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Bob
 
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Barb wrote:

> One of the menu items at Safari, the East African restaurant that we
> went with Steve to on Saturday was Fettucine Alfredo. I asked the owner
> WHY and got a bit of an education about Italian colonies and East
> Africa's proximity to Italy. Nice Man probably mumbled again about the
> ignorant and geography-challenged Meen-a-soh-tans. He was very gracious
> (and so were Steve and Rob explaining it to me, too.)


Did he mention that Ethiopia wasn't so much COLONIZED as CONQUERED by the
Italians in WWII?

Bob