tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Dec 09 00:08:14 1996
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
RE: yuch
- From: "Clint St.Laurent" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: yuch
- Date: Mon, 9 Dec 96 00:06:01 -0800
>Subject: RE: yuch
>Sent: 12/8/96 11:03 AM
>Received: 12/8/96 3:05 PM
>From: la'Hom qorDayt, [email protected]
>Reply-To: [email protected]
>To: Multiple recipients of list, [email protected]
>
>Oliver Pereira <[email protected]> asked about yuch.
>
>Perhaps only slightly off topic, you'll notice that tlhIngan Hol does not
>have
>a word for sugar. It does have a word for saccarine. Now, saccarine is a
>sugar
>substitute produced from coal tar. It tastes sweet without being a sugar.
>
>This implies to me that Klingons do not have sugar cane or something
>similar to
>get refined sugar from. If there is a coco native to the Homeworld, it
>would be
>bitter like the Aztec beverages first imported to Europe from the New World.
It WOULD be? or it MIGHT be? Perhaps the native coco equivilant is
already sweet. For that matter, maybe something native to the soil makes
many of the edible plants sweet; like many of the veggies of Earth are
green.
>
>Which, I suppose, I why terran chocolate is so prized by Klingons. Imagine
>Klingons hyped up on chocolate/sugar/caffene. Terrans add sugar to their
>chocolate to make it sweet.
>
>--------------------------------------------------
> Lt.Cmdr. Kordite, Executive Officer
> IKV Dark Justice, Klingon Assault Group
>--------------------------------------------------
> choSuvchugh 'oy'lIj Daghur neH
>--------------------------------------------------
>[email protected] http://www.fyi.net/~kordite/
>