"brooklyn1" > wrote in message
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>>--Bryan wrote:
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>>> You like eating marrow?
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> I haven't indulged in years, not the healthiest of viands, but growing
> up marrow was considered a supreme delicacy... we didn't do anything
> fancy, typically slathered on slabs of real Russian black bread sliced
> from six pound round loaves, bottom crust thicker n' tougher than the
> neoprene soles on work boots... typically accompanying a dinner of
> boiled beef with potatoes and lots of freshly prepared horseradish,
> washed down with slivovitz... kids got seltza with a glug of concord
> grape wine for color... dessert was usually honey cake, sponge cake,
> or bobka. After dinner the cribbage board came out and we shared a
> big hunk of Joyva halvah. Naturally this was the good old days, pre
> PC... actually pre TV... only times I remember a supper meal without
> all five of us at table was when someone was sick... times were tough,
> we were poor, never to bed hungry, no one on drugs, welfare, or in
> prison.
That was a nice story, I can picture it. Thanks
Janet