The "I really miss 'America's Overvalued Real Estate'" thread
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2006 Jul 5, 6:36am 31,722 views 377 comments
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Peter P
2006 Jul 7, 10:25am
astrid, can you provide a picture of fried carp with black fermented beans?
The canned carps come in pretty distinctive yellow and red oval tins.
Did you ever try the bottled Yunnanese hot sauce. There's no garlic or vinegar, it's all chili pepper, a little sansho, peanuts, and oil.
Peter P
2006 Jul 7, 10:31am
Did you ever try the bottled Yunnanese hot sauce. There’s no garlic or vinegar, it’s all chili pepper, a little sansho, peanuts, and oil.
No. But I will try. Is it very hot?
Yes, it's pretty hot and good for mixing with soy sauce dips and in noodles.
It's called lao gan ma but it's completely in Chinese. It comes in red labelled jars. You can do a search but I don't see a high quality picture from google images.
Red Whine Says:
"When I was a poor college student in San Jose, I used to buy Maruchan Ramen when they were 10 for a dollar — there must have been 30 different flavors..."
Ha, ha! Been there, done that.
When I was up at Northern Arizona University working on my MBA,
I'd get 10 packets of ramen for a buck also.
I used to add Cajun spicing, vegetables, and Safeway Select brand sausage and make a sort of gumbo-ramen soup that was pretty good.
Peter P
2006 Jul 8, 3:53pm
Fresh wasabi tastes really good. Few restaurants have it. And usually you have to ask for it.
For raw fish, I do not usually mix wasabi with soy sauce. P put some wasabi directly on the fish and then dip it in soy sauce. It tastes different! :)
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As many of you know, we recently had a casualty in our extended bubble-battling blog family. Sadly, it looks as though the founder of one of my personal favorites, "'America's Overvalued Real Estate", has sold out to the highest bidder --a commercial RE company :-(. (Note: previous rumors to the effect that the site had been hijacked/sabotaged by the NAR have proven to be unfounded.) As Different Sean might say, "there's the perfect free market at work again." ;-)
This site --an instant classic-- hosted hundreds of examples of absurdly overpriced wrecks sent in from all over the U.S. and Canada, along with the satiric and often hilarious commentary from the blogmaster. It was wonderfully cathartic and priceless for its comic relief and real-life illustrations of how unhinged sellers have become, thanks to our Fed & GSE-blown liquidity bubble. I spent many a Friday afternoon perusing the latest submissions, often reading them aloud to Mrs. HARM. Truly fun for the whole family.
In honor of this fallen giant, I dedicate this thread as a tribute to A.O.R.E. Please post local examples --with photos and/or MLS links if you have then-- of the most outrageously overpriced $hitboxes in your local neighborhoods. International submissions are also welcome. I shall kick things off by re-posting one of the most egregrious and well publicized examples from last year -- the infamous $1.2 million shack from "Naked City", Las Vegas:
Post & enjoy...
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