[IWE] Your thesis is defective

[Andrew Grygus]

>.. those Last Days at the US Embassy in Saigon / with 
>helicopters) ... these 7000 of the Few, the Mobile and the Chosen:
>--> get to become Consumers amongst us'ns!
>Imagine the fun -- recalibrating their digestive tracts for fizzy sodas, 
>corn in everything from the fake-sugar to the Franken-beef to the gas 
>tanks; 

Recalibrate their digestive tracts? 

To quote (from memory) a Vietnamese refugee 
somewhere in the U.S. Midwest or South (I forget which), 
"We are very thankful for the U.S. Government to place us 
here so we can start new lives in America - but as soon as 
no one's looking we all move to Los Angeles".

There is no need for recalibration, or corn anything or 
Franken-beef here. With hundreds of Vietnamese 
restaurants and dozens of Vietnamese supermarkets 
you can eat as Vietnamese here as you ever could in 
Saigon.

In "Comunist" Vietnam they're learning the ways of 
capatilism at an astonishing rate to serve this huge market, 
particularly as Anglos adopt the ingredients and 
patronize the restaurants. Is that fish in your Louisiana 
catfish gumbo Basa, or is it Tra? 

Vietnam is fast upgrading it's food production to USDA and 
FDA certification. To quote a Louisiana catfish farmer who 
went to Vietnam to gather propeganda, "We went there 
expecting to find catfish raised in poluted water and 
processed in primitive facilities. That's not what we found 
and we're scared to death!" 

Iraquis? You bet they'll be coming, as soon as the "Surge" 
fizzles. They'll join the Shah's Iranians out in The Valley 
(what was once the "Hebrew Flatlands").  California farmers 
are already building up their herds of sheep and goats in 
anticipation. 

I'll be shopping at their stores but won't be eating at their 
restaurants 'cause there's no booze. Now if we could just 
invade Turkey - better food and they've got booze - but nah, 
no need, we've got Glendale, the "Second Capital of Armenia" 
- they've already got all the same stuff in good supply -  
soujuk and eggs for breakfast, anyone?

Andrew Grygus