Re: Starving people refuse to eat food aid
R H Draney
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>> In the opening chapter of _Notes from a Small Island_, Bryson writes:
>> "If you mention in the pub that you intend to drive from, say, Surrey to =
>Cornwall,
>> a distance that most Americans would happily go to get a taco, your compa=
>nions
>> will puff their cheeks, look knowingly at each other, and blow out air as=
> if to
>> say, "Well, now that's a bit of a tall order..."
I've never had Cornish tacos...are they really so good as to inspire such an
expedition?...r
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cryptoguy
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> >The following captured from
> ><http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bill-Bryson-Complete-Notes-Country/dp/
> >038560131X>
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> >> In the opening chapter of _Notes from a Small Island_, Bryson writes:
> >> "If you mention in the pub that you intend to drive from, say, Surrey to =
> >Cornwall,
> >> a distance that most Americans would happily go to get a taco, your compa=
> >nions
> >> will puff their cheeks, look knowingly at each other, and blow out air as=
> > if to
> >> say, "Well, now that's a bit of a tall order..."
That's about 150 miles each way, as the crow flies. I'd say that it
would take a pretty extraordinary taco to make me do that.
I *have* driven over 100 miles each way to visit a nice restaurant,
but that's unusual. I've done over 100 *round trip* many times; just
last Friday I drove that much to share a beer with a friend.
pt
Strobe
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>>038560131X>
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>>> In the opening chapter of _Notes from a Small Island_, Bryson writes:
>>> "If you mention in the pub that you intend to drive from, say, Surrey to =
>>Cornwall,
>>> a distance that most Americans would happily go to get a taco, your compa=
>>nions
>>> will puff their cheeks, look knowingly at each other, and blow out air as=
>> if to
>>> say, "Well, now that's a bit of a tall order..."
Around 60 years ago, they'd have been dead right.
In Cornwall itself, many roads were (still are?) narrow lanes between Cornish
hedges.
Their idea of a 'hedge' is a stone wall covered by vegetation...
>I've never had Cornish tacos...are they really so good as to inspire such an
>expedition?...r
Yes.
But the locals call them 'pasties'.
They're delicious meat and veg wrapped in a pastry shell.
Folklore has it that they were invented to feed tin miners; their wives would
bring the hot pastys to the mine at lunch time and drop them down the shaft to
their men. The shell was needed to keep the ingredients together when they hit
the bottom...
Some versions had apple at one end, so the miner could get the tradtional meat
and 2 veg, followed by dessert.
Naturally, avoid any pastie marketed for emmets (tourists).
For fish lovers, see also: Starry Gazey Pie
erilar
Strobe <Str...@nyc.Beep!Beep!.com> wrote:
> In Cornwall itself, many roads were (still are?) narrow lanes between Cornish
> hedges.
> Their idea of a 'hedge' is a stone wall covered by vegetation...
They have those in Wales, too, I learned on my lone trip to the UK.
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Michael Stemper
>That's about 150 miles each way, as the crow flies. I'd say that it
>would take a pretty extraordinary taco to make me do that.
>
>I *have* driven over 100 miles each way to visit a nice restaurant,
At the conclusion of a successful project, a customer once flew me
ninety miles each way to visit a nice restaruant. It was rather
flattering.
--
Michael F. Stemper
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cryptoguy
> On 20 Nov 2009 10:13:24 -0800, R H Draney <dadoc...@spamcop.net> wrote:
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> >filted:
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> >>The following captured from
> >><http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bill-Bryson-Complete-Notes-Country/dp/
> >>038560131X>
>
> >>> In the opening chapter of _Notes from a Small Island_, Bryson writes:
> >>> "If you mention in the pub that you intend to drive from, say, Surrey to =
> >>Cornwall,
> >>> a distance that most Americans would happily go to get a taco, your compa=
> >>nions
> >>> will puff their cheeks, look knowingly at each other, and blow out air as=
> >> if to
> >>> say, "Well, now that's a bit of a tall order..."
>
> Around 60 years ago, they'd have been dead right.
> In Cornwall itself, many roads were (still are?) narrow lanes between Cornish
> hedges.
> Their idea of a 'hedge' is a stone wall covered by vegetation...
>
> >I've never had Cornish tacos...are they really so good as to inspire such an
> >expedition?...r
>
> Yes.
> But the locals call them 'pasties'.
Those would be empanada equivalents. I'm not aware of a 'traditional'
British food that resembles a taco.
pt
Szymon Sokół
> In article <kurdg5p43qr0dmg9o...@4ax.com>,
> Strobe <Str...@nyc.Beep!Beep!.com> wrote:
>
>> In Cornwall itself, many roads were (still are?) narrow lanes between Cornish
>> hedges.
>> Their idea of a 'hedge' is a stone wall covered by vegetation...
>
> They have those in Wales, too, I learned on my lone trip to the UK.
And in Ireland, except there they are usually not covered by vegetation.
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Doug Wickstr�m
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>I've never had Cornish tacos...are they really so good as to inspire such an
>expedition?...r
I think they might be a bit pasty for my tastes.
cryptoguy
> On 20 Nov 2009 10:13:24 -0800, R H Draney <dadoc...@spamcop.net>
> wrote:
>
> >I've never had Cornish tacos...are they really so good as to inspire such an
> >expedition?...r
>
> I think they might be a bit pasty for my tastes.
Pronounced pass-tea.
pt
Doug Wickstr�m
<treif...@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Nov 21, 12:08�am, Doug Wickstr�m <nimshu...@comcast.net> wrote:
>> On 20 Nov 2009 10:13:24 -0800, R H Draney <dadoc...@spamcop.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >I've never had Cornish tacos...are they really so good as to inspire such an
>> >expedition?...r
>>
>> I think they might be a bit pasty for my tastes.
>
>Pronounced pass-tea.
Yah, I know dat, eh? I useter be a Yooper.
ppint. at pplay
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> erilar wrote:
>> Strobe <Str...@nyc.Beep!Beep!.com> wrote:
>>
>>>In Cornwall itself, many roads were (still are?) narrow lanes between
>>>Cornish hedges.
>>>Their idea of a 'hedge' is a stone wall covered by vegetation...
>>
>>They have those in Wales, too, I learned on my lone trip to the UK.
>
>And in Ireland, except there they are usually not covered by vegetation.
- and in most of england, too, except they are usually with-
out the stone (or brick) wall inside the vegetation...
- love, a ppint. living in north-wet england, which is one
of the areas where they tend to lack both
vegetation, and any form of mortar to hold
hold the stones in place - nor need either.
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Lon
> In article <515417e3-f62c-44b9...@c3g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>, cryptoguy <treif...@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> That's about 150 miles each way, as the crow flies. I'd say that it
>> would take a pretty extraordinary taco to make me do that.
>>
>> I *have* driven over 100 miles each way to visit a nice restaurant,
>
> At the conclusion of a successful project, a customer once flew me
> ninety miles each way to visit a nice restaruant. It was rather
> flattering.
>
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David DeLaney
>Michael Stemper wrote:
>> cryptoguy <treif...@gmail.com> writes:
>>> That's about 150 miles each way, as the crow flies. I'd say that it
>>> would take a pretty extraordinary taco to make me do that.
>>>
>>> I *have* driven over 100 miles each way to visit a nice restaurant,
>>
>> At the conclusion of a successful project, a customer once flew me
>> ninety miles each way to visit a nice restaruant. It was rather
>> flattering.
>
>How hard did you have to flap your wings to carry the both of you?
Do you mean "...African or European restaurant?"?
Dave 'finessing the BoMP with a punctuation nitpick' DeLaney
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> At the conclusion of a successful project, a customer once flew me
> ninety miles each way to visit a nice restaruant. It was rather
> flattering.
There was an article on cnn.com last week about an American who had
accumulated so many frequent flier miles that he used some to fly
himself and his wife to Spain for dinner.
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