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In a message dated 4/1/2003 10:39:17 AM Central Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:

> At 06:10 PM 3/31/03 -0500, Sandra wrote:
> >My mom had some dumb ju-ju. No milk with fish. She believed some people
> >were deathly allergic to the combination of fish and milk and it could
> kill a
> >person in an instant. I've never heard anyone else who ever heard of
> that,
> >but it made her feel like a good mom to forbid milk when fish was present.

Ah, Sandra....maybe that's a "Texican" thing? My mother-- a flour sack
underwear gal of the Depression, in East Texas--had the same phobia for a
while. When asked to explain the reasoning, she was stumped. Finally, she
"recollected" that it may have had something to do with an imagined inability
to determine whether there were bones in your bite of fish. The milk
supposedly masked the evidence, and you could choke to death on a fish bone.

I love Food Lore. :-)
~~~ Becky~~~

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president,
or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only
unpatriotic and servile,
but is morally treasonable to the American public."
---Theodore Roosevelt






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In a message dated 4/1/2003 10:39:17 AM Central Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:

> They haven't deprived themselves of food or made things off
> limits. They just eat and have the pleasure of it without all the
> hang-ups...so their metabolism just naturally stayed high and they
> burn it off without effort. When are we here gonna learn?
>
>

Most Europeans still practice the ancient art of Walking, too, I believe.
:-)


~~~ Becky~~~

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president,
or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only
unpatriotic and servile,
but is morally treasonable to the American public."
---Theodore Roosevelt






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In a message dated 4/1/03 9:52:38 AM, Beckyleach@... writes:

<< Ah, Sandra....maybe that's a "Texican" thing? My mother-- a flour sack
underwear gal of the Depression, in East Texas--had the same phobia for a
while. When asked to explain the reasoning, she was stumped. >>

Could be! I'm glad to hear there were others and my mom hadn't totally
pulled out of...

Marty said yesterday of something he had declared confidently (when
questioned) "I just pulled it out of the bowels of my brain."

Sandra

Sorcha

>>>it may have had something to do with an imagined inability
to determine whether there were bones in your bite of fish. The milk
supposedly masked the evidence, and you could choke to death on a fish
bone.<<<

We never ate fish when I was growing up (I still don't, usually). My
mom hated fish because her parents served it every single Friday and
every single time they served it, her mom would say, "Don't choke to
death on the bones." That effectively ruined her appetite for fish.

Sorcha




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