Re: saw something at lunch

[Khan Klatt <khan@mediaaccess.com>]

>Oh boy, here we go again.

Since you asked, here's my take on European rice:

>Rice: also a European product!
>
>In Europe, there are five rice-producing countries: Italy, Spain, 
>France, Portugal, and Greece. In 1992/93 (latest available European 
>statistics), 62% of the production came from Italy (Piemont), around 
>18% from Spain (Andalusia and Murcia), 6% each from France 
>(Camargue) and Portugal, and 8% from Greece. In 1994, European 
>production satisfied approximately 60 % of EU demand. At present, 
>the production of long grain Indica rice is insufficient, whereas 
>there is a surplus of round grain Japonica. This latter is almost 
>exclusively of Italian origin and is exported. 30% of the deficiency 
>of long grain rice is imported from the USA (accounting for some 15% 
>of their exports), 20% from Thailand, 7% from India and Pakistan and 
>33% from the ACP countries and the Dutch Antilles. Between 1990 and 
>1994, 4.7% of all imports were destined for
>the EU.
>SOURCE: http://www.web.net/fairtrade/fairtrade/fair6910.html

Stay tuned for my thesis on the origins of rice. My paper will be called:

The Origins of Rice
-------------------
The Correlations Between The Proportion of the National Origins of 
Worldwide Rice Production and the Proportion of the Nationality of 
Tricked Out Consumer Vehicles



>  > From: "Chadwick, John/COR/INV" <jchadwic@ch2m.com>
>>  Reply-To: jettaglx@igtc.com
>>  Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 15:45:13 -0600
>>  To: "Vw-Vr6 (E-mail)" <VW-VR6@onelist.com>, "Drag-VR6 (E-mail)"
>>  <Drag-VR6@egroups.com>, "GTI List (E-mail)" <list@gti-vr6.net>, 
>>"JettaGLX list
>>  (E-mail)" <jettaglx@igtc.com>
>>  Subject: saw something at lunch
>>
>>  Well I saw something at lunch that disturbed me greatly. There was an A3
>>  Jetta turning onto the road I was going to turn on. It look "fine" from the
>>  front. It was lowered but one of those white windshield stickers on it that
>>  made me giggle. The car is dark blue. But when he turned and I saw the rear,
>>  there was this big ass spoiler. I swear the guy thinks he is a top fuel
>>  dragster. That's how big this thing was. It made me sick to my stomach. To
>>  each his own I guess. Just thought I'd let you guys know the Euro-rice I saw
>>  today.
>>
>>  John Chadwick
>>  CH2MHILL
>>  Engineering Design
>>  Communications Group
>>  Denver, CO
>>  Tel: 303-874-3031
>>  Fax: 303-790-9182
>>  jchadwic@ch2m.com
>>

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Khan Klatt                                         khan@mediaaccess.com

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