06/24/03’s illustrious band:

Fish Strudel

Brought to you by a “reado” from Mother Media last night.

A reado is just the reading version of a typo: you see something you shouldn’t have. In this case, Mother Media was reading the previous day’s BND, in which I mentioned fresh strudel. Scanning quickly so she could get on to her other 150 e-mail messages -- this lady gets more mail than Santa at Christmastime, I swear -- she thought she read fish strudel.

The sad part of this story is that it took her a minute to decide that perhaps that wasn’t what I had meant. This is someone who thinks that peanut butter and mayonnaise is a palatable food combination (anything and mayo, almost), so fish strudel was not entirely out of the question.

And it’s not! My high-tech research techniques indicate that fish strudel actually exists. I got more than half a dozen hits on the subject from a couple different search engines. Hmm! One menu offers “white fish, salmon, pineapple and cream cheese cooked in light pastry served with melon and paw paw sauce.” Another includes (Smoked) Fish-Strudel (Räucherfischstrudel) — along with Salmon-Spinach-Strudel (Lachs- und Blattspinatstrudel) and -- get this -- Sauerkraut-Strudel (Sauerkrautstrudel). Boy, how German is that?

Anyway, tonight we’re hitting the town to celebrate Mother Media’s birthday, which is tomorrow. So send lots of good wishes to the address below! Possibilities for dinner include Fat Lorenzo’s pizza, replete with homemade ingredients (and available by delivery) and Christos Greek restaurant, where garlic is the ingredient of the day, all day, every day. But no fish strudel. Not if I’m driving.

E-mail Mother Media: husband@rushmore.com

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