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Rabrrrrrr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-29-07 11:25 AM Original message |
Did you grow up thinking Spaghetti was "ethnic" food? I did - |
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supernova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-29-07 11:30 AM Response to Original message |
1. No, we ate spaghetti when I was a kid |
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Rabrrrrrr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-29-07 11:39 AM Response to Reply #1 |
4. It's funny, but my Mom did a lot of from-scratch cooking, but never tomato sauce. |
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supernova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-29-07 11:54 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. My dad was like your mom |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-29-07 11:36 AM Response to Original message |
2. Ethnic food night was last night. We had Lutfisk, Akavit, sausage, lingonberries, knackebrod |
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crim son (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-29-07 11:37 AM Response to Original message |
3. I did, but I think it was because of the television commercial where the Italian mother |
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yewberry (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-29-07 11:51 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. "Hey Anthony!" |
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bicentennial_baby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-29-07 11:56 AM Response to Reply #5 |
8. ... |
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yewberry (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-29-07 12:13 PM Response to Reply #8 |
13. Oh, there it is! |
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crim son (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-29-07 12:06 PM Response to Reply #5 |
11. OMG, you remember his name! |
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bicentennial_baby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-29-07 12:07 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. I posted it above |
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crim son (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-29-07 01:21 PM Response to Reply #12 |
26. So you did. |
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AlCzervik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-29-07 12:03 PM Response to Reply #3 |
9. it was Prince spaghetti. |
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poiuytsister (591 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-29-07 11:55 AM Response to Original message |
7. You mean it isn't? |
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Rabrrrrrr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-29-07 12:03 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. Spaghetti was specifically pointed out as being ethnic in my home - |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-29-07 01:05 PM Response to Reply #10 |
22. Ah, EYE-talian food from EYE-taly? |
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Rabrrrrrr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-29-07 01:08 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. No, EYE-talian from Italy - for some reason, Italy was pronounced correctly. |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-29-07 01:36 PM Response to Reply #23 |
27. I dated a girl from Wisconsin |
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poiuytsister (591 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-29-07 02:20 PM Response to Reply #27 |
33. And we drink water from bubblers |
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Heidi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-29-07 12:15 PM Response to Original message |
14. Nah. I grew up knowing it was what my parents ate to get through university. |
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datasuspect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-29-07 12:16 PM Response to Original message |
15. german is an ethnicity |
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Heidi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-29-07 12:19 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. I guess most people don't think of their own ethnicity as "an ethnicity." |
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supernova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-29-07 01:10 PM Response to Reply #17 |
24. That's so true |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-29-07 12:25 PM Response to Reply #15 |
18. Ethnic cooking: The perfect bratwurst parts 1 and 2 |
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Pierre.Suave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-29-07 12:18 PM Response to Original message |
16. I would be happy never again having spaghetti... |
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yewberry (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-29-07 12:30 PM Response to Original message |
19. The food you grew up with might've seemed 'ethnic' to me. |
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CreekDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-29-07 12:35 PM Response to Original message |
20. i grew up thinking as an italian i was ethnic and that real white people ate bland food |
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Ellen Forradalom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-29-07 12:56 PM Response to Original message |
21. The opposite, actually |
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hippywife (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-29-07 01:13 PM Response to Original message |
25. Spaghetti was Sunday dinner...every Sunday. |
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Left Is Write (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-29-07 01:49 PM Response to Original message |
28. No. We ate spaghetti a lot. |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-29-07 01:55 PM Response to Original message |
29. Until I was 49 years old, I considered that any meal that didn't include |
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Rabrrrrrr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-29-07 02:59 PM Response to Reply #29 |
36. I have a number of relatives who still feel that unless they've had potato and meat, |
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leeroysphitz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-29-07 01:58 PM Response to Original message |
30. Do you mean like tacos? |
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alarimer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-29-07 02:05 PM Response to Original message |
31. Not really. |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-29-07 02:10 PM Response to Original message |
32. Wow! Talk about a sheltered existence... |
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Rabrrrrrr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-29-07 03:07 PM Response to Reply #32 |
38. Well, my parents were the first generation not to speak German. And they were dirt poor, |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-29-07 03:17 PM Response to Reply #38 |
40. Friend, I do completely hear you. Our SIL's folks are 1st Gen German... |
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Rabrrrrrr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-29-07 03:21 PM Response to Reply #40 |
41. Wow - tortillas! The closest we got to wildly foreign stuff like a tortilla was lefse. |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-29-07 03:28 PM Response to Reply #41 |
42. hahahahaha, now *that's* phunny!! |
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harmonicon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-29-07 03:59 PM Response to Reply #41 |
43. we had family friends growing up, and the mom of the family was mexican |
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Solon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-29-07 02:30 PM Response to Original message |
34. Not ethnic for me, just normal, and I come from an Irish family... |
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Gonzo Gardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-29-07 02:43 PM Response to Original message |
35. I recall stories... |
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BrotherBuzz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-29-07 03:00 PM Response to Original message |
37. My father planted a spaghetti tree when I was a child |
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Blue-Jay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-29-07 03:08 PM Response to Original message |
39. No. I just thought it was "food". |
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crispini (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-29-07 04:02 PM Response to Original message |
44. Oh, wow. My parents would drag me out for Indian when I was 14 or so. |
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harmonicon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-29-07 04:04 PM Response to Original message |
45. not me, but for my mother, yeah |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-29-07 04:19 PM Response to Original message |
46. Hubby is from Wisconsin, also German (and English). I'm from Texas so I ate pretty good TexMex. |
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Xipe Totec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-29-07 04:25 PM Response to Original message |
47. To me, Van Camp's Pork & Beans was exotic food |
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Connonym (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-29-07 04:33 PM Response to Original message |
48. Oh hellyes, I was raised in Iowa and Wisconsin |
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