[QUOTE=barefootflying]How is that possible? Cats would go beserk if you put them in water. My cat would rather die than be given a bath.
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You are supposed to put the cat in boiling water, silly.

This is all part of foreign travel that one risks. For me, I should have known that the $4 churrascaria (including a beer) in Brazil did not serve the meats I was accustomed to eating. Another clue should have been that I was the only one eating there at a prime dinner time. A third clue when my brain began to think beyond the bargain I was getting was some of the funny-tasting meat was hollow. A year wiser, I am posting this message while here in San Pedro Sula in Honduras. Mrs. Outoftown wanted to eat at the Applebee's and we got conos (ice cream) at McD's. OK by me. She is curious about the street vendor food in the market in el centro, but she won't risk it. For me, some of the best and freshest food I've had is from roadside vendors. When I was with the guys in Mexico, the street vendor tacos are awesome after a night of carousing. The tacoquilera (sp?) hacks the meat off a rotating spit. If no flys are buzzing around, they have the temperature hot enough. Last time, my coworker got sick, I didn't. That's the breaks. Cabrito (goat) in Mexico is a delicacy and anyone traveling there should try it.

Down here in the south, try the roadside vendor boiled peanuts. How else will you get to know something tasty and different unless you give it a shot? They generally don't sell this stuff at grocery stores or restaurants.

Outoftown