Re: [gardeners] Korean dinner
Robert Ripley (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Wed, 22 Dec 1999 15:32:45 -0500
really??? what the hell is wrong with you people??
seems that asians are still being bashed. i am soooo sorry that you are this
ignorant. i am furious about this posting & the last one!!
well, in being in the restaurant business, the only ones i know that are
being busted are the good ole "jack...." really white if you ask me
----- Original Message -----
From: John Harman <harmanj@agric.nsw.gov.au>
To: margaret lauterbach <mlaute@micron.net>
Cc: <gardeners@globalgarden.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 1999 6:15 PM
Subject: Re: [gardeners] Korean dinner
>
>
> On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, margaret lauterbach wrote:
> >
> > I have a Korean friend who regards herself a good cook. She cooks
> > everything in sesame oil, garlic and soy sauce. The above may sound
good,
> > but if it's all cooked in sesame oil, garlic and soy sauce, the bottom
line
> > is that it all tastes alike. My Korean friend always wants people to
come
> > to lunch with her, but she serves 1) greens she harvested out of a
mountain
> > stream, never had them identified, 2)dried mushrooms she harvested from
her
> > lawn -- she got someone, via telephone, once to tell her they were
"fairy
> > ring" mushrooms and were safe to eat (the fairy ring has stood in the
same
> > place for 30 years), and 3) unrefrigerated eggs. She pooh-poohs any
> > suggestion of refrigeration. Doesn't know they sometimes come with
> > salmonella inside because she doesn't read newspapers or magazines
(print
> > is backwards to her, although she does have a B.A. from an American
> > university in English). I would be as averse to eating at a Korean
> > restaurant as i am at her house. Margaret L
> >
> >
> Her degree is printed in English ?? The subject was English ??
>
> How can you get a degree in English from an American University.
> Americans can't even spell in English. Tire/tyre, color/colour,
> nite/night. :) You call petrol gas, you call lifts elevators,
> footpaths sidewalks, aircraft airplanes, cars autos, punnets
> flats, flats apartments...Harman is back from leave. :)
>
> Asian restaurants out here are regularly busted by the health
> dept. A standard trick is serving cat as chicken. Apparently with those
> lovely spicy sauces they can disguise anything. They have no idea of
> hygiene, although I believe the Japs do a little better.
>
> John
> You also drive on the wrong side of the road. :)
>
>
>