Adobo Extraordinaire

"When aliens come, we'll make great pets." I saw this on Friendster back in 2007, a couple of days after watching a documentary about pagpag. Moved by the plight of my pagpag-eating kababayans and seized by the odd hilarity of the quote, I came up with an idea to merge both into something ... fulfilling.

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When Aliens Come
2007

"When aliens come, we'll make great pets," I chanced upon this on Frienster last night. Considering the heart breaking predicament of our pagpag-eating compatriots, I thought of a toothsome way of putting it. These aliens might be the key to solving food poverty in this country.


There are cultural, social, geographical, and political factors affecting a country's development. In a developing country such as ours, where governmental corruption is prevalent, the political factor is not only undermining development; furthermore, exacerbating poverty, thus, making things worse particularly for its poor citizens.

The thing is, an enormous amount of this country's money goes to the insatiable pockets and bank accounts of corrupt politicians, greedy business tycoons, and religious leaders, you read it right - religious leaders. These pseudo-evangelists rob us like the famed illusionist Copperfield with the Statue of Liberty, and what do we do about it? We put our hands together and scream at the top of our deluded lungs, AMEN!!!

The underdevelopment of the Philippines may be attributable to its inferior developmental factors, but the escalating hardships of our underprivileged countrymen is ascribable to the mournful fact that we are being run by the greedy, the corrupt, and the deceitful. And, while these stately thugs gratify their fastidious appetites with delectable loot-purchased buffets, the needy, the indigent, the impecunious, the impoverished, the destitute, the poor, scantily fill their emaciated guts with recycled food from the garbage. And this alternative source of sustenance brings me back to what I was saying earlier about these aliens being the key to solving chronic food poverty in this country - If they ever visit us, someday, somehow, when these aliens come, the pagpag nourished community of the Philippines will make great adobo out of them.