Dan and Laura sitting down for dinner. Cabbage rolls, chicken, polenta which they call mămăligă, yogurt. You can't believe how good this all is and they eat it all the time, or at least on weekends. The enormous loaf in the middle is bread. Just out of the oven. It reads like a Chinese propaganda poster of the Red Guard era, the good life as experienced by peasants who, as American propaganda points out, can't afford Playstations. If Dan is longing for McDonalds he didn't show it. The red pepper came out of a vat in the basement. The vat had mold on top and would probably freak out the USDA and the Tamiflu Consortium and proponents of a sterile life everywhere. They put aspirin in the ketchup to preserve that. I wonder if it still works in Coca-Cola in rural Dolj?