The Correct Turn Re: # 182; nb

thanks ... I just did a google search ... apparently it is widely used in "unani" medicine by hakeems (majority of whom are muslims!) ... so there goes the hindu monopoly on its usage!

The Correct Turn Re: # 180

yaar nb ... chhorr bhi do ab?!

The Correct Turn dost_mittar and hamidm sahibaan, thak you very much for the great insight (and recipes) into the world of the "dosa" ... now dost ji wrote: [[ I don't know how hamidm liked sambhar, it invariably has heeng in it.]]

this brings me to my next question; what is "heeng"??

The Correct Turn is 'do-sa' a plural of 'ek-sa'?

The Correct Turn Re: # 105; hamidm sahib
[[i couldn't care less if they broke off and drifted away to join australia .......]]

the 'hajooj and majooj' have already started colonising the red continent sir ... if something isn't done soon, even God is not going to be able to help us! ... we'll all be eating 'dosas' and turning vegetarian in droves

btw ... what the heck is a dosa??

The Correct Turn Re: # 103; tahmed sahib

I concur sir ... however I don't think nb was trying to justify those atrocities ... and I am sure she'd condemn all that occured in Orissa in the recent past quite openly. she is one of the most 'just' persons around on chowk

It is not that uncommon in the third world for the 'stories' to change a little bit ... depending on local pressures ... that in no way dimishes the impact of such atrocities on the victims involved

this is what I advocate as a 'balanced argument' ... both India and Pakistan have to learn to rise above their inner insecurities and acknowledge the horrendous acts of crime that take place daily ... and majority directed against the 'have-nots' who, most of the time, don't stand a chance of getting some justice due to 'local' pressures and constraints ... it is truly sad

Hail Obama another very well known scavenger and omnivore commonly used for food is the chicken ... it would eat almost anything available including pecking on its own filth! despite those attributes, seems very popular with most of humanity including the "faithful".

Hail Obama the 'taboo' regarding pork has nothing whatsoever to do with its eating habits ... it was a half-hearted continuation of jewish custom of not eating anything that "doesn't chew the cud or doesn't have split hooves" according to the old testament .... by that rule, the camel also falls into the 'haraam' category ... this, of course, was overruled since the arabs were fond of the camel and considered the pig a taboo ... given their sense of inferiority to the "people of the book" (yes that is exactly what they were called! the term was 'plagiarised' into the main source of muslim mythology (the koran)

as for the animals eating habits, like I said long ago now, I have (first hand) observed the male-goats before the "baqr eid" drinking their own urine; it gave them a strange musky smell ... hence the term "Bo-bakra"! ... never put the momins off their food the next day!

Hail Obama Re: # 282; Kaal

someone describing YOU as an animal eating its own excrement is your friend?? have some backbone man

Hail Obama Zee ... how is it going man? ... long time no see!

Hail Obama Re: # 274

I'd have to refer you to my Interact No: 265

I had to work (still am)

Hail Obama Re: # 272; tahmed sahib

it wasn't meant to be sarcastic ... you do have a knack of putting "Sir Humphry Appleby" to shame at times!

Khuda hafiz for now

Hail Obama Re: # 270; tahmed sahib

we know you didn't! in fact you hardly said a thing! and THAT is the point sir

Khuda hafiz

Hail Obama Re: # 264; dost ji

where would we be without you sir! ... and I thought it was only interacting with tahmed sahib that felt like a 'slow and painful death'! (rolling eyes)

Hail Obama Re: # 261; tahmed sahib

question was "commonsense" overriding a 'clear' negative commandment (i.e., NOT to eat pork) of the koran ... if one takes your understanding and apply to 'other' such commandments (both positive and negative) then what are we left with that is 'originally koranic'?? ... hence my suggestion to "just apply commonsense" and do away with the koran (the 'goodness' of the koran is not in question but its 'usefulness' for guidance)

hamidm sahib has been very quiet on the subject?!

Hail Obama Re: # 259

and tahmed sahib, you have given the phrase "sawaal gandum, jawaab chana" a new lease of life sir!