spring roll quandry

[Guest guest]

Well, thanks to all the replies from this list, I got curious and asked

a few friends around the country. Seems my local community is unique in

how the restaurants only refer to one type of roll as a spring roll. I

never wondered about it before, because of course they all have their

own names in the original languages, so it made sense to me. But

apparently the national norm is to refer to all sorts of Asian rolls

under the same name. One person opined that maybe it was any roll made

with a rice flour wrapper, but several others had examples to negate

that theory. It seems to be a catch-all phrase.

 

Guess you learn something new every day, huh?? <g> Thanks for the

heads-up,

 

Liz