Tradition and Mazag
A great man, the late father of a dear friend.
My friend got in trouble once, his mother had found an aromatic date-sized clump of flora* while emptying his trouser pockets for the wash. She knew what it was. The next day his father sat him down for a Talk.
Lovingly, he reassured my friend: "Lamma kont addak we fel gam3a zamaan ma7na konna 3aysheen bardo. Konna bno3od a3daat we beera w feseekh we banaat, ah, tab3an, maho tabee3i fil fatra di..."(When I was young and going to university we liked our good times too, you know. We'd get together and there'd be beer and feseekh* and girls, yes, it's natural at this age...)
*Salted putrid grey mullet. Egyptian delicacy said to date back millenia; usually consumed with fresh watercress, lettuce and squeezed lemons on Sham el Neseem (ancient feast of spring); categorised as impure by religious authorities--consumption is technically unlawful. Its taste combines extreme fishiness and the grating sting of sharp hard cheese.
My friend got in trouble once, his mother had found an aromatic date-sized clump of flora* while emptying his trouser pockets for the wash. She knew what it was. The next day his father sat him down for a Talk.
Lovingly, he reassured my friend: "Lamma kont addak we fel gam3a zamaan ma7na konna 3aysheen bardo. Konna bno3od a3daat we beera w feseekh we banaat, ah, tab3an, maho tabee3i fil fatra di..."(When I was young and going to university we liked our good times too, you know. We'd get together and there'd be beer and feseekh* and girls, yes, it's natural at this age...)
*Salted putrid grey mullet. Egyptian delicacy said to date back millenia; usually consumed with fresh watercress, lettuce and squeezed lemons on Sham el Neseem (ancient feast of spring); categorised as impure by religious authorities--consumption is technically unlawful. Its taste combines extreme fishiness and the grating sting of sharp hard cheese.
posted by Gayyash at
9:13 PM
3 Comments:
i believe you mean flora...unless u mean fauna and his mom found a small aromatic date-szied rodent :)
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Forsoothsayer, at Fri Dec 23, 02:29:00 AM GMT+2
silly me. thanks forsooth. and now i'll spend the rest of my weekend thinking about date-sized aromatic rodents.
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Gayyash, at Fri Dec 23, 02:04:00 PM GMT+2
i may be wrong but it occurs to me that you were my lab partner for an introductory biology class. the whiff of that rabbit's intestines is still pretty memorable.
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Forsoothsayer, at Sat Dec 24, 03:35:00 AM GMT+2
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