Things we might have said...
November 17, 2007 at 8:30 “Wait a minute, you’re telling me you won’t swallow pills but you’ve chewed and eaten tripe, adrenal glands, beef tongue, and brain?”
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While sharing physical symptoms: “I wouldn’t worry. You’re just a freak of nature and a medical abnormality. You could be a subject for experiments! A medical breakthrough!”
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Comparing our unshaved legs: “Why be ashamed? There’s a lesbian somewhere who would find our hairy legs VERY sexy.”
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About Belgian cuisine: “I don’t know where the reputation for fine food comes from. In my experience, every dish they do, another culture does better.”
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About speaking the truth: “So I was being interviewed by a Flemish university student for a project she was doing, and she asked, ‘Who holds the power in your country?’ And I told her ‘White men in dark suits.'
Di, thanks for the memories.
November 17, 2007
Reader Comments (22)
As for hairy legs: don't worry, I'm used to those :-)
I miss my battered blue cod from NZ though. You'll laugh, even the Turks were horrified when they heard we do 'that' to fish but I guess you get used to it. The ultimate love gift was the time Gert found a NZ cookbook and tried making me some of the fish from NZ fish and chips.
Oh, and I do do the witloof and mayonnaise with my stoofvlees.