Yesterday I realized I'd left the back door unlocked for four straight days and nights

[sovay]

I declare today a victory in toroidal foods. I was in Medford for my follow-up with the ENT (which went well), so I stopped by Donuts with a Difference afterward, and then I returned home circuituously by way of Bow Market in Union Square, where I got a hot bagel with salmon belly lox and caper-parsley cream cheese from Hooked. The counterman was one of the owners, a former chef and current fisherman; he told me they're still waiting for the season to really start, but in the meantime their fresh oysters, salmon, scallops, and skate wings looked lovely. They sell smoked and fresh seafood, bowls, tacos, soups, bagels. There is a giant squid with a tangling armful of buoys and irons painted across their wall and much of their floor. And they are about twenty minutes' walk from me.

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[yhlee]

Huzzah for toroidal foods!

[sovay]

Huzzah for toroidal foods!

I had been expecting today to be medically dominated and this was so much better.

[jesse_the_k]

The power of squid will triumph over piddling doctors every time.

[sovay]

The power of squid will triumph over piddling doctors every time.

Whatever your icon is from, it's great.

[wpadmirer]

ARGH! on leaving the back door unlocked!

Glad to hear the ENT went well and that you got nice things on the way home.

[sovay]

ARGH! on leaving the back door unlocked!

It's all right! It's a line from my current music! "Yesterday I realized I'd left the back door unlocked for four straight days and nights / But nothing was taken / I tell you, you can't rely on anyone anymore." Most of my post titles are either song lyrics or lines of dialogue from movies or plays, depending on what I have been most recently watching, listening to, or writing about.

Glad to hear the ENT went well and that you got nice things on the way home.

Thank you!

[wpadmirer]

Ah, well that's good. I don't know that song. Not surprising as the music I listen to is whatever Pat is playing lately. (grin)

[lemon_badgeress]

i spent a LOT of time alarmed/concerned until i realized sovay uses quotes to title entries XD

[wpadmirer]

Thank you! I'm glad it I wasn't the only one who didn't realize that!

[sovay]

i spent a LOT of time alarmed/concerned until i realized sovay uses quotes to title entries

I'm not that good at titles on my own!

[lemon_badgeress]

neither am i! it’s perfectly reasonable just sometimes alarming XD

[movingfinger]

Twenty minutes' walk is a perfect appetite-whetting amount of walking
with a fine bagel at the end.


...oh, my God, smoked bluefish AND haddock.

[sovay]

...oh, my God, smoked bluefish AND haddock.

I have tasted their smoked bluefish and can recommend it. I would imagine their smoked haddock is of equal quality and now I want some.

[gwynnega]

If that place were a twenty-minute walk from me, I would be in danger of eating nothing but fish tacos, chowder, and bagels and lox every day. Which doesn't seem like a bad thing at all.

[sovay]

I would be in danger of eating nothing but fish tacos, chowder, and bagels and lox every day. Which doesn't seem like a bad thing at all.

As the weather gets warmer, I feel this may become a possibility.

[kate_nepveu]

yay medical thing going well! and toroidal food too

[sovay]

yay medical thing going well! and toroidal food too

Thank you!

[rosefox]

I was in Medford for my follow-up with the ENT (which went well)

Oh HOORAY!

[sovay]

Oh HOORAY!

Thank you!

[nineweaving]

Fissssssshhhhh!

So glad that the ENT went well.

I like your spring so far.

Nine

[sovay]

I like your spring so far.

Thank you. I am generally enjoying it.

[kore]

For once my "hey check it" link is not off topic: Pompeiian snack bars

[sovay]

For once my "hey check it" link is not off topic: Pompeiian snack bars

I am delighted someone has restored a thermopolium.

[ethelmay]

I thought for a second this meant Pompeiian granola bars or something. Garumnola bars.

[sovay]

Garumnola bars.

Let's be honest; I'd try one.

[tree_and_leaf]

That sounds so good.

[sovay]

That sounds so good.

I am really glad it's what I did with my afternoon.

[selidor]

...I really hope I can get to the Land of Toroidal Foods some day, because this is definitely making me hungry just reading it. (We do have good scallops here; a benefit of the lough with such tides at its mouth that the Vikings termed it 'strong fiord', which remains its name to this day).

[sovay]

...I really hope I can get to the Land of Toroidal Foods some day, because this is definitely making me hungry just reading it.

Many aspects of this country are on fire, but I like what we do with food!

(We do have good scallops here; a benefit of the lough with such tides at its mouth that the Vikings termed it 'strong fiord', which remains its name to this day).

I am glad to hear of the scallops. Also I don't think I knew exactly where you were before, and now I have Seamus Heaney's North in my head.

[selidor]

I will let you know if I am ever headed Boston-wards.

There is a good little Seamus Heaney centre. As one might hope it has a small but focussed bookshop; I got a nice Faber&Faber copy of his "New Selected Poems 1988-2013", and Marie Heaney's "Over Nine Waves", which is probably the best Irish mythos cycle around at the moment.

[sovay]

There is a good little Seamus Heaney centre. As one might hope it has a small but focussed bookshop

I'm glad of both of these things.

and Marie Heaney's "Over Nine Waves", which is probably the best Irish mythos cycle around at the moment.

I haven't read that! Thank you for the pointer.

[choco_frosh]

Yay appointments that actually go well! Yay toroidal foods!
Toroidal foods always makes me think of Hittite kugullas, which (in the category of Things Sovay Undoubtedly Already Knows) has been seriously argued to mean donut.

Also, I want someone to open a restaurant called Kugullas. It would serve doughnuts, bagels, and kugel. (Which I guess would require, like, three completely different fabrication processes, but f'it.)

[sovay]

Yay appointments that actually go well! Yay toroidal foods!

Thank you!

Also, I want someone to open a restaurant called Kugullas. It would serve doughnuts, bagels, and kugel. (Which I guess would require, like, three completely different fabrication processes, but f'it.)

I would eat there.

[ethelmay]

The kiddie menu could have Cheerios and LifeSavers.

[asakiyume]

Just reading the names of all these foods fills me with a sense of well-being, and the painting of the giant squid with the buoys and irons just confirms it.

[sovay]

Just reading the names of all these foods fills me with a sense of well-being, and the painting of the giant squid with the buoys and irons just confirms it.

It was a much, much better afternoon than I'd expected.