RE: gak (was deanna and corn)

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ok, suze, this reminds me of a story i heard about a tribe somewhere,

possibly africa, where the communal well was broken somehow but the men

were too lazy to fix it, so the women banded together and told their men

that there'd be no sex till it was fixed.

and guess what happened?!

blue corn chips for *everyone*!!

> >deanna was it you with the (gak) ENTIRE BAG OF BLUE CORN CHIPS?

> >or was it hahahahahahahasuze?

>

>

>Oh that is funny, I was just talking to yesterday about " gak " , and I

>DID write about eating blue cornchips back in Jan, and about gassiness, but

>I think it was Deanna who wrote about an entire bag of them recently. LOL!

>But, yes, I did have gak and blue corn chips this winter.

>

> " Gak " it's an herb that folks in the southern middle east (particularly

>Yemen, I think) and North Africa smoke. I tried it for the first time on

>X-mas, 2003. According to a really funny book I read about a journalist

>travelling through the Middle East (back in the 80's, I think - Tony

>Horowitz) the men of Yemen are pretty serious about their gak. IIRC, they

>spent much of their day sitting around together smoking it. Nothing much

>ever got done in that country, according to Horowitz, which I think he

>connected to the gak consumption. (I'm just relating what he wrote - I have

>NO idea what goes on in Yemen!) But according to the Ethiopian woman who's

>gak I tried at X-mas, it doesn't have an effect like drugs (marijuana, etc).

>I think some local city govt's here in Maine are trying to outlaw it though.

>I don't know what to think, I just laugh whenever I see the word, because I

>thought the Yemen chapter was hilarious in " From Beirut to Jerusalem " - the

>above referenced book. But then so was the Israel chapter, and really, the

>whole book!

>

>Suze Fisher

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>University, Tennessee; heart disease researcher.

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[Guest guest]

Hey ga ga girls,

Let me set the record straight: it was like a third of the bag . . . OKAY???

Now, I've been slaving over style all day. Watcha think of the format (no

links, no rollover menus yet) ? Yeah yeah, those pictures of food from my

frig are small, and I have an artist 10 year old that will make that all

look better someday :-)

http://www.salvonix.com/WAP/

Deanna of the corn

www.salvonix.com (and that site's not done neither)

Re: gak (was deanna and corn)

ok, suze, this reminds me of a story i heard about a tribe somewhere,

possibly africa, where the communal well was broken somehow but the men

were too lazy to fix it, so the women banded together and told their men

that there'd be no sex till it was fixed.

and guess what happened?!

blue corn chips for *everyone*!!

> >deanna was it you with the (gak) ENTIRE BAG OF BLUE CORN CHIPS?

> >or was it hahahahahahahasuze?

>

>

>Oh that is funny, I was just talking to yesterday about " gak " , and

I

>DID write about eating blue cornchips back in Jan, and about gassiness, but

>I think it was Deanna who wrote about an entire bag of them recently. LOL!

>But, yes, I did have gak and blue corn chips this winter.

>

> " Gak " it's an herb that folks in the southern middle east (particularly

>Yemen, I think) and North Africa smoke. I tried it for the first time on

>X-mas, 2003. According to a really funny book I read about a journalist

>travelling through the Middle East (back in the 80's, I think - Tony

>Horowitz) the men of Yemen are pretty serious about their gak. IIRC, they

>spent much of their day sitting around together smoking it. Nothing much

>ever got done in that country, according to Horowitz, which I think he

>connected to the gak consumption. (I'm just relating what he wrote - I have

>NO idea what goes on in Yemen!) But according to the Ethiopian woman who's

>gak I tried at X-mas, it doesn't have an effect like drugs (marijuana,

etc).

>I think some local city govt's here in Maine are trying to outlaw it

though.

>I don't know what to think, I just laugh whenever I see the word, because I

>thought the Yemen chapter was hilarious in " From Beirut to Jerusalem " - the

>above referenced book. But then so was the Israel chapter, and really, the

>whole book!

>

>Suze Fisher

>Lapdog Design, Inc.

>Web Design & Development

>http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze3shjg

>Weston A. Price Foundation Chapter Leader, Mid Coast Maine

>http://www.westonaprice.org

>

>----------------------------

> " The diet-heart idea (the idea that saturated fats and cholesterol cause

>heart disease) is the greatest scientific deception of our times. " --

>Mann, MD, former Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry at Vanderbilt

>University, Tennessee; heart disease researcher.

>

>The International Network of Cholesterol Skeptics

><http://www.thincs.org>

>----------------------------

>

>

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

> deanna and corn

>>

>>

>>deanna was it you with the (gak) ENTIRE BAG OF BLUE CORN CHIPS?

>>or was it hahahahahahahasuze?

>

>

>Oh that is funny, I was just talking to yesterday about

> " gak " , and I

>DID write about eating blue cornchips back in Jan, and about gassiness, but

>I think it was Deanna who wrote about an entire bag of them recently. LOL!

>But, yes, I did have gak and blue corn chips this winter.

Oops! Don't know what I was thinking - that should be " gat " not " gak " . Gak

is some gummy thing, I think, that Heidi talks about from time to time.

Suze Fisher

Lapdog Design, Inc.

Web Design & Development

http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze3shjg

Weston A. Price Foundation Chapter Leader, Mid Coast Maine

http://www.westonaprice.org

----------------------------

" The diet-heart idea (the idea that saturated fats and cholesterol cause

heart disease) is the greatest scientific deception of our times. " --

Mann, MD, former Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry at Vanderbilt

University, Tennessee; heart disease researcher.

The International Network of Cholesterol Skeptics

<http://www.thincs.org>

----------------------------

[Guest guest]

----- Original Message -----

From: " Suze Fisher " <s.fisher22@...>

> >>-----Original Message-----

> >>From: katja [mailto:katja@...]

> >>deanna was it you with the (gak) ENTIRE BAG OF BLUE CORN CHIPS?

> >>or was it hahahahahahahasuze?

>

> Oops! Don't know what I was thinking - that should be " gat " not " gak " .

Gak

> is some gummy thing, I think, that Heidi talks about from time to

time.

It's also an interjection, which is probably what was meant here.

[Guest guest]

>Oops! Don't know what I was thinking - that should be " gat " not " gak " . Gak

>is some gummy thing, I think, that Heidi talks about from time to time.

>

>Suze Fisher

Ya know you had me wondering there! I could just picture

you with this pipe smoking a gummy blob ;--)

So WHAT did " gat " taste like? What makes it so popular?

-- Heidi Jean

[Guest guest]

> RE: gak (was deanna and corn)

>

>

>

>>Oops! Don't know what I was thinking - that should be " gat " not " gak " . Gak

>>is some gummy thing, I think, that Heidi talks about from time to time.

>>

>>Suze Fisher

>

>Ya know you had me wondering there! I could just picture

>you with this pipe smoking a gummy blob ;--)

>

>So WHAT did " gat " taste like? What makes it so popular?

>

>-- Heidi Jean

I haven't tasted anything like it before, so have difficulty describing the

flavor. I guess it tastes like smoking marijuana *kinda sorta* but not

exactly the same. That's the best I can do - sorry!

Suze Fisher

Lapdog Design, Inc.

Web Design & Development

http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze3shjg

Weston A. Price Foundation Chapter Leader, Mid Coast Maine

http://www.westonaprice.org

----------------------------

" The diet-heart idea (the idea that saturated fats and cholesterol cause

heart disease) is the greatest scientific deception of our times. " --

Mann, MD, former Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry at Vanderbilt

University, Tennessee; heart disease researcher.

The International Network of Cholesterol Skeptics

<http://www.thincs.org>

----------------------------