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Chicken and a Biscuit maybe ?

For me the dogs were the main point. Who eats lamb?

That's a neat article, AS. Thanks.

Leg and a thigh!

...No-piece?

I agree....I think the government has failed the people on many levels.

I think outlawing knives is foolish. I believe it is unlikely that outlawing knives will reverse the recent increase in violent street crime where a knife is involved. Some specific incidents will be prevented but the reason for the increased crime remains. Law abiding citizens carrying a knife are subject to the same fines and punishment as are street thugs who rob people simply because they can. If there was a way to reduce high unemployment, there would be fewer hungry and desperate people on the streets who resort to violence and crime to support themselves and/or their families. In the U.S. there is controversy over gun control. Some reasonable people believe that guns should be outlawed. There are other reasonable people who feel the opposite. Reasonable people can and do disagree. I realize that gun control involves more issues than a knife ban but each item can be used as a weapon or as a defense. I wish I knew the solution to the problem, but I don't. I can certainly sympathize with demonstrators in Brazil who protest the way the government fails to steer the economy to a beneficial solution.

JUST BECAUSE

As a frequent visitor there, do you think that outlawing the knives is really a solution? I would think, and I could be wrong, having never been there, but perhaps getting a handle on unemployment, poverty, and corruption would do more to bring the crime rate down. Or are those issues for the long term, and perhaps outlawing knives will help in the interim. Curious...

Maybe You will Now ??? Here's Jussie Smollett who plays the GAY son.......

I've been there more times than you can count. The big problem is that Benfica is not the nicest or safest of bairros. Within spitting distance of Sao Januario, the home stadium for Vasco football club here. One of my friends here was the national champion in the butterfly for Brasil and came up in their swimming program. The fruit, vegetable, foodstuffs, plant and flower vendors close between 9AM and Noon pretty much. Then it turns into a yuppie dining place. The 472 and 474 buses stop within a block of the front doors. The Triagem metro stop is about a three block walk. This walk is definitely not for the first-time visitor to Rio de Janeiro, except for the adventure tourist.

I like them both but I love the show and the music. Perhaps the best show of last year!