Re: [CH] Menudo+Chocolate+Question.+Fish
Sunny Conley (sunny@zianet.com)
Thu, 14 Jan 1999 08:38:47 -0700
"Tradition has it that eating menudo on New Year's Day brings a year of good luck.
It is also known to be a sure-fire cure for a headache caused by
"over-indulgence." -----from Seasoned with Sun: Recipes from the Corner of Texas
and Old Mexico.
Rich McCormack wrote:
> To my suggestion that "Menudo is better known as a hangover remedy"
> than New Years good luck dish...
>
> Bloechl, Sharen Rund wrote:
>
> > I wouldn't try to tell that to some friends of mine who happen to be
> > Mexican and who happen to eats loads of this on New Year's Day (not just the
> > one's suffering from a hangover either.....B-)
>
> I've lived in SoCal all my life. Various relatives 'n inlaws from
> both mine and my wife's family have married Mexicans and we all have
> associated with Mexicans from both sides of the US/Mexican border on
> a fairly regular basis...I've yet to hear any mention of menudo being
> a New Years good luck dish. But if it be so, it's OK with me, I'm one
> of those rare gringos that actually likes menudo.
>
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