The Wingham Advance-Times, 1985-05-08, Page 341
Page 10B—Crossroads—May 1985
Don't you get a little tired
of the touchiness of modern
society in which, no matter
where you step, it's on some-
body's tops, no matter what
you say or write, it's a slur
on someone's background,
color, creed or convictions?
About the only areas left in
which one may chance a re-
mark without fear of inflict--
ing a wound are politics and
sex.
It's extremely difficult to
inflict even a bruise on a
politician. He must have a
fat ego in the first place, and
he quickly acquires a brass
hide to go with it. Add an
ability to talk out of both
sides of the mouth at once,
and a certain skill in
straddling fences, and you
have cabinet material.
In the field of sex, there
don't seem to be any limits
any more to what can be
said, presented or simulated.
Movies, magazines and
theatres, club us over the
head with raw, unembell-
ished sex, or seek to titillate
the spook in each of us with
highly embellished, freaky
sex until the whole once -ex-
citing subject has become a
crashing bore.
Aside from sex and politics
then, there is scarcely an as-
pect of the human scene
where even'. angels fear to
tread, lest they . step on
Bill Smiley
Today's society
someone's sensibilities.
Ethnic jokes are out, black
is beautiful, gefilte fish is
glorious, Rodesia is rotten,
poor people are more noble
than rich people, gay is
gorgeous, and the only real
sin is to be old.
Lord forbid that we should
ever go back to the days
when a Catholic was a
"inick" or a "dogan", a
black person was a ."nig-
ger", an Italian was a
p„
vroa Chinese was a
"chink", and so on.
But I do get heartily sick of
a society in which you have
to tippy -toe all the time for
fear of offending some
touchy minority, or tres-
passing inadvertently on
someone's weird religious
affiliations.
We are developing into a
society with a snobbish sort
of reverse prejudice in which
everybody is leaning over
backwards in order to ap-
pear not even to be breathing
on anyone else.
As a result, we are losing
much of that good old Can-
adian ct ustiness and turning
into a nation of nice nellies in
whose mouths margarine
wouldn't melt.
Even our mediareflect
this trend in our society.
With few exceptions, our
newspapers are as bland, as
Staple grain has
limitless variety
By Verne Palmer
• Rice is nice. That's mo
than just a nifty bit o
rhyme; it's a fact.
It's nice .for a variety of
reasons.
'One, it's always, or shoul
be; as near as your kitche
• cupboard.
Two, it's easy to work wit
(the many different form
available in the marke
today make .perfect rice a
snap for virtually evetyone).
Three, it lends itself to 'an
all -but -limitless variety of
dishes.
Four, it's good for you (a
major portion of the world's
people subsist on it). •
Five, it's economical.,
And six, it stores so well
yota could bequeath it to your
children, if you so wished.
Rice can be eaten for
breakfast, lunch and dinner
and dessert, as. well. It
lends itself to casseroles,
side dishes, soups,. salads;
cereals and puddings. It's a
staple in Oriental, Middle
Eastern and Mexican cook-
ery and, present in most
Other cuisines, as well. gg
ORIENTAL ryl i6
1
VEGETABLE AND
LAMB SKILLET
2 tbsps. vegetable oil
I Ib lamb cubes, trimmed of
visible fat •
2 garlic cloves,•minced
I can (10,11 ozs, i condensed
chicken broth
1 cup brown rice
1j4 tsp..red pepper flakes
re
i cup broccoli flowerets
f 1 cup cauliflower flowerets
1 tsp. finely shredded fresh`
ginger.
1 tsp. sesame oil
a'. 1 small red pepper, cut into
n thin strips (optional)
h Heat vegetable oil in 10-
incb "skillet. Add lamb and'
s garlic; brown evenly. Drain
excess fat. Add .. enough
water to broth to measure
two and two thirds, cups.
Bring to boil in skillet. Stir in
• rice and red pepper flakes.
Cover tightly and cook 40
mindtes over low heat. Add
broccoli and .cauliflower.
Continue cooking, covered,
. until all liquid is absorbed
and vegetables are tender,
about 10 minutes. Stir in
ginger and sesame oil.
Sprinkle red pepper strips
over rice; if desired.
, Makes 6 servings.
OVERNIGHT ANTIPASTO
• RICE SALAD
212 cups water
1 cup converted white rice
1 tsp. salt ( optional) '
I 2 cup bottled Italian salad
dressing
12 lb..,provolone cheese, cut
Into 1 -inch cubes
'4 Ib. Genoa salami, cut into
thin strips
"14 cup cherry tomato halves
One-third cup small red
onion rings
14 cup pitted sliced ripe
olives
.Pepperocini(optional)
Bring water to boil in
medium •saucepan. Stir in
rice and salt, Coyer tightly
and simmer 20 minutes. Re-
move from heat. Let stand,"
covered,. •until all water is
absorbed, about 5 minutes.
• Transfer t� large bowl. Add
dressing--to•ihot- rice:..Ctt uric ---
room temperature,
Stir in remaining ingred-
ients except pepperocini ;
mix well. Cover and refrig-
erate several hours or over-
night. Garnish with pep-
perocini.
STRAWBERRY YOGURT
FONDUE
About 10 medium-size ripe
strawberries
3 tbsps. honey
4 tbsps. lemon juice
' 4 tsp. vanilla extract
2 cups plain, unsweetened
yogurt
6 cups assorted fresh fruit,
cut into'1'-inch.cubes.
Wash and hull straw-
berries: crush Jvith fork or
puree in blender. Combine
strawberry pulp with honey,
1 tablespoon of lemon juice
and vanilla extract,
Fold into yogurt, blending
well ('over and refrigerate
until chilled, 1 to2 hours.
Arrange fruit on serving
platter and sprinkle w itp re
maining lemon juice. At "ser-
vant; time, spear fruit cubes
on skewers and dip intochill-
r•d yogurt mixture ,
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blanc mange. The letters to
the editor have (more bite,
and are often better written,
than the editorials.
Our magazines are either
tiresomely "liberal" or
narrowly nationalistic, or
both. Tied in tight bundles,
they make better firewood
than they do reading matter.
Television and radio news
reporting, most of it culled
from the late editions of
newspapers, is incredibly
unimaginative and re-
petitious. TV programs, on
the whole, are pure pap,
offensiveby being so inoffen-
sive.
Public figures are so
frightened of offending
somebody or losing a few
votes, that their public utter-
ances come out as mush
wrapped in marshmallow.
What this country, and this
society, need is a good -dash
of cold water from some-
where, to wake us from our
mind -numbing, paralyzing
"niceness".
We need a Bob Edwards
or a Grattan O'Leary to jolt
us with.some honest vituper-
ation, some colorful name
calling, some hard facts, and
some common sense.
We need some politicians
with guts, who don't give a
diddle for the popularity
polls, and who would give us
the facts of life without any
sugar coating.
We need some educators
with backbone to tell the
people who claim that
Huckleberry Finn is racist
and The Merchant off Venice
is anti-semitic and Catch-22
is dirty and The Diviners is
disgusting, to go fly a kite.
We need about 10,000 fewer
smart -ass commentators on
what is wrong with this
country, and a few hundred
honest men or women to tell
us what is right with it. -
We need far fewer "rea-
sonable" people and a heck
of a lot more 'unreasonable"
people, who would refuse to
accept something just be-
cause it's always been done
that way, or someone might
be upset if things were
changed.
We need some thundering
editorials, some pulpits
pounded, some stiff jail
sentences for racism, some
honesty in high places.
We certainly don't need a
"good -war" or a "good de-
pression" to make Canadi-
ans stop whining and bitch-
ing and mealy -mouthing, but
we certainly need a "good"
something 03 turn us back
into the stiiirdy, individual-
istic people we used to be.
I haven't the answers. I'm
no prophet. But I'm sick to
the ears of a society that
thinks: oki peopleare a
nuisance; young people are
never a nuisance; super-
markets are sexy; social
workers can make miracles;
and everybody is as good as
everybody else.
Perhaps if you agree with
me to some extent, you
would enjoy reading The
Golden Age of B.S. by Fred
C. Dobbs. It's rambling and
it's coarse in spots, but it's
right on.,
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