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

[Mike C. Baker]

Gunthar-Bob isn't the only other Oklahoma-rooted participant round these
here parts (I came to Texas primarily for mercenary reasons, after being
born in the Osage country and raised with Kiowa, Arapaho, Comanche, and
other NavAm classmates -- great-grandma refused enrollment in the
Cherokee back in 1912, or I would have qualified for an additional pool
of scholarship money ...) 

I'll see his Cleatus-at-the-funeral and raise
1) burials in bathrobe & pajamas (two grandparents, by their request --
made perfect sense, Grandad never did look quite right in a suit after
fishing for all those years in khakis and overalls)
2) funeral attendees in coveralls, not just overalls -- perfectly
sensible once or twice, with wind chills in the sub-teens and not a
windbreak around to speak of... 
3) funeral attendees arriving in full working rig on horseback (everyone
understood, stock outside the fences takes priority over ceremonial
passages; them folk made their excuses, just the same, because that was
their sense of "polite")
4) (obligatory food content) Family reunion food includes 
"real" baked beans (made with store-bought pork-n-beans, ketchup, dry
mustard, brown sugar or molasses, and good bacon for flavor [ends&pieces
when available]), 
pecan pie (when your cousin runs forty-odd acres of pecan orchard and
most everyone else knows where the best native trees grow along the
creeks, it makes sense), 
and usually at least one pan of fried chicken still in the cooking
grease.  

Fried catfish, on the other hand, was far more regular on Granny Baker's
table about twice a week, with fried perch & crappie as even more
regular breakfast meats alongside the obligatory bacon, or sausage
patties (Grandad tried to follow the doctor's orders and reduce his
cholesterol, usually -- he took to smoking his catfish in his later
years, but still had to have one or two nibbles of the fried platter for
quality control).

Adieu, Amra / ttfn - Mike / Pax ... Kihe (Mike C. Baker)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: sca-cooks-bounces+kihebard=hotmail.com at ansteorra.org 
> [mailto:sca-cooks-bounces+kihebard=hotmail.com at ansteorra.org] 
> On Behalf Of Michael Gunter
> Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 12:06 PM
> To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] On "Swet Te" (was Po' Folks)
> 
> >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