Artifacts from China
5 December 2009
MIchelle’s mother read my post on foreign candy and arranged for some candy to be brought from China. (Her parents, Michelle’s grandparents, spend half their time in China and half their time in Kansas.) It seems the majority of this candy spoiled in transit, which makes me curious for details, but I ate the two unspoiled candies yesterday. They were hard candies, maybe slightly chewy in the center, in delicious flavors that I could not identify. (I can rarely identify the flavors even of American hard candy.) One was pink and one was yellow-green. I wondered whether I should start eating hard candy more frequently.
Over Thanksgiving I took the Fung Wah bus to visit friends in New York, and at a rest stop along the way the driver gave me a Chinese cigarette. I don’t ordinarily smoke, but since it was a bus ride and since the cigarette was Chinese I smoked it. It was an exceptionally smooth and delightful cigarette. I wondered whether I should start smoking.
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