In article >,
Melba's Jammin' > wrote:

> One of the menu items at Safari, the East African restaurant that we
> went with Steve to on Saturday was Fettucine Alfredo.

I remembered that I forgot (!) to mention this "oddity" when I posted.
I'm still not sure why _northern_ Italy was so influential, but ...
Glad you remembered. It was one more point of interest to the evening.

sd

p.s. to the other poster mentioning Italy's conquest of Ethiopia, this
guy is/was Somali, so it didn't really enter into the conversation. s