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Feb 28, 2004

(The following, plagiarized from a Carnival t-shirt, purports to

distinguish real from fake Trinidadians.)

Real: Reaches fete after 10:00 p.m., and doesn?t leave until sun comes up.

Fake: Asking where are people going after 10:00 p.m.

Real: Eat roti, pelau, souse, pudding, manicou, crab and dumpling, and

crying: ?Better belly buss than good food waste.?

Fake: Eat roti with a knife and fork, and says: ?Manicou? I am eating

nothing like that!?

Real: Walks around with a trailer load of babash, beers, pelau (enough

food to feed the United Nations).

Fake: Walks with both hands swinging to the bar, requests a Bud, and asks

where the next KFC, McDonalds, or Burger King is.

Real: Fetes Carnival Sunday into Jouvert morning, bathes somewhere, and,

with no rest, jumps up Carnival Monday.

Fake: Goes to Dimanche Gras, goes home to get ready for Jouvert, falls

asleep, and never wakes up.

Real: Jumps up Carnival Tuesday from Port of Spain to Saint James, till

Last Lap.

Fake: Sits in the Grand Stand, on Canival Monday and Tuesday, watching mas.

Real: Relax on Maracas Beach on Ash Wednesday, eating bake and shark

Fake: Have also mastered that art!

(The Traveller, Saturday, February 28, 2004)