On Fri, 01 Sep 2017 16:19:14 -0500, "cshenk" > wrote:

>Dave Smith wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>
>> On 2017-09-01 4:29 PM, cshenk wrote:
>> > Dave Smith wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>> >
>> > > On 2017-09-01 12:02 AM, jmcquown wrote:
>> > > > On 8/31/2017 11:17 PM, Doris Night wrote:
>> > > Doris
>> > > > >
>> > > > Beef stew sounds good.* It's actually getting cooler here, if
>> > > > you can call 85°F cooler.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Heck no. That is not cooler. That is what we call a heat wave and
>> > > the public health department starts issuing heat alerts.
>> >
>> > LOL, it dropped to 82F. We turned off the AC here.
>> >
>>
>> My son worked in Uganda for about 8 months. He said that they
>> temperature was consistently in the mid 80s. If it got above 85 they
>> complained about the heat, and when it dropped to 8s they would put
>> on a sweater.
>
>It's funny how people adapt. I flew from the Gulf to Japan once and
>went from 120F (4 months) to 90F in an 8 hour timespan. Needed a
>sweater in Japan. I was only home in Japan for 72 hours then on a
>plane back to the gulf. (critical school, was flown back).

When an American says Gulf, do they mean the Arab Gulf states or the
Gulf of Mexico?