15. "RE: (S71) S5DS04 Familiar Spirits"
In response to message #11
>Conversely, I once saw an English gent utterly flummox first the >cashier, then himself, at a Kentucky Fried Chicken in greater Boston >by ordering a half-dozen biscuits and specifying that they were for >dessert.
Try being a brand new Heinlein fan just discovering his teen adventure yarns - I must have been about twelve at the most - wondering why those crazy Americans would put gravy on their biscuits. And then eat them. I went through most of my school years convinced everyone on your side of the Pond had a downright warped sense of taste. ;)