On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:12:54 -0600, Pennyaline wrote:

> Orlando Enrique Fiol wrote:
>> wrote:
>>> Today was the first time since I left New Mexico that I've seen Indian
>>> fry bread on a restaurant menu. Today I had an Indian taco that I
>>> didn't have to make myself. Wahoooo!!!!
>>>
>> Every dish in this world is not put here to satisfy your convenience and
>> curiosity. If you actually ask Native Americans about fry bread, you'll
>> find that it never was a part of their historical diet until white
>> settlers and the federal government forced them on to reservations where
>> they could not hunt or farm as they once did. There, they were given the
>> most essential foodstuffs, from which fry bread was born. Now, does that
>> sound like something worth celebrating? It's not particularly nutritious
>> or healthy for native people to consume in large quantities, yet you
>> find it cute.
>
> No one said it's cute. She said it was novel to find it on a menu
> outside of a particular locality.
>
>
> Where I grew up, the local delicacies were fried balogna and onion on
> white bread, Buffalo wings and beef on 'weck. It was difficult at that
> time to find these items away from the Niagara Frontier so when we did
> find them in other places, it was a big slap of sentimentality come to
> call. Healthful eating? No. Worth celebrating? Oh, yeah.

i'd never heard of beef on 'weck, but it sounds tasty indeed from the wiki
page description:

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kummelweck>

your pal,
blake