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Skriven 2008-07-14 13:51:24 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 10436 av Nancy Backus (1:3634/12.0)
Ärende: Mexican food
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Hi Nancy,

 NB>  NB>> Dunno what the average stay is in the military, nor really what
 NB> it
 RH> Average stay is 3 years but we've not conformed to it very well in our
 RH> career. (G) That is, with the Army. Other branches may vary and, I
 RH> understand, there's talk of trying to let people stay longer at

 NB> My terminology is probably faulty, but it would seem that there would
 NB> be a difference between a deployment (such as to Iraq or Afganistan)
 NB> and a duty station or whatever one would call a posting to a
 NB> non-combat area. But I guess in the case of deployment, the family is
 NB> (almost?) always
 NB> left behind, so it isn't really a move.

You have the terminology correct. Steve's duty station is at Hunter Army
Air Field.  Some troops (troop=one soldier) from HAAF have deployed
(gone to "hot spots"), leaving family behind. Family never goes on
deployment. When we moved here from HI, we did what the Army calls a PCS
(Permanent Change of (duty) Station); we moved--lock, stock and barrel.
A TDY (Temporary Duty Station) would be if Steve were to go to a
military school, "business" trip or otherwise and return to his duty
station. For some schools, he's had the opportunity to do his own meals
(either going out for or cooking his own), other times he's had a meal
card which he used to eat in the military dining facility (DFac). Have I
thrown enough military teminology at you in one paragraph? (G)

 NB> that the stay in Mexico was long enough for granddad's little sister
 NB> to be born there, and end up with an Hispanic birth certificate, a
 NB> dream-come-true for a genealogist, as it lists not only the parents of
 NB> the child, but also both sets of grandparents, WITH mothers' maiden
 NB> names... :)

 RH> Interesting. Did your family develop a love of Mexican food/cooking
 RH> because of the stay there?

 NB> Unknown.  I didn't get to know my father's paternal aunts as well as I
 NB> did his maternal ones... and my granddad died when I was in my teens,
 NB> so I never really knew enough to ask even him then...  Perhaps a bit
 NB> of it seeped into my genetic makeup, though... (G)

It seems that's how you got your appreciation of family history at
least.  If we all cooked by our genetic make up, I'd be cooking German
all the time.  That wouldn't go over with us as Steve is half German,
half Italian. I did learn to cook good Italian (much better than what I
was raised on) from my MIL. From our travels tho, we've come to
appreciate --and cook other cuisines as well.

 NB> the perpetual wandering may have influenced his going into the Navy
 NB> as the sole male in a household composed of his mother, grandmother and
 NB> 4 sisters...  :)  In any case, he became career Navy...  :)

 RH> That could be a very good reason--get into a very male environment.
 RH> But, he probably didn't ever have to cook for himself. (G)

 NB> True enough... and not when he went into the service, either, unless
 NB> he were on KP...  ;)

Now KP is mostly in Basic; there are regular cooks to handle the day to
day stuff.


 RH> Our girls always said that they wanted to stay in one place when they
 RH> were adults. Rachel married David who joined the Air Force so they
 RH> moved around a bit for their first 9 years. Then he got out and moved
 RH> has stayed in AZ but moved from the southeastern corner to in/around
 RH> the Phoenix area. But, she's done a lot of short term travel with her
 RH> job, plus a year deployed. She's always been the more adventurous of
 RH> the two for trying new foods too. (G)

 NB> I'm thinking that there is a combination of nature and nurture, along
 NB> with circumstance, to be able to explain it...  :)  I have to admit,

Probably. It's always interesting to see what the next assignment will
bring but sometimes it's nice to stay in place for a long time.


 NB> that although we've lived in one spot for over 30 years (and on one
 NB> level, I'm happy enough NOT to have to pack up and move), I get the
 NB> urge to wander, too...  Richard isn't nearly so, he'd rather just stay

Steve has always had a sense of "let's see what's around the next
corner" so I suspect we'll be doing some travel even after he gets out
of the military.  The nice thing is, we won't have to pack up as often
and move everything.

 NB> and his idea of an ideal vacation is to just go to the camp property
 NB> we have and veg for however long we can manage it (along with doing
 NB> the
 NB> upkeep necessary, of course).  I agree on the vacation part, but I do
 NB> also want to be going places... mostly we've kept that urge satisfied
 NB> by his bankrolling my genealogy trips, which for many years I did in
 NB> the
 NB> company of his mother.  :)

Sounds like a good compromise.


 NB>  RH>> It probably had no preservatives until relatively recently,
 NB> it would probably have a  RH>> fast turn over in the Philly area.
 NB>  NB>> That makes a lot of sense.  :)  It certainly didn't seem to sit
 NB> around  NB>> for long, anyway... :)

 RH> I'm not surprised. People that have moved away from where they grew up
 RH> and ate scrapple all the time--wanted to keep eating in the way they
 RH> were brought up...........and if fresh, home made scrapple from the
 RH> area where they used to live..............

 NB> Exactly.

 NB>  NB>> Helluva Good...  that's made locally here... their headquarters
 NB> are  NB>> just down the road, in Sodus...  :)

 RH> I know; we were surprised to see it in the commissaries down here.

 NB> I guess it's become famous farther than just its local region... :)

Yes, and it is a good cheese.

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Ruth
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