[knarf]

thanx .. that fleshes it out somewhat.

If you were an under 10 kid, I would imagine you missed your sugar diet.

if a teenager kid, you were staring at the girls with desire.

I LOVED eyetie when I was in my 30' and 40's but went "simple" around 50 and now have a somewhat plain rice, veggie, meat diet.

Serves me well for my age and lack of physical activity.

I get on a sugar binge about three times a month so I'm not all that healthy.

I'll die with a smile on my face and a burp.

[South40]

There may have been more to it than that. We were young and in a foreign land. My cousins were probably doing all they could to illicit the shock effect. So while food at my aunt's house was always enjoyable, the food we got when we were out was not.

But we got even. When they visited out place in northern Florida they ate squirrel that we shot in our back yard, pork and chicken that we slaughtered, and my mother had some great recipes like pig brains and scrambled eggs. While all this was fun, my memory of food in the PI remains a bad one.