Peter wrote:

> What *are* you talking about? I used "the islands" to make it clear that I
> used "East Indian" to refer to the East Indies and not to the eastern part
> of India.

Okay, here's the problem: The term "East Indies" is semantically obsolete.
To avoid confusion, you could have used the modern term, "Indonesian".

At any rate, we've digressed from the discussion of Irish food, and I don't
think Jo wanted to offer Indonesian food to her guests.

Bob