English is deadly!

[frankielee242]

Lilac wrote:

> The Japanese eat less fat and have fewer heart attacks than the
British and the Americans.

How to solve our dietary dilema... We are in desparate need of more
lyrical, appetizing and less icky names for our food. Tripe? Chitlins?
PIGS' FEET? *shudders* We need names for our foods that roll off the
tongue like italian, names that conjure up spices drying in India,
names that don't sound like lousy conversation, flying insects or...
porcine hooves.

Has anyone seen the play "You Can't Take It With You"? There's a very
funny scene when a Wall Street baron has decended on the bohemian
Sycamore family for a dinner party. When the cook sends her boyfriend
out for ingredients, he returns with canned salmon and is ever so
proud to have also procured "pickled pigs' feet!"
 
Personally, I will GLADLY continue eating fermented soybean paste and
squid and tofu and octopus and sea cucumber and small chunks of raw
fish wrapped in seaweed, because they have elegant names like "miso"
and "sushi".


Lurking!Frankie, crawling out from underneath her drawing table,
grabbing car keys and heading all the way downtown for lunch.