Andy wrote:

> Have a dinner plan tonite for stuffed jumbo shells and decided on a side
> of fried zucchini.
>
> I never touched zucchini except at a block party a few years ago that
> married whole hog's pulled pork to fried zucchini with provalone on a
> bun with juice. Awesome stuff.
>

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I lived beside a small Italian grocer store for a year when I was first
married. One day I went in to get some lasagne noodles, parmesan, cottage
cheese, tomato sauce, mozzarella. When I got the the checkout the lady asked
if my wife was making Lasagne. I told her I was. She told me I had all the
wrong stuff. She went around the store with me, put everything back, got
DeCecco pasta, a different kind of tomato sauce, had the butcher grate some
fresh mozzarella and Parmesan and she told me to use the recipe on the box.

We had a Bouvier des Flandres at the time and she used to spend a lot of
time in the back yard. At 9 months she already weighed well over 100 lb. I
went next door to do my grocery shopping and after I got the meats I asked
the butch if he had any dog bones. He grabbed huge thigh bone and as he
stood in front of the band saw, and to figure what size pieces to cut, he
asked what kind of dog it was. I told him it was the dog next door. He
turned off the saw, wrapped up the bone and handed it to me.

I still love shopping in the local Italian grocery stores.