>>>>>>>>>>>I, often but not always. like a (literally) raw steak. Some restaurants refuse to do that on 'Health and Safety' grounds. Truth is they probably can't let me wait whilst it thaws.......
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>>>>>>>>>>In France, that's a dish called "tartare" ... chopped raw beef.
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>>>>>>>>>Know it and love it. Also usually with a raw egg....
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>>>>>>>>Yuuuuuuuuuccccccccckkkkkkkkk! It is actually served here in the states in some restaurants as well, but not as much anymore due to health regulations.
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>>>>>>>Given this - and our recent disagreement over the merits of German cuisine - I don't think our culinary preferences are going to overlap to any great extent (g)
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>>>>>>Nope :o) Fortunately there are many cuisine choices :o)be we
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>>>>>Maybe we can agree a mutual taste for Rollmop?
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>>>>uuuhhhgg! yuuuccckkk! No way! (Had to look that one up too) :o) Are you sure you are not Norwegian??? :o)
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>>>OK. I give up. I thought that was a popular german thing. OTOH if you haven't actually tried it you may be pleasantly surprised....
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>>Well, I'm part German :o) Mostly Norwegian - my maiden name is Skogen which only came to be because when Andreas Jensen from Skogenheim, "husmanns" place, Brastad farm, Vardal, Norway came to the U.S. they gave him that name - I guess it was just all too confusing for the INS! Throw in a little bit of English (Hutchinson on my mom's side) and some Ojibway (my mom's side also) and that's me :o)
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>>This is as far back as I know on that side:
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>>1 Jens Pedersen Ødegaardseie b: in Ødegaard, Vardal, Norway
>>. +Johanne Pedersdatter
>>. 2 Peder Jensen b: February 20, 1774 in Bråstad, Vardal, Norway
>>.... +Agnete Olsdatter b: 1761
>>.... 3 Jens Pedersen/Bråstadeie b: 1795 in Vardal, Norway d: WFT Est 1807-1896
>>....... +Marthe Andersdatter/Stokke b: November 09, 1785
>>....... 4 Andreas "Andrew" Jensen/Skogen b: January 25, 1828 in Skogenheim, "husmanns" place, Brastad farm, Vardal, Norway d: November 05, 1904
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>>The Hutchinsons go waaaayyyyy back to England (I can trace that back to the 1600s but not sure about earlier) and the Ojibway/Ojibwe/Chippewa/Anishinabe/etc go waaaaayyyy back as well (but no one knows years for them - only generations and tribes - they go back to Wisconsin, Minnesota, Canada and turtle island ha ha ha) My native relatives and ancestors all believed they were the first man on earth (the original people of this planet)
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>>(Edited for clarity)
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>Like me you come for a very long line of successful breeders (g)

ROFL.... Norway is always cold, but back then the winters were very cold in Wisconsin... :o)