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Hi Pete and all,
Origins end up hotly disputed so here's another puzzle. Gefilte fish is
patties or balls made from deboned and ground carp, whitefish, or pretty
much anything that sticks together well and is said to be of Jewish
origin. So what do you call the fish balls in seaweed soup my Chinese
girlfriend fed me for breakfast? Some years before a Jewish Russian
friend (an immigrant) fed me the same thing as part of the evening meal.
No, she's a Buddhist from Taiwan.
When it comes to pita there's another conflict, you say it's Italian flat
bread and I am under the impression it's Middle Eastern and then there's
a Greek word for it I can't recall at the moment. Then on TV of course
I've seen African bushwomen making it in mud beehive ovens and then
there's the Hebrew unleavened bread, so let's call it part of a universal
human culture and be done with it.
Yeah, Marco Polo brought wonton from China and called it spaghetti so now
there are as many Italian noodles as Chinese only Italians load them with
tomato and cheese while Chinese stuff them with all sorts of goodies.
Then there's gunpowder that killed as many Chinese as Europeans but we
never would have left Earth without it.
Oh, I think you got salmon and carp mixed up but you got the carp
(gefilte fish) keeping the aquarium clean part right. I never thought of
it as bottom feeders when the joke is ge-filter fish... oh well. By odd
coincidence Larry, the one with the joke once used Casey Filter as his
air name on the infamous pirate station. At a loss for a name his first
time out he looked over the studio equipment and spotted the 10-20KC
filter switch on the air monitor and the rest is as they say, gefilte
fish.
I think you meant bangers for pork sausages, I eat them with baked beans
but it's the beans that are the bangers. Yeah, hotdogs are a cheap
substitute and I forget what they call those 2"ers that come in a can,
never liked whore doovers. HUH? Oh, that's Merkun for something French.
Here's something that'll put you off hot dogs, bologna and similar
products forever, look up meat paste.
Uh oh, I see that north of the border it's easy to confuse Texarcana,
Texico and Texaco but Mexifornia has always been that way.
73 de Warren
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