On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 06:30:49 GMT, "Julie Bove"
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>"Ozgirl" > wrote in message
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>> I haven't given up eating in Italian places. Minestrone soup
>> doesn't do me any damage, ymmv. I can get an Italian salad
>> (lettuce, cucumber, peppers, onion, tomatoes, fetta cheese
>> and nice juicy black olives). Garlic prawns, yum. Oysters.
>> They do nice meats or seafood with vegetables, can request
>> no potato. Dessert is the only thing I can't find a
>> substitute for.
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>Here a lot of Italian restaurants have little more than pizza and pasta. If
>any salads at all, a small green one. There are some places with more
>extensive menus, but many have just the cheap, carby stuff.
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To me that's just a fast food Pizza and Pasta joint. It's
not an Italian restaurant without scallopine, or minestrone,
or the seafood and vegetable dishes Jan mentioned.

Cheers, Alan, T2, Australia.
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