Re: Starving people refuse to eat food aid

[Richard Casady]

On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:20:05 +0000 (UTC), tm...@panix.com (Tim
McDaniel) wrote:

>On rec.arts.sf.written, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
>> There was a famine somewhere in Central Africa in the
>> fifties, and since their staple was corn meal, the US shipped in
>> tons and tons of corn meal. But American corn meal is yellow;
>> the Africans were used to eating white corn. They wouldn't eat
>> it: particularly, the children wouldn't eat it.
>
>This strikes me as ULicious, with the theme of "them ignerent
>savages". Can't find this in searching for "famine" in snopes or The
>Straight Dope, or for famine and corn in Google Groups here. Anyone
>see this one before?

I see it is up to 6500 posts now.

Casady