As a child I had no idea of my ethnic background, until a teacher assigned the class to find their ethnic heritage. My parents said we were German but came before the World Wars. I was the only German in my school class. Class mates made fun of me as someone their fathers had fought in WW II. This was in Ansonia, OH. Pickled eggs was the ethnic food that I knew from pre-school days in my home, but didn't connect it as anything ethnic until I started my genealogical studies and discovered my PA-Dutch background. Gerald Rhoades Harrisburg, PA