Blinky the Shark wrote:
> Steve Pope wrote:
>
>> Ali > wrote:
>>
>>> Bit of a crap post really.
>> I posted it because I am interested in the U.S.'s image around
>> the world, and it seems the current administration has found
>> yet another way to offend just about everybody.
>
> Golly. Who knew that we've only been eating better than the Indians for
> the last eight years? I guess all of those "clean your plate - millions
> are starving in India" comments I heard growing up in the mid-20th century
> were coming from fortune tellers!
>
>
One of my cousins, back in the late forties, when told by my Grandmother
to "eat it all up", Chinese children are starving, replied that he would
pay the postage if she would send the meal to China. The whole family
broke out laughing as my grannie was not considered a top cook.