Sauerkirsche/Chocolate Coin Dilemma
1. Low blood-sugar dilemmas sometimes require creative thinking.
2. How come I've met so many Thai people with gifts for me when our meetings were totally random? Do they keep gifts in their back pockets just in case?
I'm leaving on Monday and am running low on my stock of food. Thai pharmacies don't sell glucose tablets--those powdery tablets that are so sweet they make me shudder and are not something to be craved for midnight binges. Instead of glucose tablets, they've got this white powder that is meant to be added with water. Loose sugar powder isn't a recommended food item in such an ant-infested place (Saying that after tonight's rodent and insect dinner conversation with our missionary friends who live in some slums in BKK, however, makes me realize how good I have it in the ant department.) and I've got some ant carcasses floating around that bag of sugar-powder that I bought back in July or so (before my new stock of glucose tablets came in the mail).
Anyway, I forgot about that powder and decided that with tonight's low blood sugar, I was going to just eat some of this Sauerkirche--sour cherry--jam that one of my German ex-hall-mates gave me before he left Thailand. Thankfully, while opening the fridge door I remembered the box of chocolate covered sandwich cookies that an ABAC secretary gave me today when I just ran into her. A chance meeting after, what, 3 months since the last time we met, and she just happened to have this unopened box of cookies for me as a going away present?
This happened another time right after Valentine's day, when I ran into this student with whom I spoke on the bus last semester. When she saw me, she handed me a box of chocolate coins, as if she had purchased them for me. How do they plan for these accidental meetings?
However it works, unless I encounter another accidentally-planned gifting moment, I've still got the cherry jam for next low-blood sugar incident. It tastes at least ten times better than the loose ant-carcass powder and it at least seems more effective.
posted by B-Go at
10:24 AM
5 Comments:
RE: Your last paragraph
1) "loose ant-carcass powder" sounds like one of those phrases you get when you rearrange somebody's name, like maybe "Franklin Delenore Roosevelt".
2) I think "Accidental Gift Encounter" would be an awesome name for a rock band.
Peace,
Taiko-ma
By
Anonymous, At
8:49 PM
Cherry jam sounds pretty good =p. So you are leaving on Monday! I'll be in Thailand from 26th to 29th...in Phuket, though. I wonder if Phuket is just as antified as BKK seems to be??
I hope the next random person you run into has a particularly useful and good food item to tide you over for the remaining couple of days!
By
Megumi, At
2:55 PM
Man... you're gonna be back in the US any moment now. I don't know when you're arriving. I miss you, and I really, REALLY wish I were at the airport when you arrive. At least CW will be there, eh? :-) Lucky bums, you two are! Give Lydia a kiss for me.
LOVE,
pistachio
p.s.
I'm responding to your blog... must mean I read it! ;-)
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The D-town Eggers, At
4:25 PM
Hi Bethany! it was good to see you today. Glad you are back and hopefully feeling more at home again. The ants in the sugar remind me of that one movie, think it's called Medicine man. They discover a cure for cancer in the bugs that invaded the sugar, if I remember it right.
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9:33 PM
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