Gloomy Tuesday...even the boys stayed inside most of the day.
An otherwise dreary day was saved by a package in the mail all the way from South Africa. This is the reciprocal gift for the snakeskin I sent to my friend Josie Borain a couple of months ago. Ronald Nelson (the nicest guy in Texas) just happened to call me right after I had opened up the box. I described the contents and said along with the other stuff there were 2 bags of something called biltong. He knew exactly what it was so I didn't have to google it. What's this world coming to when a Georgia hillbilly has to tell a former New York City sophisticate that biltong is South Africa's version of jerky! One package is marked beef and the other is kudo. I did have to google kudu - African antelope....or perhaps something more exotic:
"Of the 146 samples tested over 100 contained
undeclared meat species. All the
samples marked beef were correctly labelled, but for the most badly labelled
case 92 percent of packets of kudu biltong contained different species such as
horse, giraffe, pork beef and even kangaroo. 42,48,58,0,W,0
