indian food taste good though. good luck, to bad you are going to be gone for a year, great tax advantages.
As a matter of fact I do. Funny overseas police story: I was in Venezuela back in '94 (pre-douchebag Chavez) and I was driving another gringo from Ciudad Ojeda to the airport in Maracaibo in a rental car = target of opportunity. (Pre-note: my wife was a lawyer down there and my papers were all in order.) Well there is really only one road twixt n' tween the two cities and the Fiscales (traffic police) had a roadblock checking registrations for stolen cars, a big business there on the border with Colombia. Naturally we get waved over to the side by a sergente straight out of central casting, he looked just like the sergeant from the Zorro TV show, and we start hablar-ing in Spanish. He asks for my papers and the car's. He literally opens and closes my p***port and says that my papers are not right, step out of the vehicle. My p***enger is trembling like a leaf, whats going on, whats going on? Just stay here dude. We walk over to his Chevette 4-door hatchback POS police car and he tells me, "Look, you are going to give me 1000 Bs. (at the time roughly $10) so me and my friends can go out drinking." and hands me my papers. I smirked and rolled my eyes and reached for my pocket and he says, "No-no-no, I'm going over there and you put the money on the seat." Okay mofo no problem. He walks away and I threw 65 Bs. (Bolivars, for the curious) which would buy him ONE Polar pilsner. I amble back to my car and hauled *** out of there. I'm not MacGyver, but my wife likes to mock me, Ted...Ted Bond.
Oh c'mon! That could happen anywhere. If I had a dollar for every time I have been knocked off a moped by a monkey in the road...
Good luck and safe travels. I highly recommend Spain as a travel destination. Really cool place. I hope you can check in here and keep us updated.
I don't. So far, thats the only foreign food I have tried that I couldn't eat. Whatever they season the stuff with made it absolutely inedible for me. I don't think it was the Curry powder, I have eaten it and liked it in other dishes. It was the Cardamom and other super strong ****es. The owner of the restaurant even made a point of telling us that the whole cardamom seed in the food was often mistaken by Americans as ****roaches. That wasn't an idea that I needed in my head while trying a new food. Ended up costing my wife and I $50, and all we were able to eat was the bread they sent out as an appetizer...
I wouldn't worry about terror, monkeys, kidnappings and the sort of stuff Richard D is worried about, worry about getting the ****s, worst part of third world travel. I work with Indian guys who worry about the food. Worst food poisioning ever was in Thailand, second worst in UAE. Dry dessert heat+diarreah= bad disposition.
Gee whiz, do I owe you money? Don't worry, I will be coming back to Texas! When I get done there I have been told there will be a place for me working on eight TXU power plants in the Dallas/Waco area. That will take about five or six years to get done, but you never know, I had not planned on India either. It's a tough but exciting existance.
London and Norway would be much more predicable places to fit in. India.... go with the flow and enjoy living in a different world. you'll appreciate new things there, as well as appreciate where you came from. sounds exciting. you are talking about the place where they have those wild guys on horses, that wear feathers, scream 'eww eww eww' while patting their mouths with their palms, and scalp white dudes right? that sounds like a wild time
What you need is Ethnic Food Familiarizer spray, it comes in three different flavors, Hot Dog, Hamburger and Pancake, you simply spray it on whatever food you're being forced to eat and it makes it taste familiar. You can cut back on it and in no time you'll be enjoying chicken vindaloo, sushi and chocolate covered ants.
You could tape it to your chest, like Billy Hayes. I understand that in some countries over in that part of the world, **** is highly illegal. Is India the same way? I wonder what would happen if you got caught with some of that ****...
Good luck dude... I kind of wish I could find a job that had me travel a bit. Did you say a 'pile of hash'?... I just saw, 'Bride and Prejudice' so I'm down with India... I'm sure the whole country is just like a combination of Baliwood and 'Ghandi.'
Hmmmmm, Mumbai....Isn't that just down the road from Bum****? or maybe that's in Egypt. better brush up on my geography.
I have also heard that lobsters are really just aquatic ****roaches. You're welcome for ****ing that up for you, too.
Word! Without fail about a week or two in I can **** through a screen door but then I get better with the help of liquid *** plug. The critters seem to settle in after that and we co-exist. I will stay away from ice and uncooked anything, S.O.P. bro. The T&Cs of my contract have me in a corporate housing with a cook and transport will be provided. I just hope the cook doesn't use ghi to cook with (rendered animal fat).
Kiss my *** Nads. I eat all kinds of ethnic food, and usually learn how to prepare it myself, if its something I like. My kids have been raised eating everything from "Soul Food" to Sushi. Save your mouthing for the new guys....
PS, my uncle's a Bajaj dealer, he'll hook you up with some wheels that you can get killed on in a second. Over there when a scooter crashes entire families are wiped out, dad, mom sitting side saddle behind him with a kid on her lap, another kid on dad's lap, one on the pillion and another one on the handlebars. Also all the groceries are destroyed.
You kiss my ***, with cherries on top. I know you are, what am I? Eat my mom's Indian food, I guarantee you'll like it. PS, I wasn't mouthing off to you, I was remembering Ethnic Food Familiarizer from Philip Garner's book, Utopia, it had all kinds of amazing things in it. A Gl*** Bottomed Bus was one of the items.
Did anyone see the hidden video of a guy who would walk up to strangers on the street, hand them a breifcase, then haul *** running? This was a long time ago, pre-9/11.
Ted, ghee is not rendered animal fat, it's rendered ****er, it has no dead animal product in it, like lard. It's pretty much the same evil **** as hydrogenated vegetable oil but a dairy product. It is really bad for you.
Indian women are some of the most beautiful... A friend of mine is moving over there for his job in May '07. r
I stand corrected, but told nonetheless to stay away from it. I guess that makes total sense since there are so many vegetarians there. I was serious about looking up your family if they are in Mumbai. I also plan on dusting off my taste for gin & tonics, gotta keep away the malaria...
El Cab, We have an office in Bang-a-hore, my Boss goes there Quarterly. Can you ship one of those enfields back home? Good luck to you! Oh yeah, don't drink the water! My Boss got sicker than a dog last trip there.
Maybe... The dish I ate was made with Beef. Maybe the seasonings just don't work well when they're used on something they were never intended for. I asked the owner why he had Beef on the menu in the first place. He said it was to draw in more American male customers. So much for religion being more important than profit... I think what my wife had was Tamburi (sp?) Chicken. It was better than my Beef dish, but still had the same overall taste.
My mom's family is in Allahabad, it's really far from Mumbai, if they were closer I'd definitely get you the hook up, they would make you feel like family in one second. They're great people, I haven't been to India since 1977, I'd really like to go, take my family too.
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