On 7/16/2013 12:32 PM, F.O.A.D. wrote:
On 7/16/13 12:21 PM, Eisboch wrote:


"F.O.A.D." wrote in message
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On 7/16/13 12:07 PM, Eisboch wrote:

I happened to like the pizza we had in Italy. Other than the name
"pizza" it's not really something that can be compared with American
style pizza.
Totally different.

I've also had *real* Chinese food (and drink) while visiting the PRC
back in the mid 80's. I *much* prefer the American versions. :-)


Taste, as they say, is subjective.

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I just couldn't get into having a big bowl of chicken feet that you were
supposed to chew whatever little meat was on them and spit out the toe
nails.
Oh ... yeah ... and the strange "meat" that I was assured tastes "just
like chicken".

Boiled Pigeon eggs for breakfast washed down with a glass of warm goat
milk?

No thanks.




I spent five months or so in the 1970s as a contractor for Burroughs and
stayed at the old Friendship Hotel. I got over my squeamishness and
actually went to some "banquets" where the food was very good. I rarely
asked what it was I was eating.

My job was to translate computer operating manuals from American English
into "simple English" for the Chinese techies who were learning how to
use "modern computers" for agricultural weather forecasting and were
also learning English. Nowadays, there are tens of millions of Chinese
in China who read and speak American English.

Did you do the wire line drawings too? Memorizing or figuring out the
mnemonics was a bitch. I don't recall there being any manuals.