Re: Streetlife in ****tugal

Focus wrote:
> What you could find around the streets on an average day:
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> http://photos-of-****tugal.com/
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> Comments welcome.
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> 
Once again you have made me want to visit ****tugal. A question: the 
cacus that we call prickly pear in the US, except most of ours are 
covered with large thorns surrounded at their bases with very tiny 
thorns. Do the ****tuguese use their pads in cooking, as they do in 
Mexico? The pads as prepared for cooking are called nopalitos, or 
sometimes nopales, and one use is to cut them into small pieces and put 
them in scrambled eggs. Talk about high-fiber diet! Incidentally, those 
very small thorns are difficult to remove when preparing the nopalitos.
Allen