[Mpls-pm] local places

Joshua ben Jore twists at gmail.com
Tue Feb 13 13:10:00 PST 2007


On 2/13/07, Daniel Oelke <Dan at oelke.com> wrote:
>
> But I think you could argue that Vietnamese food is a subset of the
> "Minnesotan" experience and definitely not something unique to here.  If
> you want local flavor I would find something else.   I have eaten in
> good Vietnamese places here, but also on each coast and in the south.
>
> Personally when I go traveling I am looking for something different, and
> going to an Italian or Mexican or Vietnamese or Chinese or Indian place
> is usually lower on the list as I can find those types of places locally
> too.   That being said - when presented with the choice - I'll take any
> of those as a "mom-n-pop" place over yet another franchised place..
> > That's true. I do, however, take issue with the idea that Vietnamese !~
> > Minnesotan.
> >

Well I never did find any place that served porketta, pasties, smarna,
etc. That'd be the ethnic Finnish part of Minnesota.

Josh


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