If you have never read the classic children’s book about a place where it rains food, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, you should. Especially if you have kids.
Our family loved it, and Sony Pictures must like the book as well, since they’re planning to use computer animation to make a movie from the book.
But it wasn’t computer animation when missionary Dave Jordan ran into a storm of french fries.
Dave had driven a group of young Prai people to a Thai village, where they helped with some work and heard the testimony of a Christian worker. The next evening, as they drove home, the french fries began pelting the windshield.
“The wipers could hardly take care of them they were coming so fast,” Dave wrote. “I wondered what my pick-up grill looked like with all those fries packed in there.”
Dave’s passengers began excitedly discussing how they could catch them – and even how they could use the forward momentum of the truck to catch more than they could if they stopped.
I know what you’re thinking. You know things are different in other countries, and can be really different in tribal villages, but it can’t really rain french fries, right?
You caught me. It was a storm of June bugs, which the Prai people love to toss in a wok full of hot oil and eat like fries.
Go ahead and say it: Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!
Depending on your point of view, that’s either amusing or disgusting. Perhaps it’s a little of each. Either way, it’s one of the cultural differences that missionaries have to deal with as they minister among tribal people.
Thank you for helping us serve here in Florida where it’s safe (aside from the alligators and mosquitoes and tourists and hurricanes and tornadoes and lightning and all that stuff), so we can help missionaries with hardier constitutions serve where people eat bugs.
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