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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 6491953, member: 110504&quot;]...Thank you, aka &#039;N&#039;aaa (...wait another minute...) Awlins.&#039;</p><p>...And, Oh, No, do you want to talk about gumbo?&nbsp; Just let me tell you one true story.&nbsp; ...About what you get from a chain restaurant in my part of this great land of ours.</p><p>Won&#039;t lie; it was a family dinner at a Red Lobster.&nbsp; (1: Somebody else paid for it.&nbsp; 2. What <i>else</i> would they call it? <i>Green</i> Lobster?&nbsp; 3.&nbsp; ...And this was in my part of this great (expletive suppressed, with some effort) land of ours.)</p><p>So I order their gumbo.&nbsp; Shows up; tastes like it was made to order for people of too much, ahem, Northern European descent.&nbsp; I ask the bright, shiny waitress for Tabasco sauce.&nbsp; She says, in her inimitable way, &#039;<i>Oh!</i> you like it <i>spicy</i>!&#039;</p><p>(Barely more than involuntary expletive: ) <i>It&#039;s</i> (...dramatic pause: ) <i>Gumbo</i>!&nbsp; (--No, I didn&#039;t say that.)</p><p>Happy ending: she did show up with Tabasco sauce, and I happily got the whole thing down.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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