Clearly OT (but what the hell...) (was: food

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Tue Nov 6 14:57:52 2001

When my boys both were still well under 10 years old, they suddenly decided they
didn't like mushrooms. At that time, I had alternate weekend visitatation, as
their mother and I were divorced, and the last thing we normally did on Sunday
evening before they were returned to their Mom was have dinner, so she didn't
have to feed them right away. They claimed to like Chinese food, and, for some
years, up until the younger was just a bit over 10, they routinely enjoyed a
disk known as Moo Goo Gai Pan. AFAIK, Gai Pan is chicken, and Moo Goo is
mushroom. There were, of course sufficient snow peas in the dish that they
apparently went two or three years of eating this every other Sunday evening
before one of them finally figured out it was mainly mushrooms. I couldn't get
them to eat the stuff after that, even though they'd admittedly been enjoying it
for years. I guess that's just the way kids are. Someone must have told them
that eating mushrooms wasn't "cool."

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Merchberger" <zmerch_at_30below.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 12:47 PM
Subject: Clearly OT (but what the hell...) (was: food


> Rumor has it that gwynp_at_artware.qc.ca may have mentioned these words:
>
> >On 06-Nov-2001 Bryan Pope wrote:
> > >>
> > >> On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Chad Fernandez wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > Richard Erlacher wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> > > Americans have always been somewhat "strange" about their diet,
>
> Yea, as in -> real food has to be "americani[sz]ed" and preprocessed thru
> Burger King et. al. before they'll eat it... Shame.
>
> We have 2 chinese restaurants in town, which both suck... (americani[sz]ed)
> and 1 greek restaurant, which is extremely good but don't serve enough
> (IMHO) choices in the way of greek food... They have gyros, kalamari, and a
> few other dishes & the rest - american. (damn good american, but american
> nonetheless...)
> :-(
> I'm continually begging them for new greek stuff - you can get a burger
> anywhere, after all - and I was *finally* greeted with something new this
> Saturday (don't recall the name, some type of lamb & beef dish with a
> baked pancake-like topping - started with an "M") and it was fantastic!
>
> [[ And my kids *love* kalamari & most everything else I make them try... ]]
>
> I am *not* a normal american... ;^>
>
> > >> > How? I've never seen anything that I thought was strange.
> > >>
> > >> Gravy. Gravy is pretty strange when you consider what goes into it.
>
> Gravy is *not* strange if you've ever had pickled pigs feet... after that,
> you know that gravy can be made with many things other than flour or corn
> starch... ;-)
>
> > hmmm.... Poutine anyone? ;-)
>
> >POUTINE! POUTINE! POUTINE!
>
> Awrighty -- educate this idiotic american... what's Poutine? (Oh, and as an
> aside, what's Haggis?)
>
> Thanks,
> Roger "Merch" Merchberger
>
>
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