gak (was deanna and corn)

April 3, 2004

> 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.

" 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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