They eat dolphin in Barbados......... don't they?

Today's post has been inspired by a friend of mine that traveled quite some distance to visit our beautiful island ;-) and after she was taken out to sample *ahem* our fine local cuisine, she said something that made me laugh a bit, it was along the lines of;

"what?! you eat dolphin, and you give us all that hassle?!"

Now, all my life growing up, I've been groomed into the automatic response to that statement by saying, "No, not flipper....the ugly one, yeah, mahi-mahi" (Some local restaurants have taken it one step further by ever so thoughtfully reproducing a small photo of said mahi-mahi next to the menu listing.) but it wasn't until she said that, that it really made me think about how you never seem to notice and/or appreciate some things until they are pointed out by someone completely new to the experience.

That in itself, has helped me to discover a new passion for preserving and passing on all aspects of barbadian culture that seemed to have been lost on a majority of those in my generation. And if nobody else teams up and makes the effort, then we lose the sense of who we are as an autonomous people.