(Curly Sue) wrote in
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On Sun, 07 Dec 2003 02:31:32 GMT, Mark Thorson
wrote:

zxcvbob wrote:

Now imagine you are at some ethnic market or another and are
trying to pick out some weird kind of produce you're never seen
before...

They don't have carrots in China?

I have been told by one Chinese young lady that carrots are not
used in Chinese cooking and therefore they are not liked very
much.

However, they are used in Chinese restaurants, in place of what, my
guess is lotus root.

We don't know *why* the ladies were buying carrots.

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