Rampaging Roosters by Katerina Nikolas

Author:Katerina Nikolas
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Greece
Published: 2017-09-23T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 27

Filthy Foreign Food Muck

That old fool Vasilis was fit to burst with pride when he saw his beautiful young bride being interviewed live on the television news. However his mood soon turned sour when he spotted the smitten young doctor ministering to the tear gassed Japanese tourists as he jealously didn’t want him anywhere near his wife. Climbing onto Onos the donkey he headed into the village, hoping to find mail order Masha drinking vodka in ‘Mono Ellinka Trofima’.

“She stopped up in town to ‘ave dinner with that young reporter,” Yiota told him “an’ if yous wants food we only ‘ave lamb chops tonight as I ‘ad no time to cook when protesting.”

Vasilis frowned in annoyance, suspecting his wife was actually embroiled in a secret assignation with the smitten young doctor. Remembering her temper tantrum when he had falsely accused her of carrying on with the doctor, he decided to give her the benefit of the doubt as the least expensive option. He was inordinately pleased when the other villagers told him Masha looked like a movie star on the television. He decided he would give her the money to pay for the cheek fillers she had been hinting at for weeks.

The other villagers were all tucking into Takis’ aromatic grilled lamb chops. Curious eyes settled on Deirdre when she surreptitiously pulled a jar of shop bought green sludge from the depths of her handbag and spooned it liberally over her meat.

“What’s that yous is putting on the lamb, Did-Rees?” Tall Thomas asked her, to which Deirdre replied, “It is mint sauce, a most delicious condiment to pair with lamb.”

“Sounds like one of them peculiar foreign ways of messing with good Greek foods that cannot be improved with anything but oregano,” said Prosperous Pedros, gnawing heartily on a vegetarian lamb chop liberally doused with a squeeze of fresh lemon. As the jar was passed round from table to table everyone agreed the notion of mint sauce was most peculiar. The locals sniffed it suspiciously before denouncing it as filthy foreign food muck which had no place on a good Greek table.

“Yous will learn Did-Rees,” Takis told her. “Yous need to adapt to Greek ways now yous is living ‘ere. Yous don’t want to be mistaken for them tourists what asks for grilled children when they means to order lamb chops,” he chortled, recounting how many foreign people confused ‘paidakia’ with ‘paidia’ through simple mispronunciation.

“Next you’ll expect me to wash my bedding in the sea,” Deirdre said, but her joke went completely over their heads and they asked if she was planning on having Quentin baptised.

“I have no intention of letting the odious Pappas dunk me in his oily font,” Quentin quipped.

As soon as the Pappas was mentioned the villagers began to gossip about his impending divorce from Petula. They unanimously agreed the lovely Petula was well rid of the Pappas and speculated if she and Gorgeous Yiorgos were now a romantic item.

Fat Christos stared wistfully at the lamb chops as his diet was still restricted to liquidised foods.

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