"Gary" > wrote in message
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> Hi Richard,
>
> As Bob and others have already described the Mongolian Hot Pot , I'll
> just add my two cents (only US, alas, not even Euro). The Mongolian Hot
> Pot was briefly fashionable in the US a couple of decades ago -- when
> people learned that it could be the centerpiece, literally, of social
> events -- rather like the earlier fondue fad.
>
> Large numbers of inexpensive brass Hot Pots were imported, most --
> again like the fondue sets that so many people received as wedding
> gifts -- were never used. I occasionally see them in garage sales,
> often in their original boxes.
>
> Gary

Yes. Pier 1 did a huge business in them....and they all had
that "patina" that looked SO old. About $20, I think.

Kris
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