This edition of Chico's "Palabra" is precious! For those of you who don't know, Chico at McMurdo writes an extremely casual e-mail column every couple of days, and his readers end up on his mailing list by serendipity. Enjoy!
"Gallina(gah-yee-naw)." Which means: "Chicken." If you love chicken than you need to come to Antarctica. We don't raise them here. We just eat 'em. From Monday of this week to tomorrow, we will have eaten Chicken Marsala, Chicken Provencal, chicken nuggets, Chicken Breast Szcheran, Chicken-ala-Orange, Chicken-n-Sour, Chicken on sour sauce. No kidding. We eat chicken baked, grilled, stuffed, thrown, dropped, kicked and runned over. For breakfast we have eggs. For dinner we eat the chicken that laid it. We're worse than renegade foxes. You sneeze and a feather blows out of your nose. We don't drink chicken because someone hasn't figured out yet a way to get them up a straw. If they do they might be eligible for a TQM (Total Quality Management) award that people down here get when they think of ways to save the program money. Someone somewhere is living like a sheik from all the chickens they sold to the United States Antarctic Program. Someone somewhere is probably a vegetarian.
The Spanish phrase of the day is from a 15 year old on what she learned: "Yo aprendi que si e quieres contender, deverias de contender a otro." Which means: "I've learned that if you want to cheer yourself up, you should cheer someone else up." Enough said. Have a great day. Chico. over.
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