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From: "RC Macaulay"
We do have the best variety of sausages in the world which is
the only important thing when you stop to think about it.
Ha! Richard,
Every town with a significant German-extracted population likes
to brag about its sausages....
except, alas, nowadays ... in the Bay Area, the "Sausage King"
saga is over and we are left with fewer good ones to choose from.
But... Hey , if you really care about health, you wouldn't eat the
damn things anyway.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10618237/
SAN FRANCISCO - Self-proclaimed "sausage king" Stuart Alexander
died Tuesday at San Quentin Prison while on death row for killing
three meat inspectors.
You had to be here to understand that one. He had a "Falling Down"
kind of day on the job. (probably from tasting tainted road-kill)
<G>
There was a great show on the History Channel a few weeks ago
called the "German Americans." Since I did the "John Prine number"
on my boob-tube several years back, I was invited to watch it by
some German neighbors.
It is amazing that we don't speak the mother-tongue here in the
States - since if you were to count the Scots and Irish separately
from the English (and you damn well better) then the largest ethic
population in the USA is German - not English. Almost as many here
as over there, but the 'Schmidt's are often 'Smiths' and the
'Steins' are 'Stones,' etc. thanks to Ellis Island and old
prejudices !
Jones
