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Houston and its southwest suburbs also have a large Vietnamese population. Many of the "Chinese" restaurants are run by Vietnamese people, though more often they outright call them Vietnamese restaurants now and have better food.

I hasten to add these are hardworking people and huge enemies of communism.

Also I have been in a Chinese restaurant that was run by Mexicans. Go figure.

P.S.: This is getting pretty far off topic. Probably we should stick to the subject of stupid criminals whose guns don't work.

- Jim

In Chinese and Korean restaurants dog costs extra. The cheap dishes mostly are chicken.

The idea that they catch stray dogs or cats is absurd. Strays are really tough and gamy. (Don't ask me how I know.)

- Jim

There are no real Mexican restaurants in Texas. Tex-Mex is our native cuisine (along with barbecue).

Probably there are no Chinese restaurants here that serve anything that would be recognizable in China. There was one in Houston for a while, but it went out of business.

- Jim

Oldgringo wrote:If anyone thinks being a Gringo is negative, try being an old one.

One time when I was in Mexico a man said something sarcastic about me in Spanish, on the order of "What is that anglo doing here?"

I said, "¿Porqué piensa que estoy sordo?

The look on his face was priceless.

- Jim

There is a restaurant chain in the Houston area called Gringo's.

I was listening to KSEV, a Houston-area talk-radio station, when someone called in complaining that this restaurant chain was called Gringo's, and it would be politically incorrect to have a restaurant called Wetback's or anything of that sort.

About ten minutes later they had the owner of Gringo's on the line. I can't quote the guy at this late date, but basically he said he was a gringo and proud of it.

Gringo simply means foreigner in Spanish, though it has picked up a negative connotation.

- Jim

"Ultra Violets Drinkatorium" isn't going to be in the high society part of town.

I've never been to York, PA; but I have to agree. I'm surprised it wasn't the kind of place where the bouncer has to buzz in patrons through a steel-clad door.

- Jim

In York, Pennsylvania (rust belt), three men entered a bar and one reportedly pulled the trigger of a revolver several times. The revolver did not fire. The men fled and were not found or arrested.

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Ya might need a firing pin, dude. Who sold you that piece of junk?

- Jim