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Charlottesville police believe a man was demonstrating his Second Amendment rights, when he walked into a grocery with a loaded semi-automatic rifle.
On Sunday a 22-year-old male walked into a Kroger at the intersection of Emmet Street and Hydraulic Road.
Reportedly the man first walked into the store and quickly left. He then returned with an AR-15, prompting several calls to police.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Two-and-a-half weeks after his house arrest
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Good Soup, And Thats About It, At Well-Liked York Road Mainstay
Saigon Remembered
|5857 York Road
Baltimore, MD 21212
More on Saigon Remembered.
Saigon Remembered moved its authentic Vietnamese cuisine from Belair-Edison to its current, more spacious home in Govans about five years ago. Directly across the street is the Senator Theatre, and Saigon Remembered has no doubt enlarged its patron base by providing fast and reliable pre-movie meals.
The restaurant is adept at hurtling food out from the kitchen within minutes of your ordering it; on the other hand, main courses might arrive while youre still working your way through your appetizers. But Saigon Remembered is not the kind of place youd want to linger, and the wholesale lack of boogie that afflicts so many area Thai, Japanese, and Chinese joints around town is in firm place here. Its not so much ugliness working here as indifference to aesthetics, service, and comfort, which for many diners signifies such virtues as value and authenticity. But neither does Saigon Remembered have "dive charm," the ineffable beauty of, say, a Korean barbecue joint or an Essex crab house. Its just a big, harshly lit room with many booths and tables.
I told some fans of Saigon Remembered about my planned visit, but they never got around to telling me what their favorite dishes were. I wish they had. The printed menu offers scant support for diners new to the cuisine or the restaurant itself. Its just a long numbered list, broken up into appetizers, soup, salads, steamed rice/noodle dishes, Vietnamese specialties, vegetarian dishes, and seafood, 76 items in all, not including a separate page of rice-paper rolls and salads.
Obviously, some pho will be ordered, but these are limited (and obscurely listed). The pho we did try, rare and well-done beef noodle soup ($8.95), satisfied with its simplicity. Here was an enormous bowl of nourishing beef broth, piled generously with thinly and gently sliced beef, furnished with what looks to be a pound of nicely cooked vermicelli rice noodles, and laced somewhat tentatively with green onions and basil. Good enough but lacking a bit of complexity and foreign flavor.
But the rest of the meal, selected somewhat haphazardly and based on "what sounded good," evoked less the scent of green papayas on a sultry Saigon evening than a one-way ticket to Dullsville. Vietnamese steak ($13.95), the restaurants version of shaking beef--sautéed chunks of flank steak served over lettuce and tomato--tasted flat, delivering neither the pucker of rice vinegar nor the pungency of fish sauce, and suggesting little evidence of garlic, mint, cilantro, or any other ingredient to engage the senses. Similarly, a spicy chicken and lemon grass dish ($11.95), served with rice, and described as "chicken sautéed in a rich caramel nuoc mam (fish sauce) with fresh lemon grass and hot pepper," sounded like an alluring combustion of competing flavors and textures but turned out to be an unattractive presentation of minutely flavored chicken strips. Fish sauce is one of the most compelling flavor enhancers of the worlds cuisines, and its a shame not to actually administer it. And youd be hard-pressed to detect any caramel tones in the lightly applied sauce.
Better was a shrimp in a clay pot ($15.95), a handsome mix of fresh-tasting jumbo shrimp, black mushrooms, and not enough ginger in a very simple brown sauce. The clay-pot method does a superior job of preserving the integrity and vividness of component parts--shrimp tastes like shrimp, mushrooms like mushrooms--but the parts dont add up too much. The bland brown sauce is to blame, and only healthy doses from the bottle of tabletop chili sauce brought the mix to life.
Some of the disappointment was set up by an early success, a family-sized serving of spicy Thai soup ($14.95), in which exotic, pungent, and spicy flavors were allowed to play themselves out. Sweat-inducing, peppery heat was here, as was the salty bite of fish sauce, the fascinating tropical mingle of shrimp with pineapple, lemon grass, and cilantro.
Rice-paper rolls ($5.50-$6.95) are good, too. Stuffed most often with shredded rice noodles and lettuce and laced with either fish or peanut sauce, the rolls are delicately beautiful and satisfying. But even with these, the fish sauce seems tame and the presence of cilantro timid. And, although theyre offered in a listing that suggests the variety of sushi rolls, one tasted pretty much like another to us. So--maybe a return visit is in order, before a movie. And next time with better advice from Saigon Remembered fans about why they like it so much.


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What are your food sharing rules?
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- lattelover Apr 30, 2008 10:40 AM
When I go to an Asian restaurant i am happy to share my dishes with others. At other types of restaurants I typically offer small bites of my choices to my friends. We often share desserts. However, I get quite irritated if my DH "steals" a french fry off my plate or hangs over me obviously as interested in my plate as he was in his. And if anyone takes a lick of my ice cream I can't eat the rest. How do you share your food?
Unless its red meat, which my wife doesn't eat, we will share any/everything either of us are eating if 1) the other wants to try it or 2) whoever has it thinks the other must try it because its really good.
French fries are communal food in my world and I expect I won't get to eat all of the fries on my plate (though I wouldn't take one off a plate without asking if it wasn't my wife's plate).
With friends, I often share dishes, bites and tastes.....though I can't recall sharing an ice cream cone with anyone I wasn't in a serious relationship with.
With my husband, everything's fair game. We always share and don't get bothered if we reach over and grab things (of course, we don't do this at higher end restaurants). At higher end places, we generally trade plates midway through the course. May seem a bit tacky, but we don't care. And DH is the only person who can lick my ice cream..
With friends, I don't get bothered if people try some of my food or I try some of theirs. But we always ask beforehand. I think I would be miffed if somebody just grabbed something off of my plate without asking.
re: Miss Needle
"I think I would be miffed if somebody just grabbed something off of my plate without asking."
heh. ever since we were kids, my sister has insisted that my food always tastes better than hers, even if we're eating the exact same thing, from the same source. unfortunately she thinks this entitles her to snatch food off my plate [e.g. pick the mushrooms & tomatoes out of my salad]...with her fingers, no less.
i've learned that the only way to protect the integrity of my food if she even so much as eyeballs it is to be proactive about it - i pick out the things i know she'll go for, and give them to her before she can attack the dish.
re: goodhealthgourmet
Ha. I was the pain in the ass sister who would grab food from my sister's plate when we were kids. She prevented me from doing it by sprinkling pickle juice on her food -- I hate the stuff but she used to drink it straight from the jar.
re: Miss Needle
actually i have my own strategy for deterring her now....i cook with a lot of herbs, and also love my food spicy, but she doesn't like ANY sort of herbs or pepper/heat. the only condiment she'll tolerate is ketchup, or the occasional dab of mustard [seriously makes me question whether we really are related]...so, if i season it to my liking before she gets to it, she doesn't want it anyway. of course then she blames me for preparing it that way on purpose so that she can't eat it.
brat :)
re: goodhealthgourmet
odd that she'd drink pickle juice, but doesn't like spicy foods! i find that people who like mustards, pickles, salty snacks, tend to like spicier food. they prefer an appetizer to a dessert -- if they have to choose. ok, that's my generalization for today! ;-)
btw, any luck finding your pro kitchen in nyc?
to keep on topic: even mr. alka and i ask if the other wants to try, or before we take from each other. well, maybe hot fresh fries are a tiiiiny exception. with non-mr. alka, i usually don't offer or ask to share -- unless it is family or a close friend.
re: alkapal
It's Miss Needles sister that uses the pickle juice, not ghg. But I agree with your generalization.
re: danhole
ah, you are correct, madam. ;-) free apologies all around! esp. to miss needle and goodhealthgourmet.
okay, second generalization: i need to sleep more!
}-O (what? me snoring?)
re: alkapal
actually, the generalization makes sense for my sis. her condiment of choice is heinz ketchup [some tomato with your sugar, perhaps?], and the only foods you'll ever find in her fridge or pantry are sugary cereal, 100-calorie cookie snack packs, containers of pre-cut fruit, chocolate, ice cream/fro yo, fruit-flavored yogurt, skippy PB, diet soda & snapple, and white wine. she's never cooked a day in her life, and doesn't even own salt & pepper...and she's in her mid-30's.
really, i don't understand how we're related.
alk, to answer your question, the hunt continues, but thanks for asking!
and re: snatching hot, fresh fries off someone's plate...feel free to help yourself to the lighter, less-cooked ones off mine, but if you go near the dark & crispy well-done tidbits [the only ones i have any interest in eating] you're getting slapped :)
re: goodhealthgourmet
i like them extra crispy, too! food fight! ;-)
re: alkapal
Uh-oh. The "only" <g> reason I get along with my sister is the french-fry differential. She: potato-y and light, me: crisp and dark.
As much as I like goodhealthgourmet's and alkapal's posts, I think there would be a hand slappin'!
Enjoy those crispy bits! (Funny how we are, huh?)
My DH and I often order different things and when the food arrives I offer him a taste as he does to me. Then we place a bit on each others plate. At an asian restaurant it's anything and everything shared. BUT do not reach over and take something off my plate or you will get speared with a fork! Also I don't eat ice cream cones for the "lick" reason. I get the ice cream in a cup so you have to use a spoon if you want a taste.
re: danhole
Everything is fair game, to friends or hubby, except for ice cream. All desserts, for that matter. Desserts are hands off.
I must admit that I am willing to share anything with anyone at any time. I try to keep things vaguely sanitary by using separate cutlery if available, but I am not really bound by rules. Except: If I know I have a cold, or if someone has a cold, then I will be quite strict about the sanitary rules. But if everyone is well, I take my risks, and offer to share bites with anyone who wants to try whatever I am eating. That being said, I have not yet stooped to sharing a small hard candy with anyone (even my hubbie). I have taken a bite out of other people's ice cream cones (a bite seems somehow better than a lick. I realize this is really arbitrary, and not backed by science).
I also take into account the preferences of whomever I am eating with. If it is clear that I am with someone who feels uncomfortable sharing food, I won't offer, and I won't ask. That is fine with me, everyone has their own way of eating! I don't want someone to feel compelled to share food if that will make the meal more unpleasant for them. I will also be much more discreet and proper at work functions.
But my personal preference is for communal eating. If I invite you to eat with me, it is because I like you and want to eat together! I'd like to think I am pretty fun to eat with. But I concede, it can get messy... I am reminded of a fine poem/song by Jonathan Richman: "I eat with GUSTO, DAMN, YOU BET"
(gosh, re-reading my post slightly horrifies me. Please don't feel I am a complete slob, I'm actually not! I can be taken to fancy places, and I can behave!)
re: marmite
I have a lot of friends with young children, and if I refused to eat with people who have colds, it is possible I would never see them! So I do it, but if I am sharing food, I will use new cutlery, and put pieces of food on their plates, avoid contact, etc. etc. Whatever I can do to avoid the cold. But sometimes you can't. C'est la vie!
re: marmite
Marmite, I wouldn't say better and more forgiving - perhaps foolhardy and reckless!
That being said, for what it's worth, I do not recall more than 1 or 2 instances where I have eaten with someone who has a cold and thought "uh oh, gonna get a cold in a few days" and then gone on to get a cold. Most of the times I have gotten a cold, it usually arises without obvious reason. Oh those door handles... Sigh....
re: moh
Moh, I think your husband is right about us -- we'd make perfect eating partners! After we're done, we'll have crumbs and smears of chocolate all over our faces and bodies. But I also can tone it down if the situation arises (ie. work, etc.). If I'm more comfortable, I'm more prone to let it loose. My sister is like me, but a lot worse. When she started seeing this guy, she was the most dainty thing ever. Then she invited that guy home to meet our parents. The guy was shocked to see her picking up food with her hands, her non-stop eating, food flying all over the place -- you get the pic. After my sister got to know my husband, he was shocked too -- he thought I was the messiest person around until he witnessed her eat.
re: Miss Needle
Miss Needle, I am envisioning Blackout cake... Big Grin!!
re: moh
watching someone bite into an ice cream cone makes me shudder to my core.
problem is with colds and such, alot of things are contagious before symptoms rear their ugly heads. I have to say though, i was once at a christmas party where we were all sitting around a dip and one little girl was eating away long before her mother bothered to mention that just the night before she was still up all night with the Norwalk virus. Needless to say, the little girl had all the dip she could want after that one .
re: im_nomad
Im_nomad, sorry to disturb you about the ice cream cone bite.... I'm assuming it is because of the ice cream headache/cold temperature thing?
Re: Norwalk virus - yuck. I think I'm kind of lucky, my friends with kids would not bring their kid if they had recently been sick. Or they would be very careful, and warn everyone, and take extra precautions. Between your story and the thread on "Entertaining bad guests", I'm beginning to think I have a lot of very nice thoughtful polite friends! Some of these stories are horrific!
re: moh
yes, it hurts just to look...icecream doesn't seem like something that should be bitten.
re:norwalk...sadly that was the season i was being extra vigilant becuase my father was due to have surgery in a month or so, and hospitals would not allow anyone in if they'd been sick at all, and i managed to avoid it for two months...and i literally got sick the night before i flew home for his surgery, and couldn't even see the rest of the family, never mind my Dad, until well after the surgery. It was definitly not a "picky eater" situation !!! That being said, i don't think it was the little girl :)
re: im_nomad
re Norwalk: What person in their right mind brings someone to a party that as a virus that has taken down whole cruise ships full of people? I have to wonder if people leave their common sense in a drawer somewhere? geesh
re: cimui
"We should really start scheduling Chowhound post-meal gnaw-outs!"
Cimui, I suspect we could get quite a turnout! Wonder if we could find a resto that would host us ;) It might come down to meeting at a steakhouse, pretending to eat dinner there, then going to park bench somewhere close by to get to the real meat of the matter...
I thought very fondly of all the wonderful Chowhounds out there as a small group of us ripped into some fresh snow crabs from Rimouski last night. Very visceral eating! Lots of crab shell everywhere! I was so intent on eating that I didn't notice that one of the muscles in my leg had tensed up into an awkward position. When I tried to stand up to get more wine and butter, my leg went into spasm and I fell over, much to the amusement of my friends. What a great evening!!!!
re: moh
Last Friday we stopped for lunch on the highway between Matagalpa and Managua. One of the party was a young American who really hadn't traveled outside the US before and whose mother had taught her to eat chicken with a fork and knife. Her plate came with two fair sized slightly gloopy BBQ chicken legs (2 x drumstick and thigh). She was about to leave most of her picked at meat on the plate. So, con su permiso, I grabbed the bones and meat and ate all by hand, sucking the last of the good bits along the way. Sure she went back to Vermont a bit shocked; but I had a good time and we didn't waste food in front of our Nico companions.
re: Sam Fujisaka
Bravo Sam! You're my hero!
Re: eating chicken thighs with a fork and knife: I find that people who eat chicken thighs this way often leave the second best part of the chicken, that little cheek of meat at the top of the thigh bone in the little bone pocket. So flavourful. When in polite company, I silently wriggle in agony to see so many of those little morsels go to waste...
(The best part of the chicken is the chicken butt, or Pope's nose. Gotta go to a whole carcass for that. So rarely served in polite company.)
If you ask, I'll gladly share.
Don't ask and I'll stab you in the hand...as a warning.
For some reason the entitlement that even friends think they have to my food makes me go primal. Only my wife gets away with impunity.
For European and North American dining I like being with people who share bites.
In parts of Asia and among friends, its fun to pick the best morsels from the serving plates and put them on the rice bowl of someone respected. The best Lao and Vietnamese meals are lots of small shared dishes.
Basque restaurants serve "family style" which is really nice.
And always make sure the esteemed elder gets the chicken gizzard in Kenya and eastern Uganda.
re: Sam Fujisaka
The chicken gizzard?? What very smart people. Finally, some others appreciate the gizzard as much as I do!
re: dolores
Funny, guess what I'm cooking tonight? You and yours are welcome to come and share.
re: dolores
Please, the gizzard of a chicken or turkey is the piece de resistance among me and my kids! Mmmm, mmm.
I do feel it's hard to share, but I do.
Crap, now I am hungry for gizzard....
re: dolores
count me in too!
M&M jfood always offer the other a bite. The process is to cut a piece and place on the bread plate for the transfer. Then the receiver can finish their bite and choose when to take the taste.
Wrt dessert M&M jfood always order one dessert to share. Two forks/spoons and we act like the two dogs from Lady and the Tramp with the long strand of spaghetti.
re: MMRuth
That's so funny. My husband always saves the best for last, but I'm almost exactly the opposite (eat the best first-- I grew up in a big family). I'm also a faster eater than he is, so I'm always finished first, and once I'm done, his food starts to look mighty tempting. :)
In general, when dining out I don't like to share my food with anyone except for my husband. I also don't ask to try other people's food except for my husband's. And I sigh inwardly whenever a friend asks if I would like to try what she has, b/c etiquette demands reciprocity. I love to share any food I cook though--just not when dining out.
Share with DH and the kids? yes? close friends? yes - so long as they're all cold symptom free :) When it comes to my kids though I can guarantee it won't be food sharing that causes me to come down with something(accidental sneezes in close proximity to Mommy's face from my DS who's two for instance)... but it's rare I get sick *knock wood* even when the whole house is coughing and sneezing(like this week for instance).
BUT - I don't share (as in take bites off DH's plate/fork) when we're out at restaurants ... it's just something Mom had a rule about - she always said she thought it was poor manners. I don't know what Emily Post would think about it... but Mom's rules were Mom's rules, and most stuck with me :)
Food is meant to be shared and not hoarded (half the fun comes from sharing something really good with others).... I will share anything with anyone I am reasonably sure isn't going to give me something contagious!
My husband and I often order two different things that appeal to both of us at restaurants and switch plates halfway through.
We are much like (what seems to be the majority of) others here. We share bites. Sometimes we switch plates. Sometimes each of us will find that we prefer the other's more that what we ordered! I eat more than petite SO so I often end up with her salad plate, etc., in front of me.
I will take a bite off my Sister's fork but tend to be reluctant to eat that way if I don't really know the other person that well.
One of the funnest experiences we ever had was to have lunch in an Asian restaurant in Seattle's Asian district. We sat at a large table which had a large lazy susan in the middle. Soon four Asians asked if they could join us. Pretty soon the food was whirling around the table. We/they shared everything and had a wonderful time with total strangers!
SO and I usually share a dessert, if we have one... which brings me to my favorite request: Ice cream, you scream. Lick mine till I scream: Keep your damn hands off MY cone! :)
I tend to be a non-sharer unless it's serviced family style. Sometimes Dh and I will plan to share and that's okay, but we generally order stuff the other one doesn't like (I order a lot of fish out because Dh doesn't eat it). Desserts and apps I don't mind sharing, but stay away from my plate.
re: Eat_Nopal
I read somewhere recently (perhaps it was a TV piece), that people will be willing to let you try their food if you ask. I believe it to be true, especially if you show real interest and ask nicely. According to the piece some will even let you eat off their fork or bite their sandwich!
Many times I have struck up a conversation with someone nearby about what they were eating (sometimes to the horror of my companion) and have even been offered a sample.
re: Scargod
I think most people would be unwilling to say "no" if someone asked for a bite of their food. But it seems a bit presumptuous to ask. (Not to imply that you do this - I know you saw it on the TV piece.) If you comment that the food looks good, people can (and usually do) offer up a bit.
re: meg944
I have had first hand experience with this! My husband and I were just finishing our meal at K-Paul's in New Orleans about six years ago when a lady and her husband walked by our table on their way out. I was nibbling at the remains of my sweet potato pecan pie (with chantilly cream, of course), and she gushed at how good it looked, then asked me for a bite! I was amused (and for all purposes, finished) so offered her the pie. She took her bite, Mmmmmmed, said thanks and left. One of the funniest restaurant experience I have ever had.
re: Scargod
What I was referring to is my experiences abroad or in U.S. inner city... doesn't matter the ethnicity of those around you... most people don't wait for you to ask... they immediately offer to share.... when I first started interacting with Suburban Americans in school... the individualism was a HUGE culture shock. There is alot Suburbanites can learn from the inner city of they cared to find out.
re: Eat_Nopal
I was referring to Scargod's post about a TV piece where they asked people at a nearby table for a bite. I think offering is great and have had many similar experiences. But I think asking a stranger (or even someone at my table who is not my husband/sister.etc.) for some of their food is a bit much. People may agree to be polite but probably won't like it.
re: Eat_Nopal
No, I haven't asked, unless it was one of my party... I agree with EN, there can be wide differences in culture. Like, "I don't know where that left hand's been so I don't want to touch it" or, when I first moved up here from Texas, I found that people wanted more space and few were comfortable with you touching them. I had to get used to that.
I don't know whether I agree with you Meg, I seemed to get the feeling from the TV piece that people were proud when there was attention shown and eager to share in their "good taste". Like when the cutie-pie said that my red RX-7, R1 was pretty; I immediately offered to take her for a spin.
re: Scargod
I don't think we really disagree – I don't think there's anything wrong with showing admiration and, as you say that will very often result in people wanting to share. But even if you wouldn't have had a problem with it, in your car example, can't you imagine that some people might find it a bit presumptuous if someone said, "Nice car – can I have a ride?" All I was saying was that I think it's best to confine the remarks to admiration, without making the request, because otherwise, the other person may feel pressured into doing something they would rather not do.
My husband and I have very similar tastes, and both love food as a hobby, so we order our top two choices and swap plates 99% of the time. (This also enables him to eat 2/3 of both meals, which works well with our size and metabolisms.) We have a couple of close friends who sometimes join in the swapping (which naturally gives rise to some sly humor) but for the most part with other people it's limited to the occasional morsel on the bread plate. I never ask to taste other people's food, but will sometimes accept it if offered (not every time - "Oh, yours looks good," isn't to be taken as code for "Let me have some." It really depends on whether I intend to come back and possibly try that dish.)
Desserts are often shared even with groups of friends. I think most restaurant desserts are just too large for people (and often not worth the calories.)
I had to laugh when I saw this thread this afternoon. Mr. Diane and I are notorious food sharers, especially at restaurants that we know serve huge portions. We were out for dinner last night at our fav BBQ place and shared one dinner which included 1/2 BBQ chix (1/2 of 6 lb chix!), 1/2 rack of ribs, onion rings, grilled asparagus and cole slaw. Truthfully, could one person eat this much food? DH and I left 1/2 chix breast as we were not going home after and it would spoil.
At typical fine dining place, we share app, sometimes share salad, each order main, share dessert. We tip as if we each had every course so as not to insult the waiter, but frankly many restaurants serve portions that are way beyond what is necessary.
Chinese restaurants or any other venue for multiple dishes (tapas, etc) are just fine by me as I would like variety of lots of different types of things. But, licking other's ice cream cone is a little disgusting - somehow unsanitary in my book. A clean spoon out of a dish is OK, but don't put your tongue in my ice cream!
re: Diane in Bexley
I don't mind sharing dessert with friends and family, but I do resent it when I end up being the only one ordering because everyone else feels guilty ordering, and they all expect a "taste" of mine.
Also, I don't enjoy negotiating dessert. My mom always insists on knowing what I am going to order. I often don't make up my mind until the very moment of ordering. She says "What if we all end up getting the same thing?" to which I answer "Well then I guess we'll all have gotten what we really wanted!"
Another thing I can't stand is when I am at a business lunch, I order dessert, the other person doesn't, and the waitron places it in the center of the table with two forks. Assuming I am on intimate terms with a stranger. This places me in the awkward position of having to look selfish by then pulling the dessert back to my place.
re: Leonardo
Oh no -- I can see how the business lunch situation would be highly embarassing. I wonder if it would help to head things off by emphasizing to the wait staff: "one dessert for me, only, thanks."
I'm pretty disgusting. I have no rules when it comes to my family / SO / almost family. You can lick my ice cream cone as long as you let me lick yours! I expect some self restraint if you know you're sick or might be getting there, but otherwise, anything goes.
I get a little annoyed when my SO pilfers a LOT off my plate (i.e. whenever we have fries), but he usually stops after I fork him a few times.
I've always wondered if there's any scientific basis to think that family members and other ppl you're around a lot are less likely to get each other sick. You are exposed to each other's germs a lot, anyway, just by using the same door knobs, mouthwash, etc...
does anyone else remember the episode of friends when Joey's date kept stealing his fries? hehe
actually i shared a bite of pasta on a date not too long ago, he offered after raves about the sauce and said " you have to taste this " several times so...i took. It was ravioli or something , politely speared. And no he did not feed me. I barely knew the guy, but it seemed ok, and i don't remember feeling squeamish.
BTW.......can we talk about how to split app's? If there are five of something on a plate...is it ok to cut the last one in half?
re: im_nomad
Joey and I share the same philosophy:
re: babaoriley7
hahaha, thanks for posting that baba........i needed that laugh today ! I'd probably feel the same way if someone just reached over and started fisting into my fries without asking, lol. There was also an episode where he gave Chandler a bite of his meatball sandwich and before he could take a second, he took it back on him, lol. I also loved the thanksgiving turkey sandwich episode with Ross.
Many funny food moments on Friends....
re: im_nomad
that is funny! maybe i'm the "ross" of the knorr's spinach dip and soggy bread bowl.
re: babaoriley7
[scene: Eating lunch out with coworkers. One coworker being chided
for eating her french fries with a fork. My good friend and coworker
comes to her aid with following]
"I always eat french fries with a fork"
[picks up one of his fries with one hand and a fork in the other hand]
"Keeps other people's fingers out of my fries"
re: danhole
definitely stealing that strategy!
I usually prefer to share. Then again, I also usually prefer to eat Asian and growing up, my family went to mostly Asian restaurants, so I think I grew up thinking that communal is the norm.
Though the higher end and ones that focus on entrees that highlight a single meat/fish, etc. are harder to share, so with those restaurants, I guess each person gets their own entree and with my friends, we tend to split/share appetizers. Ditto desserts.
It really depends on the people I go out with and how well I know them. I think with my friends, we tend to eat more at places that are conducive to sharing entrees--e.g. Italian, Ethiopian, Indian, other Asian, and tapas.
Half the fun of going to a restaurant is getting to share....I certainly can't afford (in dollars or calories) to order everything I would want to try...so sharing nets me (and my companion) at least one other menu item to sample. One of my favorite things about Chinatown (or at least the restaurant I last went to there, in NYC) was the giant "lazy susan" table where everyone could try everything, and with sanitary spoons, not personal forks, so even the cold afflicted or squeamish could enjoy the fun. It was a CHers dream!
When I'm out with my family or with a group that shares my taste in food, I'm all for sharing. But since I'm the only veg in my circle, sometimes I'd rather order separately - that way I'm sure to get exactly what I want, instead of bowing to the group on the only vegetarian dish we'll get.
If we're each getting an entrée, then I always offer a bite. If I can't finish what's on the plate, I'll ask if someone wants the rest. But I would hate for someone to help themselves without asking, and I surely wouldn't do it.
In my family there are no rules. If you want it you take it. Whenever I am home and go to the bagel shop for breakfast, if I leave my coffee or anything else unattended, I fully expect to walk into the kitchen not 30 seconds after putting it down and see my mother happily digging in to my sandwich and pouring half of my coffee into a mug.
One night at Red Cat, my sisters and I befriended a couple at the next table and sent over a sample dish of everything we ordered so they could decide if they wanted to order the same. They then offered us some of the wine they ordered and let us sample it from one of their glasses before passing over the bottle.
We probably grossed out half of the place, but it didn't bother any of us and I would do it again in a heartbeat.
re: deborah24
I like this approach. You get to try so many more things that way!
I don't mind sharing what's on my plate - worst case is that they eat too much and I have a good reason to order dessert.
My pet peeve is when people insist that I try what they are eating. Going so far as to cut a hunk of whatever and putting it right on my plate so that I'll try it during my meal. If I want some of what you are offering, I tell you when you ask. But I'm not just being polite and refusing your offer, I'm being honest that I just don't want what you are eating.
re: jeanmarieok
i think i have to agree with eat_nopal on this one. i'd personally find it really nice if someone tried to give me a taste of something. i'd always have the option of leaving it there in the unlikely chance i didn't want to try it.
but maybe it's like when my mother force feeds me when i come home to visit. you feel obligated to try or risk hurting the other person's feelings?
re: deborah24
I don't think either's rude, actually. Also, I wouldn't be beyond handing the morsel back if I were full and couldn't eat it. No biggie. Most of the folks I like to eat with are comfortable with food trafficking.
Also, the "I would've ordered it myself" approach doesn't work for me, since I'm inevitably torn between / among more than one dish. If it's my SO, I'll not-so-subtly hint that he should order x or y, so I can steal a taste. I'm completely shameless. :)
re: jeanmarieok
I think in some cultures it is polite to refuse a few times, so they may just be trying to make sure you aren't refusing just to be polite. But in any case, it seems like the solution would just be to say, "No thanks, I'm not really a fan of ___" so it's clear that you appreciate the gesture but aren't just refusing out of politeness.
I don't mind sharing. As a matter of fact, I get frustrated if I am having something I think is really good and people DON'T try it. I am one of those people who if I like it I want you to like it too. Both my sister and my husband treat whatever I am eating as their own. It's good for me. Built in portion control and less waste. It is just routine for me when dining out with my husband to push my plate a little in his direction when I am done and without discussion he dives in and finishes it off. Even when we're at home I will often just want a bite of something, say an apple, and once I have the bit I want I'll seek him out and say I'm done with this. He always takes whatever and finishes it off without hesitation. And yes, we share ice cream cones.
As far as friends go I don't mind sharing food, but am making adjustments elsewhere. I am new in town where I live, but often go out with colleagues of my husband on weekends. They are all good fun people, but I don't yet know them well and was a bit surprised the first time we all went out when everyone started trying everyone else's cocktail, mine included. It didn't realy make me squeamish though, I simply didn't expect it.
re: ArikaDawn
Thanks for reminding me that I like to do that, as well. Mostly, it's just my SO trying it.
It's a way of affirming that what you think is is good, is mirrored or contrasted by another. If it's good I say, "you gotta try this!"; then I shove the fork-full at them. Sometimes I will want to reproduce a dish which contains certain ingredients or has a distinct flavor and it is eluding me. I like playing the game of "what's in this dish?"
re: Scargod
Love the "what's in this dish" game, too. ("Hmm, what an unusual and elusive flavor that was! I think I need another sample to help me pin it down...")
re: ArikaDawn
Yeah, that worked for us, too, until he started getting fat. :) So now I just stick that half-an-apple / half-a-slice back in the fridge for later.
re: cimui
My husband is one of those infuriating people that doesn't gain weight. He's incredibly active, works out like a fiend, and generally is on a program to gain weight, muscle of course. He probably eats about 3500 cals a day and is always hungry. He's 36 and his metabolism has been this way forever. It's good for me though because I can cook and cook and cook and nothing ever goes to waste. Me, I break 1600 cals in a day and my jeans don't fit. Go figure. Again though, a good reason to share.
re: ArikaDawn
I'm about to hit 62 and I'm like your husband. I'm lucky, I guess. I have a bit of a cholesterol issue but it is a heriditary thing, as well as the metabolism. I take minimal Lipitor and I can still eat anything I want and virtually any amount. I just worked nine hours in the yard with a young helper and I keep up. Thus, I am able to eat circles around my SO (like /as if, Wife). I do understand your plight. I have known others who had trouble eating with me and keeping their shape. I help keep my companion active (perhaps your hubby influences you, as well) and it is a good thing; mutually beneficial. We were just on our new trampoline! I assembled it, of course.


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Photo Review: Hall Of Fame Weekend UnderwayPosted by on August 3, 2012 – 10:55 pm
We had a busy day in Canton, Ohio as the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2012 is now only hours away from their enshrinement. I'll take you through a busy first 24 hours in Canton, with the help of photos, and then quickly explain what's ahead for the next day.
– A late-arriving flight into Cleveland left about an 80-minute drive into Canton. Upon our arrival at the McKinley Grant Hotel, we were treated to the presence of none other than John Randle. It was only two summers ago when we were in Canton to watch Randle go into the Hall of Fame as a member of the Class of 2010. It was great seeing John. He's a very outgoing individual, and this type of weekend has a tremendous amount of sociability to it so he feels very comfortable in the environment.
– This morning the goal was to corral as many Vikings-relevant personalities as possible inside the hotel so we could interview them for internal TV purposes. We spoke with several individuals, including current Hall of Famer Paul Krause as well as former Vikings coach and current personnel consultant Paul Wiggin (Doleman's position coach in Minnesota) and both Doleman's father and son. Below is a photo of Krause getting mic'd up for his interview.
– We also had a chance to chat with the man himself for a few minutes.
– Everyone who's inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame receives a gold jacket. There was a room inside the hotel that contained jackets belonging to current Hall of Famers who had their jackets re-sized. We found our way into the room, and the representatives from Haggar were kind enough to allow us to snap a photo of former Vikings OL Gary Zimmerman's jacket.
– Speaking of the gold jackets, this year's class of Hall of Famer's received their gold jackets tonight at what they call the Enshrinees' Gold Jacket Dinner, which was held at Canton Memorial Civic Center. There was a cocktail hour followed by a dinner and then the ceremony at which the Class of 2012 received their jackets.
– To open the ceremony, the Cleveland Recruiting Battalion Color Guard (representing the United States Army) presented the colors and a three-person band called New Hollow performed the National Anthem. New Hollow did a great job with the National Anthem; here's a photo just before they began the performance:
– The ceremony was an impressive celebration of the sport of professional football. The event was emceed gracefully by ESPN's Trey Wingo, and other featured speakers during the program included: Canton Mayor William J. Healy II; Candy Wallace (2012 General Chairman, Pro Football Hall of Fame Enshrinement Festival Canton Regional Chamber of Commerce Committees); Stephen A. Perry (President/Executive Director, Pro Football Hall of Fame); and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.
The Class of 2012 was introduced, and they stood on stage together as a group. Then, current Hall of Famers who are in town for tomorrow's enshrinement were introduced, providing an incredible spectacle as the game's immortals marched on stage to shake hands with each member of the Class of 2012. It was a surreal moment to sit there and witness that interaction.
– Former NFL Director of Officiating Art McNally was presented with the Daniel F. Reeves Pioneer Award.
– The late Tom "Killer" Kowalski was honored with the Dick McCann Memorial Award.
– Len Dawson of the Chiefs Radio Network and of KMBC/NBC TV/HBO Sports was presented with the Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award.
– Finally, at the end of the ceremony, the Class of 2012 was re-introduced to the stage along with their presenters and they received their gold jackets. It's the highlight of the ceremony and a fitting end to a wonderful celebration of the game of pro football.
Tags: Chris Doleman
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Canton Calling: Doleman Goes Into Hall Of Fame This WeekendPosted by on August 2, 2012 – 1:16 pm
Former Vikings DE Chris Doleman will be enshrined into the Pro Football Hall of Fame this weekend in Canton, Ohio, and vikings.com will be along for the ride to share the details with you.
A contingent of Vikings representatives, including yours truly, will depart Minneapolis this evening and head for Ohio to take part in the festivities that celebrate and remember the greatest to ever play pro football. It will be a jam-packed weekend in Canton, so be sure to check back here for details, photos, etc.
Don't worry, vikings.com will still be your place for great training camp coverage. The video interviews and highlights will keep coming, I have some blog entries scheduled to be posted, and of course there's the evening practice on Saturday. We'll have it all covered for you over the next several days.
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Chris Doleman Answers Fan-Submitted Questions From Facebook and TwitterPosted by on February 9, 2012 – 5:01 pm
In this post, Ann Carroll recaps the questions fan submitted for newly named Pro Football Hall of Famer Chris Doleman via Facebook and Twitter for a video that you can watch by clicking here.
Pro Football Hall of Famer Chris Doleman came into town from Atlanta Thursday afternoon to spend time with the Twin Cities media here at Winter Park. His first stop, the Sports Authorities studios here at the team facility. We asked fans via Facebook and Twiter to send us questions for Doleman. We then selected a handful of them for the Hall of Famer. Here are those questions with Doleman's answers
Twitter Questions
@mnviksfan4life: What was going through your head when they say you would be in the 2012 Class of the Hall of Fame?
Doleman: I was really numb, later on that day I got a sense of what was happening. You get a call from the hall when they announce your name to make sure you know that you are in. You go down to the hotel and they start the process. It's a big process.
@chappynewcanaan : Is Joey Browner a Hall of Famer?
Doleman: I don't know, I don't pick. I believe Joey Browner…well, he is definitely the greatest Safety I have ever played with and that includes Ronnie Lott in Probowls and Dennis Smith out of Denver. Joey is definitely one of those premier guys. I would love to see him in the Ring of Honor along with Henry Thomas and some of the other guys I played with because they are great players
@jgarrettbaker What was your favorite move to rush the QB?
Doleman: My favorite most was probably a post move where that I just plant my left arm in the offensive lineman's chest. Soon as he reaches out to balance, I would knock down his outside arm and take the corner. It worked a lot
Facebook Questions:
Jacob Schneider: What is the best defensive end in the league today?
Doleman: I would say Jared, Mario Williams, and Peppers in Chicago
Sahib Dambam- Who was the toughest QB you ever sacked?
Doleman: John Elway, toughest. John is a fighter, he is a big guy, he can take a hit. By far, John Elway
Chrisitian K: What did you think about Jared Allen breaking your Vikings sack record?
Doleman: You want your team to win. You want Jared to be successful. Anything I can do to help Jared or anyone else on the Vikings be successful I am going to do it. Records are made to be broken . He still has the Ring of Honor and he still has the Hall of Fame that he has to accomplish
Jeff Cagle: What was your intial reaction when Cris Carter was not included in this years Hall of Fame class?
Doleman: I felt sorry. I felt sorry for Cris. I felt sorry for all the guys. These writers and selectors spend a lot of time, I hear 7hours and 37 min picking 5 guys. So I think they got it right. I would have said they got it wrong if they didn't pick me you know that right?? They do things are their own pace, they have their plan.
Does Carter belong in the Hall of Fame? He defntiely belongs in the Hall of Fame. They are in the same postion they are in next year. Who is going to go in? Cris, Andre? Cris might be out two more years. Cris went to finals list right away, but now he has been sitting there. But I do know anybody that has been on the finalist list has a 97% chance of getting into the hall. That's a stat that they tell you. I don't think he is in that 3%. I think it is going to happen, he has to just be patient. Hate to say that but what else can you do?
Mike Schmitz What Vikings team that you played on do you feel was the best or had the best chance to win the Super bowl
Doleman: 1989 team, no question
Jeff Go Vikings Vine Who was your inspiration as a young athlete and why?
Doleman: Hollywood Henderson, the orginial #56
Vinny Hagen: What QB did you love sacking the most?
Doleman: Any QB that played for Green Bay!!
Thanks for all the questions fans! If you see your name or your twitter handle, you are the winner of a Chris Doleman autographed Game Day Program from his Ring of Honor Induction! Send your name and address to @vikingsweekly via Twitter or to my facebook page : http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ann-Carroll/68990992177?ref=tn_tnmn
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Zygi Wilf, John Randle React To Doleman's Election To Pro Football HOFPosted by on February 5, 2012 – 9:11 am
It was announced on Saturday that former Vikings DE Chris Doleman was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and two prominent members of the Vikings family have weighed in to give their reaction.
"Having watched Chris enter the Vikings Ring of Honor this past season, we're very excited that he has now been chosen as a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2012," Vikings Owner/Chairman Zygi Wilf said. "Chris was a very important part of the organization's success for ten years and his accomplishments on the field speak for themselves. He has earned this honor and we look forward to celebrating his enshrinement in Canton in August."
A fellow Vikings Ring of Honor inductee and now a fellow Hall of Famer, John Randle has a special appreciation for Doleman because the two were both defensive linemen, were both outstanding pass rushers, and were teammates with the Vikings in the 1990s.
"I'm so, so happy for big Dole," Randle said. "I never thought I would have a guy who was like a big brother on the football field, but Chris was that guy for me. I looked up to him and studied the way he worked. I'm so happy that he will be up on that stage in Canton this summer where he belongs. It's really a testament to that defensive line we had with the Vikings during those days and the work of some great coaches. Chris deserves this so much and I'm probably more excited for him than he is for himself."
Tags: Chris Doleman, John Randle, Zygi Wilf
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Carter, Doleman Named Finalists For The Pro Football Hall of FamePosted by on January 7, 2012 – 1:29 pm
The NFL has announed that former Vikings Cris Carter and Chris Doleman are finalists for the Pro Football Hall of Fame, class of 2012, which will be announced on Saturday, Feb. 4, the day before Super Bowl XLVI.
Carter and Doleman, who were teammates in Minnesota from 1990-93, were both finalists a year ago as well.
Carter led the club in receiving 10 consecutive seasons (1991-2000), started more games than any other WR in team history and holds the Vikings record with 40 100-yard receiving games. He's an 8-time Pro Bowler and 4-time All-Pro was inducted into Vikings Ring of Honor in 2003.
Doleman was the Vikings single-season sack king after registering 21.0 sacks in 1989, but of course had that record bested by Jared Allen this past season. In 10 seasons as a Viking, had 96.5 sacks and tallied 150.5 career sacks, good for 4th all-time.
This past fall, the Hall of Fame's Selection Committee chose the 26 semifinalists from the previously announced list of 105 preliminary nominees. The list of 26 semifinalists was reduced by mail ballot to 15 modern-era finalists which were announced today.
The final step comes on Feb. 4, when the 44-member Selection Committee meets in person to discuss and evaluate the merits of each of the 15 modern-era and the two senior candidates. An independent accounting firm tallies the voting that day to determine the new class of enshrinees.
Although there is no set number of Enshrinees for any Hall of Fame Class, the Pro Football Hall of Fame's current ground rules do stipulate that between four and seven new members will be selected each year. No more than 5 modern-era nominees can be elected in a given year.
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Cris Carter, Chris Doleman Named Semifinalists For HOF Class Of 2012Posted by on November 25, 2011 – 10:23 am
Two former Vikings teammates are among the 26 semifinalists being considered for the Pro Football Hall of Fame's Class of 2012. Cris Carter and Chris Doleman, teammates in Minnesota from 1990-93, '99, are among a deep class of semifinalists for inclusion in next year's class. Both Carter and Doleman were also semifinalists and finalists a year ago.
To view a list of the semifinalists, click here.
The Hall of Fame's Selection Committee chose the 26 semifinalists from the previously announced list of 105 preliminary nominees. The list of 26 semifinalists will be reduced by mail ballot to 15 modern-era finalists (plus 2 nominees from the Seniors Committee), with an announcement of the finalists to come in early January 2012.
The final step comes on February 4, 2012, when the 44-member Selection Committee meets in person to discuss and evaluate the merits of each of the 15 modern-era and the two senior candidates. An independent accounting firm tallies the voting that day to determine the new class of enshrinees.
Although there is no set number of Enshrinees for any Hall of Fame Class, the Pro Football Hall of Fame's current ground rules do stipulate that between four and seven new members will be selected each year. No more than 5 modern-era nominees can be elected in a given year.
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Vikings Lead 17-13, Doleman Inducted Into Ring Of Honor At HalftimePosted by on October 23, 2011 – 3:51 pm
It was Christian Ponder's first career NFL start, but it didn't take him long to get right into this Vikings-Packers rivalry. Playing for the 101st time in series history, the Vikings jumped out to a quick 7-0 lead behind a pair of Ponder completions right out of the gate.
On the game's first offensive play, Ponder used a play-action fake and rollout to find a wide open Michael Jenkins down the left sideline for what was originally a 73-yard TD that caused the Mall of America Field crowd to burst into a frenzy. Officials took the TD away via replay, but just two plays later Ponder found TE Visanthe Shiancoe for a 2-yard TD and an early 7-0 lead.
Green Bay retaliated immediately, driving 91 yards in 9 plays to tie the game at 7.
Ponder guided another TD drive in the 2nd quarter that culminated in an Adrian Peterson TD, and a 14-7 lead. The Vikings and Packers exchanged FGs after that, which led to a 17-10 Vikings lead at halftime.
Credit goes to DE Jared Allen, who already has 2.0 sacks of Green Bay QB Aaron Rodgers. Allen's first sack of the game set a new franchise record for consecutive games with at least a .5 sack, as Allen is now at 9. The previous record of 8 was set by Jim Marshall and Carl Eller.
Speaking of sacks by a DE, the man who ranks 4th all-time on the NFL sacks list is Chris Doleman, a former Vikings great. He was honored at halftime and was inducted into the Vikings Ring of Honor, becoming just the 19th individual to join this elite class of Vikings.
Tags: Adrian Peterson, Chris Doleman, Christian Ponder, Jared Allen, Michael Jenkins, Visanthe Shiancoe
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Vikings-Packers Set To Renew RivalryPosted by on October 23, 2011 – 11:51 am
The Vikings and Packers will renew their rivalry today at Mall of America Field, meeting for the 101st time in their series history and for the first time in 2011. While Green Bay enters with a superior record this season, the Vikings-Packers series has been remarkably even. Green Bay (51-48-1) has a slight edge in the series, but the Vikings are 25-24 against Green Bay at home.
Sunday will also mark Leslie Frazier's first game as head coach against the Packers. Speaking of firsts, the Vikings will start Christian Ponder at QB, marking the rookie's first NFL start.
At halftime of the game, Chris Doleman will be inducted into the Vikings Ring of Honor. Doleman will be the 19th member of the organization to receive the honor.
Kickoff is slated for 3:15 p.m. CT and you can catch the game on the Vikings Radio Network, where Paul Allen will be on the mic for play-by-play duties, Pete Bercich will be the game analyst and Greg Coleman will report from the sidelines. The game will be televised by FOX, who has assigned their #1 crew for the game. Thom Brennaman will fill in for Joe Buck (World Series) with play-by-play responsibilities, Troy Aikman will be the game analyst, and Pam Oliver will report from the sidelines.
Tags: Chris Doleman, Christian Ponder, Leslie Frazier
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Doleman Goes Into Ring Of Honor On SundayPosted by on October 21, 2011 – 10:41 am
Football is a game that celebrates teamwork more than statistics, but if there is a statistic that captures the mind of football fans, it's sacks. And there weren't many players in Vikings history or NFL history who accumulated more sacks than Chris Doleman.
It is for that reason, among others, that Doleman will become just the 19th individual in franchise history to be inducted into the Vikings Ring of Honor. Induction into this elite class of Vikings is the highest honor the organization can bestow upon an individual, and Doleman's dominance along the defensive line makes him a qualified member of this group.
Doleman will be inducted into the Ring of Honor at halftime of Sunday's game against Green Bay at Mall of America Field.
Doleman began and concluded his career with the Vikings, but also spent time with the Atlanta Falcons and San Francisco 49ers. His breakthrough season came in 1987 when he tallied 11.0 sacks and six forced fumbles for the Vikings. Doleman's best season came two years later in 1989, when he recorded a franchise single-season record 21.0 sacks. During his first stint with the Vikings (1985-1993), Doleman earned six Pro Bowl berths and three First-Team All-Pro honors.
Doleman played for the Falcons from 1994-1995 and then for the 49ers from 1996-1998, accumulating a total of 54.0 sacks in five seasons and also earning a Pro Bowl berth with each franchise. Doleman then finished his career with the Vikings during the 1999 season, registering 8.0 sacks and helping the Vikings advance to the Divisional round of the NFC playoffs. In 10 total seasons with the Vikings, Doleman registered 96.5 sacks, 31 forced fumbles and 16 fumble recoveries, making him one of the best defensive linemen in the history of a franchise with several Hall of Fame linemen.
In total for his career, Doleman accumulated eight Pro Bowl selections, three First-Team All-Pro honors and he was also named to the NFL 1990s All-Decade Second-Team.
Doleman's production and dominating presence over 15 seasons has placed him in an elite fraternity with the Vikings Ring of Honor and it should also result in induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
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It was announced earlier this morning that Chris Doleman will become the 19th player in franchise history to join the Vikings Ring of Honor. Doleman, a Vikings DE for 10 seasons (1985-93, 99), will be inducted into the Ring of Honor during a halftime ceremony on Sunday, October 23, when the Vikings host the Green Bay Packers.
Doleman's place in Vikings history is significant, as he registered 96.5 sacks as a Viking (he had 150.5 career sacks), 31 forced fumbles and 16 fumble recoveries, making him one of the best defensive linemen in the history of a franchise with several Hall of Fame linemen. Confirming Doleman's significant status among Vikings greats is the way in which fellow Vikings speak of him.
Here's what fellow Vikings Ring of Honor members John Randle and Scott Studwell, as well as Pro Football Hall of Famer and former Vikings QB Warren Moon, had to say about Doleman.
"Chris Doleman had the ability to deliver the big play when you needed it. Teams had to keep an eye on him because they knew it was coming, be it in the beginning, middle or end of the game. He was capable of making that big play. As a young guy learning the NFL game from him, he did so much for me. He taught me how to be a pro on and off the field. He was quiet on the field, a leader without speaking. It was his presence that influenced games. The way he studied the game and showed his teammates the way to prepare and be a mature player made a big impact on me." — Randle
"Chris was a phenomenal player and a guy who could have excelled in any decade. His size, speed, balance and skill level were ahead of their time. He changed how teams could play against us. Chris was a good friend and teammate and earned the respect of the locker room." — Studwell
"Doleman is one of those rare guys, maybe one of four or five that I played against during my career right there with Reggie White, Bruce Smith, Derrick Thomas, that you had to know where they were and set your protection accordingly. You had to know if you were going to help the tackle out with a tight end or running back to chip on those guys. Doleman was someone you always had to worry about because you knew he could get to the quarterback. The amount of time and attention that went to preparing for Chris Doleman benefitted the others guys on those defensive lines. He was one of
those guys that you had to make sure could be blocked in one way or another." — Moon
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It seems an ironic contradiction that the words "Hollywood" and "history" should appear together in the same sentence. Their domains are irreconcilable. The first is dedicated to art; the second, to fact. Yet the influence of the former on the latter cannot be underestimated. As example, there are whole generations who ostensibly would know little to nothing about many ancient civilizations were it not for the epics of Cecil B. De Mille and William Wyler.
Right or wrong (and most of the time Hollywood's artistic license has horribly muddled historical fact) the movies galvanic impact over our perceptions on even the most basic fundamentals of society and culture has effectively managed to mask or even eclipse reality with its reasonable facsimiles. In retrospect, a line of dialogue from 1962's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, seems to suffice as a summation of Hollywood's provisions for truth in light of a good artistic yarn: "When the legend becomes fact – print the legend!"
One does not have to reach too far back into human existence to analyze just how wildly off base Hollywood's depiction of history has been; World War II being an ideal example of artistry run amuck. Today, when considering the conflict in Europe, one is apt to conjure to mind the fleeting image of Greer Garson valiantly capturing a downed German pilot in her azaleas from William Wyler's Mrs. Miniver (1942) or the astutely cynical – if slightly comedic - Richard Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), keeping the Nazi's at bay with barbed tongue-in-cheek quips against a picturesque and often exuberantly playful backdrop of Casablanca (dir.Michael Curtiz, 1942). Perhaps the most glaring example of Hollywood's lack of 'fact' in bringing history to light is Raoul Walsh's Objective Burma (1945) that transforms the essentially British invasion into an American triumph almost single-handedly achieved by Warner Bros. he-man, Errol Flynn.
Even when Hollywood attempted to take the European conflict more seriously, as in Herman Shumlin's Watch on the Rhine (1943) or Mervyn LeRoy's Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944), the results were spun on life-affirming platitudes and doe-eyed optimism that flew in the face of a more stark cold and unvarnished documents. In Watch on the Rhine, based on Lillian Hellman's anti-fascist stage play, freedom fighter Kurt Muller (Paul Lukas) delivers one apoplectic didacticism ladled upon the next; his impassioned – if wordy - social conscience substituting for the more immediate diplomacies of that hemisphere in flames. The speeches are meant to inspire, and, quite often do. But they are empty in their reflections, somehow missing the point of actual horror facing millions fleeing Nazi persecution; mere eloquence without a complete understanding of the brevity of the situation being discussed.
In Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, pin-up boy Van Johnson is the very embodiment of American sanguinity in the face of imminent danger. As Lt. Lawson, Johnson makes harrowing bombing raids over major Japanese cities before being downed on enemy soil. He escapes – barely - and loses a leg in the process. Yet, the circumstances surrounding his amputation are dealt with almost painlessly in an effort to quickly realign the Hollywood myth about glamorous warfare rather than examining that very genuine list of glaring casualties and fallout.
A soldier's life – and more directly – his death are topical matter rarely discussed in these movies, or, if so, are represented with a reverence befitting the great warriors immortalized in tableaus from an ancient society – with pomp and circumstance and a lengthy affirmation that the sudden loss of life, though regrettable, is necessary in the fight for democracy overseas.
With increasing regularity Hollywood films between 1940 and 1946 chose to completely ignore the war in favor of a focus on life at home and perhaps occasionally how 'home' itself had changed – an exemplar more tellingly revealed in William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) at wars' end rather than in John Cromwell's Since You Went Away (1944) made during the height of conflict.
To be certain, Cromwell's gargantuan ode to war 'widows' is more an exercise in screen elephantitis than a factual examination of the realities facing women on the home front – a premise made even more expansive and absurd with David O. Selznick as the film's producer. Immediately following the critical and financial success of his Gone With The Wind (1939), Selznick embarked on an ambitious campaign to surpass its' popularity; producing a series of expensive follow-ups; Since You Went Away being among them.
Not merely content to recreate a poignant reflection of society at large or provide a documented snapshot of the home front, Selznick's war weepy dwarfs the human condition with towering achievements in set design. Hence, the romance between Jane Hilton (Jennifer Jones) and doomed infantry soldier, Corporal William Smollett (Robert Walker) is supplanted by Selznick's need to place the characters against breathtaking backdrops that rival the epic splendor of an ancient Rome or old South.
The Hilton family dwelling is not just another cozy hamlet in middle class America but a sprawling family complex large enough to entertain a curmudgeonly boarder (Monty Wooley) and provide lodgings for feisty housekeeper, Fidelia (Hattie McDaniel) – the latter working simply because she wants to. Despite the fact that the Hilton's matriarch, Anne (Claudette Colbert) cannot afford to pay Fidelia, she readily maintains glamorous dinner engagements at roomy bistros with old flame, Tony Willet (Joseph Cotten) and luncheons with fair-weather friend and vapid gossip, Mrs. Hawkins (Agnes Moorehead) inside lavishly appointed art deco inspired nightclubs. Since You Went Away is therefore not life as it was for the American housewife circa 1944 but rather an idealization of what life ought to have been.
The screenplay by Selznick, based on Margaret Buell Wilder's novel, is not honest about a single aspect of this life; choosing a faux front of beautiful people in beautiful costumes and places - seemingly resplendent, if tolerating, the perceived woes inherited by a sudden absence of their husbands and sweethearts. Clearly, the focus of Selznick's masterwork is not to hammer home the obviousness of the American condition to the soldiers seeing the movie overseas – then contemporary in the minds of everyone – but instead to provide an escapist platform for sublime wish fulfillment. Herein, Since You Went Away is undoubtedly more successful – its characters morally superior beings of impeccable pedigree who are a template for propriety and decorum; intangible platitudes once more that the film suggests the average soldier in the trenches is fighting for.
That same year, Selznick released another, less ambitious war-themed production, I'll Be Seeing You (1944) with Ginger Rogers playing Mary Marshall, a prison parolee released on a weekend pass and who falls in love with shell-shocked war veteran, Zachary Morgan (Joseph Cotten). Once again, the focus of the film is firmly on the burgeoning maudlin romance between two damaged individuals - not on the emotional psyche of the young man scarred in battle. Such a stark critique would wait until wars end and Harold Russell's magnificent and heartfelt performance as double amputee Homer Parrish in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946).
In I'll Be Seeing You, the oft' overused suggestion in the movies, that love alone can unravel even the greatest mysteries of the human mind, is given a patina of grand superficiality with Mary's understanding heart restoring Morgan's courage – at least enough that he is determined at the story's end to continue the good fight.
It is perhaps important herein to pause briefly to acknowledge that Hollywood's sentimentality with the war as a backdrop, rather than focal point, is most directly the result of filmdom's creative brain trust working behind the cameras – many of them European exiles, immigrants and refugees fleeing Nazi occupation. Thus, these craftsmen infuse the Hollywood product and style of their dream factories with their own overly-sentimentalized view of Europe – a sort of tear-stained recollection in absence of any immediate first hand knowledge from the currency of their homelands, seen primarily through very thickly crafted rose-colored glasses.
As the demographic in movie patrons shifted with the advent of war, to a more prominent female base, Hollywood weaned their status quo on a steady diet of melodramas, musicals and screwball comedies. Musicals in particular were an increasingly popular form of diverting entertainment. Whereas the most celebrated offerings in the genre during the 1930s had been a strange amalgam of light-hearted operettas – mainly taking place in a fanciful recreation of bygone Europe (Naughty Marietta 1935, Rose Marie 1936, The Desert Song, Maytime 1937) - or completely escapist flights into absurdly lavish art deco fancy (Swing Time 1936, The Great Ziegfeld 1936, Rosalie 1937), the musicals of the 1940s increasingly sought refuge in some glorified past of an America that probably never was (Meet Me In St. Louis 1944, The Dolly Sisters 1945) and a Latin America that most certainly did not exist (Down Argentine Way 1940, That Night In Rio, 1941).
Even such patriotic flag wavers as Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) and This Is The Army (1943) – both memorably directed by Michael Curtiz - with their obvious war-themed plots, chose instead to ground their narratives in a loving retrospective of that blind optimism immediately preceding WWI, but stopped just shy of a resurgence for another celebrated charge into conflict in WWII.
Yankee Doodle Dandy is the loosely interpreted biography of songwriter/performer George M. Cohan; so lax in its facts that upon seeing the finished film Cohan reportedly asked Jack Warner who the movie was about. The story is thus a relic of pure fiction, exploiting Cohan's inimitable style in composition as a backdrop to hang its 'we shall overcome' philosophy – quaint and glossy and mirroring a faithful call to arms that would help break America's isolationism. The same is true of This Is The Army – Irving Berlin's galvanic salute and tribute to the American Armed Forces; its show-stopping finale 'This Time Is The Last Time' suggesting that America's involvement in the war is not only desirable but essential in bringing about a lasting world peace for all time.
Perhaps the most subliminally interesting blend of these two polar opposites in the musical genre was Irving Berlin's Holiday Inn (1942); a plot-silly little nothing extolling the celebrated national holidays of Berlin's adopted country, but also interjecting the very pro-war propaganda 'Song of Freedom' during the film's Fourth of July sequence. Ironically, it was another Berlin song, 'White Christmas' that unintentionally strove toward a more poignant evocation of wartime conflict by resurrecting the specter of familial absence and separation.
The lyrics to White Christmas are a painful reminder of this separation (I'm dreaming of a white Christmas. Just like the ones I used to know…where the treetops glisten and children listen to hear sleigh bells in the snow) – sentiments mirrored with even greater longing and immediacy in the lyrics to Hugh Martin and Arthur Blaine's Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas from Meet Me In St. Louis (1944).
To be certain, Meet Me In St. Louis is a classic example of how pervasive, if subliminal, the message of wartime familial displacement was to echo throughout nearly all of Hollywood's wartime product – even when taken out of context from both time and space. Meet Me In St. Louis' story concerns the Smith family who are about to lose their livelihood in the only home they have ever known, thanks to the suggested move by their father's (Leon Ames) law firm from St. Louis to New York.
Though the story is set in an idyllic America at the time of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, its timely logic is more reticent of the contemporary strain affecting the American family unit across the country. Martin and Blaine's lyrics to their poignant holiday tearjerker, 'Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas' bears this out. ("Have yourself a merry little Christmas. Make the yuletide gay. Next year on we may all be living miles away…" then later, "…someday soon we all will be together, if the fates allow. Until then we'll have to muddle through somehow…")
In essence, Meet Me In St. Louis is a time capsule for the renewable faith in America's involvement in the war. With few exceptions, the Hollywood musical would rarely delve quite so deeply into this particular brand of wartime sentiment – though it would frequently produce 'feel good' musical prologues, as in Busby Berkeley's The Gang's All Here (1943) or George Sidney's Thousands Cheer (1943) – effortless, lighthearted fluff movies that set the war to swing time and bolstered its bond rally efforts by millions.
Of all the movie genres to suffer during WWII, the crime story proved the most susceptible to absolute annihilation. Occasionally, detective stories continued to surface on the big screen – but these were not cut from the same gritty ilk that had strengthened the genre prior to the war, and that a studio like Warner Brothers had excelled at during the 1930s with actors James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson and George Raft at the helm.
Only part of this tempering of the crime genre derived from the influence of Hollywood's Censorship and Production Code. Indeed, studios like Warner Brothers proved that when it came to satisfying either the Code or their box office, the latter ruled. They were quite willing to pay modest fines to distribute a movie that would reap millions in return – Code or no Code!
Moreover, with President Roosevelt's 'New Deal' policies slowly but steadily resurrecting America from its Great Depression and, with WWII providing new reasons to be 'depressed,' theater goers were simply no longer entertained by stories that depicted violent conflicts in their own backyard – particularly since the rest of the world seemed to have ample violence to go around.
By the mid-forties, the aesthetics of film noir had already slightly intruded into this crime absentee paradise; reflecting a cynical morality shift from lightness to darkness, though with a continuous patina of surface gloss and romantic idealism attached – at least enough to entice the female theater patron into her seat for a few hours.
Thus detective stories and thrillers like Otto Preminger's Laura (1944), Michael Curtiz' Mildred Pierce (1945) and Charles Vidor's Gilda (1946) took crime out of the speakeasy and/or bar room, but they also attached a woman-identifying face on the nature of a beast that, prior to the war, had almost entirely been ascribed to male counterparts.
In Preminger's Laura, a fashion artist played by Gene Tierney is the presumed victim of a brutal homicide that compels police detective, Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews) to obsess over her portrait. In Curtiz' Mildred Pierce, a headstrong restaurateur (Joan Crawford) lavishes her evil offspring, Veda (Ann Blyth) with every conceivable luxury, only to have her steal her husband. In Gilda, a corrupted beauty (Rita Hayworth) marries the boss (George Macready) of her former lover, Johnny Farrell (Glenn Ford) out of spite – only to discover that she still loves Johnny. In most cases, the woman's role in these crimes remain secondary to the crime itself; the character of Veda being a rare exception. She actually kills her mother's husband.
However, by mid-decade, the tone of these crime thrillers had turned uglier with women frequently becoming antagonists and purveyors of criminal activity, not merely its accidental participants; as in Barbara Stanwyck's scheming Phyllis Dietrichson – out to make her husband's murder look like an accident in Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity (1944), or Lana Turner's Cora – the vindictive viper luring an unsuspecting grifter to his doom in Tay Garnett's The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) or even better still, Rita Hayworth's malicious Elsa Bannister – a rich wife determined to be rid of her crippled husband while framing an unsuspecting lover in Orson Welles' The Lady from Shanghai (1947) – all femme fatales with a deliberate taste and relish for death.
Initially, this shift from desirable movie goddess to contemptuous screen vixen had almost been subliminal, brokered by the sudden appearance of Lauren Bacall's Slim Browning in Howard Hawks' To Have And Have Not (1944). Slim is a harmless pickpocket whose penchant for browbeating Bogart's Harry Morgan with a bit of his own sass and wit makes her both sweetness and poison at the same time. Though Slim never actually contributes to anyone's demise, she certainly gives a fairly accurate impression that she might, particularly if the circumstances are right. As for Bacall, she would continue to develop her sharp tongue as Vivien Rutledge opposite Bogart's confirmed worldly cynic Philip Marlowe in Hawks' The Big Sleep (1946) before essaying into the role of relative good girl, Irene Jansen in Delmer Daves' Dark Passage on year later.
Of the three aforementioned incarnations, perhaps Bacall's Irene is the most deceptively dangerous. She's an artist with a penchant for helping convicted felons escape from prison after her own father has been wrongfully accused of a crime, was sentenced to life in prison and died behind bars. However, Irene is selective in whom she abates.
Like the character of brittle prostitute, Alicia Huberman (Ingrid Bergman) in Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious (1946) – a woman who begrudgingly invests in the FBI's sting of her one time lover turned husband, Alex Sebastian (Claude Rains), Irene is out for quiet vengeance – perhaps on the side of the law, perhaps not. Unlike Alicia – who knows the target of her aggressions – her FBI contact, Devlin (Cary Grant) – Irene is out to exonerate Vincent Parry (Humphrey Bogart) a man she's never met, though Irene's association with backstabber, Madge Rapf (Agnes Moorehead) – a woman who desperately desired Parry's affections before the murder of his wife – is enough to convince Irene of Parry's frame up for that crime.
In any case, the Production Code and Catholic League of Decency ensured that all of the aforementioned women were – at their core – either motivated by dark shades of selfishness or more virtuous selflessness; with a distinction made to their own survival in each film before the final reel.
Sin could be in so long as a woman paid for it with her life. Indeed, the arch for female criminals on the screen was meteoric and brief. By 1949, the femme fatale had run her course. A character like Annie Laurie Starr in Joseph H. Lewis' Gun Crazy (1950) had to be more clearly depicted as pure evil with a psychotic streak.
As Hollywood left the war behind it also readily abandoned its focus on female patrons for its box office. With soldiers returning home bearing the physical and emotional scars of conflict, and America's prosperity set for its greatest boom since the early 1900s, the need for melodrama gave way to more desirable celebrations of the 'bigger is better' mentality that Hollywood would eventually exploit with Cinemascope and Biblical epics – morality tales spread across its larger than life canvas with even more spurious reflections.
With WWII's end, women on film would no longer dominate the box office. Some of the biggest female stars from the '40s, like Bette Davis and Joan Crawford ended their studio tenures, only to discover no place for their renewable talents - suddenly replaced with the less threatening flash of a Marilyn Monroe or Jane Mansfield. In the final analysis, the war abroad had been a bastion of peace time for its screen goddesses. Though bombshells and pin-ups would continue to be desirable commodities on the big screen, the glory days of real actresses were sadly at an end.
With an assembly line release date of roughly 55 movies per annum, each of Hollywood's studios yielded some of their most diverse and engrossing entertainment between 1940 and 1949. However, with the advent of television quickly developing as the movie's next big threat for the new decade – Hollywood would have to prepare for yet another seismic shift – this time away from its audience. Briefly however, everyone simply breathed a genuine sigh of relief. It was good to be home, and as Dorothy (Judy Garland) the astute Kansas waif had so indelibly expressed herself at the end of The Wizard of Oz (1939) a decade earlier, there was 'no place' quite like it.


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