Local Delicacies

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<BODY>Whatever you do, when you&#8217;re in another country (you&#8217;ll have to make the assumption that this is any country other than Britain and America, though it all depends on what you enjoy eating), NEVER EAT A LOCAL DELICACY UNLESS YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT IT IS (and once you know what it is, you probably won&#8217;t want to eat it anyway). It&#8217;ll probably be the leftovers from some local animal that the waiters know they can sell to some clueless tourists. <BR/>
Example: <BR/>
&#8220;Ah, zah, you vant b****kz ov goat?&#8221; <BR/>
&#8220;Bollocks of goat? That isn&#8217;t a goat&#8217;s b*****ks, is it?&#8221; <BR/>
&#8220;Oh, oh, oh, zah, eez a local delicazy.&#8221; <BR/>
&#8220;Oh, okay. Two b*****ks of goat, please.&#8221; <BR/>
You see? In the above conversation, the waiter never states that the delicacy is not what it sounds like (ie: b*****ks of goat), but his whiny little voice telling you that it is a local delicacy persuades you that it must be something special, and above all that he&#8217;s going to cry for his village&#8217;s traditions if you don&#8217;t eat it. Remember, it&#8217;s all deception. Most foreign waiters are trained in stage school, so they can pretend they&#8217;re about to cry if you don&#8217;t want a local delicacy. Local delicacies are made for fat rich people, who don&#8217;t care what they eat, on business (or so they claim) in another country, so they can pick up prawn&#8217;s heads, put them on the end of cocktail sticks and wave them around saying &#8220;look, look, I&#8217;m a prawn,&#8221; and make all their other rich-b*****d colleagues laugh. <BR/>
Of course, not all local delicacies are that bad, but try to avoid the ones containing meat (which can be a challenge, because most foreign waiters seem to think that vegetarians are people who don&#8217;t eat vegetables), as the meat dishes usually contain that cute little stray dog that you stopped to stroke on your way to the café. <BR/>
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Other dishes to beware of (written phonetically): <BR/>
Jikken carcazz <BR/>
Midical vaste <BR/>
Keeten eggscrement <BR/>
Zpanyel eentessteens <BR/>
Vradioagteev vrods <BR/>
Rozzed vetuss <BR/>
Hyuman brenn <BR/>
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Work them out yourself; it&#8217;ll be good practise. <BR/>
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