After reading the Janzen piece I have come to the conclusion that Mennonites are really strange people. Not to be offensive, but judging by the food they eat, and what they do as far as maintaining their Mennonite practice spins my head around. For example, when Janzen recalled a conversation she had with her mother at breakfast. The conversation is about the time Janzen’s mother had a dead rat in her well, and drank the water anyway. She described, “It stank of something awful-that sickish-sweet smell of decaying flesh”. Now why would anyone drink water that had a dead rat floating in it? As far as the food with the most graphic description, the Cottletten-and- ketchup sandwich was unforgettable. Mennonite meatballs, sardines, onions, condensed milk, ground beef, crushed saltine crackers, with ketchup soaked bread. It kind of reminds me of a Mennonite style hamburger. Not an average American meal at all, but if it works for the Mennonites, more power to them.
After reading the Janzen piece I have come to the conclusion that Mennonites are really strange people. Not to be offensive, but judging by the food they eat, and what they do as far as maintaining their Mennonite practice spins my head around. For example, when Janzen recalled a conversation she had with her mother at breakfast. The conversation is about the time Janzen’s mother had a dead rat in her well, and drank the water anyway. She described, “It stank of something awful-that sickish-sweet smell of decaying flesh”. Now why would anyone drink water that had a dead rat floating in it?
ReplyDeleteAs far as the food with the most graphic description, the Cottletten-and- ketchup sandwich was unforgettable. Mennonite meatballs, sardines, onions, condensed milk, ground beef, crushed saltine crackers, with ketchup soaked bread. It kind of reminds me of a Mennonite style hamburger. Not an average American meal at all, but if it works for the Mennonites, more power to them.