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July 18, 2006

Grilled Cheese Rationing

Many of you probably wonder what a polar bear eats in Iraq. As I mentioned earlier, the chow hall does not serve seal or walrus, and KBR wanted to charge wayyy too much money to make special deliveries for me. Still, I manage to get by. Most of you probably don't realize this, but polar bears really like grilled cheese sandwiches.

You see, in the summer months, we can't hunt seals or walruses the way we're used to. Without sea ice, we can't go and wait at a hole in the ice for seals to come up for air. Instead, most of us just scrounge whatever we can, and live mostly off of body fat. We're one of the few animals who fatten up during the winter to survive the summer!

Fortunately, in recent years we polar bears have discovered grilled cheese sandwiches. We love them! I can still remember my mother making grilled cheese sandwiches for us cubs during the summer when I was little. Of course, I had to fight with my siblings to actually get any, and I often lost - but when I was able to grab a couple, it was great.

My mother would go into a nearby town to get the ingredients. She would walk into the store and grab a few loaves of bread and as much cheese as she could carry. When she went to pay, the cashiers would usually hide, and let my mom take all that stuff for free. I really appreciate their generosity. It can be tough for a mother with three cubs to make it through the summer!

So anyway, I like grilled cheese sandwiches. Unfortunately, the chow hall here limits everyone to two. What's up with that? I understand limiting a human being to 2, since they usually weigh 120-200 lbs. But I weigh 1100lbs. I need at LEAST ten. I'm always left hungry, and that's really annoying. I need to figure out a way to get around that rule...

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