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LOL I ask questions on this blog once in a while but people email me rather than post comments. Bok Bok Bok. {chickens} Thanks for the emails though.

This is sort of pathetically funny. Maybe it is because of the neighborhood I grew up in, but even *I* know that falafel is not a Persian, Iranian, Chaldean, etc food. [Must. Not. Make. Bill. O'Reilly. Joke.] But seriously, when my sister flew back to AZ from Detroit last time, she brought a jar of good Dearborn tahini with her & the TSA had a fit. It really caused a problem. Part of it was because they couldn’t decide if it was a liquid or gel or whatever. And the label was all in Arabic. Actually, that’s pretty funny too, now that I think of it.

We always have a container of Costco hummos in the ‘fridge. So I guess we are screwed hahaha. I was emailing with someone about that article & we reckon that maybe if you buy bacon it does an if / else and throws your purchase out of the system.

if item !=pork then go on
else if item = pork then quit

or there could be a special “lone wolf/extremist” category

else if item =ViennaSausages
or item =RonPaulDonation

then write “lone wolf.”

A found poem from our conversation:

Purina One
BILLOFRIGHTS
BILLOFRIGHTS
Scott Tissue
BILLOFRIGHTS
Produce
SPAM
BILLOFRIGHTS
Bananas
Milk
BILLOFRIGHTS
Hershey Kisses
BILLOFRIGHTS
Tide
BILLOFRIGHTS
Brawny
BILLOFRIGHTS
Land-O-Lakes Butter
BILLOFRIGHTS
BILLOFRIGHTS
Twinkies