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Default Question recently about soup in Asian countries

On Nov 13, 8:13*am, BillyZoom > wrote:
> On Nov 13, 1:11*am, Sqwertz > wrote:
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> > On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:51:47 -0800 (PST), ItsJoanNotJoann wrote:
> > > On Nov 10, 10:18*pm, Cheryl > wrote:
> > >> I had a interesting conversation with one of my new teammates at work
> > >> who is from India about soup. *The conversation drifted as often they
> > >> do. *But the one thing he told me that was interesting is that most
> > >> people of India descent, especially those in India, are vegetarian.

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> > > I've yet to meet an Indian who wasn't a vegetarian.

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> > Then you need to live in San Jose or Austin. *We have very few Indian
> > restaurants that don't serve meat (about 20% don't, if that). *And
> > they don't just serve Americans. *I have worked with too many Indians
> > than I would prefer, and very few of them were vegetarians.

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> > I didn't understand the OP's question, if there even was one.

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> > -sw

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> Shhhh! Don't upset their world view. Despite the fact that they
> couldn't possibly fit 50 of their own friends into 5 categories when
> it comes to food AND religion, they think it's appropriate to do that
> with over a billion people. They're Indians after all.


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I didn't say ALL Indians throughout the WHOLE world are vegetarians,
dunce, I said _I've_ yet to meet one who isn't. Good grief, Billy
boy you're putting to much into my statement.