The Great Leader (Guess) List

[Peter Triggs]

'Brigadeiros' sound good: here's a recipe (can't vouce for it's authenticity) from Eat Dangerously, the "blow health out your ass" cookbook:

http://www.eatdangerously.com/brigadeiros.html

A cool site BYW; check out the French menu generator .

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Peter Triggs

'Brigadeiros' sound good:

Oh yes- death by chocolate indeed. What's astonishing is the shortage of vastly obese Brazilians.


Where are all the morbidly obese Cariocas hiding ?

[Aro]

Originally posted by Peter Triggs
...from Eat Dangerously, the "blow health out your ass" cookbook:

Btw, the recipe is very precise.

[Aro]

Originally posted by molly bloom



Oh yes- death by chocolate indeed. What's astonishing is the shortage of vastly obese Brazilians.


Where are all the morbidly obese Cariocas hiding ?

We eat them.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Aro


We eat them.

I think I've seen those Kristen Bjorn films. Didn't see a lot of swallowing going on....

[Aro]

Brazil has these two faces of poverty. In the big cities, many poor people are morbidly obese. In the north-east country side, the “sertão”, many people are starving to death, and they look thin. It's scary.
Well, you see… The thin ones eating the obese ones.

Just a bad joke.

But, in fact, it was based on an interesting song about a mermaid found in a beach who was devoured by starving people, after a fight between those people interested in her tail (the fish part) and others, interested in her beauty (the boobs part ). Weird song, but powerful... Our Minister of Culture, Gilberto Gil, made a recording of this song.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Aro

But, in fact, it was based on an interesting song about a mermaid found in a beach who was devoured by starving people, after a fight between those people interested in her tail (the fish part) and others, interested in her beauty (the boobs part ).

Now that does remind me of a Brazilian film I saw on the SBS Channel in Australia, a t.v. channel devoted to multicultural programming from around the world.

It's about a French (?) sailor, blond and goodlooking, who gets washed up on the Brazilian coast in the 17th Century and adopted by some Indians.

Of course the joke on him is that they've adopted him in order to eat him, and his 'wife', who he mistakenly believes to be helping him to escape, instead is the one who is looking forward to eating his 'little neck' as she puts it.


There was another very good film about the rigt wing crackdown on the Marighelaist left too- I can't at this juncture remember its name, alas.