Ping Vrai....

[bulldog (Premo)]

Originally Posted by DoWhat

Excuse me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I called in an order for lumpia and poncet to pick up on my way home from work.
I stopped to pick up my order, and they told me my order was already picked up.


HELLO???????????????????????

Yep! I told them that I was there to pick up an order for an "Doctor Evil" looking guy and they knew exactly what I meant.

Actually, I called in an order before leaving work. Just 6 lumpia and they were gone by time I pulled into my driveway in Callaway. Tasted good, but a bit on the skinny side. They were about pinki size and I'm used to them being about thumb size. I'll just order more next time.

[edinsomd]

Originally Posted by glhs837

Sure do.

Watlz was a real piece of work. Bright kid, but lazy and arrogant. Sooo, as his LPO I had his name picked for SERE training. To ensure he received a vivid learning experience, I went to my next door neighbor, AO1 Pete Peterson with six pack and a request. Seems Pete was a SERE instructor at the time...

After SERE, any time Waltz would start to act out, all I would say is "The Sargent Major will see you now." and he'd clam right up. Pete had him scared spitless.

[jazz lady (Premo)]

Originally Posted by edinsomd

There has got to be a good story here. Maybe even worthy of a Sea Story.

You do know the difference between a Sea Story and a fairy tale, right? If not, please allow me to help.

A fairy tale starts with "Once upon a time..." and ends with "...and they all lived happily ever after."

A Sea Story, however, begins with "Now this ain't no sh!t...." And always ends with "...and then we were all ****ed."

So now this ain't no sh!t. There I wuz at 20,000 feet, just me and my lumpia sauce....

Yes, it is definitely a Sea Story.

Now this ain't no sh!t... Vrai was making homemade lumpia for some guests when she realized she had no sauce for them. Being ever resourceful, she declared "I can whip one up in just a few seconds. My kids LOVED it!" This was the warning shot across the bow and I became extremely uneasy.

Next thing you know, I'm staring in horrified fascination as she whips out a Tupperware container, squirts in ketchup, throws in a bunch of other things, then proceeds to shake the hell out of the container. All I see is this sickly pink colored shiny liquid as she thrusts the concoction at me and says "Here - try THIS!"

I take a small dab of it and taste. Dear Mother of GOD, it is NOTHING like a good lumpia sauce. In fact, it was like no sauce I had ever tasted. Vrai is unwilling to give up so easily and says "it just needs more" whatever. Another squirt of ketchup. Shake, shake, shake, taste. Another squirt of that. Shake, shake, shake, taste.

After several tries attempting to doctor it up and the sauce getting more and more unpalatable with each version, we finally came to the agreement there was NO hope (I believe I said something like "it's dead, Jim") and it did a quick swirly down the drain.

An emergency phone call quickly goes out to another guest: "HELP!!! Please, please, PLEASE get some GOOD sauce from the grocery store." When the guest arrived with our salvation, I nearly kissed their feet in gratitude.

And then we were all saved from the sauce from hell.

Vrai doesn't have many failures in the kitchen, but when she does, she does it VERY well.

[edinsomd]

Originally Posted by jazz lady

Yes, it is definitely a Sea Story.

Now this ain't no sh!t... Vrai was making homemade lumpia for some guests when she realized she had no sauce for them. Being ever resourceful, she declared "I can whip one up in just a few seconds. My kids LOVED it!" This was the warning shot across the bow and I became extremely uneasy.

Next thing you know, I'm staring in horrified fascination as she whips out a Tupperware container, squirts in ketchup, throws in a bunch of other things, then proceeds to shake the hell out of the container. All I see is this sickly pink colored shiny liquid as she thrusts the concoction at me and says "Here - try THIS!"

I take a small dab of it and taste. Dear Mother of GOD, it is NOTHING like a good lumpia sauce. In fact, it was like no sauce I had ever tasted. Vrai is unwilling to give up so easily and says "it just needs more" whatever. Another squirt of ketchup. Shake, shake, shake, taste. Another squirt of that. Shake, shake, shake, taste.

After several tries attempting to doctor it up and the sauce getting more and more unpalatable with each version, we finally came to the agreement there was NO hope (I believe I said something like "it's dead, Jim") and it did a quick swirly down the drain.

An emergency phone call quickly goes out to another guest: "HELP!!! Please, please, PLEASE get some GOOD sauce from the grocery store." When the guest arrived with our salvation, I nearly kissed their feet in gratitude.

And then we were all saved from the sauce from hell.

Vrai doesn't have many failures in the kitchen, but when she does, she does it VERY well.

And in this case everyone DID live happily ever after.

Even though the first rule of cooking is "This is exactly how I expected it to turn out" occasionally some things get to the point of diminishing returns.

[DoWhat (Premo)]

Originally Posted by edinsomd

There has got to be a good story here. Maybe even worthy of a Sea Story.
ends with "...and then we were all ****ed."

So now this ain't no sh!t. There I wuz at 20,000 feet, just me and my lumpia sauce....

With your fork & spoon in your shoulder pocket?

In the EA-3B we flew at 32k - 40k.

Sea stories?

Want me to tell you about the mission we were flying when the landing gear was dropped at 32k ft at 260 knots?

[edinsomd]

Originally Posted by DoWhat

With your fork & spoon in your shoulder pocket?

In the EA-3B we flew at 32k - 40k.

Sea stories?

Want me to tell you about the mission we were flying when the landing gear was dropped at 32k ft at 260 knots?

Sure! And then I'll tell you about the time my SH-2F decided to part company with all it's hydraulic fluid over the James River one dark night.

Good times!

[DoWhat (Premo)]

Originally Posted by edinsomd

Sure! And then I'll tell you about the time my SH-2F decided to part company with all it's hydraulic fluid over the James River one dark night.

Good times!

Then I can tell you about the time when the USS Saratoga shot a couple Sea Sparrow missiles at a Turkish destroyer (TCG Muavenet) . "Display Determination 1992"

[edinsomd]

Originally Posted by DoWhat

Then I can tell you about the time when the USS Saratoga shot a couple Sea Sparrow missiles at a Turkish destroyer (TCG Muavenet) . "Display Determination 1992"

That was an "Oops" moment. Didn't the Turks want the CO's head lopped off?

Then I can tell you about the time my TACCO got sh!t faced drunk in Souda Bay...never mind.

Thought this thread was about lumpia?

Now I'm all hungry again.

[DoWhat (Premo)]

Originally Posted by edinsomd

That was an "Oops" moment. Didn't the Turks want the CO's head lopped off?

Then I can tell you about the time my TACCO got sh!t faced drunk in Souda Bay...never mind.

Thought this thread was about lumpia?

Now I'm all hungry again.

Saratoga had to pull into Athens for the investigation, so we were able to fly off. Went to Souda Bay and got .
And I was on shore duty.
Lumpia = GOOD.

[glhs837]

Originally Posted by edinsomd

That was an "Oops" moment. Didn't the Turks want the CO's head lopped off?

Then I can tell you about the time my TACCO got sh!t faced drunk in Souda Bay...never mind.

Thought this thread was about lumpia?

Now I'm all hungry again.

First time I ever had lumpia, my second deployment, last four months was at Cubi Pt., Phillipines. Second day there, my IFT took me into town. After shooing off a couple of kids wanting to shine our sneakers, he drags me into a pool bar, one of the few places there that had a couple of well lit tables, no ladies besides the servers. Mike knew I'm a nut about shooting pool, so took me there. Within seconds, two frosty San Miguels and a platter with about 30 lumpia appeared like magic. Out of those four months, only a few nights still stick in my mind these 25 years later, and thats one of them.

There, a sea story AND it's about lumpia