Bohemian food

[Steve K.]

> >At 8:00 AM -0400 5/8/00, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote from Prague:
> >
> >>PAREK--"hot dog pastry."

Actually, a parek is just "hot dog" (or rather, hot dog type product) --
I've had parky 'fresh' out of a tin can and dumped on my plate for
breakfast, no pastry, no nothing, just Soviet-era processed meat in a
casing. The pastry Barry got would seem to be an extra special addition,
but the pastry part isn't part of 'parek'.

(This is opposed to various kinds of actual sausage, my family has
made these from scratch from time to time. In fact, before all the native
Czechs from my hometown starting dying off, there was an annual sausage
dance where they stuffed sausage, cooked it, ate it, and danced. I don't
know how it's spelled, but it's pronounced something like jitrenice. And I
think that's just one kind of sasuage.)


--- Steve K.