[Dog Gone]

Perhaps the happiest day of my life is when my family stumbled upon a Wendy's restaurant in Athens.

We had been eating squid eyeballs wrapped in soggy grape leaves smothered in stinky goat cheese for a week. We were about to starve.

We coulda died without that chain....

[relee]

LoL!

[ME-262]

You are too funny!

I was in South Korea '76-'82. Dried squid, dog, Chicken heads, fermented cabbage, red bean paste and such were the local fare. I would have killed for a nearby McDonald's! Imagine me as a young child biting into what looked like a tasty donut to find it filled with bean curd(tofu). That sort of thing happened way too many times. I grew to like the salted seaweed and such but still came back to the US as a skinny underfed kid.

[razorback-bert]

If you travel as long and as much as I have, you really appreciate getting a meal without getting sick too.

I used to eat steak for breakfast, lunch and dinner, because I could look at it and cut it open and if it didn't pass inspection, move on to another eating place. Even if the steak looked okay, it could still be tougher than an old boot.


Many days my meals were crackers, rat cheese, sardines and Vienna sausages.

Walmart is my general store on the road. Remember the horror stories about automotive parts and repairs on the road. I have paid through the nose for belts and tires.