Sorry for the extended delay between posting Cool Indian Activity #1 and #2. I'm sure the wait has been hardly bearable.
Pan Chewing: After yet another home-cooked-Indian-meal-that-was-better-than-any-Indian-restaurant-I've-ever-been-to, the lady of the house whips out a small metal box filled with about 20 jars of brightly colored powders and crumbs, as well as four fresh green leaves. It was time to chew Pan. Sort of the Indian equivalent to Red Man chewing tobacco. She made a drug cocktail on the leaf with about 8 ingredients and rolled it into a small cone. I was not wild about chewing it. Remembering back to the first time I tried chewing tobacco, I realized that if I put this into my mouth, there was about a 60 percent chance I would vomit. All over this nice family's living room. Fortunately, there was about 6 others standing over me saying I would be much cooler if I did it. As a graduate of the DARE program in my youth (Drug Abuse Resistance Education), I immediately gave in to peer pressure. As a reader, I know you will be disappointed to hear that I did not throw up. Sorry.
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