Ethnic was American Diet was [Sca-cooks] Re: Anchovette

[Phlip]

Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...

> >> No, some of it is lasagne made with cottage cheese, Velveeta, and
> >> ketchup.
> >>
> >
> > You are kidding, right? Or at least exaggerating?
>
> I have no direct personal experience with this, and it might be that
> I've been misinformed. But talk to Phlip; I gather at least some of
> this is a southern Ohio thing. I'm not sure about the Velveeta (I may
> have gotten that from my Dad's army stories), but I am pretty sure
> about the cottage cheese, and the ketchup, too, although I gather
> that that is a sauce additive, and not in lieu of other tomato sauce.
>
> > Yuck.
>
> Adamantius

Adamantius is accurate- I've had lasagna made just that way. It's actually
not too bad, if you're hungry enough, but it's certainly not on a par with a
properly made lasagna. Usually, though, while the cheese IS cottage, the
other cheese is the standard boxed, grated Kraft parmesan stuff.

I've also had spaghetti sauce made with spam and canned mushrooms, although
that was more a case of someone being very broke, and insisting on offering
hospitality.

One thing to keep in mind is that in SE Ohio, there was a lot of good food-
what the average person could do with game was impressive- but there was
also a fairly limited availability of more exotic foods until fairly
recently. If it could be made with garden vegetables, game, or domestic
animals (chickens, pigs, cattle, rarely sheep- they were grown for wool, not
to eat very often) it was often very good, but exotic furrin cheeses were
uncommon- particularly considering we had access to some very good local
cheeses- cheddar, swiss, and pepper jack, as prime examples. And, most of
the dairy cattle farmers in the area produced milk for cheese, since the
difference in price vs the cleanliness standards for drinking milk were
ridiculous. A 10 or 20 cow farmer is NOT going to get up off $200,000 for a
grade A milking parlor set up, if the difference in price is only a couple
cents per gallon.

And, last I checked, farmers were still getting roughly (understanding that
production is paid by the hundred weight) $1 per gallon for their milk-
that's after getting up every AM at 0 dark hundred to milk the cows,
pasteurize the milk, sterilizing the equipment (and the cow's udders),
keeping them fed and healthy and bred, paying their farm and equipment
payments, and the rest of that. The rest of what you pay in the store goes
to the middlemen.

Saint Phlip,
CoD

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