"JSBOUGHER" wrote in message
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I'm always amazed at what becomes "comfortable" when I get far enough
out of my comfort zone for a prolonged duration. It was my first trip
to China ... 2 weeks of supplier and potential acquisition visits with
lunch after dinner after lunch after dinner of traditional Chinese
cuisine. After 2 weeks of the round table table with duck tongue,
shark fin, snake, etc all served by my host with HIS chop sticks and
HACKING cough, I was about Chinesed out. I still remember how
amazingly wonderful that Big Mac was ... ahhh, home. That said, I
always joke that I've had McDonalds 4 times in the last 10 years, all
overseas and 3 out of 4 were in China. There is a time and place for
"comfort food" regardless of nutritional content.
Jeff

When I was 13 I spent just shy of 3 months in Bahrain for the first time.
They have no Coke there only Pepsi. Nothing ever tasted better than the Coke
the flight attendant handed me when I got on the PanAm 747 heading back to
the US.