[Sca-cooks] Bellybuttons and garb

[jenne at fiedlerfamily.net]

> > >  Greetings! I'd like to take this opportunity
> > to publically eat crow.
>
> How does it taste?  Is it bitter? :-)

Well, Pa Ingalls said it tasted like young chicken pullets (um, do other
kinds of poultry go through a pullet stage? Or am I misusing the term
pullet entirely?)

> > > -- Jadwiga, feeling really stupid.
>
> Why?  First off, even in the Indian subcontinent,
> the showing of a woman's belly button wouldn't
> happen outside the
> home/harem/seraglio/zenana/whatever, unless the
> person was a prostitute or a public dancer [which
> pretty much was the same thing].

I'll have to ask my friend about that. I know it's true of Persian and
Turkish garb but I don't know that much about Indian except that my friend
does it sometimes and so does another acquaintance (Lakshmi?) who is very
into researching period Indian culture.

> Don't feel bad, Jadviga, you are only human, but
> we love you any way! :-)

Thanks. It's nice to be loved!

-- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa
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