Did you know that over 25% of the residents of Nw York City carry infectious herpes?

Please wear gloves or carry Purell with you at all times.

I am a PhD in English and Psychology but my wife is a health care professional.

While there, I was introduced to a person who had just relocated from the “Windy City” to my hometown in the “Twin Lakes” area.

I don’t remember how or when the conversation evolved (perhaps I should say “devolved” )into a discussion about our Arkansas customs, but this character mentioned that he was served “GRITS” for breakfast at a restaurant that morning, and that “the mere sight of grits” sickened him.

He then asked me if I (as an “academic”, as he put it, apparently attempting to place me on the same cultural level as he perceived himself) ate that sort of thing.

I will not bore readers with further details of the encounter with this fine “gentleman” from Chicago, but suffice to say that both my young wife and I got quite a belly laugh out of the whole thing.

So, what do my NYC neighbors think about grits?

Hey, don’t pull punches . . . let it all hang out!

You grit eathing no necked zenophobic pig faced fuckwit.

;) zachariah.

Rudy McBagel Phd Realism and aulturism.

That being said, I am infuriated by the daily reports of China’s shipping of poisonous food and food-related products into the U.S. China has inundated us with poisonous products including pet foods, fruits and juices, vegetables, meat products, seafood, toothpaste, and God knows what else.

Many of our elected officials, who could not care less about our health, permit this travesty in the name of “open-trade” and “globalism.”

• So, what can we do to protect ourselves from China’s poisonous products?
• What are YOU doing to protect yourself?
• What suggestions do you have for the rest of us?

I know that “MidtownLunch” is not a political forum, nor should it be. However, the problem of people being sickened (and in some cases, dying) from eating imported crap . . . insufficiently regulated by our government . . . is worthy of rational discussion.

I have several PhD’s, by the way.

And a young and vibrant wife. She’s an LPN, if that excites you. And proprietress of a successful laser hair removal salon.

Plus I live a very comfortable life on my small horsefarm in Arkansas (you can see it in my profile).

So what do you think?

C.R.T., PhD

Have a Very nice weekend very nearly everyone:)

(I heard a Fannie Mea broker cry today, life is good.)