indus minnesota_chris My basmati rice comes from the Indus River valley, located in Pakistan. It's the only rice I buy, I love the flavor. I imagine a wide, brown river, like the Ganges or Mekong. A working river, filled with houseboats and laborers working on the flooded rice plains. Shielding themselves from the burning equatorial sun. If I am what I eat, can I say that a part of me is from the Indus valley? What I am, springs from the labor of the Pakistani workers in the rice fields. Is there a part of me drawn to the Indus, drawn to home? 030415 ... bird zeppelin not a word i heard could i relate the story was quite clear 030415 ... andru235 m_c : that is a question with astounding implications...if only more people would ask it! p.s. if you are not a vegan, patronize our local land'o'lakes dairy for a sense of hominess, yo! (i can't believe i'm blathering an advertisement...WELL BELIEVE IT, BUCKO, YOU JUST DID) please, quit yelling at me YOU STARTED IT, PUNK but, i only meant that - SHUT UP ALREADY as if! i'm not gonna SERIOUSLY PLEASE STOP TALKING not unless you stop yelling YOU FIRST this is ridiculous YOU ARE RIDICULOUS good for me YOU ARE A FAG why, yes i am! you then, must be also THAT IS CORRECT well, how super for us IT IS SUPER how nice of us to agree, for once IT IS NICE AND PLEASANT this has gone on long enough, i'm turning you off NO DON'T I- *blip* whew what a windbag (was it infighting that befell the harappans? they certainly were not gay) [[[tomorrow morning will i regret this blather? it is likely.]]] 050307 what's it to you? who go blather from