On 27 apr, 10:40, Magda <magda@eu> wrote:
> 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 messagenews:ef4233dn2oi1rgqtu812ueqsuj5jie8k4j@4ax .com...
> ... >
> ... >> 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.

I thought the exact same thing - till I actually went there. Now I
can't wait to go back!

B;

On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:34:32 +0200, Magda <magda@eu> wrote:

>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.

burgers
ice cream
--

Martin

On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:32:29 +0200, Tim C. <[email protected]> wrote:

>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?

My kids have eaten industrial strength, since they were small. It's my wife that
is the wimp. OTOH she can drink coffee that is around 60C.
--

Martin

Following up to Martin <[email protected]> :

>Do you have your own standby generator?

The punkah walla moonlighting?
--
Tim C.

"Martin" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> 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?

For a private house?

In India?

The supply of fuel and its price is a government monopoly in India.

You could get a generator, getting fuel is technically illegal but a small
bribe will probably get you a permit, you'll probably need to repeat the
bribe every time someone notices you filling your can up.

Getting it fixed when (not if, India is hard on electrical equipment) it
breaks is problematic.

Technical support for electro-mechanical equipment in India is a bit of a
lottery...

Nearly everyone has an AC, getting it serviced is entertaining if you don't
have a contract with the makers...

People use inverters to keep the fridge and the fans on when the power goes.

--
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.

Following up to Martin <[email protected]> :

>>By the way, is there still such a thing as European street food, apart from
>>chestnuts?
>
>Hot dogs? herring stalls, bratworst stalls ...

crêpes, pizza, kebabs
--
Tim C.

"Tim C." <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> 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?

Indian food is regional. Goan food is much 'hotter' than East Indian
(Bombay style) food.

The food people eat in India often isn't as chilli ridden as the stuff we
get here. I like food hotter (the Indians say 'pungent') than my wife.

The kids eat the same food...

--
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 10:49:40 +0200, Tim C. <[email protected]>
wrote:

>>Hot dogs? herring stalls, bratworst stalls ...
>
>crêpes, pizza, kebabs

ice cream
--
Mike Reid
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On 27 Apr 2007 01:29:37 -0700, [email protected] wrote:

>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.

... before giving up and leaving. It's imposhible.
Meanwhile in an Indian restaurant located in the former cafe of a campsite,
food ordered on opening night 13 years ago could be served any day now.
http://www.india-invitation.nl/ . It's not really that bad :-)
--

Martin

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

>
>"Tim C." <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected].. .
>> 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?
>
>Indian food is regional. Goan food is much 'hotter' than East Indian
>(Bombay style) food.
>
>The food people eat in India often isn't as chilli ridden as the stuff we
>get here. I like food hotter (the Indians say 'pungent') than my wife.
>
>The kids eat the same food...


I always wondered. I assumed they'd eat more or less the same.
Right, I can start getting my kids used to it with a clear conscience. :-)

--
Tim C.

Following up to Martin <[email protected]> :

>On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:32:29 +0200, Tim C. <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>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?
>
>My kids have eaten industrial strength, since they were small.

The 8-yo has been known to seriously nibble a jalapeno when she was around
4, and ate nearly as hot as we do, but she went off it some time ago.


>It's my wife that is the wimp.

SWMBO eats as hot as I do, if not more.

> OTOH she can drink coffee that is around 60C.

:-)
--
Tim C.

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

>People use inverters to keep the fridge and the fans on when the power goes.

what's an inverter?
--
Tim C.

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

>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.

That was the worst one so far.
--
Tim C.

On 27 Apr 2007 01:43:44 -0700, [email protected] wrote:

>On 27 apr, 10:40, Magda <magda@eu> wrote:
>> 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 messagenews:ef4233dn2oi1rgqtu812ueqsuj5jie8k4j@4ax .com...
>> ... >
>> ... >> 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.
>
>I thought the exact same thing - till I actually went there. Now I
>can't wait to go back!

You can't wait to go back anywhere that is NL. :-)
--

Martin

On 27 apr, 11:17, Tim C. <[email protected]> wrote:
> Following up to The Reid <[email protected]> :
>
> >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.
>
> That was the worst one so far.

You're raita - iReid needs to tandoor 'is resignation from the group.

B;