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Checkmate, DoW #1

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> On 2/4/2016 11:41 PM, Checkmate, DoW #1 wrote:
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> >> On 2/4/2016 9:26 AM, Checkmate, DoW #1 wrote:
> >>> In article >,
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> >>>> On 2/4/2016 9:10 AM, Checkmate, DoW #1 wrote:
> >>>>> In article >,
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> >>>>>> On 2/3/2016 11:03 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> >>>>>>> About a year ago I was out with my son for the day and we stopped for a
> >>>>>>> late lunch at a Vietnamese place. I had never had Vietnamese food before
> >>>>>>> and had some expectation that if would be similar to Chinese and/or
> >>>>>>> Thai, being in the same general area. I was really disappointed. It was
> >>>>>>> not horrible, but it wasn't very good.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> M wife is away for the week so he called up and asked if I would like to
> >>>>>>> go out for supper with him and he suggested I give Vietnamese another
> >>>>>>> try because there was a good one near his place. He said they had
> >>>>>>> similar dishes, but that this place is much better. He was right. It
> >>>>>>> was quite good. It is not only tasty, but it is downright cheap. Their
> >>>>>>> entrees were about the same price most places charge for an appetizer.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> My big mistake was having a Vietnamese coffee. The waitress explained
> >>>>>>> that they do it the old fashioned way, using a drip filter gizmo that
> >>>>>>> drained into a glass that had about half a can of sweetened condensed
> >>>>>>> milk. It was good, but way too sweet for me. As I sit here three hours
> >>>>>>> after my regular bed time I realize how potent that coffee was. He told
> >>>>>>> me after I ordered it that it would probably keep me up all night, but
> >>>>>>> he has issues with caffeine issues and never drinks coffee in the evening.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>> When I wuz in Nam, them gooks ate any kinda shit that moved. Fuskin'
> >>>>>> spiders and shit like that.
> >>>>>> Gooks!
> >>>>>
> >>>>> They were probably serving rat tartar sandwiches, known as a "Cannibal
> >>>>> sandwich".
> >>>>>
> >>>> Those be forest rats. They aren't like the filthy sewer rats over here.
> >>>> They taste like chicken.
> >>>
> >>> They're still filthy creatures that shit on themselves.
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> >> No, they don't. If you were there you wood know.
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> > I was there, and we didn't eat rats.
> >
> no, we didn't eat them directly, but the *******s were everywhere.
> Vietnamese ate whatever they could find and I've seen rats on a
> contraption like you'd cook a whole package of hotdogs on. fur and
> all. my pal says they were nutrias and I say mousemeat. Viets ate dog
> before mousemeat...and the dogs knew it and treated the locals
> accordingly. I took a bit once so I knew I COULD eat it if I HAD to
> but I didn't so I DIDN'T. balut maybe...1000yr old eggs...I'd die
> first. I'd use fish eyes to catch a whole fish...but I do understand
> you eat what is available or you don't eat. I had a messhall and they
> didn't. who was better off? who knows. time for breakfast...here
> kitty kitty.

Balut is an egg with an almost fully grown embryo in it... usually duck
eggs. Filipinos love them. They also like anchovy sauce, which is made
from totally rotten fish, and smells absolutely horrid. I don't know
how they can eat it without dying of food poisoning. Then there's the
dried rotten fish. When they cook that shit, it'll stink up the entire
house for a week.

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