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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Justin C who wrote (55632)	9/10/2000 7:18:08 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 71178

One late afternoon some of us were reading on the deck and Fabrice, our chef, came up bearing a tray of appetizers. We had already started on our wine. Well, actually we started the wine pre-lunch, but we were pacing ourselves well. He said, "Thees ees a Bourgogne specialité one must try." And he stood there while we took a slice of this sausage and dipped it in the omnipresent Dijon mustard. ANd he STAYED there and watched and waited- and we all chewed and then stopped dead. Brenda leaped up and ran away. Roger said later he thought she had gone to get something for all of us to spit into, but she had just run to the side of the barge to throw up, and she NEVER CAME BACK. Roger and I meanwhile, were staring wide-eyed at each other, not daring to swallow or chew or move. Fabrice just stood there, smiling. I finally swallowed everything in one gulp without chewing it, but it still left this peculiar film of grease all over my mouth that remained through several medicinal glasses of wine. Fabrice said, "You like eet?" I unglued my lips and smiled,"mmm-MMM!!" He held out the platter. "Oh, no, I wouldn't want to spoil my dinner!" Roger meanwhile, is still sitting there with his cheek bulging. He apparently had shoved it into one side of his mouth and was just waiting for Fabrice to leave so he could expel it. Fabrice offered him another. "No-ank oo- " he said. "Eet eees andouille, special sausage made from zee treeeep." Treeep? "Zee- how you say?-- stoomach of zee peeg?" Tripe. Offal. Pig guts. Roger made this weird noise. He said later it was just that he swallowed hard, but I swear he was gagging. That stuff showed up in a lot of places, too, during the week, just angling for the unwary diner to accidentally stick it in his mouth. But not me and Roger, huh-uh. I drank less after that, and remained on guard. SUspicious sausage is EVERYwhere in France.