Reply #27: The hubby and I were watching a show

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where a woman in Africa was preparing a "meal" for her family. They lived in a grass hut (literally), maybe 7 ft in diameter. Her husband was very ill (AIDS) and her kids were obviously malnourished. She went "gathering" for some kind of hard-shelled nuts and "greens" (which just looked like weeds) so she could feed her children. She spent hours finding the nuts, and then more hours trying to crack open the things and digging out the meat, which she ground into a white flour. She fried the flour in a pan and mixed in the chopped greens and some filthy water. My husband and I kept making eye contact as we watched her prepare this meal. My husband cracked, "Yum, if there's any left I'll have some of that!"

It was disgusting on a thousand levels. We are so effing rich in this country and just take it for granted...we whine if the Taco Bell doesn't give us enough packets of Hot Sauce!

The hubby and I spent most of the day laying pavers and some sod. This woman in Africa is eating sod, and living in a sod house -- and we're spending more money than she'd have in a year trying to get a perfect grass carpet to walk on!