Re: [Cz-L] Ribisel

I have two sons and a daughter. She was the afterthought. She is nine years younger than my younger son. At the dinner table once when she was a small child, my sons were talking about an incident that took place before she was born and that confused her. In her child's voice she piped up, "Where I was???"

My wife became inventive and said to her. "You weren't here. You were still with the angels." Of course, that's a dangerous thing to say to a child because it can give them an inflated ego, thinking they came from some heaven. (I prefer Shelley Berman's answer to a lady who asked 'what should we tell them when they ask where children come from?' He replied, "We've had considerable success with pointing.")

The next time something that happened before my daughter was discussed in the family, my little girl piped up enthusiastically, "Was that when I was with the angels, too?"

All this talk about Ribisel, Ribes, Currants, makes me feel as if I might have been with the angels, at best it makes me feel like a Mongolian who briefly visited to Czernowitz. I have never in my life heard of any of these back home. I've heard of currants in the new world but have never had any. In spite of some of your laudatory remarks, the mention of bitter and sour decided me to remain with the angels in Mongolia. But it sounds like a subject that would enliven conversation at a dull party.

Guten apetit.
Andy

[I think we have covered the 'Czernowitz 'berry' thread berry well, can we now
move on to something else? -- thanks -- moderator J.]

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