[Sca-cooks] OP food question

[Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach AEllin Olafs dotter:
>Thank you all!
>
>Yes, I think it is a dim sum sort of thing. I won't be making it, 
>I'll be stopping on Canal Street to get it, but thanks for the 
>recipes - I'll pass them on to him. (He's the one cooks Chinese 
>food, after a long relationship with a Chinese American woman. Her 
>mother, having given up on her, taught him to cook... )
>
>Cantonese Hielands sounds about right - the lady in question always 
>told him that her family were all hicks, from the boonies... *G* 
>She said no "educated" person could understand the dialect. Guess 
>every culture has a backwoods subculture.

Or every culture needs another to look down on, to make their own 
situation seem better ;-). In some Chinese language school my wife 
was forced to attend in her adolescent years, upon having it 
impressed upon her that the dialect of her ancestors was not 
considered a valid language by mainstream Cantonese speakers, she was 
put in detention for loudly commenting that neither Burns nor Kipling 
were valid poets...

Adamantius