Sideswipe: Tangy cuisine

A little something to keep the taste buds refreshed.

Getting even with Borat

Four years after the film Borat, Kazakhstan is getting its revenge - with an unauthorised sequel. Based on Sacha Baron Cohen's fictional Kazakh character, My Brother, Borat is about an American who is taken on a sure-to-be-flattering tour of Kazakhstan by Borat's brother Bilo, Cinema Blend reports. The director says it won't contain any obscene humour like the original and its goal is to show the world how modern Kazakhstan is.

Off with their legs

Greece's largest government health insurance provider says it will no longer pay for special footwear for diabetes patients. Amputation is cheaper than treatment, says the state insurance provider. (Source: To Vima)

Ticket to disappointment

"I've turned the house upside down ... he loses everything I give him" - an unnamed pensioner who claims she bought the UK's biggest winning lottery ticket, but her absent-minded husband threw it away. The woman, said to be in her 70s, said her husband inadvertently put the EuroMillions coupon, worth £113 million ($238 million), out with the rubbish. (Source: BBC Magazine Monitor)

I'd know my child anywhere ...

Further to the grandad who can't recognise his own grandchild in school uniform, a reader from Papakura writes: "A car pulled up alongside me at traffic lights and this pretty young thing smiled at me. Made my day ... turned out it was my daughter with her boyfriend."

Snooze at the shops

"In 1946, while babysitting me when I was still a baby in a pram, my aunty took me shopping," writes Rob. "I understand the shops were about 3km from home. She parked the pram outside the shops, did the shopping, and went home. Mum came home and asked aunty where I was ... aunty then realised she left me in my pram outside the shops, hurried back and found me asleep in the pram and took me home. I understand the elapsed time was three hours."

Lost in translation

Suzanne writes: "In response to Alex's comments about surprising his Chilean father-in-law with Te Mata wine which means, 'I want to kill you' in Spanish ... it is strange to see in South American countries that they sell Colgate toothpaste. Colgate in Spanish means 'hang yourself'."

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