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fw: re:re: grits and hot weather - yankees in las vegas? and oops!

updated sat 31 may 03

 

pdp1@EARTHLINK.NET on fri 30 may 03


Meant to say "Ft. Worth, Texas"...!

Too harried!

Phil

----- Original Message -----
From:


> No Ma'am...
>
> I was born in Ft. Texas, intentionally as far as I know,
> too.
>
> I just happen to like Maple Syrup, and for that matter, I
am
> fond of Birch Syrup which is a little harder to find.
>
> I make darned good Pan-Cakes ( or Flap-Jacks, or
> Griddle-Cakes, or Johnney-Cakes, Hot-Cakes or whatever the
> hell they are, they 'are'...pretty good when I do 'em...)
> and I got into the Maple ( or 'Birch') syrup oweing to
> that...and...it IS good on Grits, too! - well with lots of
> Butter of course...
>
> Make mighty good 'Corn-Gems' too ( and have the old smooth
> Iron baking pans to do so as are no spring Chickens,
> either...) Or Corn Bread in the 'pan' or skillet...and
Corn
> Meal Mush...yum!
>
> I make a swell Oakra-and-Stewed-Tomatoes (with the minced
up
> Bacon in it and so on...) and a good 'Et-too-fey' or
> whatever IT is spelled as, but there are no Crawdads up
( or
> over) here in sorry old lasvegas...and I can do a damned
> good Bar-B-Que...and...
>
> As a boy, I admired there will still fellows as would NOT
> wear...a 'Blue' suit for work, church or liesure...and
> followed closely the last, attenuated attrition of the few
> remaining survivors of the Great Conflict...
>
> ...while I may not be a Southerner, I am no Yankee...!
>
> Ohhhhhhh...
>
> And Grits! - I love them!
>
> How can one not?
>
> Phil
> las vegas
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "L. P. Skeen"

> > Phil,
> >
> > I suspect you are a Yankee transplant. Maple syrup
> indeed.........