[Vigilanteman]

Heck, yes. When we lived in Japan, my wife became good friends with a lady from southern India (Chennai area). Since her husband was a co-worked of mine, we became friends as well.

A couple of weeks before they went home, we invited them for dinner. I asked them if there were anything they couldn't eat, expecting to get a list of meats.

To our surprise, they said anything was fine, even beef. We had a long chat into the night about what the Indians from the south thought of those from the north (the bureaucrat and government official class).

It was as good as a barbecue in the Carolinas sharing our thoughts about the DC ruling class.

[Mrs. Don-o]

"It was as good as a barbecue in the Carolinas sharing our thoughts about the DC ruling class."

Yow! And was there alcohol, too? Just to warm things up a bit...