Re: "Bone in the throat"

John Iwaniszek <not@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
news:Xns9A978FF395D99oiwhnanri@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 

> Weirdwolf wrote:
> 
>> I finished reading the Anthony Bourdain book, "bone in the throat" 
>> yesterday. It's not a bad book but it's just not a great book it's
>> just Meh. To be honest it isn't my type of book,(crime) and you can
>> see where his talent really lies when he starts writing about food.
>> If you can find a copy really cheap or borrow it from a library it
>> may just be worth a read. 
>>  I'm now reading Alice Sebold's "The Lovely Bones" so far it is much 
>> better.
> 
> My in-laws' greatest death defying act is to eat fish.  they always 
> anticipate choking on a stray bone, so as a precaution (and to
> heighten the thrill of facing down death) they always keep a loaf of
> white bread on the table in case they have to push a lodged bone down
> a close relative's throat. 
> 

My grandparents always insisted that when we ate fish there was a piece of

white bread on our plate for the same reason.................in 25 years
of  
being an ER doctor ritch has not treated someone for choking on a fish
bone