Comments on: Tweak six: floating onwards! http://52tweaks.com/2008/02/05/tweak-six-floating-onwards/ Change it up! Sun, 10 Feb 2008 06:05:10 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Changeonething http://52tweaks.com/2008/02/05/tweak-six-floating-onwards/comment-page-1/#comment-34 Changeonething Sun, 10 Feb 2008 06:05:10 +0000 http://52tweaks.com/2008/02/05/tweak-six-floating-onwards/#comment-34 Hi Wrick! Thanks for your concern. No, I think the beans were ok. With refrigeration, I understand they can go most of a week, but I never have them more than a few days. :-) It was apparently a restaurant meal that was the culprit. How is the writing going, anyway?!? Hi Wrick!

Thanks for your concern.

No, I think the beans were ok. With refrigeration, I understand they can go most of a week, but I never have them more than a few days. :-)

It was apparently a restaurant meal that was the culprit.

How is the writing going, anyway?!?

]]> By: Wrick http://52tweaks.com/2008/02/05/tweak-six-floating-onwards/comment-page-1/#comment-33 Wrick Sun, 10 Feb 2008 01:01:27 +0000 http://52tweaks.com/2008/02/05/tweak-six-floating-onwards/#comment-33 I hope the food poisoning wasn't a result of eating the beans. As you know, during the US economic blockade of Nicaragua when I was living there, rice and beans was the basic diet, or occasionally, beans and rice, for variety. Or if you were in the countryside you could supplement this with tortillas. During one extremely difficult year we were living on US$10 a month, plus a ration of rice, beans and sugar. Surplus could be traded at the market for plantain, vegetables and coffee. We couldn't waste anything. Fortunately Nicaraguans are acutely aware of just how long you can leave beans sitting out (hot climate, erratic electricity supplies, no fridge). My girlfriend of the time was expert at judging almost to the hour when beans would have to be either eaten, or thrown out. Beans can be deadly, if not treated with due caution. I hope the food poisoning wasn’t a result of eating the beans. As you know, during the US economic blockade of Nicaragua when I was living there, rice and beans was the basic diet, or occasionally, beans and rice, for variety. Or if you were in the countryside you could supplement this with tortillas. During one extremely difficult year we were living on US$10 a month, plus a ration of rice, beans and sugar. Surplus could be traded at the market for plantain, vegetables and coffee. We couldn’t waste anything. Fortunately Nicaraguans are acutely aware of just how long you can leave beans sitting out (hot climate, erratic electricity supplies, no fridge). My girlfriend of the time was expert at judging almost to the hour when beans would have to be either eaten, or thrown out. Beans can be deadly, if not treated with due caution.

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