Jun 25, 2006 12:56
Yesterday, B. and his girlfriend took me to Lancaster County to have lunch at the home of a Mennonite family. His girlfriend had done this once before. You can call the Amish/Mennonite tourism industry offices or you can ask a bed and breakfast proprietor. They call around and you end up with an appointment. There was another couple from California there also.
The food was really, really good, and the experience was really, really awkward. I kept suspecting that this was some humiliating thing they did for money, and that after we left they were going to take of their suspenders and pump Eminem in their land cruiser. They fed us meatloaf and barbecue chicken and homemade noodles and mashed potatoes. They showed us their buggy and their horses.