while munching on something called sweet cracklins ( basically a hunk of potato bread dipped in turbinado sugar from a specific township in barbados and then fried in peanut oil ) at hardscrabble , i struck up a conversationbecause , you know , these things happen to you all the time , in the middle of the day , when youre a travel writerwith a drag queen , who was planning on a revival of the legendary bananas foster revue , cat got your tongue ?