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Skriven 2008-08-25 15:27:30 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 12584 av Nancy Backus (1:3634/12.0)
Ärende: Mexican food
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Hi Nancy,


 RH> And then I went cooking Italian instead of German.  Did Steve fill you
 RH> in on my great grandfather's background?

 NB> A little, isn't he the one that compiled the German genealogy, and
 NB> wrote the poems, and was a pastor?

He was the pastor who also wrote poetry.  I think (but not 100% sure)
tho that it was his son, my grandfather, who did the geneaology.  I
could be wrong tho.  There are some interesting family stories too. (G)

 NB>  NB>> True enough...  settling in at least makes it more likely that
 NB> one  NB>> would absorb the culture and try the foods... although I
 NB> have known  NB>> people that would STILL try to stay unsullied by the
 NB> unfamiliar. :)

 RH> I've known some of them too.  We knew several families in Germany who
 RH> never went out of "Little America" as I termed the PX, Commissary,
 RH> etc. It was their loss.

 NB> Indeed it was.

Very much so!  Our girls have memories of bratwurst & brotchen and doner
kebaps to name a couple of their favorite recollections of Germany. And,
they, like most all military kids stationed there, can tell you about
kinder eir.


 RH> When we visited the Big Island in HI, we did a packaged tour thing.
 RH> Both days we had lunch on our own, the others went for standard
 RH> "American", fast food one day and fried seafood the other.  We went
 RH> for hole in the wall Korean and Greek, respectively. (G)

 NB> From my perspective, it would appear that you had by far the better of
 NB> the deal.  :)   I wouldn't be surprised to find out that yours was the
 NB> less expensive option, as well...  (G)

The Korean vs fast food was probably about the same but we most likely
did better eating Greek the day the others had the seafood. I know we
had the better meals tho.


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Ruth
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