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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (128049)	2/19/2001 6:03:01 PM
From: haqihana	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

James, I agree with a large part of what you said, but a lot of the Montezuma's revenge suffered by gringos, was from freshly harvested fruits, and vegetables. A good friend from Mexico City, Eduardo Candela, stopped me from eating some fresh grapes in a market, while he ate some himself. He said that he had built up an immunity from what they used as fertilizer, which gringos could not handle in their intestines. Wisely, I did not press for a detailed explanation of the fertilizer in question. One thing that really turned my stomach, was the way meats were displayed, and marketed. I loved cabrito, but to see that kid goat carcass hanging out in the afternoon sun, with the hooves, and head, still on it, and the flies buzzing around it, was a bit much for my appetite to stand. Another thing though. You rarely, if ever, heard of a Mexican with ulcers. Some say it is the hot peppers that prevent them, and others say it is the "manana" attitude. ~;=;o --haqi