Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> On Mon 08 Sep 2008 06:05:52a, Goomba told us...
>
>> Jack wrote:
>>
>>> Amen to that. Take the case I made in the original thread - I have two
>>> relatives by marriage (my late mother-in-law and the still living
>>> husband of my aunt) that are native Hungarian born, both from Budapest.
>>> They make/made their paprikash different - one uses sour cream, the
>>> other doesn't. Does that make either of them unauthentic? I think not;
>>> it's a cook's variation, aka artistic license.
>> Well.. one has to draw the line on the cream of anything soup based dish
>> being caled paprikash, right?
>>
>
> Was there a mention of "cream of 'anything' soup" mentioned? I didn't see
> it. The inclusion of sour cream is certainly authentic to paprikas.
>
I was attempting to be a bit sarcastic about"authenticity" and how far
from authentic some ideas become.
I should have included a tongue in cheek emoticon, huh?