to the club, you old fart!! But you don’t get the good discounts till you’re over 60, although you do _look_ old enough… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![merrily](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@merrily](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/merrily)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-kato-to-the-jewelers/262214/93 "2004-09-01T00:37:58Z")
Another Friday the 13th anniversary here! It works out great: you never forget the date, and then any other Friday the 13th becomes a “little anniversary.” How about a recipe for Bullwinkle Stroganoff? Thank your lucky stars I am no longer in my Adele Davis liver-with-everything phase. Liver Pizza, anyone? I like liver. Cecil likes liver, too. ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-kato-to-the-jewelers/262214/94 "2004-09-01T03:17:20Z")
Butter chicken is a Perfect Food. Indian food in general is perfect. Especially naan, which is like pita, but better, especially when it’s just cooked, and crispy and warm. No one is appreciating the Danielle Steel poetry. Hmph. So the chicken korma is good? I don’t have a microwave right now, so I don’t think I’ll buy any. I do live quite near a store that carries PC products, so I’ll check them out after we’ve bought one. Have you ever tried their flourless chocolate cake? Eggs, butter, and cream. Drool. Usually have them in stock around Christmas. ---
**Author:** ![Ashes\_Ashes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@Ashes\_Ashes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashes_Ashes)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-kato-to-the-jewelers/262214/95 "2004-09-01T04:06:33Z")
Ooooh **dwyr** , green bamboo rice, I’m gonna have to get my hands on some of that. I’ll serve it with this black rice I have, which cooks up purple according to the recipe I found. In fact, I need a rainbow of rice. Or maybe just grains. What grains are blue? Goodness knows where I’ll get my hands on some popping amaranth, we just barely got our first Starbucks. Which is why I cook my own Indian food and am jealous you all have restaurants at which to get your fixes. Do you _know_ how many ingredients go into butter chicken? I don’t know if I want to know about Bullwinkle stroganoff **merrily** , squirrel is a bit gamey I hear. Or was that the moose? Please not one of the spies; cannibalism is sooo five minutes ago. Sorry **Lissla** , I cannot appreciate the Danielle Steel poetry. It was about _band aids_ fer cryin’ out loud. Used ones even! It did make me feel a bit better about my own attempts at poetry, sublimely stinky as they were (pimple-fueled teen stuff, you know), so there is that at least. Plus, I want all you folks in the path of that hurricane to know that I feel for ya. It’s been positively humid here today. Which is the same thing practically. Really, my hair was frizzy in one spot. Okay fine, I’m worried and want to hear reports of how you’re just dandy. ---
**Author:** ![dangergene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@dangergene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangergene)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-kato-to-the-jewelers/262214/96 "2004-09-01T05:26:06Z")
I’M BACK! now i’ll just go read the thread before posting in my own inimitable style… so much to tell (well, not really) and so little time! Aiyah! …zooooom! ---
**Author:** ![dangergene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@dangergene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangergene)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-kato-to-the-jewelers/262214/97 "2004-09-01T10:00:35Z")
ok… gosh! I read the thread and no one else posted!!! So, you’re all waiting on baited breath to hear my grand excuse, yeah? And I don’t even have a note from mum explaining how the dog ate my bicycle and I couldn’t come to school cos a swarm of mutant wasp-fish ate the pilings on the house and now the stairs don’t work and… yeah. ok, so… i’m back! um… I got lost. Really. Well, e-lost. I couldn’t find the damn MMP! (I’m not, y’know, cursing the MMP or anything, but I couldn’t find it, dammit!!!). Ok, so I could have just done a search on **Rue** and then found _all posts started by…_. But you know what they say, _‘up there for dancing, down there for thinking!’_. Or something. Well, our wedding rings have a chinese dragon line around them, cos that means ‘eternity’ or some romantic pishtosh, and I done designed them, and wifey liked that, and my sis (who would be called the mighty **Princess Firescale** if she was a member, except she doesn’t beleive in the webbernet. Really!) made them, cos she’s like a fer real, live jeweller. And stuff. So she made my darling’s engagement ring which has a ruby in it, and our wedding rings. And we both have ours still, so no need for replacement rings, but I almost needed a replacement finger when my ring got caught on a door jam as I was running through the door and my whole body weight swung out on that tiny fulcrum (fulcrum or pendulum? please… my ignorance betrays me) and I done said, ‘gosh’. Actually, it wasn’t ‘gosh’ it was another word, that stars with an ‘f’, something like ‘fiddlesticks!’ or ‘F-wowieeee! that F-hurts!’ But that was years ago, and the ring is now on my right hand, where Indonesians wear their wedding rings (I’ll get to the Jakarta weekend adventure in a paragraph or two). It’s also on my right hand cos I’m a lefty (which makes me sound like a Gangter with a tweed suit and a claw) and the darn ring gets in the way when I’m a-drawing, which I’ve had to do an awful lot of recently for work and for play! Okay… so um… I’m all forgotten, so I’ll just plow on and tell you about the lacklustre ghost month. Y’see, in this part of the world the Buddhist/Taoists celebrate their ancestors this time of the year, except it shifts, cos it’s based on the chinese lunar calendar. Well, this should mean shitloads of incense burning and offerings and such and a general level of on-edginess from all and sundry as the ghosts of our ancestors walk the earth. It’s kind of like Hallowe’en, except it’s in Asia and runs for a whole lunar month and it would be really cool, except the ash and smoke really screws with my hayfever and asthma and I feel like a grumpy old man for a lunar month. But this year things have been really quiet! The burning is down, and concerts (fer the dead people, not fer you and me sport!) aren’t anywhere to be seen and the offerings are all hidden away… so I dunno what’s happening! Maybe it’s the birdflu, but that’s up in Thailand. I dunno, I’m just a crazy ang moh. I gots to away now (home time, food time). Jakarta adventure a-coming up y’all! (hugs and apologies all 'round for being away, I done missed ya all!). -Geneaux! ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-kato-to-the-jewelers/262214/98 "2004-09-01T11:40:20Z")
**dangergene** is back! This calls for another: [size=7] **WOOOOOOHOOOOOO!!!** I missed ya even if nobody else did. I mean, I ain’t been semi-flirted with by a straight man since you did it last time. I’m all up on pins and needles waitin’ to hear all about Jakarta. Know what else? I’m a lefty too! Yay for lefty MMPers! I want a cow magnet. I want to set it up in my front yard and see if I can attract any magnetic cows that may wander by. Don’t laugh, it could happen. Did I ever mention the time I walked outside to get the morning paper at 5:30 AM and saw a cow in my front yard? It really happened. See, there’s this cattle farm about a half mile from my house and a cow just wandered off and of all the yards in my 'hood she chose mine to stand in. So, apparently my front yard has some kind of special cow properties. That’s why I’d like to set up a cow magnet in it to see if I can attract magnetic cows. I’m so excited **dangergene’s** back, I’m posting like him! 😃 **Ashes[sup]2[/sup]** squirrel is real gamy tasting. Gamier than raccoon even. Yes, I do know that from personal experience. **merrily** dinner at your house must be some kinda experience. Bullwinkle stroganoff and liver pizza. I like liver but I’ve never had any bullwinkle. I hear it’s good though. **FCM** I may look 60 but I don’t feel a day over 83. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-kato-to-the-jewelers/262214/99 "2004-09-01T11:41:56Z")
Dang! I messed up **dangergene’s** welcome back **WOOOOOHOOOOO!!!** ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-kato-to-the-jewelers/262214/100 "2004-09-01T12:14:44Z")
> [@dangergene](#): > > I’M BACK! Thank God. Now get back out there and find **welby**. He appears to be lost too. > [@Bookkeeper](#): > > Exgineer - Butter Chicken is a scrumptious Indian dish with chicken in a smooth yoghurt-based sauce Hey, thanks. That looks really good and I’m going to try making it. Actually, since I don’t really know how those doodads in that kitchen place work, I’m going to nag someone else into trying to make it. Maybe if I promise to take the garbage out a bit more regularly I’ll get some traction on this. Congratulations, **scout**. You know that old saying “you break it, you bought it?” For homeowners it’s a little diffferent. It goes, “You bought it. You break it, there’s no super/landlord to call. Here’s a wrench and some duct tape.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-kato-to-the-jewelers/262214.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-kato-to-the-jewelers/262214.md?page=6)