Vic Smith wrote:
On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:09:17 -0400, "Lu Powell"
wrote:


BTW, northerners and snooty southerners call them "chitterlings".

They always called them chitlins in Chicago. But the blacks brought
them from the south.

--Vic


The first I ever heard of 'em was when I lived in the Kansas City area.
Never ate any. Overhead a discussion of them in the city room at the
paper. First place I ever ate "Mexican" food, at Los Corrals in Kansas
City, which is still the

http://www.restaurant.com/microsite....4702&rpid=3406

And KC was the first place I ate barbecue, at Bryant's. And there was a
place that served steak and eggs for a dollar...steak, eggs, fries,
toast...a buck. Coffee was a buck.

We didn't have that sort of food readily available in New Haven. But we
had lots of European immigrants, and therefore lots of Italian,
Hungarian, German, French restaurants, and thanks to the foreign
language school at Yale, some really top-drawer Chinese restaurants.