Comments on: New Year’s Eve Dinner Setting & Dinner…

By: Marketman

Marketman — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 21:41:51 +0000

Hi cookiesheet, my sister purchased the beeswax candles in New York.

By: cookiesheet

cookiesheet — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 17:31:25 +0000

Hi! Where did you bought the beeswax candles?

By: Hechoayer

Hechoayer — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:12:15 +0000

This looks fantastic MM! I enjoy your blog very much. These placemats and linens look exquisite.

By: Gezel

Gezel — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:05:30 +0000

Ha Ha ” Knickers in a twist” you sound so much like my husband when provoked.( So English)

By: Biy

Biy — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:35:39 +0000

Speaking of rudeness of some people.believe it or not as i cross that busy pedestrian i look at this guy next to me that was drunk .he then suddenly hit my shoulder . I was shocked and confused and what did i do to him . ? Oh man what can i say theres plenty of crazy people.

By: alilay

alilay — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:05:25 +0000

@bettyq, I will tell her. she pass by my apt. on her way to school last year and i mentioned that she is being missed at marketmanila.com. mr. MM naku pareho pa kami ng name ni uzisera but unlike her i want nice table settings

By: Marketman

Marketman — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:16:19 +0000

Pecorino1, it’s been a while. :) Yes, you can get duck fat here, for a price. The last time I got goose (not duck) fat for fries, I paid PHP1,800 for two liters or so, and that was wholesale, so I couldn’t imagine what the price of the confit would be if I had to buy duck fat locally…

By: Pecorino1

Pecorino1 — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:53:04 +0000

I always appreciate your posts about table settings. It’s a topic that interests me. I suspect many of your readers are like me that way.

When I still lived in Manila more than 7 years ago, I would buy French canned duck fat at Terry’s (Labeyrie and other brands). I’m lucky that here in Bangkok, duck is easily available in supermarkets. Dressed whole duck, breasts, thigh/legs, gizzards. I can confit to my heart’s content using rendered duck fat.

By: Marketman

Marketman — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:35:06 +0000

myra, actually, the wordpress software (as ancient as it is that this blog is built on) makes simple “investigations” easy… the commenter, uzisera, appeared to be a first time poster, but in reality, is “aleli”, a long-time reader who has commented several times in the past four years or so, so should have been aware of the breadth of topics covered on this blog, from my post on poverty in the philippines, one of the HIGHEST page view posts, I might add, to rants, to simple dishes, to the most sophisticated and expensive foods and doodads. If she visited regularly, she would have known that I often post holiday meals and SETTINGS and had featured dozens of one of a kind silver implements. So new to the blog is definitely not true. In fact, I would guess she has read or perused HUNDREDS if not THOUSANDS of posts before this little swipe with her knickers in a twist. And because she used her real email address, I do not think she really meant any strong offense, but on the other hand wasn’t confident enough in her position to say what she wanted to say using her normal name, instead using a new alias but forgetting that she had previously commented many times under the same email address and IP address, hence the conclusion she is one and the same. I find it most odd, in my attempt to sign off for good a year or more ago, she left me a comment THANKING me for the posts she had apparently enjoyed reading over the years, and as with all readers, GRATIS and without interference from bothersome ads. So the same person once grateful for at the very least, a minute or two or three diversion that is marketmanila (not claiming to be anything more than what it is, a blog that chronicles what I eat, cook, come across, write about, purchase and enjoy) would now feel she has to be, should I say, rude at the dinner table when she is a guest and has been eating my food for at least four years. It’s just a question of manners, really. And don’t get me started on the “God” aspect. I have gotten into trouble before for saying something as soon as people use “God” as the excuse. I am sure if God were at our proverbial dinner table, he wouldn’t be thrilled with the comment either. :)

At any rate, I didn’t mention this earlier as she seems to have taken the two comments and not added more; but since you asked, yes, I have a feel for the commenter, and now that I know this, the comment was particularly uncalled for. As you allude to, first time visitors wanting to stir up things is one thing, but a long-time visitor aware of the types of posts should have been able to simply skip this one if they liked. I don’t mind people disagreeing with me or my views, but it matters how it is voiced. You should see some of the stuff from first time readers I simply delete without a second thought; or that the spam software catches and I don’t even bother to read… :)

Here are some sample previous comments:

In a post I did on lechon’s we cooked for Pnoy’s fund-raising dinner in Cebu before he was elected President (Jan 2010):

“Sorry, not my vote”

In a post on the girl who spewed expletives at me for the siling labuyo fiasco, where her mother was the masteral degree candidate and not doing her own research, in answer to a post of mine whether I should send a letter to the Dean of U.P. Los Banos, she wrote (Aug 2009):

“Don’t send the email. Be magnanimous in victory. Your point is already well taken. Give the brat a break and maybe she’ll learn from this lesson without destroying her future.”

In a post announcing bi-annual sale madness at S&R (Mar 2011):

“It’s a bit embarrassing to read this article knowing that some people in Japan and even some compatriots in Bahrain are subsisting on so little food and other necessities.”

And in my attempt at a sign off post where I thought it was time to call it quits from blogging for a while (Sep 2010):

“Thanks for the lucid postings.”

:) Yes, LUCID indeed. And yes Myrap, as you can imagine my frame of mind right now, I was kind to have resisted sharper retorts. Had this person been at dinner in our home, they would never be invited back. Simple as that. :)

By: myra_p

myra_p — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:18:45 +0000

Hey MM, have you “investigated” our new fishpan nominee yet? :D How curious when a troll strolls into this blog and dumps their internal angst on your asthmatic readers, thinking s/he knows anything about us/you.

On a side note, I’m breathlessly waiting for you palabok recipe.