Syndicate: To Peter Rebernik

[ichael.benson@pristop.si]

No, no, Peter, Peter, Peter! That's a blatant simplification. It's 
much, much, more complex than that! I mean, yes, you're right about 
the Finnish nationalist, and even the Novi Sad casinos (how did you 
know about that part, anyway? I ask out of professional curiosity!), 
but you entirely missed (to take only one example) the Mongolian 
nuclear tests, or rather the Soviet ones where nobody asked the 
Mongolians if they minded a little, ah, test, the genetic 
mutations thereof, the long-range effects on Serbian milk production 
in the late 60's -- that's very important -- and of course that long 
forgotten Presidential Finding included in the Official Letter from 
(then President of the US) Jimmy Carter to Josip Tito, I believe 
it was in 1978 -- the one where he forwarded his own, allegedly 
better,  recipe for burek. It's always been a mystery to me how 
Jimmy, once a peanut farmer, even knew what burek was, let alone how 
it came about that he had his own secret recipe for it. I mean, 
between you and me, what a classic example of American arrogance! 
Just to think that a burek recipe from the new world could begin to 
hold a candle to the Yugoslav variety. Yes, Jimmy was really playing 
with fire there. And there's more, but I'm already forgetting the 
details... Yes, I've forgotten all the details... The details... 
The... det... My pills! My pills!

Best from Ljubljana; best burek west of Sarajevo. Come through here 
sometime, I'll show you.

Michael "there's a conspiracy, who needs a theory" Benson


Michael Benson  <michael.benson@pristop.si>
<http://www.ljudmila.org/kinetikon/> 
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