On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 08:08:23 +0100, The Reid <[email protected]>
wrote:

>On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:19:44 +0200, Tim C. <[email protected]>
>wrote:
>
>>>>I had my own (male) cook part of the time I spent in Delhi. Pampered
>>>>doesn't begin to describe it.
>>>
>>>Keema Sutra? :-)
>>
>>nice one.
>
>it seems Davids having nan of it.

Oh my gosht.


Keith, Bristol, UK

Following up to Keith Anderson <[email protected]> :

>On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 08:08:23 +0100, The Reid <[email protected]>
>wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:19:44 +0200, Tim C. <[email protected]>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>>>I had my own (male) cook part of the time I spent in Delhi. Pampered
>>>>>doesn't begin to describe it.
>>>>
>>>>Keema Sutra? :-)
>>>
>>>nice one.
>>
>>it seems Davids having nan of it.
>
>Oh my gosht.


That's the trouble with people on this NG, they yosht don't know when to
stop.
--
Tim C.

Following up to The Reid <[email protected]> :

>On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 08:45:57 +0200, Tim C. <[email protected]>
>wrote:
>
>>Sounds like the African restaurant in the old town in Linz. We've tried to
>>eat there 3 times and never actually got served before leaving.
>>Ok, one of the times, the chef was having a fight with someone in the
>>kitchen and had to get taken away in an ambulance.
>
>africa microcosm?

I guess. :-)
--
Tim C.

"grusl" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> "William Black" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>>
>> It's common everywhere in India but Bombay.
>>
>
> Now common in Bombay this year as well, unfortunately. Two hours a day for
> starters and it will only get worse.

Not so far in the city proper.

We talk to my mother-in-law most days by Skype and she'd tell us about it.

I gather there's been a lot of talk in the press and some load shedding out
in the suburbs but not on the island so far.

It has been very hot there this year so far so the ACs are all on now.

--
William Black


I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland
I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate
All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach
Time for tea.

On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:08:39 +0530, "grusl" <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>"Iceman" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected] roups.com...
>> On Apr 26, 6:38 pm, "William Black" <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>
>>> For example, buying hot food in the Bombay leather market is on the edge
>>> of
>>> suicidal, it's in the midst of several tanneries and they are inside
>>> Daravi, the biggest slum in the world.
>>>
>>> But what did I see the last time I was there?
>>>
>>> A pair of kids in backpacker gear eating from a food stall in the
>>> street...
>>>
>>> They'll have almost certainly spent the next week or so being horribly
>>> sick,
>>> and worse, and probably cursing Indian food for the rest of their
>>> lives...
>>
>>
>> You need to use backpacker logic:
>>
>> Food stall surrounded by tanneries in the middle of a horrible slum >> "the real India".
>>
>> Highly-rated, hygienic restaurant in a middle-class district of an
>> Indian city = "too Westernized".
>
>Sums up most backpackers I've met. They either have iron constitutions or
>spend most of their gap year or whatever in the crapper. To be sure, I like
>the majority of Indian food and eat at both fancy restaurants and scruffy
>local places - I draw the line at the "Chinese" chuck wagons found by the
>roadside in major Indian cities.
>
>While sparing you the details, I often have the opposite problem when I go,
>say, to the US: the largely bland food renders my system immobile. Didn't
>have that problem in Greece ... could be the preponderance of vegetables and
>greens.
>
>By the way, is there still such a thing as European street food, apart from
>chestnuts?

Hot dogs? herring stalls, bratworst stalls ...
--

Martin

On 27 apr, 08:45, Tim C. <[email protected]> wrote:
> Following up to The Reid <[email protected]> :
>
> >and you starve for three hours..
>
> Sounds like the African restaurant in the old town in Linz. We've tried to
> eat there 3 times and never actually got served before leaving.

Maybe the staff thought they were in Holland? I wait that long for a
sandwich.

B;

On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:29:48 +0530, "grusl" <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>"William Black" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>>
>> It's common everywhere in India but Bombay.
>>
>
>Now common in Bombay this year as well, unfortunately. Two hours a day for
>starters and it will only get worse.

Do you have your own standby generator?
--

Martin

On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:17:58 +0200, Tim C. <[email protected]> wrote:

>Following up to Keith Anderson <[email protected]> :
>
>>On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 08:08:23 +0100, The Reid <[email protected]>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:19:44 +0200, Tim C. <[email protected]>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>>>>I had my own (male) cook part of the time I spent in Delhi. Pampered
>>>>>>doesn't begin to describe it.
>>>>>
>>>>>Keema Sutra? :-)
>>>>
>>>>nice one.
>>>
>>>it seems Davids having nan of it.
>>
>>Oh my gosht.
>
>
>That's the trouble with people on this NG, they yosht don't know when to
>stop.

especially when they have the ssssssssssshhhhhhhhhitttts
--

Martin

On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:20:01 GMT, "William Black" <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
>"Deeply Filled Mortician" <deepfreudmoors@eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu> wrote
>in message news:[email protected]...
>
>> I would have employed another lackey to supervise his toilet hygiene.
>
>Why bother?
>
>India is dust ridden.
>
>About 25% of the dust in the cities is estimated to be dried shit.

We don't wish to know what the other 75% is.
--

Martin

Following up to "William Black" <[email protected]> :

Slightly related...

What do young Indian children eat? Do they have the chili reduced, or do
they eat the "industrial strength" that adults eat? Or do they just eat the
really mild dishes? Rice, bread?
Any idea?

--
Tim C.

On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 09:06:18 +0100, Keith Anderson <[email protected]>
wrote:

>>it seems Davids having nan of it.
>
>Oh my gosht.

nice to see you playing your chapatti

I'll get my salwar kameez, whatever that is.
--
Mike Reid
UK walking, food, photos "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" <-- you can email us@ this site
Spain walking, food, tourism "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk"
Beginners UK flight sim addons "http://www.lawn-mower-man.co.uk"

On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:29:06 +0200, in rec.travel.europe, Martin <[email protected]>
arranged some electrons, so they looked like this:

... On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:08:39 +0530, "grusl" <[email protected]> wrote:
...
... >
... >"Iceman" <[email protected]> wrote in message
... >news:[email protected] roups.com...
... >> On Apr 26, 6:38 pm, "William Black" <[email protected]>
... >> wrote:
... >
... >>> For example, buying hot food in the Bombay leather market is on the edge
... >>> of
... >>> suicidal, it's in the midst of several tanneries and they are inside
... >>> Daravi, the biggest slum in the world.
... >>>
... >>> But what did I see the last time I was there?
... >>>
... >>> A pair of kids in backpacker gear eating from a food stall in the
... >>> street...
... >>>
... >>> They'll have almost certainly spent the next week or so being horribly
... >>> sick,
... >>> and worse, and probably cursing Indian food for the rest of their
... >>> lives...
... >>
... >>
... >> You need to use backpacker logic:
... >>
... >> Food stall surrounded by tanneries in the middle of a horrible slum =
... >> "the real India".
... >>
... >> Highly-rated, hygienic restaurant in a middle-class district of an
... >> Indian city = "too Westernized".
... >
... >Sums up most backpackers I've met. They either have iron constitutions or
... >spend most of their gap year or whatever in the crapper. To be sure, I like
... >the majority of Indian food and eat at both fancy restaurants and scruffy
... >local places - I draw the line at the "Chinese" chuck wagons found by the
... >roadside in major Indian cities.
... >
... >While sparing you the details, I often have the opposite problem when I go,
... >say, to the US: the largely bland food renders my system immobile. Didn't
... >have that problem in Greece ... could be the preponderance of vegetables and
... >greens.
... >
... >By the way, is there still such a thing as European street food, apart from
... >chestnuts?
...
... Hot dogs? herring stalls, bratworst stalls ...

Crêpes.

On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:17:58 +0200, Tim C. <[email protected]>
wrote:

>>Oh my gosht.
>
>
>That's the trouble with people on this NG, they yosht don't know when to
>stop.

i dont think we are currying any favours with David.
--
Mike Reid
UK walking, food, photos "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" <-- you can email us@ this site
Spain walking, food, tourism "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk"
Beginners UK flight sim addons "http://www.lawn-mower-man.co.uk"

On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:32:29 +0200, in rec.travel.europe, Tim C. <[email protected]>
arranged some electrons, so they looked like this:

... Following up to "William Black" <[email protected]> :
...
... Slightly related...
...
... What do young Indian children eat? Do they have the chili reduced, or do
... they eat the "industrial strength" that adults eat? Or do they just eat the
... really mild dishes? Rice, bread?
... Any idea?

Are you planning on adopting a kid from India?

On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:32:03 +0200, in rec.travel.europe, Martin <[email protected]>
arranged some electrons, so they looked like this:

... On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:20:01 GMT, "William Black" <[email protected]>
... wrote:
...
... >
... >"Deeply Filled Mortician" <deepfreudmoors@eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu> wrote
... >in message news:[email protected]...
... >
... >> I would have employed another lackey to supervise his toilet hygiene.
... >
... >Why bother?
... >
... >India is dust ridden.
... >
... >About 25% of the dust in the cities is estimated to be dried shit.
...
... We don't wish to know what the other 75% is.

I know enough to never go there. Thank you, guys.