FLOODING IN SERBIA AND CROATIA AND BOZNIA HERZEGOVINA : MY HEART BREAKS FOR THE PEOPLE

RECORD FLOODS FORCING MORE EVACUATIONS : WALL STREET JOURNAL BLOG

“Much of Bosnia and Herzegovina, eastern Croatia and Serbia are underwater with an imminent threat of spillover into the neighboring countries,” the bank said, adding it would consider increasing its investment program for the Balkans beyond the €1.2 billion ($1.64 billion) originally planned for this year."

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35,000 people and counting have left behind their pets, livestock, valuable, homes, cars... the Balkans have historically been at war and now more people are effected than in the wars...  It is time to pull together, no matter what.

The experience of loss here is so profound, I ask myself what are these people going to do?

If there is money to rebuild, then they must consider the Climate Changes that seem to be wrecking havoc with the weather all over the world and they must build high up.  If natural features of geography do not allow this, then artificial mounds must be build.

  

MILLET - THE HUNGARIAN GRAIN THAT'S HEALTH FOOD

Reading around today's typical Hungarian diet, I came across SWEET MILLET as a breakfast food.

HERE IS A SITE WORLD'S HEALTHIEST FOODS - MILLET PAGE

Although millet is most often associated as the main ingredient in bird seed, it is not just "for the birds." Creamy like mashed potatoes or fluffy like rice, millet is a delicious grain that can accompany many types of food.

WINE DRINKERS VERSUS BEER DRINKERS : HUNGARIAN / HUNGARIAN AMERICAN STEREOTYPES

I believe most Hungarian Americans are WINE DRINKERS and that BEER DRINKING is Germanic or Austrian!  This may be ridiculous, because there are wine making regions in these countries too, but it's correct in my experience.  Further I think if you're more Slavic, you'll be more interested in Vodka or hard liqueur!

Believe it or not, I hate beer.  I believe my entire life time intake of beer is not much more than two six pack.  I never buy it.  I never ask for it.  However, people meaning to be good hosts and hostesses have handed me a beer or offered me a beer, and each time this has happened I think "Maybe my taste buds will have changed." 

But they have not.

I think I've managed to get down an entire can or bottle a few times by sipping politely.  I've also gone to the ladies room and dumped some of it down the drain so I wouldn't have to drink the whole beer, more than once!  Letting a can sit without drinking it past a sip has been another one of my tactics of beer avoidance.

I am so beer adverse that years ago when some German friends invited me to go to a special bar that boasted hundreds of beers from around the world (while most of their patrons probably had Buds or Iron Cities or some other production line beer) and I ordered (do not laugh) a "whisky sour." 

It makes no difference to me if beer is ice cold or warm.  I hate it.

At the time that I ordered that Whisky Sour I knew of only two drinks based on what friends drank and those were a Whisky Sour or a Rum and Coke!  Maybe this is because I was raised to be a lady and the ladies were at the time ordering mixed drinks rather than beer.   Beer was for the men!

Tonic water made me want to gag.  I couldn't imagine imbibing any hard liquor "on the rocks!" 

Eventually I learned that I liked wine best, and to this day, though I drink rarely, I'm still trying various wines in some attempt to understand which ones I like best and why.

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