🚀 go-pugleaf

There is nothing wrong with sharing info and thoughts on Usenet. That's why
we are here, right?

Loosen up a bit.


"Gerry" <222ggg@spam.really.sucks> wrote in message
news:240420040920011767%222ggg@spam.really.sucks...
> In article <n7y7jw5vr3c.fsf@panix1.panix.com>, Rajappa Iyer
> <rsi@panix.com> wrote:
>
> > > >Most folks eat raw vegetables and fruits and other stuff.
> > >
> > > Except for about a billion Indians.  I don't recall every seeing any
> > > raw vegetables in any authentic Indian dish I have eaten.  They seem
> > > to cook *everything*.  When I asked some Indian acquaintances about
> > > it, they couldn't come up with any raw vegetables in Indian cuisine
> > > either.
> >
> > Off the top of my head:
>
> Off the top of the subject too. The subject had morphed into how
> Koreans don't eat raw food.  They may eat less than most of the rest of
> the world. India may eat less than the rest of the world.  "Less" and
> the "rest of the world" doesn't mean anything.
>
> Here's what means something: Koreans and the vast limitation of their
> dining habits, or those of the Indians or Zuni aren't summed in two or
> three barks of vague over-generalization here or elsewhere.  Their
> diets were more restricted 100 or 500 years ago.  Far less so now that
> they all buy canned and bottled foods from everywhere with
> who-knows-what in it.
>
> My only complaint is with the endless over-simplified (and flase)
> pronouncements made on usenet.
>
> Carry on.
>
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