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From: Citizen Winston Smith <sss@example.de>
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Subject: Re: Boiled Green Peanuts
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2024 14:59:00 -0700
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On 11/5/2024 2:32 PM, D wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 5 Nov 2024, Citizen Winston Smith wrote:
> 
>> On 11/4/2024 2:26 PM, D wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, 4 Nov 2024, Citizen Winston Smith wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 11/4/2024 2:55 AM, D wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, 4 Nov 2024, dsi1 wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sun, 3 Nov 2024 22:48:14 +0000, Michael Trew wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 11/2/2024 7:40 PM, dsi1 wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I don't know a thing about those critters in Hawaii. If I saw 
>>>>>>>> one, I'd
>>>>>>>> move in the opposite direction. I can still remember a picture I 
>>>>>>>> saw
>>>>>>>> when I was a kid, it was a bunch of terrified swimmers being 
>>>>>>>> chased by a
>>>>>>>> pack of barracuda. That picture struck me in a peculiar way. You 
>>>>>>>> could
>>>>>>>> say that it was not in a good way.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Do you ever see Jacksons or Veiled chameleons in your part of 
>>>>>>> Hawai'i?
>>>>>>> We now have one of each as pets in screened enclosures, but I'm told
>>>>>>> that both are invasive species in parts of the islands.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The chameleons have been in Hawaii for 20/30 years. They are 
>>>>>> fascinating
>>>>>> animals but really are too tough to keep. We've had several but it 
>>>>>> never
>>>>>> ended up well for the chameleons. Good luck with yours!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If you keep your eyes open, you're always going to see some new 
>>>>>> invasive
>>>>>> animals popping up around here. There's not much that can be done 
>>>>>> about
>>>>>> that. If we start seeing snakes, I'm leaving!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IULBtezvoys
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lMhPHZNOqU
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Don't you worry! Snakes are cute and have a great personality! (If 
>>>>> you don't go too close or poke them with a stick)
>>>>>
>>>>> When I stay at my house in spain, from time to time there are 
>>>>> snakes basking in the sun. I sometimes try to see how close I can 
>>>>> get without them slithering away or becoming aggressive.
>>>>>
>>>>> There are also porpoises, very friendly as well, but very, very shy.
>>>>
>>>> Ha, so you get Spain and Parma ham when the seasons chill then, how 
>>>> exceptional!
>>>
>>> Oh you bet! In spain, in the local super market there is a small 
>>> heaven on earth in the form of their meat counter! Behind it, for 
>>> several years, there has been an old woman, and every time I come 
>>> there she shines like the sun, because she knows that she'll sell 
>>> 50-100 USD worth of ham, sausages and other goodies!
>>>
>>> I usually buy low quality ham for my wife with a lower fat content, 
>>> and when I say "low quality" that is stuff that would cost 100s of 
>>> USD per kg in sweden or the baltics, _if_ you even can find it there.
>>>
>>> Then I buy some high fat content jamon iberico, and it just melts in 
>>> your mouth.
>>>
>>> I do a lunch where I fry some bread in garlic, add a thin layer of 
>>> freshly, mashed tomatoes on top, a it of pepper (no salt), and on top 
>>> a thin slice of that wonderful ham! The ham has the salt, so no salt 
>>> necessary. Oh, I add a small pinch of sugar to my crushed tomatoes.
>>>
>>> This dish is simple, but due to the high quality of the ingredients 
>>> it is amazing!
>>
>> I might toss basil leaf on to boot, but you have purity in a sammich 
>> right there.
>>
>> Any echoes of post-Franco to be heard these days?
>>
>> https://youtu.be/OxsLdIbnd0s
>>
>> It would seem timely.
>>
> 
> Difficult to say. In my corner of spain, there's mostly retired people 
> from the UK. But I do have an old acquaintance from my time in Chicago 
> who is from spain, and she would whole heartedly agree that things were 
> better during Francos time.
> 
> Currently spain is busy self destructing in the best socialist 
> tradition, so probably the winner of the next election will be a more 
> conservative government.

I have this sick little fantasy where the Basque separatists brutally 
take power and then see what a mess it all is and leave for northern 
Nevada where men are still free and sheep are not nervous...

Sorry, I get bit loopy at election day...