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Oh Spektator. You provide a wealth of information for all things Central Asian. How I love your layout, your writing, and your ability to keep me up to date with everything I need to know going down in Bishkek. Rock on!

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But what else is new?

In his latest diatribe, he points out his restaurant experience:

So, I have a confession and a suggestion. The confession: I go into restaurants these days, look around at the tables often still crowded with young people, and I have this urge to go from table to table and say: “You don’t know me, but I have to tell you that you shouldn’t be here. You should be saving your money. You should be home eating tuna fish. This financial crisis is so far from over. We are just at the end of the beginning. Please, wrap up that steak in a doggy bag and go home.”

Um, buddy… what are you doing in a restaurant then? Wouldn’t it make more sense to stand outside the restaurant and discourage people from entering? Shouldn’t you be eating at home? And what’s wrong with finishing the steak? They’ve already spent the money. If they can afford steak, buying one extra can of tuna fish tomorrow won’t break them.

And tuna fish is high in mercury. Not recommended for pregnant or nursing women. Or anyone more than two or three times a week.

Also, earth <> flat.

The stock market calls it ‘a share’… so why don’t they?

Davebrand Sandwich Inventing Presents…

A Tuna Salad/Smoked Salmon sandwich. Sounds good. Okay, sounds gross, right? But actually, pretty good. (Warning: Fat content suspiciously high.)

How to make:

Ingredients:
2 pieces toasted sourdough
1tsp butter or unbelievable “butter”
tuna salad
smoked salmon

Assemble. Eat.

I’d take a photo but the sandwich is gone already. That’s how good it was.