On 18 Dec 2002 at 15:28, Kestrel wrote:

> I meant the "iron curtain" as in you behind the fencing of Iron Chef
> Stadium :)

Okay, that's about three times I've seen this reference, which means 
it ain't a typo.  What the heck is this?

> Your high-mountain South American villager would probably look askance
> at Twinkies, Spam or Fruit Loops among so many other things, so I
> don't turn up my nose at guinea pig :) 

Spam, probably.  Froot Loops maybe, Twinkies I think might be 
popular.  There's a candy sort of thing they serve there that I've 
never tried but which looks a lot like nothing more than a waffle 
cone full of frosting.  I'd go into a sugar coma, but whatever.  They 
take fresh off the plant bananas and citrus and pineapple as a given, 
so it probably loses a lot of its "special treat" value.


'm not so sure I'd be willing
> to have a heaping plate of it, but there are worse things to have a
> plate full of in my mind. ("I'll pass on the grubs and beetle carapace
> thank you!")

Yeah, insects probably rank up there on my "Not THAT hungry" list, 
too... but cuy.... It's a psychological twinge, purely cultural, but 
still real.  It takes a deliberate effort the first few times, after 
that it's just another form of white meat.   Calamari, now... 
that's different.  That's physical; we were never meant to eat that 
stuff.


> Ok, but I think the primary goal is to avoid being moved in on in the
> first place 

I think the only way to do that over the next few years is to leave, 
and I'm not terribly sure THAT will help...                 Albest,

                        Clayton

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