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WHY THESE ARE CALLED "STREET TACOS" .....rather than "FINE DINING FINGER FOODS"

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      Try 'rolling up a 5" corn taco, filled with "stuff"..... here, with grated cheese, shredded cabbage, roasted chicken, tomato salsa and avocado crema....and eating it, without much of it ending up in its seated diner's lap.      I've been experimenting with Ways to roll these up, securely, into 'drippingless', 'droppingless' hand-held edibles that could be eaten with white-gloved hands......So far, this task has been an impossible one.....especially, while maintaining one's lips 'parallel to the tabletop'....   C'mon, Emily Post, you know you want another one!  I have a convenient 'Olympian' salad fork for scooping up the falling debris and a Belgian Linen lap napkin, with lace trim, to prevent those tiny bits of cabbage slaw from toppling down to the Silk Carpet.... There are specialized silver flatware devices that may be utilized, of course....for  the non-food handling, difficult  to catch and restrain,  'p...
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KROGER'S 'ASIAN INSPIRED STIR FRY WITH YAKISOBA NOODLES....

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COMES WITH FIVE (5!) PLASTIC PACKETS OF 'SAUCE' TO ADD TO THE TRAY OF FOOD....I ADDED TWO OF THE PACKETS, ONLY....HOWEVER, EVEN THAT AMOUNT WAS AS SALTY AS A COW'S SALT LICK....AND....ALMOST....INEDIBLE......EVEN AFTER HAVING ONLY A FEW FORKFULS OF THIS 'DISH' AND DOWNING A PINT OF HOT GREEN TEA....THE SALTY TASTE STILL LINGERS ON MY TONGUE...YUK!    SO....ZERO 'THUMBS UP' TO KROGER!   
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ANTIQUE ROYAL BAYREUTH FIGURAL 'TOMATOE' CREAMER, WITH MATCHING SUGAR AND CONDIMENT BOWLS

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TRY 'FOLDING THIS OVER' TO CREATE A 'HAND-HELD SANDWICH'......

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North Indian Punjabi flatbread, called kulcha , brushed with ghee or avocado oil,  piled up with spicy chickpeas ( choley )  & shredded barbecued beef, over romaine lettuce... bathed in a horseradish and beet puree... then crowned with thin-sliced beefsteak tomato slices......  Now.....don't make a 'Mess''.......However, that certain mess, requiring a finger bowl,  is very likely, nevertheless... I suggest eating this  Punjabi Concoction with  your chowhoumd canine, rather than in polite human company.. and reserving your polite fingers for a dessert cookie...or a neatly assembled macaron....                                 and, now, that your fingers are cleaned and ready, once more.....how about wrangling this one!   
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MONOCHROMATIC AFTERNOON CHILI, OF SORTS.......WITH NO 'FINE' IN DINING....

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  THIN, SHAVED BEEF AND FAVA BEANS.....COOKED WITH TOMATO PASTE, DRIED ONIONS, CHILI POWDER, DRIED CORIANDER, WORCHESTERSHIRE SAUCE, GARLIC & GINGER PASTES, CRUSHED TOASTED CUMIN, TOASTED HUNGARIAN PAPRIKA,   AND PEPPER SEEDS... SERVED IN A WOODEN BOWL... WITH A WOODEN SPOON....MAKE FOR A RATHER UNCOLORFUL BOMBAY ORPHANAGE-LIKE 'MEAL-IN-A-BOWL'.....I CONSIDERED ADDING SOME BRIGHT GREEN ENGLISH PEAS....EVEN SOME GRILLED BRUSSELS SPROUTS, YELLOW CARROTS OR WHOLE BABY OKRA TO ADD SOME VISUAL APPEAL TO THIS GRUELISH GOULASH......BUT RATHER QUICKLY ATE A BOWLFUL, WITH NO ADDED 'DECOR'.....AND, WITHOUT BANGING MY TIN CUP ON THE PLANK TABLE, CRYING OUT 'PLEASE, SIR, MAY I HAVE SOME MORE?'  
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2:30....TEATIME....make that COFFEETIME......

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  VICENZOVO  ITALIAN LADYFINGER SANDWICH, WITH CHOCOLATE/CASHEW BUTTER,  SERVED ON AN AUSTRIAN SILVER DESSERT PLATTER WITH AN ENGLISH URN OF INTENSE, BLACK SPANISH EXPRESSO....FOR DIPPING...( A MID-AFTERNOON STIMULUS).....EMILY POST SUGGESTED, A CENTUY AGO, THE WEARING OF WHITE COTTON GLOVES WHEN TOUCHING ANOTHER PERSON, BUT REMOVING THEM FOR THE DUNKING.......WHICH IS AN ETIQUETTE CHALLENGE.....AS IMPORTANT AS KNOWING 'JUST WHEN' TO REMOVE THE PATISSIRIE BEFORE IT IS 'JAVA-LOGGED', WITH THE POTENTIALITY OF STAINING ONE'S WHITE-GLOVES, UPON ONE'S LAP,  OR THE BELGIAN LACE TABLECLOTH...... the serving may be lifted, atop a carved wood support,  to bring the foodstuff closer to the lips of one's maw, thereby avoiding the risky, if short, itinerary from table to polite seclusion within the palate.... 
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AS A ROMAINE COMPENSATION FOR HAVING A SWEET GOOEY PECAN DESSERT, BEFORE LUNCH....

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 I FELT COMPELLED TO MAKE A SALTY CAESER SALAD, LATER TODAY......THAT FEATURED BOTH SALTY PARMESAN CHEESE AND BREAD, FIRST SOAKED IN THE BRINE FROM PICKLED PEPPERCORNS, THEN SPRINKLED WITH BLACK PEPPER.......   
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