Jupiter and Sagittarius are about expanding your horizons, especially when it comes to other cultures. H-Mart is the awesome Asian supermarket here. The place is huge and the produce is section especially grand. It is an enormously popular place to shop for people of all cultures and in fact they are now calling it an “international supermarket” which is just as well because although it is Asian owned everyone and their brother shops there.

So today I was in the quick check line and I was amused when the woman ahead of me made a great show of counting the items in her basket. She had 10 not 11 and though I could of cared less, I thought she was cute. I unloaded my stuff onto the conveyer belt behind hers and she scanned.

“What is that?” she asked pointing to the 2 spaghetti squashes I was buying. “What kind food?”

“That?” I said, pointing. “It’s spaghetti squash.”

“Spaghetti?”

“It’s squash.”

“That’s a vegetable? That’s no a fruit?”

“Vegetable. It’s a squash. When you cook it, it comes out in strings like spaghetti. It looks like spaghetti.”

“How you cook?”

I started to explain… you can roast them or just cut in half, turn upside down… microwave if you’re in a hurry. “I will stir fry,” she said, interrupting. “I no cook like you guys.”

I laughed. I wondered what kind of guy she thought I was, but realized I had no idea what kind of guy she was either. ::smiles:: However I knew we both liked vegetables and were interested in new ones and that was something.

“I am trying to learn to cook like you,” I said. And I tried to explain how spaghetti squash was hard as a rock and came apart when cooked. I told her if she was going to stir fry she should peel it and this might be challenging. Cut into cubes, but it would fall apart as it cooked.

“What you put on that?”

“Garlic and butter.” I said.

“Okay,” she said before I could finish. I was going to mention parmesan cheese but figured that was for way in the future if ever, anyway. Sort of like me with some of the potions I see in this store. What is normal for some is going to be an acquired taste or others.

“Next time, I try,” she said.

“Okay then,” I said grinning. “I hope you like it.”

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Haven’t written on this topic for awhile, but anyone else making progress with their (Jupiter) foriegn studies?