[Sca-cooks] Lutheran Binder

Linda M. Kalb lmkalb at mail.med.upenn.edu
Fri Aug 10 08:12:14 PDT 2001


My mother is a midwestern Lutheran who moved to the East Coast 30 years ago
as an adult.  I have never heard her use the term but I will ask her about
it.  She stopped saying "pop" to describe what is known on the East Coast
as "soda," so she may have dropped other midwestern expressions as well.

Inga/Linda

At 11:07 AM 8/10/01, you wrote:
> > Please realize I'm not just questioning this out of hand, but would you
> > say the term "hotdish" is more characteristic of the MidWest, of
> > Lutherans, or specifically of MidWestern Lutherans? (Yes, I know you
> > don't live in the MidWest, but Garrison Keillor does, more or less.)
> >
> > I ask because we have a fair number of Lutherans around here on the East
> > Coast, but I've never heard the term used except on this list.
>
>Having been brought up east-coast Lutheran, I can say equivicably that
>I've never heard the word "hotdish" before.  I think it must be a
>midwestern thing.
>
>-Magdalena
>Who just may have to adopt that word now, just to confuse people...
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