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Originally posted by liv
Hey there Foodie!
You sound a lot more exotic than me! Wow! And yes, I guess that was my general impression of what Arkansas must be like judging from books and movies. Still, I'm a US fan and would love to see it all, not just the "tourist States"!!
And that chocolate stuff does sound pretty disgusting, but I regrettably have to confess that during a binge I've eaten worse than that!!! Sounds quite fun compared to what I have managed to punish myself with in the past! Fortunately the real binges have left me, but the occasinal hog fest is still a problem. Anyway ... I won't tantalize you with Italian specialties, which are mostly carby and different everywhere you go ...
Keep posting and keep with it!!!
Liv
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LOL Nah, i look Anglo -- my mother's family is from Ireland and England, and my father's family is Scottish, Lebanese, and American Cherokee. As far as i know, that is, LOL It's such an incredibly dysfunctional bunch of people with a pathological divorce rate, illegitimate children all over the world (thanks to a lot of the men in the family having served in the U.S. military), etc. Up until 2 years ago i never really knew my older brothers, as they had been abandoned with distant relatives when they were little kids. They grew up not even knowing each other, as they were raised with different relatives, and one of my older sisters too -- she later came to live with us as a sort of unpaid servant to take care of the little ones! Why in the world my parents -- who hated each other and finally got a divorce -- kept on having kids they didn't want is just beyond my comprehension. The whole thing is so sad and mixed up. I used to think we were the only family in the world like this but now i realize it's not a rare tragedy.
It has totally warped my views on population control -- i'm all for forced sterilization for people like that.
Okay, that's my non-PC rant for the day, ha!
In my opinion, all human beings are "cousins," because we all descended from Africans. At least, that's what the paleoanthropologists say and it makes sense to me. So, hi Cousins!
About Arkansas -- actually it's GORGEOUS here. Almost tropical, really, compared to anywhere west and/or north of here. We're sort of at the northwest corner of The South. It's green here most of the year -- millions of shades of green. The winters are usually very mild and the autumns and springs are so pleasant and soft. The summers are a bit overwhelming sometimes due to the intense heat combined with the high humidity -- i think we need gills instead of lungs to survive the summers here
But basically it's a great place to live. It's very cheap to live here, and mostly peaceful. The drawbacks are that we're so far from civilization
No sidewalks, no decent health care, no public transportation except in the 4 "large" cities, not much culture, and a basically awful school system (unless you're lucky enough and wealthy enough to live in a school district with "magnet" schools). There's a little library in the nearby town which is only open on weekdays, during school hours -- which makes NO sense to me.
And there's a phrase i read once, but can't remember where, but it's true -- "In the South, the Past isn't over. It isn't even the Past."
Okay that's my Welcome To Arkansas lecture