Huh?

[Paul Frank]

Foxtail grass? Foxtail millet?

Paul

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 4:46 PM, George Thompson
<george.thompson at nyu.edu> wrote:
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> From an article in the sports pages of today's (Wednesday's) NYTimes, about
> a fat guy who has participated in and finished several very long distance
> and multi-day endurance races, including a 150 mile race over the Sahara
> desert.
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> "While on the trail in the Sahara, Pitkanen subsisted on a diet of lard and
> foxtail."
>
> If "foxtail" means what I suppose it means, then this raises the question
> -- begs the question, in fact -- who ate the rest of the fox?  If it
> doesn't, then what the hell does it mean?
>
> I refer this to our culinary savant, VS.
>
> GAT
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> Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much since then.
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