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> On Apr 4, 11:48 am, "Nancy2" > wrote:
>> On Apr 3, 8:15 pm, (Ubiquitous) wrote:
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>> > In article >,
>> > backspace@backspace
>> > wrote:
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>> > >Does somebody like Andrew Zimmern have to build up a tolerance to such
>> > >exotic foodstuffs? If I went to the Philippines and tried balut, would
>> > >it
>> > >make me sick?
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>> > I don't know, but I remember the Philipino food they served at my best
>> > friend's wedding did a number on me.
>>
>> > How is this show, anyway? It looks vaguely interesting, but since it's
>> > on Food Network...
>>
>> > --
>> > The trouble with American journalism, in short, isn't that it's too
>> > skeptical, but that it's too willing to throw skepticism to the wind
>> > when
>> > it suits the agenda of proclaiming every war a Vietnam and every
>> > Republican president a Nixon.
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>> I don't watch it (Travel Channel, BTW) because I think it was thought
>> up just to put this guy on the air. He doesn't talk or act like a
>> chef - he's just got this unusual "talent" of being able to eat the
>> grossest things there are and not die from it. Ick.
>>
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> Actually, some of the stuff isn't gross. Nutria isn't bad at all. Nor
> is haggis. And it's still LENT. You can eat muskrat with impunity!!
>
> He's rather unctuous, too.
>
> Ted

Impunity? Unctuous? Wow, it's a veritable cornucopia of vocabulary. And,
from what I can tell, that stuffed stomach Scottish menu item is indeed
gross.