The new measures, they argue, could do far more damage to Lebanon's economy than the odd foreign ice-cream.
Here, Tintin and Asterix speak foreign languages, ice lollies carry exotic names such as "Brrr" rather than dull old Magnum and wearing a swimming hat and briefs is the (sometimes compulsory) norm.
So foreign is ice-skating in Mexico that the city had to specially train a corps of police officers and paramedics to skate in case of accidents.
Three foreign-born ice dancers — the Canadian Belbin, and the Russians Maxim Zavozin and Sergei Magerovski — were granted expedited citizenship through special legislation signed by President Bush in December 2005.
But just as an airplane can stall if the air flow over the wing changes (either because the wing's angle into the air changes or a foreign material, like ice, builds up on it), so, too, can a turbine blade stall.
But without continued accreditation from ACICS, CSI, already stripped of Department of Education aid, would lose its eligibility for the ICE foreign students program.
On one of my trips to Saraqeb, I stopped at a bakery and was met with the stares of approximately twenty male foreign fighters eating ice cream no less.
In earlier projects, he has documented "meteorwrongs," rocks initially identified as meteorites but later demoted to terrestrial status; glacial erratics, boulders left behind in foreign landscapes by melting ice; and an occult belief system built by a former I.B.M. research scientist around the geometries of quartz crystals.
Granted he was talking about American foreign policy, not... ice dancing.
"We understand that at some point the foreign climbers kicked some ice back and it hit one of the Sherpa guides, causing the fight to start," Gupta told AFP.
After additional correspondence the store received the following wire: "Matches mistaken for cheese by foreign maid and found in ice box.
