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Re: Hmong and food



Nor do Elmo crackers contain monsters!

>>> Jennifer Hecker <ak4577@WAYNE.EDU> 07/12/02 11:27AM >>>
>>J. Frank Cook wrote:
>>some years ago when a large number of Hmong moved to Wisconsin, the
>>case management workers had to
>>instruct their clients, most of whom were pre-literate, that while
>>cans with a picture of peas contained peas, and corn, corn; cans
>>with a picture of a dog did not contain a staple of their native
>>diet.


I forwarded this account to my mother in Minnesota and she replied
that she heard they also had to reassure them that baby food doesn't
contain babies.

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Jennifer Hecker, MLIS
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Wayne State University
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