Re: Woohooo! Dell + Linux

[cga2000 <cga2000@optonline.net>]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 04:00:48PM EST, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 02:40:22PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > 
> > Every time I see a Cajun Cuisine restaurant, I laugh at how stupid
> > people are.  Cajun food is (ok, *was*) about as poor-folks as you
> > can get.

Tells you how low we have sunk doesn't it .. ?

> The same can be said of barbacoa (originally a Mexican peasant food),
> paella (originally a Spanish peasant food), and another Brazilian food a
> friend told me about (which name escapes me at the moment).

That would be the "feijoada"

> Of course, potatoes were long seen as a peasant food until Louis (IIRC,
> though I forget which Louis it was) planted a royal garden with potatoes
> and set guards around it.  Then it became high class food staple.

Probably Louis XV or possibly .. Louis XVI .. ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine-Augustin_Parmentier 

Enjoy the hash (hachis) ..

:-)

Thanks,
cga