From: wrat@panix.com   
      
   	Ok, I used to cook for a living.  It's damned hard work and I   
   don't have the talent to be the next Mario so I eventually  went back to   
   college and ended up doing something else.  When I was working at classy   
   joints ;-) the chefs - and especially the head chefs - all had their own   
   knives, and some of them were very nice.  Ginny had a huge Wusthof that   
   looked like it had been forged in the Bronze Age and recovered from a Roman   
   burial site.  Simon used a big cleaver for everything except peeling which he   
   made me do anyway.  And so on.   
      
   	A conversation with a local in the cutlery business led to his making   
   the comment "That's a very good knife for a kitchen.  Kitchens are rough   
   on knives and I'd never use that in a kitchen."  which I didn't understand   
   remembering Ginny and Simon.   
      
   	So, is this an artifact of the NSF?  Is it just that modern crappy   
   knives like Forschner are almost as good as an old German relic like   
   Ginny's so why bother?  Or is it that my friend only services Subway and   
   Chili's so he doesn't really know??   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)