My new friend

On Saturday, April Fool's day, my boyfriend and I went to eat at an awesome restaurant in Scottsdale, called Leo. It's on Scottsdale Rd., just south of Old Scottsdale...can't remember which street, sorry. At any rate, we'd both been meaning to try it for ages. So we go in and get this waiter, Paul. I am shocked and impressed when this guy starts talking about mad cow disease! He starts rattling off information about testing cows for BSE. He asks my boyfriend how many cows get tested in Japan, and of course he doesn't know. So he asks us how many cows in the U.S. are tested? One in 90, he says. I am so surprised a regular person (as in someone who has never seen CJD) actually knows anything about BSE, much less cares. And he complained about how it is illegal for the government to tell you where the cow came from. You never get that tidbit of information when a cow tests positive for BSE. Ever notice that? It always manages to leak out somehow anyway. Rumors like that are hard to keep quiet!