SC - food bashing

[Siegfried Heydrich]

    Boiled peanuts isn't a food - it's a ritual. For those of us who grew up
in the old south, digging up mats of peanuts, hosing them off, stripping
them out of the mass of root fibers, boiling them up with your favorite
boiling mix, letting them cool while enjoying the aroma to where you don't
have to do the ol' scream, toss & blow when you peel 'em, just think of it
as a southern running the sap sort of thing. With an RC cola and a moon pie
(chocolate or banana, depending on your particular perversion,) you're in
Dixie heaven!
    And let me tell you, boiled peanuts with country ham & redeye gravy with
cornpone and a mess o' greens . . . gives a man the strength to go forth and
whup on that which needs to be whupped!

    Sieggy, who draws the line at grits, though

- ----- Original Message -----

> I'm throwing my lot in with Corwyn on the peanuts and okra.  But have you
> ever had a wooden smoke-house?  I'm also very fond of carabou.
> olwen
>
> >Boiled peanuts or pickled okra <yum>. Every time I bring them up in
> >conversation people look sick. That's not even mentioning the much
maligned
> >sweet iced tea. And I can eat any of the below mentioned with the
exception
> >of gefilte fish, which just leaves more for my Jewish kinsmen :-).
> >
> >Corwyn
> >
> > > Every culture has some food with which they all grow up, which they
> >consider
> > > a necessity of life, and which few outside that culture can stand.
> >Miracle
> > > Whip seems to be one of these.  Others include Gefilte Fish, Natto,
Kim
> >Chee...
> > > you  get the idea.  So, what's yours?
> > > Selene