Today is National German American Day and also National Noodles Day. If you have even a little German heritage in your background (I'm about 3/4 German), this combination will seem perfectly natural to you. When I was a child we spent many holidays at my Aunt Dora's house and we always had noodles with the big meal be it Christmas, Easter or Thanksgiving. We also always had mashed potatoes. Together. Last year, when suppers before church meetings still happened, the menu one evening was beef and noodles and mashed potatoes. I was one of the first people in line, I am not shy about food, and I had to backtrack so I could put potatoes on my plate first then pile the noodles on top. After one of the servers watched me and several other people make this backward maneuver she switched the order of the pans so people could get the potatoes first. The cook, who had set things up, had never before heard of putting noodles on mashed potatoes. Obviously she wasn't German American but almost all of the committee members evidently were.
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