HOSE DOWN MY PANTS!! BLRK

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The Los Angeles County Health Department rates eating establishments on a letter grade system. Most of them get A's, there are occasional B's. Today, driving to work, I passed the FILIPINAS EXCHANGE MARKET which had received a C. I'm not sure I'd ever seen a C before. Even accounting for the fact that many Filipino specialty foods seem designed to terrify anglo health inspectors (balut, diniguan, etc) this appears extreme. What the hell do you have to do in order to get a C? Store your potato salad at 75 degrees Fahrenheit? Overhead salmonella sprayers? Ceviche de vacas locas? It's terrifying.

Today's Vehicle Spotting was an old beat up sentra driven by an aging gangsta, bumpersticker: NE1469? I don't think so, P-Dogg.

How's everyone enjoying the depression er recession er SLOWER RECOVERY THAN ANTICIPATED??

Comments

[rpkrajewski.livejournal.com]

Ever read the book Unmentionable Cuisine, which discuss all kinds of odd things that people around the world eat ? Well, I should my wife (a Filipina) something in it about some kind of pig-part stew, and she said “I used it eat that, until I found out what it was.”

diniguan! balut! BLARRGGHG

[substitute.livejournal.com]

There's a rule in comparative food study that everyone else's local peasant cuisine sucks because the local poor people send the good stuff to market and eat the offal. Hence sausage, scrapple, etc.

Island people have the Pork Curse in a big way, though. Most of the people I know who've completely sworn off their childhood comfort food in order to avoid death come from some Pacific island or other where they eat nothing except cured pork with pork sauce or salted salty fish-salt.