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Did you forget back bacon, Willow? [img]smile.gif[/img]

My background is Polish (primarily), so things like Pierogie (pasta pockets filled with things like cheese, sauerkraut, plums, blueberries... but not all at the same time) and golompkie (cabbage rolls stuffed with a meat and rice mixture) were perpetual things growing up. Except I hated the cabbage in the golompkie, and just liked the insides. My mom and I fought over whether I was going to eat it one year, while we were at Grandma's. After two hours of sitting over the now cold plate, I finally won, and didn't have to eat it. I won't tell you how, because it would spoil this thread, but I did win...

For me personally, I really enjoy cajun and creole food. A good jambalaya or gumbo, and I'm a really happy man. Really happy. I like the "garbage can" feel of Jambalaya, where you put in whatever meats and stuff you have available.

And I make my own chili every so often, although up here in the north (just south of the great white north), I do use beans in my chili. Several kinds, typically, for some additional flavors. And yeah, Attalus, I know that if you know beans about chili, there ain't no beans about chili.

And for any Polish Ironworkers out there, I know I butchered the spellings above. I plead ignorance; Polish would be about my sixth or seventh language, and I can't even order water consistently there.