Lunches at work are usually nothing to write about, however every now
and then, we get an external restaurant that makes a memorable dish. A couple
of weeks ago, that was the Cajun shrimp po’boy. The sandwich was relatively
simple: a toasted baguette, a big of mayonnaise, some shredded lettuce, and
seasoned Cajun shrimp, however the taste was amazing. I had an inkling about
the origin of the name po’boy, but the price of the sandwich betrayed that thinking.
A bit of research on the web revealed a couple of origin stories. The most plausible
and heartwarming was on Wikipedia:
that during a 1929 street car workers’ strike, restaurant owners served the
sandwich to their striking colleagues for free, jokingly referring to the
strikers as poor boys, after which the sandwiches took the name, and in the Louisiana
dialect shortened to po’boy.
I have always been allergic to buying specialized electronic devices that do only one thing, such as the Kindle, the iPod, and fitness trackers. Why buy these when technology evolves so fast that a multi-purpose device such as the phone or a smart watch can eventually do the same thing, but with the convenience of updates that fix bugs and add functionality? So, I was shocked when this weekend I made an impulse buy and got the newest Kindle Paperwhite—a special purpose device for reading eBooks. I was walking past the Amazon store in the mall and saw that the newest Kindle Paperwhites were marked down by $40 for the holidays. The device looked good in the display, so I went in to look at it closely. The Paperwhite is small and light, with a 6” screen that is backlit and waterproof. The text was crisp and readable, and in the ambient light, it felt like I am reading a printed book. I was sold and bought it on the spot. At home I have struggled to put it down. The bo...
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