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Entries for the Month of February 2012
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In General
How to Eat a Fish
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#270
 02-02-2012 07:17 AM |
Some time ago, I sat down to dinner with my paternal grandparents (my "Lolo Camillo" and "Lola Oreng") while visiting them in California. They were having salted, pan-fried fish that night -- a fairly common Filipino meal with the usual steamed, white rice.
As I started to dig in, Lola Oreng shrieked in laughter just as the food was poised to enter my mouth.
"You mean you do not even know how to eat a fish?" she cried.
Bewildered, I looked down and stared in confusion at the chunk of meat on my fork.
"Susmarjosep," Lola cursed, sucking air sharply between her teeth. She snatched the fork from me and proceeded to deftly graze the tines of the fork under the filet, separating it easily from the bones.
"That," she declared proudly, "is the proper way to eat a fish,"
I've thought about her choice of words a great deal since then. While I'd rather chalk it up to her Grade 2 education and correspondingly poor command of the English language, it struck a chord.
You see, when I was a child, I was duly instructed by my father in the "proper" way to sweep the floor, the "proper" way to do the dishes, and so on and so forth. It irked me then, and it still irks me now. Perhaps if fried fish were a regular part of my diet, I thought, or if I had at that point in my life been more experienced in household chores, I would have naturally discovered the best way of performing these tasks on my own.
But the whole idea of a "proper" way is especially significant to me t
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