Nebraskans Went to Taiwan

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Harry G. Perkins, Eustis teen would return to Taiwan, but not for pig blood
tofu. World-Herald News Service, Jan. 12, 2010.
http://www.lexch.com/articles/2010/01/12/news/local/doc4b4cda963d121614330826.txt

Quote:

"They {American high schoolers] went to a high school where they met
Taiwanese students who had been to America. The [Taiwanese] students said
they really enjoyed being in the United States and were impressed at the
size of fields and the equipment they saw.

"He [Travis Pieper] said he never saw a herd of cattle in the time he was
there. 'How different their ag is from ours,' he said the fields are smaller
* * * They also went into a rice field. 'It was nearly a swamp

Note:
(a) Eustis, Nebraska
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eustis,_Nebraska

, which is far from Omaha.

(b) The Omaha World-Herald is part of Omaha World-Herald (based in Omaha,
Nebraska and the primary daily newspaper of Nebraska).
(c) water bamboo 筊白筍 in Taiwan; 筊白 in southern China; "wild rice" in en
.wikipedia.org
(d) 豬血湯 pig's blood soup
(e) The "ag" in the second quotation is an abbreviation of "agriculture."

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