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queerbychoice) wrote2004-07-23 11:07 pm
queerbychoice) wrote2004-07-23 11:07 pm
In Which You Learn That Gayle Has Never Eaten Fried Eggs with Ham for Breakfast
I have been studying my Advanced Spanish Grammar textbook that I received for my birthday, and I am now up to chapter 3 (of 26 chapters). Chapters 2 and 3 are about breakfast and dinner, and they make lots of statements about what the supposedly typical breakfast and dinner foods are in various Spanish-speaking and English-speaking countries. Unfortunately, I completely disagree with the author's claims about what the supposedly typical foods are in the United States. So I looked at where the author (Marcial Prado) is from, and it says he was born in Spain, but that he received his Ph.D. in Spanish from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and that he is now a professor at California State University at Fullerton - so he's apparently been living in the United States for a considerably long time. You wouldn't think that two such longtime residents of the very same state would have such completely contradictory views about what most people in the United States typically eat. The book includes a little "true or false" quiz section in each chapter, and these items appeared there:
Non-Americans should skip to the last two questions on the poll. Americans should answer the first two questions and skip the last two. ("American" as defined by having lived in the U.S.)
[Poll #325527]
(For the record: the textbook claims that fried eggs with ham is indeed a very typical breakfast in the United States, but that chicken with rice is not a popular dish at all in the United States. I of course disagree.)
True or false?The textbook claims my answers to both of the above were incorrect. I disagree, so I've decided to check.
____ A typical breakfast in the United States is fried eggs with ham.
____ Chicken with rice is a very popular dish in the United States.
Non-Americans should skip to the last two questions on the poll. Americans should answer the first two questions and skip the last two. ("American" as defined by having lived in the U.S.)
[Poll #325527]
(For the record: the textbook claims that fried eggs with ham is indeed a very typical breakfast in the United States, but that chicken with rice is not a popular dish at all in the United States. I of course disagree.)
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