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To: carranza2 who wrote (123767)1/26/2004 5:58:50 PM
From: marcos  Respond to of 281500
 
'Wong's Scottish Meat Pies' comes from a CBC radio programme, Kenny Wong who bought the shop from MacPherson or whoever doesn't actually make meat pies any more, as no one was buying them, but has yet to replace the sign, and probably won't, understanding it as traditional ..... his friend runs a used record shop, whose motto is 'We may not be big, but we're small'

Quality asian food goes over very well with mexicanos, there is a similar emphasis on freshness of ingredients, vivid tastes, colours .... and the reverse is true, thai and szechuan [sp?] with chiles, for instance ... many dishes aren't so far apart, really ... the prize-winning hottest chile in the world is today grown in India .... but [sniff], folks there are not 'of and pertaining to these Américas' -g-

Well, Sam is on-topic - #reply-19734591 .... eliminating Hussein from the equation means that resistance to occupation no longer means supporting return of that particular brutal dictatorship .... so will that translate directly into support of a US-chosen government, not in the minds of very many i don't expect ..... it is a far-away and strange place, probably even a genuine and wide coalition of democracies would have had trouble following invasion ....