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an entry on BOOYAH! What is booyah? I’m glad you asked.
BOOYAH is a thick mixed stew that demonstrates how American ethnic food can include dishes that would be completely alien in recipe or usage to past generations. Groups of Belgian American Walloons settled around Door County (Green Bay), Wisconsin, in the 1850s, bringing with them a dish of clear bouillon served with rice. The hen of that had been boiled to obtain the bouillon made another meal the next day. Sometime in the 1930s, men took over the dish and turned it into a thick soup full of boned chicken meat and vegetables (and often served with saltines) at the annual Belgian American kermis harvest festival. The pots became larger, the men used a canoe paddle to stir the soup, and “booyah” became the name of the event as well as the central dish.
By the 1980s, booyah was served at church fund-raisers, at a midsummer ethnic festival for visitors, and on Green Bay Packer football weekends. Secret recipes and “booyah kings” have been added to make booyah male-bonding ritual like those surrounding barbecue, chili con carne, burgoo, and Brunswick stew – the latter two soup-stews being highly similar to booyah.
It is possible that booyah has features of other Belgian soups, such as hochepot. It often happens that American ethnic dishes begin to accumulate features of several old-country dishes. It also may be that booyah is not descended from Belgian bouillon at all. Around Saint Cloud, Minnesota, Polish Americans believe that “bouja” is an old Polish soup, and men make it as much as Belgian Americans do in Door County, Wisconsin, but flavored with pickling spices. An early published recipe (1940) describes “boolyaw” as a French Canadian dish from the hunting camps of Michigan. A more recent Wisconsin cookbook called it an old German recipe. The dish has gone from a thin soup made by women at home to a thick stew made by men for communal events. An Italian American might mistake booyah for minestrone, yet Belgian Americans in Wisconsin believe it is named for Godfrey of Bouillon, a leader of the First Crusade. The fruit tarts served for desert at booyah feasts are made by women as much as they were in Eastern Belgium in the early nineteenth century.
Mark H. Zanger, author of The American History Cookbook
Take out the Trash: Ugh. The dumpsters are stinky and you’re busy. Pawn that chore off on a young, gullible sibling.
Mom: Sweety, would you please take out the trash for Mommy?
You: Aw, man, I’m watching cartoons!
Mom: You can do it during the commercial break.
You: fine…. (sneak over to sister’s room) Hey, sis, Mom says you have to take out the trash.
Make sure they do a good job, or you’ll get blamed when this happens…
Unload the Dishwasher: Tedious. Why not just leave them in the washer where they are easier to grab? Pay a sibling imaginary money to do it for you.
You: Hey, Johnny, I’ll pay you 14 Mega-Bucks to unload the dishwasher.
Johnny: What’s a Mega-Buck?
You: You don’t know what a Mega-Buck is? Man, you are a baby. Mega-Buck’s are for older, cool kids.
Johnny: I’m not a baby. What’s a Mega-Buck for?
You: Everything, rocket ship rides, candy, pet dragons…
Johnny: OK, I’ll do it!
(Later when Johnny asks to redeem his Mega-Bucks, tell him Dragon Eggs cost 18,000,000 Mega-Bucks)
Sweep/Vacuum the Floor: Why should you clean the floor? It’s not like you have to eat off it! Make sure to get the big noticeable stuff, but leave the rest. If Mom doesn’t notice, great. If she does notice, doing this enough may convince her that you are terrible at it and she won’t ask you again.
WARNING! The DO-THINGS-SO-BAD-THEY-STOP-ASKING strategy is a gamble that may result in you having to do it over.
Clean Your Room: It’s your room, you should get to keep it how you like it, Messy.
First, insist that you have a system and know precicely where everything is and cleaning would result in you never finding your homework and thus failing Math and never getting into college. If that doesn’t work, make your bed and shove everything on the floor into your closet/hamper. If possible, block the closet with a fragile and extremely awkward school diorama or heavy dresser to prevent Mom from discovering its contents.
Mow the Lawn: It’s hot out and it just grows back. Luckily for you, the boys at MJM Books have possibly THE most experience in shirking this particular task.
Strategy One: Hide the Gas/Break the Mower.
Strategy Two: Stall. Promise to do it tomorrow because the weatherman says it will be cooler. Say you twisted your ankle. Anything. The goal is to let the lawn get so bad that it becomes a lost cause and a family’s secret shame like so…
Strategy Three: Employ dishwashing or trash disposing strategies on different, unsuspecting siblings (hopefully, you have a large family).
…sigh…
Final Option: Do it, but raise the wheels up high and leave the bag off.
This is the way to experience Beowulf. Two years ago Treebeard and the youngest entling and I saw bard, Benjamin Bagby perform his one man show and it was a transforming experience.
Bagby has a DVD now. I hope schools are sharing this with their students.
pretty cool! I'm going to have to check that one out.
I read Beowulf when I was a teenager, before I HAD too. I was just that weird a kid.
Did you read LOTR before you found Beowulf?
The Professor had much to say about Beowulf and even did his own translation which we have around here somewhere.
After. I read it because I knew he'd done a translation--probably from the biography I read.
Glad I finally made it over to bookmoot, btw, 2 months after kidlit!