[dmz]

I invite you over for the Fourth of July...and I serve you food generally served in Iraq.

Would you think that odd, wrong, or normal?

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I would not find it odd in the least, certainly not wrong, and normal wouldn’t apply. Our celebration of our Independence from Britain has exactly nothing to do with Iraq, so serving Iraqi food would lead me to believe that is what you like to eat/cook. And I’d be thrilled that it wasn’t burgers and dogs.

I’m guessing that you would take offense to my Memorial Day menu this year ... having just returned a few days earlier from Israel, I made a themed meal of foods from the middle east.

[Osage Orange]

Maybe that was a bad example.........

But did you get my drift?

[Osage Orange]

While you are at it.....

Would you address my whole post?

[muawiyah]

The Ottoman Empire was among the first foreign powers to recognize the brand new United States way back during the Revolution.

Iraq was then a province of that country, so that had a lot to do with the Fourth of July.

An Iraqi meal would likely be based on American rice grown in South Carolina and a fresh frozen packaged chicken shipped in from Arkansas or Maryland (we do that big time on this planet and before Saddam ruined their economy Iraq soaked up almost all the rice grown in SC).

I've heard tomatoes and cucumbers are a big deal there as well.

We've had neighbors from there from time to time and they make some downright "Western" sounding dishes ~ probably because CIVILIZATION WAS INVENTED by the Sumerians ~