Huh?

[Joel S. Berson]

At 11/21/2012 09:56 PM, George Thompson wrote:
>I thank you all for explicating this.
>I still think that this was a weird sentence.  That I don't know something
>doesn't mean that it isn't common knowledge to everyone else, but in this
>case, I doubt that I alone of NYTimes readers was baffled.
>How do you eat foxtail seeds while running 150 miles across a desert?
>  Whole?  Popped?  Perhaps ground, mixed with the lard and molded around a
>stick, like a popsicle?  That might be most convenient, eating while
>running.

Don't forget the supply and cook wagons and camp followers. Think a
cross-channel swim or a team in the Tour de France.

Joel


>Anyway -- thank you, and go easy on the lard & foxtails tomorrow.
>
>GAT
>
>
>On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
>
> > And, as we in the South know, anything goes better with lard.
> >
> > --Charlie
> >
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> > Laurence Horn [laurence.horn at YALE.EDU]
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 11:01 AM
> >
> >
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> >
> > On Nov 21, 2012, at 10:46 AM, George Thompson wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > "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?
> >
> > See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol1uRXIWILg
> >
> > "Although this edible plant is annoying and stubborn, it actually provides
> > food in other country [sic] and can be on your next menu."
> >
> > Foxtail and lard: it's what's on the menu!
> >
> > LH
> > >
> > > I refer this to our culinary savant, VS.
> > >
> > > GAT
> > >
> > > --
> > > George A. Thompson
> > > Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
> > > Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much since then.
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>Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much since then.
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