I can't for the life of me understand why someone would want to ingest
mosquitos!  I saw something on TV this weekend (my elder son insisted I
watch it with him) where a worm farmer from California was taking a bath in
worms.  He was scrubbing with them - something about the protein enriching
his skin.  Personally, I'd rather grab a tube of Oil of Olay.  It wouldn't
give me the willies rubbing it in.

Actually, some of the best dogs are the foot long ones - larger than most
found in the grocery store (in the dog food aisle ;-))))  I think Ken's
observation of the diminutive stature of Western NY dogs is due to
inbreeding, not the smelly water and fermented cabbage.  Mom (who's 5'6",
not really tall, but not short, either) always said sulfur water tastes
great, especially when it's ice cold.  Of course, mom can stand over a pot
of boiling coffee and not smell it, so I'm not one to trust her in this
regard.

As for the housing in the area, many of the cobblestone houses are reputed
to have been built by the Italian masons who came to build the Erie and
Barge Canals.  The majority of stones came from these ditches.  Beautiful
places, most of them, with the exception of those that people have done a
poor job modernizing.  There's also the mud house in Rochester.  I called
the local paper to find out more, but the woman with whom I spoke told me I
must be talking about "The Mushroom House".  I wasn't, but this place is
really neat also.  It gets its name from its shape, not from any harvesting
that may be happening in the basement.  Personally, I think all the strange
houses in the area are due to the chemicals being pumped out of the Big
Yellow Box (aka, Kodak) downtown.  Talk about smelly water, phew!

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Twybill,
I would certainly hope the reference is to dogs. Though my observation is
the
dogs in that part of NY are kind of diminutive in stature. Must be the
smelly
water and fermented cabbage.
This kind of fits in with the charming things that historic museum houses
do to
raise funds. In Phelps they eat saurkraut in many variations - they also
have a
lot of really neat 19th century masonry buildings... including mud and/or
cobble houses. I heard of some other place in our nation where every year
they
have a mosquito culinary contest. Muffins 'n Skeeters, Skeeter Stout,
Skeeter
Blintzes, and Skeetered Jello. It seems all of America wants to eat
something
weird and advertise the BS out of the fact.
Goes along with all the *National Museums*. National Museum of Paper
Snowflakes, National Museum of Tarnished Spoons, National Museum of Painted
Fingernails, National Museum of Unpainted Loos, etc.
Twybil wrote:
> God Pam!
>
> Not being at all wise of the culinary habits of the Phelpsian Manor, may
we
> assume that "dogs with SK" refers to hotdogs?
>
> MD