One of the disappointments I have with TAGS is that there was only one Christmas episode in the eight years of broadcasts. So many wonderful story lines could have been written about all our friends in Mayberry and how they would have celebrated Christmas. I think it would be really interesting if we would each share a memory about what Christmas was like when we were a child.
My father came to the United States from Sweden so we had some Swedish traditions that we followed at Christmas time; one being the foods we ate. We always had to have hard tack bread at breakfast and lutefisk was a must either on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day although none of us kids would eat it. My father had Swedish friends who lived in Chicago when we were kids and each year a package would arrive from them. They were from Sweden too and they owned a deli. So that package would contain all kinds of very strange foods that my father just loved. Among his favorites was eel. He would always try to get us kids to eat some of it, but we never did. My wife's family also came from Sweden, so to this day we have to have lutefisk on Christmas Eve. My wife eats that while I eat the meatballs. My wife and I traveled to Sweden in 1999 where we stayed with a number of my first cousins. We weren't there more than a few minutes when my cousin apologized to me that we were not there for the eel .season. I still think I hurt his feelings when I laughed. -- Ken Anderson The Mayberry Guru 2906 May Street Eau Claire, Wisconsin 54701 www.themayberryguru.com www.mayberryreflections.com _______________________________________________ WBMUTBB mailing list [email protected] http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
