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The Velveteen Ocelot

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5. Maybe the reason I'm so familiar with those potato salad varieties
Fri May 22, 2020, 07:23 PM
May 2020

is that I grew up in and still live in a state where there are a lot of descendants of Swedish and Norwegian immigrants (1.6 million, including me), and potato salad and other potato dishes feature heavily in Scandinavian cuisine. I grew up with that kind of potato salad and never thought to wonder where it came from.

I used to know a car mechanic who specialized exclusively in repairing Saabs. He thought they were the best cars ever but that they were tricky to repair and hardly anybody did it right. I still see them here and there. GM is sort of predatory I guess. They bought and stopped making Saturns, too, which annoyed me no end. I've got one that I like very much and would buy another if they still were being made.

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