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Thread #59109 Message #939960
Posted By: Giac
25-Apr-03 - 11:04 AM
Thread Name: BS: The Onion...My Life Long Enemy.
Subject: RE: BS: The Onion...My Life Long Enemy.
Jeri mentioned kimchee. Now there's a thought. Eating kimchee might keep one from catching current nasty diseases. No one would get close enough to infect you. Kinda like ramps in that respect.
I like kimchee and relish ramps and okra.
However there was an unpleasant incident once with a nun at a Catholic girls school when I was 11.
I took my bowl of chili, untouched, back to the dirty dish line. When Sister Dunstan saw it, she yanked me from the line and asked why I didn't eat it. "Too greasy," I said. She told me to eat that chili. I said no. She smacked me on the shoulder. Not desiring further smacks, I took a bite of the now-congealed chili. It returned promptly and landed on her black shoes. Too many witnesses for her to kill me, so she just made me write a paper on some long-mouldy saint.
Couldn't look at chili, or stand to smell it for years.
I won't eat anchovies -- no hairy little fishes, thanks. And I really don't like the taste of mutton. I think that was from my formative years when I heard, endlessly, that sheep poison the ground and eat the roots of grass, destroying the pasture. (It was cattle territory, don't ya know!!)
~;o) Mary