Re: CHAT: cross-culturation

Re: Weiben Wang on Monday, December 03, 2001 6:41 PM

> The local Ukrainian eateries (in New York City), and
> Polish too IIRC, serve challah, and there's no reason
> they couldn't put ham and cheese on it.  Perhaps it's
> an Eastern European thing turned Ashkenazi?
>
> I just checked with our friendly neighborhood
> Ukrainian co-worker who confirmed that challah is
> quite an ordinary thing among non-Jewish Ukrainians,
> often eaten around Chrismastime.  He wasn't sure if it
> was a Jewish thing turned Ukrainian, or vice versa.
The problem was not with challah. The problem was with HAM!
In Ukraine there is a food product called _vetchina_.
It is made of coarsely minced meat or poultry then smoked and pressed.
All my collegues used to think that the equivalent to this _vetchina_ is
"ham". Now I see we were wrong. So what's the name for that tasty thing in
English???

Yitzik the Curious
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