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Post by Village Idiot on Dec 10, 2023 18:53:48 GMT -5
This spanking brand new place is only 12 minutes from my home.
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Post by factorychef on Dec 10, 2023 19:00:27 GMT -5
I don't think I'll be eating sushi in LA Porte City. I'll bet it fresh.
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Post by drlj on Dec 10, 2023 19:05:54 GMT -5
Can you get a sushi burrito? That would be different. Interestingly, LaPorte, IN isn’t too far from here. The place in Iowa probably copied the IN name just like Iowa copied the IN pork loin sandwich. But, I digress.
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Post by epaul on Dec 10, 2023 19:27:37 GMT -5
I have never eaten sushi. Unless you count that Lions Club ice fishing trip thirty some years ago when I swallowed a half-dozen live minnows to win a $5 bet. We had been drinking for a while.
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Post by Dub on Dec 10, 2023 19:46:04 GMT -5
I don't think I'll be eating sushi in LA Porte City. I'll bet it fresh. Heh. How many sushi eaters would you guess live within 50mi of La Porte city? Three? Maybe four?
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Post by Marty on Dec 10, 2023 19:57:47 GMT -5
Tacos, burritos, and Sushi? All they really need is a Taco Bell and a nearby pond.
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Dec 10, 2023 20:11:08 GMT -5
The sushi at the Dolphin fish market in Hanalei, Kauai, is really quite nice.
Mike
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Post by Village Idiot on Dec 10, 2023 21:19:23 GMT -5
Sure, but how are their tacos and burritos?
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Post by Marty on Dec 10, 2023 21:52:11 GMT -5
Sure, but how are their tacos and burritos? Actually Hawaii has a strong Mexican heritage, something I learned just yesterday. I knew pineapple was native to Mexico and Central America and was taken to the islands due to a perfect climate for that crop. I guess a lot of people went with it to Hawaii. Sugar cane went there also as did beef cattle and with each the people that knew how to grow it did also. The cattle came from Argentina as did the Vaqueros to herd them. Along with them came the tiple a little instrument the Hawaiians called a flea, the ukulele. How much influence coffee has had on the islands I'm not sure. The volcanic soil on the big island was probably a major factor for that. Good thing to look up.
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Post by Village Idiot on Dec 10, 2023 22:06:09 GMT -5
Hawaii also has a strong Minnesota heritage, as evidenced by the pervasiveness of Spam.
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Post by Marty on Dec 10, 2023 22:26:22 GMT -5
Hawaii also has a strong Minnesota heritage, as evidenced by the pervasiveness of Spam. Quite true. But that came through the military. During WWII the Hawaiians got a taste for Spam since they had a whole Pacific Fleet worth of the stuff passing through Pearl Harbor. In Europe meat was much easier to get to the troops and it only needed to be moved a few hundred miles. But the Pacific fleet was spread out over thousands of miles and meat was either local or canned. Cargo ships only had so much freezer space and a lot of it was reserved for ranking officers steaks and ice cream that lucky troops got. Canned meat was not only Spam but dried chip beef for making soup or Shit on a Shingle with powdered milk. Chipped beef on toast is rather nice but not if you have to use powdered milk and oleomargarine.
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Post by coachdoc on Dec 10, 2023 22:31:55 GMT -5
Loves me some SOS.
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Post by Russell Letson on Dec 11, 2023 1:12:34 GMT -5
The cattle and later the vaqueros came to the Big Island from California (then part of Mexico)--the cattle in the late 18th and the vaqueros in the early 19th century. The `ukulele came in the 1870s with Portuguese-speaking immigrants from Madeira, where the instrument was called the machete or the braguinha (depending on which authority you use). Though, of course, both the uke and the guitar were quite possibly seen around the ports earlier, given the kinds of instruments sailors carry around.
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Dec 11, 2023 8:55:21 GMT -5
Marty has it pretty much spot on. The following was copied from the National Park Service website Hawaiian volcanoes.
“The Arrival of Cattle
Cattle first arrived in the islands in 1793 when Captain James Vancouver presented King Kamehameha l with six cows and a bull. In order to encourage the herd’s growth, Kamehameha placed a kapu, a prohibition, on them so that they could not be hunted or killed. And grow they did, not merely flourishing but becoming a nuisance and even dangerous.. They rampaged through villages, literally eating the people out of house and home – they actually ate the thatch off the roofs of their houses, destroyed their crops, and sometimes hurt or even killed them.
Ranching in Hawaiʻi
Around 1812, Kamehameha permitted the capture of wild cattle. Hawaiian ranching originally involved driving wild cattle into pits dug in the forest floor. Once tamed (somewhat) by hunger and thirst, they were hauled up a steep ramp, tied by their horns to the horns of a domesticated, older steer which was tractable and could be led to a fenced-in area.
Slowly the beef industry began to grow under the reign of Kamehameha's son Liholiho (Kamehameha II). Liholiho's son, Kauikeaouli (Kamehameha III), hearing about Mexican cowboys called vaqueros, invited a number of them to Hawaiʻi to teach his people how to work cattle. They taught the Hawaiians how to rope, slaughter, breed cattle, cure hides, about fences, grass, and paddocks. They also taught them how to work with the horses that had first arrived in the islands in 1803 when an American merchant ship brought four of them from California as gifts for Kamehameha I. Hawaiians quickly took to riding and roping, became skilled with the vaqueros’ tools and techniques, and then created a distinct and unique Hawaiian cowboy culture. They crafted their own style of saddles and gear and created their own style of music - songs accompanied by guitar and/or ʻukulele, stringed instruments whose portability was (and is) well-suited to cowboy life. They developed a singular Hawaiian style of open-tuning for the guitar called kihoʻalu, slack-key. These Hawaiian cowboys were called paniolo, a Hawaiianized version of the word español.”
Mike
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Post by dradtke on Dec 11, 2023 9:26:03 GMT -5
If we have spare time the next time we pass through La Porte City, we'll have to try it out. Problem is, we're usually so busy hurrying to somewhere else it might not be possible.
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Post by Marty on Dec 11, 2023 9:39:08 GMT -5
Marty has it pretty much spot on. The following was copied from the National Park Service website Hawaiian volcanoes. “The Arrival of Cattle Cattle first arrived in the islands in 1793 when Captain James Vancouver presented King Kamehameha l with six cows and a bull. In order to encourage the herd’s growth, Kamehameha placed a kapu, a prohibition, on them so that they could not be hunted or killed. And grow they did, not merely flourishing but becoming a nuisance and even dangerous.. They rampaged through villages, literally eating the people out of house and home – they actually ate the thatch off the roofs of their houses, destroyed their crops, and sometimes hurt or even killed them. Ranching in Hawaiʻi Around 1812, Kamehameha permitted the capture of wild cattle. Hawaiian ranching originally involved driving wild cattle into pits dug in the forest floor. Once tamed (somewhat) by hunger and thirst, they were hauled up a steep ramp, tied by their horns to the horns of a domesticated, older steer which was tractable and could be led to a fenced-in area. Slowly the beef industry began to grow under the reign of Kamehameha's son Liholiho (Kamehameha II). Liholiho's son, Kauikeaouli (Kamehameha III), hearing about Mexican cowboys called vaqueros, invited a number of them to Hawaiʻi to teach his people how to work cattle. They taught the Hawaiians how to rope, slaughter, breed cattle, cure hides, about fences, grass, and paddocks. They also taught them how to work with the horses that had first arrived in the islands in 1803 when an American merchant ship brought four of them from California as gifts for Kamehameha I. Hawaiians quickly took to riding and roping, became skilled with the vaqueros’ tools and techniques, and then created a distinct and unique Hawaiian cowboy culture. They crafted their own style of saddles and gear and created their own style of music - songs accompanied by guitar and/or ʻukulele, stringed instruments whose portability was (and is) well-suited to cowboy life. They developed a singular Hawaiian style of open-tuning for the guitar called kihoʻalu, slack-key. These Hawaiian cowboys were called paniolo, a Hawaiianized version of the word español.” Mike I think the first cattle were on Maui and Moloka'i as those islands had more flat grassland. The islands have had many large immigrations of different people over time. Large numbers of Chinese and then Japanese being two of them.
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Post by billhammond on Dec 11, 2023 10:46:34 GMT -5
So, Todd, have you eaten there yet? If so, a full report, please, especially about the bafrooms.
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Post by Dub on Dec 11, 2023 11:08:00 GMT -5
So, Todd, have you eaten there yet? If so, a full report, please, especially about the bafrooms. Q: What’s the difference between Yummy Café’s toilet and an elephant’s fart? A: One is a bafroom and the other is a BAA FROOOOM!
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Post by Village Idiot on Dec 11, 2023 11:48:32 GMT -5
Bill, I stopped and took a picture of the sign. But I will try it soon.
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Post by Russell Letson on Dec 11, 2023 13:25:06 GMT -5
I think the first cattle were on Maui and Moloka'i as those islands had more flat grassland. All the sources I have report that Kamehameha III brought Mexican cowboys to Big Island in the 1830s to manage the cattle that had bred uncontrolled there since they'd been given as a gift to Kamehamea I by George Vancouver. It's not clear whether livestock herds were established that early on other islands, though by the 1840s there seems to have been some on Moloka`i.
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