O' nuts

I dabbled with a Bangladeshi habbit the other day. I decided to sit down with Sheitra, our ma and caretaker, and her friends to watch a Z classic Bangladeshi film in our appt. No sooner than my bum hit the bed did I find Sheitra shoving the popular red chewing nut into my mouth. The inital taste wasn't so bad...it was what came after that did me in: a green leaf smeared with a white, waxy, paste. While the women found my facial expressions more entertaining than their afternoon flick, I found myself running to the bathroom. Thank god I didn't swallow otherwise I think I would have been stuck at home praying to the porceline gods for a couple of days!