[Sca-cooks] tapioca and pappy yokum....slightly ot

[Elaine Koogler]

No, it's not really off topic...after all, shmoos could turn into any kind
of food you want...they frequently turned into hams, and sacrificed
themselves as dinner for a hungry Dogpatch denizen!!

Kiri
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nisha" <nishamartin at yahoo.com>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 6:26 PM
Subject: [Sca-cooks] tapioca and pappy yokum....slightly ot


> Hi,
> I haven't posted much in quite a while, but I had to reply to this one.
> I grew up in Harrison Arkansas, just down the road from Dogpatch.(yes
> there really is a town called dogpatch arkansas) Al Capp was from
> harrison, and there was a small amusement park there called Dogpatch
> USA. I spent every summer from the time I was 14 til I was 21 working
> there, usually food service. So your reference to Pappy made me laugh.
> So even tho I'm not really old enough to remember the al capp comic
> strip, I know all of the characters, because several of them were
> played by my frieds at the park. LOL. The Shmoo was the one no one
> wanted to play. 8 feet tall costume that had a fan in it, but was nasty
> hot in those humid summers in Northern Arkansas. Oh well, this is kind
> of off topic, so I'll quit rambling now.
> Nisha/Brianna
>
>
> I can remember eating it as a child, as well...we used to call it
> "Pappy
> Yokum" for the comic strip character from "L'il Abner"...yes, I
> know...I'm
> showing my age again!!  But it WAS a great strip!!
>
> I have also used tapioca as a thickener for fruit cobblers...works very
> well.
>
> Kiri
>
>
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