Re: Addressing Francophobia

Day Brown <daybrown@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
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> John D Salt wrote:
[Snips]
>> because of the malign influence of ketchup.  Can anyone find a way of
>> blaming the pernicious habit of putting vinegar on chips for the
>> decline of the British Empire?
> I'd blame that on Christianity. The Romans did much better as pagans
> when they respected tribal religious traditions.

I don't see how you can blame Christianity for malt vinegar abuse.  The 
only specifically Christian foodstuffs I can think of are bread, wine, 
and chocolate eggs, all of which I heartily approve of, but none of which 
would go well on chips.  

Given the strength of traditional British cuisine in strong-flavour dark-
brown substances, I can't help feeling that the British Empire might 
still be alive today if only someone had contrived to devise, say, a 
spatterable liquid form of Patum Peperium as a chip-dressing.  But one 
never knows if HM Imperial Food Scientists would have chosen the right 
brown substance; something based on Lea & Perrin's would maybe have been 
all right, but one runs a terrible risk of Marmite.  Perhaps the twiglet 
is the failed remnant of what was once hoped to be the safwguard of 
Imperial snacking. 

> The Treaty of Tripoli, signed by the President and ratified by the US 
> senate says:"The United States is not a Christian Nation." This
> allowed US interests to be pursued in the Islamic world very
> successfully. The American empire continued to expand until Christians
> took over control of the government and tried to apply Christian
> values. eg, on abortion.

We seem to have wandered quite a long way off the topic of what 
imperialists put on their chips.  If there is any connection between 
abortion and tomato ketchup, I don't want to hear about it.
 
>> 20% above the 95th percentile.  Wow. I bet eveyone got higher than
>> the median score, right?
> Not everyone, but when you look at the school re****ts of these small 
> hill towns, they AVERAGE from the 55th to the 65th. Most of the really
> dumb **** methheads moved to the city where the welfare benefits were 
> more generous, and they didnt havta chop firewood.

I see that your statistical irony filters are 55% more badly clogged than 
the anchovy filters at Prince Albert's tank in Elsenham.

A Golden Gokmop Point to anyone except Andrew Pearson who can point out 
the callback, and a further point for identifying the connection with 
Buddhism.

All the best,

John.