Isms: Views on life in rural America

I’ve been thinking (and that can be a dangerous thing).

Last week’s All Things Nebraska column by Paul Hammel posed the question, “Should the Legislature dish up a state dessert?”

ICYMI, Hammel lamented that our northern neighbors have a designated dessert. It’s Kuchen, a German cake, stuffed with fruit or custard filling.

Once, Hammel made the suggestion to a state senator who represented several Czech communities that, perhaps, the legislature should designate kolaches as the official state dessert. Motion failed. The state senator pointed out that the scrumptious Czech sweet bread is really...