People I would like to meet

[Lanolin]

I've read about nuclear testing in the Pacific about the veterans who were roped into observing while the blew up coral reefs etc.
The scariest thing would have been witnessing that mushroom cloud and knowing while it may not kill you outright, even if you are near it, you will get radiation poisoning and the entire region is now contaminated.

When it went off, the veterans reported that their entire world glowed white hot, so even their bones were illuminated, like it had x-rayed the entire place. They would have told everyone to evacuate the area, but I don't think everyone knew the danger.

Years later, there were sky high cancer and infertility rates of all those affected by the blast.

The ocean is far and wide, but now there are huge garbage patches of human waste, and plastic, and oil spills, and entire coral reefs dying from acidifcation. So, its like the great Deluge but in reverse, this time, all marine life is endangered.

People used to say 'there are plenty of fish in the sea' but now they don't dare say that, if you eat too much of it, you'd likely get mercury poisoning, if not plastic in your fish.

 

[I_am_Canadian]

Not just full of faith, but moved by fear too. Hebrews 11:7.

Have you ever considered what it must have been like for Noah, his wife, his sons, and their wives while they were on the ark?

It boggles my mind.

What about the realization that you are now the only 8 people on the earth?

True,
No i Haven't,

Well I have seen the best and worst of People, If people were as evil in his day as they are today, I imagine he spent his time celebrating.

 

[passion84god]

Well I have seen the best and worst of People, If people were as evil in his day as they are today, I imagine he spent his time celebrating.

I was considering something along those lines earlier today.

 

[seed_time_harvest]

Maybe Apostle Paul..

 

[Billyd]

King Solomon. "How did you manage all those wives and concubines?"

 

[Lanolin]

Dinah 'What was it like being the only daughter in a family of twelve brothers who killed your boyfriend?'

 

[Lanolin]

True,
No i Haven't,

Well I have seen the best and worst of People, If people were as evil in his day as they are today, I imagine he spent his time celebrating.

He had all those animals to look after. I want to meet the Dove with the Olive Branch.

 

[Lanolin]

Esther Smith aka Judy Garland in St Louis

'You don't have to pretend or sing for me. Just be yourself'

 

[I_am_Canadian]

He had all those animals to look after. I want to meet the Dove with the Olive Branch.

I don't know if I can arrange that, how about an Italian with Olive Oil?

 

[Lanolin]

I don't know if I can arrange that, how about an Italian with Olive Oil?

Its funny, I've eaten in Italian restaurants. but I've never actually met an Italian.
They don't really visit or need to emigrate to NZ. Everyone in the media says people should eat the Mediterranean Diet, but we live too far away from the Mediterranean Sea to do so. Like we can't just pick a fresh tomato in winter....
So all the mediterranean food has to be imported to the other side of the world for us to be healthy lol

 

[Lanolin]

Also, it seems we get most of our Olive oil from Spain. I check the labels.

 

[Lanolin]

Croations, yes. Dalmatians, yes, Former Yugoslavians, yes. Czechs, Polish, Russians, French, German, Spanish, ...but no no no Italians for some strange reason.

When takeaways say 'European and Chinese food' they do not mean pizza, pasta or salad as the 'European' food. They mean fish and chips, which is now usually cooked in Canola oil.

Canola oil is from Canada.

 

[Karlon]

muhammad ali & robert plant.

 

[I_am_Canadian]

Its funny, I've eaten in Italian restaurants. but I've never actually met an Italian.
They don't really visit or need to emigrate to NZ. Everyone in the media says people should eat the Mediterranean Diet, but we live too far away from the Mediterranean Sea to do so. Like we can't just pick a fresh tomato in winter....
So all the mediterranean food has to be imported to the other side of the world for us to be healthy lol

Thanks,
Well, I am half way there, all I have to do is buy the olive oil lol.
No one said the Italian had to be from Italy lol. No one said the Olive oil had to be from Italy either lol.
Just an Italian with olive oil lol. Italians do immigrate to other countries.

I know what the Meditereanian diet is. I think you misunderstand the concept, See my Grandmother was Italian,
She grew her own fruits and vegetables, Lettuce, Beans, Tommatos, Carrots, Cabbage, Onions etc... We ate home made pasta, breads, pizza, cookies etc... We also ate deer, rabbit, chicken, beef, pork.

The concept of the Medeteranian Diet isn't just the food, it's a life style. It is growing your own produce, making your own food, striving for the best quality of food with home made, home grown ingrediants. It's sitting around the table with friends and family making memories and enjoying the people around you with the food your eating.

Well yes that is a point, about the winter, but you can can your own fruits and vegetables in the summer and store them for winter.
Get flour, eggs, water and yeast and make your own breads, cakes desserts and freeze them for the winter. Actually if you do more baking in the winter you do 2 things, produce food you can store and reduce your heating bill from all the cooking.

 

[Lanolin]

If the food isn't from the Mediterranean, then why is it called the Mediterranean diet?

The China diet could be the exact same thing.

 

[I_am_Canadian]

If the food isn't from the Mediterranean, then why is it called the Mediterranean diet?

The China diet could be the exact same thing.

well That is because The Medditeranian diet is called that because they use a lot of fruit and vegetables, a variety of different foods, lean meats, Multi Grain Breads, it's basically consuming the same foods that are consumed arround the medditereanian sea. The home grown, unprocesed fresh foods.

 

[Lanolin]

well That is because The Medditeranian diet is called that because they use a lot of fruit and vegetables, a variety of different foods, lean meats, Multi Grain Breads, it's basically consuming the same foods that are consumed arround the medditereanian sea. The home grown, unprocesed fresh foods.

Well the China diet is called that for the exact same thing except, its the same foods that are consumed around China, and the south China sea, home grown, unprocessed fresh foods, fruit and green vegetables, variety, small meats, the only exception, Chinese don't eat multi-grain breads, its rice.

So? The only thing is, you can't home grown fresh mediterranean food if your climate is not mediterranean. You'd have to grow it in a hothouse or something. And you can't eat the same fresh fish - it would go off by the time it gets to you if you don't live there. I note that you never mentioned the seafood. If you're going to eat the same foods that are consumed around the medditeranean sea, you better include seafood.

Sorry to be pedantic.
If you want to be accurate, you'd just say its better to eat local homegrown food. Or they call it 'slow food' or food that's in season. And if there's no food in season eat your own preserved/dried or frozen food. There's such a thing as food miles. The fattest people. the Kuwaitis, only eat imported American food cos they can't grow their own in the desert, and they've got rich from selling their oil to America, so America gives them their junk food in exchange.

 

[I_am_Canadian]

Well the China diet is called that for the exact same thing except, its the same foods that are consumed around China, and the south China sea, home grown, unprocessed fresh foods, fruit and green vegetables, variety, small meats, the only exception, Chinese don't eat multi-grain breads, its rice.

So? The only thing is, you can't home grown fresh mediterranean food if your climate is not mediterranean. You'd have to grow it in a hothouse or something. And you can't eat the same fresh fish - it would go off by the time it gets to you if you don't live there. I note that you never mentioned the seafood. If you're going to eat the same foods that are consumed around the medditeranean sea, you better include seafood.

Sorry to be pedantic.
If you want to be accurate, you'd just say its better to eat local homegrown food. Or they call it 'slow food' or food that's in season. And if there's no food in season eat your own preserved/dried or frozen food. There's such a thing as food miles. The fattest people. the Kuwaitis, only eat imported American food cos they can't grow their own in the desert, and they've got rich from selling their oil to America, so America gives them their junk food in exchange.

So when my grandmother was growing tomatoes, lettuce, onions, green onions, green beans, carrots, cabbage, what was she growing? It's still stuff that grows around the medeterranian and in north america as well.

 

[Lanolin]

So when my grandmother was growing tomatoes, lettuce, onions, green onions, green beans, carrots, cabbage, what was she growing? It's still stuff that grows around the medeterranian and in north america as well.

stuff? It's vegetables!
Tomatoes are actually native to mexico and south america.
Carrots and cabbages generally don't grow in Mediterranean. They're more a cool season vege.

Everyone eats vegetables, you'd be a nong if you didn't eat fresh veges or at least some kind of herbs

 

[Lanolin]

I think I'd like to meet someone who's been around the world, doesn't have to be Italian. I should just hang out at the airport near the international flights arrivals and departures, and talk to people who are waiting for their next flight or the taxi/uber.

Even if we have to use google translate to talk to each other.