baby newt: RAMJET...Pohnpei PSYCHEDELIC GRATEFUL DEAD phish MICRONESIAN CANINE GASTRONOMES

band...BABY NEWT 1995ish
cd...ZINKA
song...RAMJET

ADAM DERSHEWITZ...BASS
JOE KOLLMAN...DRUMS, VOCALS
ERIC SKERBECK (RIP)...GUITAR, VOCALS
PAUL HEIDERSCHEIDT...GUITAR, VOCALS

"It is said to be the second-rainiest place on earth. Kolonia, the only large town on the island, is perched on the northern coast and receives about 12 feet of rain a year. The deep, uninhabited mountainous interior gets twice that amount. With the heat of the tropics and all the rain, jungle grows thickly across the island. Palm trees and breadfruit trees grow in abundance, as do banana trees, whose wide, shiny leaves are sometimes cut and used as biodegradable umbrellas during one of the many sudden rainstorms.

Life on the island was slow and peaceful, sometimes euphorically serene. But thousands of dogs roam the island, and dog encounters were a part of daily life while I was there. Some of the dogs were wild, and wandered about, homeless. Others belonged to specific families, lived in their yards, and possibly had names. But they were not pets in the same sense that dogs are pets in the United States.

Another interesting fact about dogs on Pohnpei is that they are sometimes killed, cooked, and eaten. Dog meat is a delicacy on the island. Many people whom I spoke to about this told me that they loved it, finding it tasty. Pohnpei is a place of abundant food, and as far as I could tell, people ate dog not out of a sense of need but instead, pleasure. The Pohnpeian word for dog is kidi and the word for delicious is iou (pronounced yo), and it was common to hear the two words used together."

(from: http://www.worldhum.com/features/travel-stories/the_dogs_of_pohnpei_20080103/)

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