The discussion of Pennsylvania Dutch, if that is what they are, pickled beets and eggs reminded of this one: One of my girlfriends from college was Jewish. After college when she came to visit in my first apartment, I served breakfast. She immediately said, "Apple Butter! I'm surprised YOU have apple butter!" Nonplussed, I said "Why?". She answered, "I always thought it was Jewish." All I could say was, "Well I always thought it was Pennyslvania Dutch." Eventually what we concluded was that it must be Central European, not just German, because although the Germans certainly have a lot of Apfel this and Apfel that, her Jewish mother, who made homemade apple butter, was from Hungary! jan