Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for October 18, 2012

Button mushrooms, dude… Google it.

the “GOO” is what worries me..

It’s a moot point.

Does that mean chopped sooie isn’t pork?

Good thing he didn’t ask about the Pu Pu Platter.

The guy part also sounds a bit suspicious.

My Dad always was suspicious about Chinese and Mexican (or anything foreign, except spaghetti). He always said he wouldn’t eat anything that looked like someone else already ate it first. Mom had to wait ’til his bowling night to try something new. Imagine our shock when Dad brought PIZZA home one night! (Early 60s!)

No, no… Yes, moo means cow, but when you add goo, you’re referring to milk (maybe not the freshest milk, though…).

I’ll stick to the Mongolian beef .

There is in fact a dish from Taishan, called chop suey in the Cantonese dialect there and pretty much the same thing as you find in the United States and elsewhere, that antedates Chinese immigration to the States.

He needs the cluck cluck gai pan.

The “gai” is chicken.

Presumably, not Kanamit-style!

BTW, thanks for teaching me the Yiddish for ‘knock on wood’ with your response to my posting yesterday…I probably know more Yiddishisms than most other Gentiles, but that one was new to me.

Chow Mein, anyone? Besides, what Oriental name starts with “La”? Sounds like someone just made up the name since those crazy Americans wouldn’t know the difference, althouigh Chef Boy-Ar-Dee WAS a real person! (Boiardi)

When the Home Demonstration Club first introduced Pizza Pie in our town in the 1950s, some of the men refused to eat it, because they did NOT know what was in it. The rest of the men refused to eat it because the DID know what was in it. Eventually, the ladies dropped the “Pie” from the name, because people who were being served “pie” in our town expected it to be apple pie or cherry pie – not tomato and cheese pie! When Pizza and Chile were first introduced in our town, they were introduced as meatless dishes for Lent. It was not until much later that people began to add meat products, such as hamburger, to either pizza or to chile. Even today, if you go into a restaurant in the town where I grew up and just order “chile,” you will get beans, seasoned with chile. If you want chile with meat in it, you have to order “chile con carne.”

Not at all…I’m saying that I’m a Gentile.

Always ironic to see the birds discussing the finer points of eating chicken or beef.