[Sca-cooks] On "Swet Te" (was Po' Folks)

[Elaine Koogler]

Michael Gunter wrote:
>> HEY!!!  Only us Okies get to pick on Oklahoma!!!  But seriously, that 
>> was
>> hilarious. :)
>>
>> Elizabeta of Rundel
>
> My momma was born in Gertie, raised in Chickasha, is buried in
> Verden. The family was pure white trash who survived the
> Depression picking cotton.
>
> I was raised on catfish fries, fried chicken cooked in a 100 year
> old dutch oven (my only inheritance), greens, fried taters,
> tons of tea, mayonnaise and tomato sandwiches and
> southern barbecue.
>
> Soul food isn't for black people, it's what's served at family
> reunions.
>
> And to prove that I'm from redneck Okie stock, at my
> mother's funeral there was (I swear on my belt and
> chain) an attendee in his overalls with a Massey-Ferguson
> cap and his name was, I swear to God, Cleatus.
>
> Yers,
>
> Gunthar-Bob
Well...guess my background is a from a different part of the south.  
Mama was born and raised 70 miles southeast of Atlanta...Dad was from 
the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia ("The Valley").  I agree that soul 
food is what people in the south eat, whether white or black.  And we 
always drank sweetened tea with lemon.  I was fortunate in that Dad 
owned part of a farm (with his father and brother) in the Valley, so we 
always had beef and pork that had been raised on the farm.  Grandma 
would make scrapple and souse...loved the former, can't deal with the 
latter!  And they would cure the best hams and shoulders...I still 
remember how good they were.  On my mother's side, Grandpa made 
Georgia-style barbeque...shredded pork with a sauce of lemon juice, 
mustard, black pepper, vinegar, butter and drippings from cooking the 
pork.  Sigh.  Got to make some of that one day soon.

Kiri