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Skriven 2007-11-29 10:21:53 av Glen Jamieson
     Kommentar till en text av Michael Loo
Ärende: DULLES THOUGHT 482 71129
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 -=> Quoting Michael Loo to Glen Jamieson <=-

[Squeezing in a last posting before leaving for the Wild West with the
blue virgin.  Noting that although it is the same distance as Adelaide
to NZ, the cost is less than half.]

 GJ> As I suggested to Jim, goats would do wonders with it.

 ML> If the efforts to contain the kudzu (which you might know as kuzu)
 ML> worked, we'd then be overrun with goats. And goats fight you in
 ML> real time, which kudzu does not. Of course, goats are semi-palatable,
 ML> so that's a plus.

Goats are delicious, curried.  I eat them fairly often.  And if they
fight you, fight back.  Perhaps you are prejudiced because of their
milk, when made into cheese?

 ML> Anything which
 GJ> can convert the sun's energy into organic matter must have something
 GJ> going for it, either as a food source, or as a fuel feed stock.

 ML> It could certainly be made into ethanol, which I would heartily
 ML> embrace.

It takes more than a bathtub batch process to do that, though,
unfortunately.

 GJ> the description given, kudzu is nothing too terrifying, but just the
 GJ> ordinary creeper which grows over everything in the tropical bush.

 ML> The terrifying thing about it is that it grows SO fast in the
 ML> 100F and 100% humidity of the US south.

As it is not considered to be excessively monstrous in the tropics,
where it grows just as fast, the problem where it has been introduced
to USA might result from lack of competition for survival.  As I
pointed out to xxcarol, that creeper is just one of the joys of living
in the tropics, like sweating, giant cockroaches, malarial mosquitoes
and crutch rot.
 
 ML> I had possum, as you may recall, at Cheong's. I wasn't
 ML> thrilled nor put off.
 ML> It tasted like stringy beef or perhaps bear.

I haven't had bear myself, yet.
 
 GJ> And the 5th, and worst region - LAX.

 ML> Now it can be told: on this last trip I spent 50 or 75 bucks
 ML> extra apiece so we didn't have to connect at LAX.

I would have willingly paid that on my last trip, if I had known about
that alternative.  Several hours in LAX immediately before or after a
13 hour trans-Pacific flight is one of the worst forms of torture or
harassment which can be inflicted within the Geneva Conventions!
 
 GJ> Did you manage to get any of the "entire" scallops in NZ?

 ML> Only at this strange Chinese restaurant in Wellington that my
 ML> friend Jeff took us to because it had Monday two-for-one. They
 ML> were pretty decent.

I had them in a Thai place in Auckland.  Very enjoyable!

 ML> =
 
 GJ> Glad you made it to the Te Papa museum.  Talking of cruelty, did you
 GJ> note the skeleton of the kiwi, with its huge egg inside?  With an egg

 ML> Carol pointed it out briefly to me, but it held no interest. In
 ML> retrospect I should have thought on the possibility of kiwi balut.

Good thinking!  That would be enough for a complete meal.

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