"The Galloping Gourmand" > wrote in message
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> On Mar 19, 5:36?pm, "Wayne Lundberg" >
> wrote:
>
> > Galloping has been the subject of a case study I am doing on newsgroup
and
> > forum personalities.
>
> Don't waste your time, newsgroup personalities have been analyzed
> before and
> stereotypical archtypes have been invented to explain behaviors. But
> the studies
> always seem to ignore the newsgroup bullies who try to dominate a
> group, turning
> every thread into a discourse about themselves and the sychophants
> they tolerate.
>
> One PhD thesis study was about why newcomers only post one or two
> messages to
> a group. They get flamed with hostile responses, or worse, they get no
> response at
> all and give up posting to Usenet after several orphan messages that
> are ignored.
>
> To get any response whatever, the newcomer has to step on some toes
> and risk being
> flamed. Anybody wants to flame me, go right ahead, I've been flamed by
> the worst trolls
> and they wound up abandoning "their" newsgroup when I didn't leave.
>
> > He/she has me baffled in that there is no consistency.
> > I believe it (he/she) must be a couple of lonely people locked in an
igloo
> > with Mexican food on their mind, but nowhere to get it. And he/she/they
have
> > not figured out how to get it vicariously through those of us publishing
> > regular tidbits in this forum.
>
> That is probably the silliest thing you've ever written.
>
> I don't need to get Mexican food vicariously through reading your
> "tidbits", Wayne.
> I eat Mexican food every day.
>
> There are two Mexicans in this county for every American, so I can get
> all the Mexican
> products I want in the markets. If I want goat or lamb or fresh range
> chicken, all I have to do
> is go down the street to my Mexican neighbor's houses.
>
> I have bags of fresh frozen chiles in the freezer and all sorts of
> ready made salsas and moles.
> I can order all the Sonoran antojitos I want in the taquerias around
> here. I don't need to make
> my own tamales, I can get all the homemade tamales I want.
>
> There's no point in asking the Mexicans around here about how food is
> cooked in Tabasco.
> They are Nortenos, they don't know anything except antojitos, rice,
> beans, menudo and birria.
>
> But I am looking for recipes and ideas for Mexican recipes that are
> not antojitos and
> are not Sonoran. I've been eating Sonoran style cooking and antojitos
> for over half a century.
> It's the same old stuff, over and over. I want a change. So I post
> recipes and lists of specialities
> from other Mexican regions.
>
> What is so annoying about that?
>
..
Not anoying, just staying on topic and continuing the thread.

Must dig through my old stuff to see what I can come up with from Veracruz.

Wayne
>