Posted on 07/02/2021 10:41:09 AM PDT by Red Badger
Bone, that’s what I’m talking ‘bout!
The problem isn’t the food. It’s the hydrogenated oils used today. Frying in real butter or lard and frying it correctly by sealing in the flavor results in very little grease intake. Besides, 30% of your diet should be from fats. On that note, I’m going to go make some kilt lettuce with bacon grease. 😋
Mine did, too, and being from Texas, they ate fried catfish, fried chicken, fried okra, fried tomatoes, sweet tea and pecan pies. All lived into their 90’s. My gpa smoked those roll your own cigs, too. Died of prostatic cancer.
If you are Scared of Dying don’t bother Living:-)
Thanks for the torture! I want some chicken fried steak!
The article asserts, in some way, that these dietary choices are (somehow) a matter of disparate poverty and such. That is absolutely pure Twaddle.
People eat that stuff because it tastes damned good!!
You are talking about major portion of what I eat and drink.
No heart attacks, no chest pains, no shortness of breath.
The daily 35 minute gym routine allows me to eat or drink anything I like at age 81.
Is that a southern pecan pie? I go through tons of it purchased at publix.
It’s one of the main food groups for me!
The biggest culture shock this northern boy had coming down south was the first morning in the cafateria at collage was everyone was drinking soda for breakfast. Soda was only for picnics and movies. I stayed with ~ 6 classes of whole milk a meal.
My grand dad lived to be 90. Growing up, his family ate every part of a pig except the oink. Late in life, my grandmother would boil collard greens and save the water. They called it “pot liquor”. He would pour it into mason jars and keep in the fridge. Before he went to bed he would down 3 fingers of whisky and a big swig of the pot liquor. He also smoked cigars from the age of 14. WW 1 veteran.
I joke with people that smoking and drinking killed him at the young age of 90.
There is nothing better than a huge chicken fried steak, covered in white cream gravy and pico. Good mix of southern cooking and tex-mex. And a cold Shiner.
nap time.
Heaven!
If that is a steak, why is it called chicken fried?
Does any chicken meat involved in cooking chicken fried steak?
I’m from the South and this is pretty accurate. I cut out sweet tea and soda 25 years ago. I try to keep biscuits to every two or three weeks and fried chicken once a month. Clogged arteries and gall bladder failure are pretty common here.
He’ll, it ain’t southern cooking if you can’t hear your arteries hardening after dinner🤗
organ meats (such as liver or giblets)
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Hm, can’t say I associate organ meats with Southern food. I think more of poverty cuts like ham hocks and neck bones and chitlins.
If there is something “poverty cut” about your ham hocks youre doing it wrong.
Oh you’re right. Ham hocks are a staple of the upper class.
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