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kleinbl00 · 3678 days ago · link · · parent · post: Ask Hubski: What's a phrase that you are interested to know the origins of? OR... what's a word or phrase whose origins you find interesting?
I think you are 100% right. I think it's sad that Americans think cheese, fruit and nuts at the end of a meal is weird.
Well here in Europe Cheese and Fruit are very common at the end of a meal but I haven't seen Nuts on offer that much. Perhaps I'm in the wrong culinary circles. As far as Americans, Doris Kearns Goodwin had a passage about Lincoln reminiscing on his childhood in "Team of rivals", how he loved listening when his fathers friends would visit and they would break out nuts and converse for hours. So they were popular at some point...