If they offer tea or absinthe which should you accept?
It’s a trick question of course. The circumstances dear friend: who are they and what does it mean if you choose one over the other, and what’s at stake?
Diplomats have sometimes eaten strange foods and downed bizarre drinks to make connecting easier.
You think you have the right to expect a rural-galactic-no-nutrition-non-fat-neutered meal wherever you go!
Sadly food is often as much a speech or statement as it is something to eat.
Yes! It probably would be better if this were not so.
I still don’t know what it was that was chosen by my hosts at that mountain restaurant in a distant land years ago…I couldn’t recognize anything.
And yet I enjoyed it.
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