Comments on: Stuff and Nonsense

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 07:00:17 +0000

Curiously enough, Bryan, I read your reply while drinking a Shiner Bock. (Yes, it’s a false cognate: Bock=mountain-goat; Bach=stream.) BTW, that other Bock that is sold is not a Texas beer, though it pretends to be. Shiner Bock is a beer of my youth; it’s the genuine article, if you like that particular kind of seasonal beer.

Spare me overcooked vegetables. There’s no justification; the cook should be punished for the crime!

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 30 May 2006 21:47:00 +0000

Around here there aren’t many vegetarians and certainly nothing in a restaurant that would appeal to anyone who enjoyed vegetables. Most places cook them to death.

I suppose you could barbecue eggplant.

I can understand why a Texan would think Baroque was a typo, but Bach goes with everything.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Tue, 30 May 2006 18:15:13 +0000

Great “This I Believe” essay. But why is it only for those who eat meat? There are places in Austin (or at least used to be; I haven’t been there in a while) that will serve you veggie barbecue that will make even a carnivore’s mouth water. Good barbecue is more technique than it is meat. The places I’m thinking of may use “wheat roast” as their base ingredient, but they use the time-honored way of cooking it, and their sauce is as good as any I remember from my meat-eating days. If I can’t get to Austin to eat it fresh, I use the containers of veggie BBQ put up and “exported” by another place in Austin… not perfect, but still mighty good. Stella and I have veggie barbeque probably twice a month. Believe me, we are not deprived, and that essay made me hungry, too.

Aside: decades ago, I played a concert of 18th-century music with an historical-instruments group in Dallas called Texas Baroque Ensemble. I still have one of the tickets to the event, “corrected” by the printer to read “Texas BarBQue Ensemble.” We seriously thought about learning some more recent literature and marketing our services to local restaurants.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 30 May 2006 15:32:00 +0000

He has to be test by which our commitment to the concept is tested.

The media really should give him more ink so that people can understand why some of us find the Religious Reich so odious.

By: Jack K.

Jack K. — Tue, 30 May 2006 14:58:34 +0000

…I actually wish that Fred’s parents would have been a little more diligent in their birth control practices. Fred challenges all of my lofty liberal considerations about free speech…