KittyF
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Garlic and Onions.....and Turkey
I'm reading The Garner Files, by actor James Garner (still a hunk!).
Says he: "I cannot stand onions and I'm very sensitive to garlic. I can taste tiny amounts of it, like when they've cooked another dish with garlic before and don't wash the pan. If I get even a hint of it, I might throw up in my plate.
"This violent aversion may have saved my life: our South Korean allies, the Chinese and North Korean troops lived on a diet of fish heads, rice, and garlic. One night while on guard on the line, I caught a faint whiff of it coming from the direction of the enemy poisitions. I couldn't see anything, but I knew there was someone out there and they were coming closer. Once I sniffed them I could hear them, too. It turned out to be a patrol heading straight for our position. They were just the other side of a rise when I passed the word down the line. We were ready for them and stopped them in their tracks."
He also said he and the others were fed turkey practically every day. When he complained, somebody took him to the kitchen and showed him a refrigerated trailer full of turkeys. "He pulled one out and handed it to me. It was cool -- not frozen, not even cold -- and had a date on it: 1945."
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6/8/2012, 9:08 am
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LizaB
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Re: Garlic and Onions.....and Turkey
Interesting!
Garlic gives me weird lucid dreams, so I try to stay away from it.
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6/8/2012, 12:11 pm
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Slick2097
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Re: Garlic and Onions.....and Turkey
I love garlic, my wife hates it so I rarely eat it these days.
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6/9/2012, 3:34 am
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Frank Baron
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Re: Garlic and Onions.....and Turkey
I really like garlic too and even take garlic supplements semi-regularly.
The only drawback seems to be that I don't have any friends.
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6/9/2012, 12:21 pm
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qupie
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Re: Garlic and Onions.....and Turkey
I love garlic but just not in everything. Not in everything that Frank likes it in, either.
Face it, you eat too much garlic, bud.
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6/9/2012, 1:10 pm
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Frank Baron
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Re: Garlic and Onions.....and Turkey
I have struggled for a couple of moments (moments I will NEVER have back!) to come up with a clever riposte that ends with "...garlic, press" or "...garlic, bulb."
But now I give up.
I will have to be satisfied with breathing heavily in your general direction.
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6/9/2012, 1:26 pm
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