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communion with this or that group.
Some ethnic foods have become so well established as not to constitute a serious test; they are in the public domain. Polish sausage and ham, and spaghetti and meatballs or pizza among Italians, for example.
Some ethnic foods, however, are a real test.
In Minnesota a candidate may expect to be asked to eat lutfisk, a salted fish popular among the Swedes, and a bread or pastry called “lefsa,” a Norwegian specialty. In northeastern Minnesota, an area designated as the iron range, the miners who are mostly Yugoslav by descent demanded respect far “pasties,” a kind of meat pie made of meat and vegetables enclosed in a heavy pastry envelope. Before mobile canteens, “pasties” were the mainstay of the noon lunch or meal in the mines. A “pastie,” which might serve well to restore one’s
strength after five hours of work in an iron mine and to prepare for another five hours of similar work, can lie heavily in the stomach of a nonworking, traveling candidate.
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