In article >, "Bob"
> wrote:

> 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

I don't remember. If the word 'colonies' put you off, know that it was
my word, not his. (I've got a million ways of being ignorant.)
--
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added 1-30-05.
"I read recipes the way I read science fiction: I get to the end and
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performance at New York, New York, January 10, 2005.