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Skriven 2008-12-20 23:23:00 av JIM WELLER (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Seal
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Jim Weller <=-

 JW> Sea lions and seals are in the order Carnivora but are really fish
 JW> eaters, not meat eaters. They taste OK.

 ML> I'd be interested in tasting seal. But with the fish diet, don't
 ML> they taste a bit fishy?

They didn't taste fishy to me the few times I've tried them. But I
am not a super taster and there may well be an underlaying fishy
note that escaped me.

 ML> The prices are high for 750; I'd sort of thought so, but
 ML> wanted to think maybe liters, as it sounds prohibitively
 ML> expensive to live up there.

Well wages and salaries are high here too.

 ML> you don't have to defend the free world and try to
 ML> expand its boundaries.

Actually we do more than our proportionate share in the peace keeping
field. I had no idea until Barrie Lax sent me an article lately.
Here's the short version:

Subject: Fwd: British newspaper article - re Canada
 
Until the deaths of Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan,
probably almost no one outside their home country had been aware
that Canadian troops are deployed in the region.
                                         
And as always, Canada will bury its dead, just as the rest of the
world, as always will forget its sacrifice, just as it always
forgets nearly everything Canada ever does. It seems that Canada 's
historic mission is to come to the selfless aid both of its friends
and of complete strangers, and then, once the crisis is over, to be
well and truly ignored.

Yet it's purely voluntary contribution to the cause of freedom in
two world wars was perhaps the greatest of any democracy.  Almost
10% of Canada 's entire population of seven million people served in
the armed forces during the First World War, and nearly 60,000 died.
The great Allied victories of 1918 were spearheaded by Canadian
troops, perhaps the most capable soldiers in the entire British
order of battle. 

The Second World War provided a re-run. The Canadian navy began the
war with a half dozen vessels, and ended up policing nearly half of
the Atlantic against U-boat attack.  More than 120 Canadian warships
participated in the Normandy landings, during which 15,000 Canadian
soldiers went ashore on D-Day alone. Canada  finished the war with
the third-largest navy and the fourth largest air force in the
world.

The Canadians proudly say of themselves - and are unheard by anyone
else - that  1% of the world's population has provided  10% of the
world's peacekeeping  forces. Canadian  soldiers in the past half
century have been the greatest peacekeepers on Earth - in 39
missions on UN mandates, and six on non-UN peacekeeping duties, from
Vietnam to East Timor, from  Sinai to Bosnia.

Yet the only foreign engagement that has entered the popular non-
Canadian imagination was the sorry affair in Somalia, in which a few
out-of-control paratroopers murdered two Somali infiltrators. Their
regiment was then disbanded in disgrace - a uniquely Canadian act
of self-abasement for which, naturally, the Canadians received no
international credit.

JW> Title: Dongpo Pork

The article came from Stephen Jack, a white guy living in Taiwan.

 ML> Silliness number one. Broccoli has no role in this dish. I could
 ML> see a garnish of braised turnips

I have no idea but trust your knowledge and judgement in this.

 ML> Silliness number two. Hangzhou is not on Taiwan but rather is
 ML> north-central coastal mainland.

In a prior article he explained how Taiwan had an aboriginal
population and gotten taken over by the Chinese who came from all
regions and created a fusion cuisine there.

 ML> Silliness number three. The dish is greasy as hell. It's just
 ML> that you admire the grease when it's done this way.

 ML> Silliness number four. The fat is the whole point of the dish.
                       
That sounds good to me.





Cheers

YK Jim


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