We almost always end up trading recipes, cause I usually ask "so how do YOU cook it?" ... I don't mind if I look a bit dumb doing it, cause once you ask, people are generally delighted to chat and you find out the coolest things. One such eposiode lead to the best pork, lotus nut and winter melon soup I've ever eaten (it was the most comforting comfort food ever) followed by truly degenerate sex under the watchful eye and serious smile of Chairman Mao.
The worst such experience I ever had was in Atlanta ... I'd never seen ... uh, hell what are they called, those big round musky-scented grapes ... muscatels, I think? anyway a brown-skinned woman was selling them off a cart downtown near the city hall, and I went over to buy some (naive Canadian that I am). Well aparrently this was a *brown people* fruit cart, cause first of all she looked at me like - "what do you want" then I said, what are these? and she said "you got no cause to complain about them" ... it took several tries to explain to her that I was from Canada and didn't know what they were, and still longer to convince her to sell me some. Meanwhile my white companion was making like we weren't together, wandering away. When I was trying to pay her I gave her a 20 and she wouldn't take it, "you cayn't fool me wid dat.." Don't ever tell me Atlanta is "integrated" ... two cities occupying the same buildings.
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Date: 2004-02-17 09:54 am (UTC)The worst such experience I ever had was in Atlanta ... I'd never seen ... uh, hell what are they called, those big round musky-scented grapes ... muscatels, I think? anyway a brown-skinned woman was selling them off a cart downtown near the city hall, and I went over to buy some (naive Canadian that I am). Well aparrently this was a *brown people* fruit cart, cause first of all she looked at me like - "what do you want" then I said, what are these? and she said "you got no cause to complain about them" ... it took several tries to explain to her that I was from Canada and didn't know what they were, and still longer to convince her to sell me some. Meanwhile my white companion was making like we weren't together, wandering away. When I was trying to pay her I gave her a 20 and she wouldn't take it, "you cayn't fool me wid dat.." Don't ever tell me Atlanta is "integrated" ... two cities occupying the same buildings.