I ate stuff all around the world and never asked how it was made as long as I saw the locals eating it first. It’s all going to be protein, carbs, and fat, so get over it. When you’re hungry you eat. Learning what’s in it spoils the fun.

It’s strange, Kryten, but flying around the world and hanging out in some extremely “undeveloped” areas, all of my serious illnesses occurred in the US. I had a supply of antibiotics with me outside of the US, courtesy of the Air Force, but I should have been taking them in this country.

As for medical personnel, I want you to know that what follows is an actual quote from a “respected” medical web site in its description of first aid for stinging jelly fish:

“CPR may be necessary for all stings if the person stops breathing and/or no longer has a pulse.”

Ya think? Really, CPR if someone “stops breathing” or “no longer has a pulse”, well, OK, I’d never thought of that 😈

I’m waiting for my Mother to kill the next doctor or nurse who tries to suggest that she is having a heart attack or stroke, when she wants a prescription for antibiotics for a urinary tract infection.

You’re lucky the morphine works for you because it was a military staple, and it has minimal effect on me. For whatever reason most of the standard painkillers don’t do much in my body, other than upset my stomach. In general, instead of being in pain, I end up in pain and nauseous after the medication.

I an not known as an ‘end justifies the means’ kind of guy, but in this case, it’s a valid exception that validates the rule.

*Nobody ever listens to me!* 😛

As for food… After over a year in survival training and a year in Cambodia (and other atrocities with food I’ve endured around the World), I’ll eat just about anything, anywhere, anytime. Because I have. 😉 I’ve had severe food poisoning twice in my life, once was from an expensive restaurant, they other was a take-away (fast food) joint because I was late off a flight to a meeting. I spent over 21 hours in emergency starting that night. I learned that morphine is the best thing ever invented by man or nature! 😉

BTW… It must be a universal constant that when one is in total agony, barely able to breathe, white as a sheet, covered in sweat and heart racing at about 200 bpm.. that Paramedics will ask stupid questions that you have no hope in the Universe of understanding or answering!! Like “Are you allergic to morphine?” Which when asked, I did the only sensible thing and grabbed him by the throat and squeezed so they were forced to knock me out! Amazing how strong desperation and agony can make one! 😉

Idiots! I don’t know how they survive.

when i was in puerto rico, we were out in the boonies, and ate a lot of mystery food, since i was the only one who spoke any spanish [and had forgotten most of it by then] and i refused to ask what the ingredients were. we had one vegetarian in the group, so i learned to order things sin carne and we all learned platanos, mofongo, empanada early on but that was as far as we went with the ingredients.

now that i’ve read these descriptions i know some of what i was eating. i think i liked it better when i didn’t know.

Thanks, Hipparchia.

I admit that I love good, home-made bean soup with the bone of a properly cured ham as the major seasoning. I like it better than the ham itself, to the point that I have given away most of the meat to get that bone – one of the most expensive meals I’ve ever had, but it was goooood. You can make it with hocks, but the real ham bone is so much better.

The fact that it is poured over a bed of rice tells you it is for working people without much money. Most of the protein is from the beans and lots of carbs for energy.

Head cheese isn’t a delicacy, it is what is left for the poor.

These people are stark, raving lunatics. Somehow a ruling about the New York law making nunchuks illegal is about taking guns away from people, when it was actually about not letting Asian gangs beat the crap out of people. She supported “states’ rights” and she’s a Nazi. They have lost it.

They should have saved up their angst for a liberal, not Sotomayor.

it’s not the food that’s important, it’s having something to rally the tribe members. anything will do, even pigs feet.

I think Sotomayor’s opponents are on the verge of desperation, looking for literally anything to throw at her. Now they’re throwing tongue and ham hocks at her. What garbage… and I’m not talking about the food, which for poor people is probably a cheap, decently satisfying meal. Poor people eat beans and cheap grades of meat; that’s what I ate when I was a child and my family was (yes, quite literally) poor. Get over it, wing-nuts. The only “head cheese” here is inside the heads of the idiots indulging in this character assassination.

This is “po’ folks food”, someone else gets the ham and you get the bone, so you make soup. I still don’t understand why this is important to being a judge.

I don’t like Scalia or Alito, but it has nothing to do with calamari, even though I don’t like it either.

I have this major problem that I think the government should be of, by, and for the people and should be promoting the general welfare, not the interests of corporations.

not that any of this has anything at all to do with deciding court cases.

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