Also sorry for your loss, Gurney.

And it so happens that Mrrzy has another car crisis going on now,
which echoes what happened in earlier posts on this thread.

I remember when one restaurant went out of my life.
The food was a certain international cuisine,
and in order to protect the guilty,
I shall not name the nation/country.
When they began, the food was quite wonderful, AND reasonably priced;
the place was run on a shoestring, part of a whole arcade of shops and retail things, not its own free-standing premises.

When the restaurant went out of my life, actually,
it was I who deserted the restaurant.
The place managed to stay on the same arcade/strip premises,
run by the same family,
attempting to provide the same cuisine and the same menu.

What happened?
The menu stayed the same but the recipes changed.
If I tell you the one dish, well, I can't, because
the name of the dish would reveal the nationality.
But they did a quite irresistable home-cooked version of said dish.
Until.
Until they decided that in order to make ends meet,
in a world of rising costs and prices,
this dish, along with other dishes on the menu,
had to have the ingredients altered --
it was stuffed with a non-identifiable starchy filler,
padding out the other ingredients.
Didn't look the same.
Didn't taste like its old self
(the filler had a sort of non-taste, if you know what I mean).
So obviously a cost-cutting measure,
stretching further the little one has.

It broke my pea-pickin' heart!