On Wed, 31 Jul 2019 02:47:17 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:

>On Tuesday, July 30, 2019 at 10:35:36 PM UTC-4, dsi1 wrote:
>> On Tuesday, July 30, 2019 at 5:12:12 AM UTC-10, Gary wrote:
>> > Actually, dinner last night but same tonight as it turned out so
>> > good. I made a cottage pie. YUM!
>>
>> Sounds like a good pie. Any kind of pie is a good pie. Yesterday we went to an Italian restaurant.
>> The server said the special was braised short-ribs, all Italian restaurants should serve some
>> good ole American meat dish for us folks that don't much care for pasta, pasta, pasta.
>>
>> https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared..._HFlIPqFHcrpE1
>
>Braised short ribs are not uniquely American. There's a lot more to Italian
>food than pasta. Sounds like your restaurant is deficient if they only have
>pasta, pasta, pasta.
>
>Cindy Hamilton

Even grade school lunch rooms serve a lot more than pasta, pasta,
pasta. Every italian restaurant I've been to serves veal,
meat-a-balles, saw-seege, calimari, and other meat dishes. In fact I
don't remember any Italian restaurant I've been to that serves braised
short ribs.