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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Jones" <billj AT harborside.com>

> I hate to say it, but I find the people here to be bone ignorant, even
> about the things you might expect somebody to know about.  The only
> people I've met who know what fava beans are either work at the feed
> store, or are from California, Germany, etc.
***Hmmmm, ignorant?  Lots of reasons come to mind why favas wouldn't find 
favor in any given community and why they wouldn't try them.  They are a 
PITA, favism and they might not be a historical cultural food for folks in 
your area.

> But if you go to an average neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY or El Cajon,
> CA, the typical person there is also ignorant, indolent, biased, and
> bigotted, in addition to uncultured, unrefined, and unenlightened.  It
> makes them easier to sell products to.  The difference is that the
> person who has the power to leave, to live wherever they want, is more
> likely to be more educated (on paper at least) and more affluent.  NY
> and CA have a higher percentage of these people, because that's where
> the money is.  Unfortunately the correlation being actually being great
> vs. having a great bank balance is a fairly loose one, and this leads to
> having all kinds of pompous neighbors who happen to have money telling
> you what they think they know, among the worst of whom is my "native"
> neighbor from Medford.

***Maybe the folks in Oregon are like the folks where James lives and don't 
want a know-it-all from CA telling them whats good for them.  That is how 
you come off, doncha know.

Lynda