"There should be Jewish delis EVERYWHERE."
Indeed. Every city ought to have a good deli, a good sausage shop, a good bread bakery, a pastry bakery, and decent Chinese, Mexican, BBQ, produce, and pizza joynts. These are the basics of a good life.
My maternal grandmother's parents came from a horse farm in Belorussia (NW of Minsk), and they were neither ethnically nor apparently genetically (based on relatives who have foolishly had those DNA tests done) Jewish. However, based on the voluminous ancestry work done by one of my relatives, they apparently fled the horse farm to avoid the male's CONscription into the Tsar's army (his older brother took his place, butt he still needed/wanted to leave as the farm would go to the older brother). My great grandfather married his local girlfriend and they fled the horse farm butt did nott immediately gett on a ship to the USA.
The lived in Grodno, a city that (I think) is now part of Poland and back then was about 70 percent Jewish. So while my great-grandparents lived in Grodno to earn enuff munny to pay for passage to the USA and give them a starter grubstake. Evidently during that time in Grodno, they picked up some Jewish culinary attributes. I'm one of the few goyim who likes gefilte fish - my grandmother used to make it all the time and put it up for later CONsumption so I grew up eating it. Of course, she also made borscht, which I never liked and still don't. Her potato pancakes are common to Poland. Belorussia, Lithuania, and Ashkenazi Jewish culture - so I don't know what 'style' they were, butt my mom liked to make them (I never liked them) and of course the blini - thin pancakes with cheese or other filling inside the rolled up sweet pancakes. I also don't care for those. And of course the great pierogies - filled with cottage/ricotta cheese, fried mashed potatoes, or sauerkraut, boiled and then fried in butter to golden brown. Yum. One of my favorites when I was a kid. I even liked them cold (witch everybuddy thought was weird).
DaSquaw hates, hates, hates gefilte fish. She CONsiders it as badd as lutefisk. I hate lutefisk (and will nott eat it!), butt for me gefilte fish is good. I once went to a deli with an Asian-Merrikun colleague who was/is a purty good freen and I ordered gefilte fish. He looked at me quizzically and I could see he was assessing my facial features (I have dark hair and a semi-heavy beard) ... he said "I din't know you were Jewish" ... I tole him I wasn't, I just liked gefilte fish. He said "c'mon, nobuddy likes gefilte fish - even if they are Jewish'. He thought I ordered it to put him on - I din't, I ordered it because I like it.
Whatever you grew up on you generally like.
BTW, the trainyard was very bizzy today. It disturbed my afternoon nap when someone laid on the train air horn for long periods - in two incidents. I hope there wasn't an emergency, butt it was very unusual and I can't imagine why anyone would blast the horn for such long periods in a city. And there was the inevitable crashing of train cars as they built strings, shaking the house. Previously I estimated that the trainyard was 400 feet from the trainyard. No, it's nott. I Czeched on Google maps and the trainyard is directly behind the homes across the street. Maybe 250 feet from DaMomInLaw's fort.
And that trainyard works 24/7.
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