--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, I am the eternal <l.shad...@...> wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 2:01 PM, ruthsimplicity <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote: > > Fluffy stuff bad. > > > One of the things I miss most from the East Coast (US) is rye bread. > I loved going into the bakeries as a kid, had a choice of a dozen > different kinds of ryes and whole breads. Picked on out, asked for it > to be sliced. About the only thing that was white an fluffy as this > magical bread served Easter time called babka. Babka looks a lot like > challa only it's even more filled with egg yokes. Citron, white and > dark raisins, an egg glaze on top and perhaps some sugar water that > baked to become a bit of an icing, running here and there. > > Texas gets its bread tradition from the Czechs, the people who in > West, Texas make 30 different varieties of kolaches, all baked into > fluffy, gooey white bread. It's pretty disheartening to go to a manly > Texas barbeque place and have the bread be the Texas tradition of > Wonder bread. Why Wonder bread? Well, it was the poor people who ate > the rye breads. The richer people got to eat things made out of white > flour. So to show our wealth, we make everything out of white flour. > > There's a similar thing running through Tex-Mex. The traditional > Mexican bread is of course corn tortillas. Flour tortillas, made with > lard and white flour, are considerably more expensive. So of course > Mexicans showed their wealth by eating flour tortillas. So now we > have this massive weight problem amongst Mexicans who have settled in > Texas which will probably soon be reported as metabolic syndrome and > diabetes. When it comes to eating healthy, better to be poorer than > richer. >
I saw this phenomenon when I went to a 3-day seminar in Harlingen, Texas a few years ago. Everyone wasn't fat...they were OBESE. On two separate occasions -- without any prompting from me -- when I mentioned to people that I had been to Harlingen, Texas, they immediately mentioned the fatties there! Harlingen is on the border with Mexico.
