Omelet > wrote:

> George Shirley > wrote:

>> Some of the folks who worked for me in Saudi wanted to eat a typical
>> American "country" meal. We had been talking about foods eaten during
>> WWII, the Brits all talked about cabbage, brussels sprouts, mutton, and
>> Spam. The Germans and Dutch talked about sausage, cabbage, potatoes, etc.
>>
>> Invited the crew and their families to the house and made a huge pone of
>> cornbread and cooked up a big pot of lima beans with sausage. Most just
>> looked amazed at the meal until they ate it. Somewhere in Europe today
>> there are probably some of my friends eating beans and cornbread and
>> amazing their families and friends. Got to be a regular thing, we called
>> it "war dinner."

>> Basically it boils down to eating foods you are used to and grew up with
>> and they become favorites. I never ate lobster, tuna or salmon (except
>> from a can in the case of tuna and salmon) because they aren't normally
>> found along the Texas Gulf Coast. Anything else that crawled, swam, flew
>> or ran along the ground or a tree limb was fair game.

>Fried tree squirrel anyone? <g>

Kermit Lynch (locally famous foodie) has a squirrel stew. It
involves 30 squirrels and a large pot.

Steve