Re: OT: Junk

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From: "Tristan McLeay" <zsau@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2003 4:36 AM
Subject: Re: OT: Junk
> I'm not sure what 'dim-sum' is, but here in Melbourne there is a joke that
> dim-sims contain cat meat, or were originally made of cat meat, or some
> derivative thereof. Apparently the source was a fish-n-chips shop* in St
> Kilda (a suburb of Melbourne) which did it, and were subsequently shut
> down.
>
> *I don't know what the sell in the UK, but in Australia, it isn't a
> fish-n-chips shop unless they sell fish and chips (and other things in
> batter), souvlaki, hamburgers, dimsims and springrolls.
>
Over here, all Fish and Chip shops are run by greeks.  They sell fish,
chips, battered things(that's pretty much anything, they sell battered Mars
Bars, appparently a Glaswegian invention), kebabs(that is, meat in a pita
bread), pies(Chicken and Mushroom, Steak and Kidney, and Beef and Onion),
and sausages.  I don't know what a souvlaki is.  Or, for that matter, a
dimsim.

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