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Hank Rogers[_2_]

wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Nov 2018 07:43:09 +1100, Bruce >
> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 23 Nov 2018 20:32:06 -0000 (UTC), Wayne Boatwright
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri 23 Nov 2018 12:31:51p, songbird told us...
>>>
>>>> Bruce wrote:
>>>>> songbird wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> curious what you would consider the traits of
>>>>>> Dutch cuisine.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> we are not Europhiles so we were just talking
>>>>>> and sadly both of us got very little further than
>>>>>> Danishes.
>>>>>
>>>>> Danishes refers to Denmark.
>>>>
>>>> like i said...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>> i said "seafood".
>>>>>>
>>>>>> could it be as simple as "seafood pies"?
>>>>>
>>>>> Traditional Dutch food: Mix mashed potatoes and mashed vegetables
>>>>> such as kale or carrot&onion and serve with sausage or a slab of
>>>>> stewed beef, and gravy.
>>>>
>>>> that sound good to me.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> But you probably meant Danish instead of Dutch.
>>>>
>>>> ok, let's do both? since we're curious...
>>>>
>>>> it'll give us something to talk about tonight
>>>> during commercials instead of the weather.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> songbird
>>>>
>>>
>>> If I were wanting to know, which I'm not, I would spend some time
>>> doing some actual research rather than guessing or conjectring. :-)
>>
>> He got a reply from an expert. What more research can you want?
>
> I worked with a Dutch guy (from Holland), a welder,
> and was invited to dinner there often... his wife prepared all sorts
> of pickled herring, excellent. They ate pork but rarely beef. They
> ate a lot of home grown vegetables too. His wife was an excellent
> cook. He and his wife were old enough to be my parents, they both
> passed about twenty five years ago.
>

Popeye, I bet yoose humped his wife, didn't yoose?