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Growltigga · #1 January 25th, 2002, 12:57 PM

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Originally posted by Saxon:
Growltigga,

Growing up in Canada, we did have one horrible year where Dad shot an old moose with some of the worst tasting meat ever. Those things are huge and we couldnt afford to chuck away several hundred pounds of meat, so a lot of it was turned into mince.

[LOL!!!! one day I will have to tell you about my moose experience - the lot of you, especially the Canadians, are not ready for that - I am a bit upset about the moose meat, I for one am always delighted to spend my evenings biting chunks out of mammals]

Moose burgers are not that nice, the hot sauce might be the answer.

[judging by TS' recipy, the only thing this hot sauce will remedy is death]

Anyway, it was the Last moose he shot, from then on Mom said they would divorce if he brought home anything bigger than a white tailed deer.

[couldn't your dad go to Wal-mart instead? it is less hassle]

Moved from Canada to lovely Stoke-on-Trent and found other candidates for hot sauce: Midlands cooking and Man United. A friend of mine taught me about football and made me a Man City supporter.

[Canada to Stoke on Trent???? Saxon, you really really have my sympathies - no one should be put through that, I am surprised it only took you a year to rack off to Kenya - me? about 30 seconds!]

[as for Man City, ok, I can live with them, I am a blue too but of the Chelsea variety]

After a year, I fled down to Kenya, where I have been ever since. We have some really nice hot food from the coast and some lovely dishes with coconut milk. We also have a lot of people from the Indian sub-continent, stemming from the English colonisation of Kenya. They bring some great hot stuff and if you are lucky enough to get invited over to an Indian house where they incorporate the coastal food, you are in for a delight. My cook is pretty good, but doesnt know the ins and outs of spice as some people here do.

[I have been to Kenyan three times and know what you mean about the cooking - damn fine scoff as I recall - nice place - pity about the problems really]

I seriously have a cook. Her name is Freida and I pay for her two sons to go to high school and her daughter to go to elementary school. I also have two night guards (Charles and John), a day guard (Borongo) and a gardener (Njau). As you can see, living in Kenya does change your lifestyle. One of my complaints is getting new computer software, but there are compensations.

[so you have the equiavlent of $100,000 in annual alary of domestic help - what about hand maidens that dort of thing? my wife has a cook, guard, cleaner and gardener too, it is called me]

As far as being imperialistic, I am an avid Space Empires player, so I plead guilty to your charge.

[what about the charge of being a colonial nabob??]

Saxon · #2 January 25th, 2002, 01:24 PM

Mac5723,

You have a good point about the personal touch. The best meals I have eaten were not in restaurants, but in the homes of friends, who have worked to make something special for those close to them. I am an indifferent cook, as I do not enjoy the process of cooking. I spent a summer working as a cook at a camp and associate the act of cooking with drudge labour, to my cost. Those who do enjoy cooking and make the time to cook well can do some spectacular things. As I now live in a place where I can have someone else do my cooking, I have given myself that luxury. You are right, it isn’t as good as it could be, but it is a lot better than if I was left to do my own cooking!

Saxon · #3 January 26th, 2002, 02:09 AM

Growltigga,

Colonial Nabob? As odd as it sounds from a western perspective, I am pretty lightweight in the domestic help side of things. After all, I only have three quarters of an acre and one gardener. Some guys around here are ridiculous, a friend of mine used to have six night guards. Of course, he never got robbed and I did. They took my day guard’s uniform from the washing line!

So, I won’t plead guilty to Colonial Nabob, I just don’t have the rank. If I had more than ten staff I would, but five just does not cross that critical threshold.

When you were in Nairobi, did you get a chance to eat at Carnivore? The “all you can eat meat feast” with domestic and game meat is a bit of a treat for the non-vegetarian crowd. Certainly not spicy, but fun.

Oh, does your wife pay you the $100,000 salary?

Growltigga · #4 January 26th, 2002, 02:23 AM

Saxon,

I am only joking - I too have lived abroad albeit mainly in the Meditterannean so I have a brief idea of what the ex-pat ex-colonial life can be like

3/4 quarters of an acre and 1 gardener!! you heartless beast, can't you get the poor chap and assistant?? what are these night guards armed with BTW and is where you live so bad that you really really need them

I was in Nairobi and Mombasa in '89 and I think '94 - I was there 2 years ago for work (ship finance deal)- hav'nt been to Carnivore in Nairobi but went to one in '99 in I think Jo'bug (could have been Pretoria, definately wasn't Manchester) - obscene amounts of meat - not sure about the Zebra - too much like taking a chunk out of Mephisto if you ask me

I agree, fun from a dripping blood growl growl type of thing

My wife? pay me a salary? I wish, she is a lawyer as well and my negotiation skills are such that for doing the cooking, cleaning, gardening etc, I get to sleep 2 nights a week in a bed

Mephisto · #5 January 25th, 2002, 03:25 PM

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Originally posted by Growltigga:
Not sure about the Zebra - too much like taking a chunk out of Mephisto if you ask me
My wife? pay me a salary? I wish, she is a lawyer as well and my negotiation skills are such that for doing the cooking, cleaning, gardening etc, I get to sleep 2 nights a week in a bed

I'm absolutly positiv that I'm not missing any body parts so you really cannot know how I taste! And I guess, sleeping in this bed is not sleeping alone in it so you really get more then you should for your work.

Growltigga · #6 January 25th, 2002, 04:03 PM

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Originally posted by [K126]Mephisto:

I'm absolutly positiv that I'm not missing any body parts so you really cannot know how I taste! And I guess, sleeping in this bed is not sleeping alone in it so you really get more then you should for your work.

No, I don't know how you taste other than I know Zebras are a form of wild *** ie similar to a donkey ie reference to the movie Shrek??!

No, it means sleeping in a bed and nothing more than sleeping - the rest of the week I am on the cushion with the cats

Mephisto · #7 January 25th, 2002, 04:56 PM

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No, I don't know how you taste other than I know Zebras are a form of wild *** ie similar to a donkey ie reference to the movie Shrek??!
No, it means sleeping in a bed and nothing more than sleeping - the rest of the week I am on the cushion with the cats

Ups, missed me being a donkey!

*slapping myself*
Poor boy, all alone on the couch. If I could I would now links to "Rufus Wainwright - Hallelujah".