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Bean and cheese papusa at Laney College Flea Market, Oakland. New stand, on aisle parallel to street, between Freda Kahlo booth and coffee stand. Nice people, very good product. Thin crusts, not greasy, good filling and hot sauce. Plain cheese and cheese and Loroco flower papusa also available
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And me.
And I’ve had sweetbreads and morels in the Pas de Calais or Somme regions (the two I tend to visit). Delish.
I love pupusas - loroco especially!
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Chilled food, tapas style.
Grated tomatoes, olive oil, minced garlic.
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Usually I eat the oysters over the kitchen sink but sometimes I have other things to eat alongside it’s easier to put them in a bowl.
Ate 3 herrings today (a typical amount every week but not always 3 in 1 go). People be like: “Nobody knows your age. You have no wrinkle.” I tell them “herring, red wine, and solitude.”
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A snack for $US2,50. Here I can get a standard small coffee for 2,5 euros.
I was looking for a Turk word for “sweetbreads” and found it. Gonna ask the Turk butcher if he has them. Sweetbreads are very normal food in Turkey.
All 3 have to be obtained in copious amounts, for if one falls the rest collapses with it.
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I’m with you on the herring and the solitude, but I’m a white wine drinker. Works for me!
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I see there is no hope. Solitude evades me, I most often am drinking white wine and I really don’t like herring. Unless kippered counts. Nope, still too late to start. 
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Not too late. Kippers are delicious. Any oily fish will do, really. White wine is fine but it has more calories, apparently. You only have to work that off.
Women tend to prefer white wine. I’m one but prefer red, or better yet, bitter beers.
Problem is I have a gag-reaction to oily fish.
Please send photo so I can see if your regimen is worth this almost insurmountable hurdle. 
Haha…
Yeah, you’ve mentioned not liking oily fish in another post. Other things, like nuts and avocado, with good fats work just as well. Surely you also eat these.
Don’t have the body of my 20’s anymore but it’s more important to me to enjoy my food and beer and be happy.
(Actually, I still have clothes from my early 20’s and still wear them. Have gained 2 kilos since and they still fit.)
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Bravo! I do believe what you propose. I know that oily fish are nature’s gift.
Were I a tad younger I might give it a go.
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I used to sell at Laney. Always loved food there better than Ashby BART.
I still remember someone that used to sell sugar cane- the whole cane, and other tasty treats galore. .
Yo, Kindred Soul! Whole cane turns up occasionally. We obviously love Laney. I have outfitted my and son’s kitchens from Laney, much toddler clothing, and on the used side, the $1 tables offer up amazing finds, DH bought a Japanese raincoat, almost never worn, Googled retail = $1295. for $1. (Cost $25 to have it cleaned.) And the regular dealers are delightful. They ask about us when we miss a few markets, as we about them.
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When Marin City was still open we’d drive down and do Berkeley or Laney on Saturday and then head over to Sausalito for Sunday.
The good old days!
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Marin City! The heyday of California fleas.
Marin City was the best. I bought my 18 kt. gold wedding band there in 1975 - still wearing it!
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Returning to food, do you remember Pepe’s burrito trailer at the top of the market? Pepe’s whole bean egetarian burritos were the best. He used to say that his beans caused no gas because he cooked a whole carrot in then Not so sure about the validity of this. And the Viet chicken satay truck just inside the entrance?
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