Steph

I can't think of anything close to the blue and red ones. I thought I might have a pic of something close which someone postulated to be Kokomo but I found it and realized I was wrong. Not a good match at all. So I still don't know.

Winnie, I'm not sure what you mean by blue smeared over a white base. That would be typical, right? White base. Blue veneered on top?

Was looking for another picture and ran across this one which demanded to be posted.

interesting!

Well of course.

Well, it doesn't taste so much like cabbage. I'm not sure what I would say it tasted like. Reminded me a little bit of asparagus but that might just have been the texture of the stalk. Someone online compared the taste to spinach. The stalk is more skinny and doesn't look like celery the way bok choy does. Edit: I just cooked some more of the yu choy and I notice now that the stalk does still resemble celery in places, but slender celery. Doesn't open up wide at the bottom. And all this is silly -- how much it looks like celery or doesn't -- since it doesn't taste like celery. ... but celery scares me, so that's maybe why I care about that part.

I miss paper manuals.

Thanks for posting!

I almost picked up some "rice vermicelli" which is so fine it apparently takes two minutes to prepare and doesn't appear to require boiling water. But I didn't. Maybe next time.

But on a happy note, I picked up some yu choy from the Asian market around the corner. Last time my first bok choy. This time my first yu choy. Had never heard of yu choy before but now I've cooked and eaten some.

Our farmers market is open two days a week for part of the year. Closes this month for the winter. I went there once this season. It was small and kind of made me sad.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/mymarblebuddy/m.html

I don't think that link is working.

I don't recognize them. Would be great to hear from someone who does.

Well, it's memorable!

Boys Playing Marbles, Delphi, Greece, by Ann Parker

I had cupcakes.

If this is the Vacor I have in mind, I'd guess it was after the year 2000. The ones I found in my search don't quite match but I'm still considering it as a possibility. (Thinking of Vacor Jungle.)

That one makes me think of Vacor. I still don't see Vacor on your other two-colors in transparent. This one though ... ? How old do you think it is?

My small Wisconsin town is not very diverse. It has a thriving Hmong population though, so that's a nice culinary influence.

Tried to find a magazines thread. Will start a new year thread instead. Courtesy of Paul Germann

Fun one Paul Germann posted on facebook

I can dig it. Go Royals!

ooooh

Bump from March! I just noticed the pale blue bases on some of these ..... ... or it looks like pale blue bases .....