"gtr" > wrote in message news:2015080918202270533-xxx@yyyzzz...
> On 2015-08-09 22:20:25 +0000, Ophelia said:
>
>>> Not all Mexican food is tortillas, beans and chorizo. They do roasted
>>> meats, whole fish, chicken dishes etc., just like anyone else. Just
>>> like all German food is not kraut and sausage.
>>
>> Very good point!
>
> So true, but the flag-waving components that typify a cuisine (from the
> vantage of the outsider) do seem to dominate perspective.
>
> That said, when I think of sauerkraut, sausages and potatoes, I think
> of Colmar and Strasbourg in Alsace! Which, for the past few years, has
> been French!
>
> Not all French food is coq au vin!

Indeed)

>

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