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Southern Diet Frustrates Health Officials
AP News ^ | 14-feb-2005 | DANIEL YEE

Posted on 02/15/2005 8:19:45 AM PST by stainlessbanner

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To: stainlessbanner

Now, I prefer a grills with. A krispy creme doughnut fried with vanilla ice cream served on top. A lost art.


41 posted on 02/15/2005 8:43:01 AM PST by twigs
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To: linn37

Ketchup on chicken fried steak is a sin...


42 posted on 02/15/2005 8:43:56 AM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: stainlessbanner

The key is MODERATION.

You can eat anything you want, just don't overdo it!

These food nazis know nothing about cooking or food. I'd hate to see what would happen to one of them if they came into the kitchen of the restaurant I work at and started their crap.....

We're real good with cleavers, lol!


43 posted on 02/15/2005 8:43:56 AM PST by Chef Dajuan (this ain't rocket science, you know. so use your knob! -emeril lagasse)
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To: stainlessbanner

Don't forget the greens! Turnip, collard and mustards....all with fat-back or ham hocks.

And peas---blackeyed, crowder, field, purple hull, english...
all with fat-back or ham hocks.

And beans--- snap, green, butter....
all with fat-back or ham hocks.

And potatoes---- sweet, 'irish', new....
all with fat-back or ham hocks.

And the breads...biscuits, cornbread, hoe-cakes, cracklin'...
OK, those we serve with butter.

(is it lunch time yet!?!)


44 posted on 02/15/2005 8:44:26 AM PST by najida (I love my new tile saw. I LOVE it! just love the little fella....for Christmas, I want a router.)
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To: TXBSAFH

There's a little airport in Oklahoma City with a restaurant that serves what they call a "Burger Buster" if I remember right.

It's a slice of thick toast with a burger on that, a mess of fries on top of that, and a boatload of gravy on that. It may have had cheese on it, I don't remember. It was hard enough making out the other stuff under all the gravy.

But I swear it tasted great.

Æ


45 posted on 02/15/2005 8:44:28 AM PST by AgentEcho (If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. - Will Rogers)
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To: Restorer

"I always thought the national food of the South was deep-fried grease."

Not quite. Drop a dollup of corn meal mixture into the deep-fried grease, let it sizzle and the edges curl up, and you got yourself a sho-nuff hoe cake!


46 posted on 02/15/2005 8:44:49 AM PST by peacebaby ("...please refrain from impugning my integrity." Dr. Condoleezza Rice, 1/18/05)
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To: stainlessbanner
Flyover Country Turns Thumbs Down On Yankee Diets. Film at 11.

Denny Crane: "There are two places to find the truth. First God and then Fox News."

47 posted on 02/15/2005 8:45:01 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: stainlessbanner
Much of the South's traditional foods date back to the days of slavery. Frying was preferable in the region's hot climate, since it didn't take as long as baking and didn't heat up a house as much. Plus, Burley said, workers didn't have all day to prepare meals; they had to get back into the fields to work. Lard was also plentiful. Today, frying still is popular, especially in poor areas of the South, because it is also inexpensive.

Uh-oh! they've done it now--blaming blacks for fat rednecks! Paging Jesse & Al! Race ho' alert!

I do not fry much because I hate to clean afterwards. I'm a steak person anyway-nothing better than a big, juicy, rare steak off the grill. But when I do fry, the cost factor has nothing to do with it. Taste does. I make gravy out of my meat drippings. Vegetables do not taste good unless they are cooked with salt pork. I love the pot liquor after cooking collards. I guess the CDC will be knocking on my door soon becasue I have fed these horrible things to my kids.

These do-gooders need to get their noses out of our business.

I must be stupid, but I did not realize I could pay less for chicken legs or pork chops if I was going to fry them! I want to go to that store! Idiots, do they realize how stupid that statement is?

BTW, When I read the above passage I thought of Jimmy the Greek who lost his job because he said something similar. [paraphrased] Blacks are good athletes because in the days of slavery they were bred to be strong.

48 posted on 02/15/2005 8:45:23 AM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: linn37
Good luck, do you have him drinking ice tea yet.
49 posted on 02/15/2005 8:45:39 AM PST by THE MODERATE
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To: stainlessbanner

I eat all the fatty food I want - and I was raised in the South on a diet of high fatty content.

I'm gonna turn 40 this year and I weigh 175 lbs. I'm 5' 10" and I have a size 32 waist - one size larger than it was when I joined the Army 17 years ago.

Yeah - seems that's the key isn't it? I STAY ACTIVE and do not eat fatty foods IN EXCESS!!!

Yes - I do have a reason to stay in shape: so I can stay in the Army to protect the rights of fat, lazy, overeating Americans who think they have the right to sue the piano player because the song sounds too sweet!

It ain't the food - it's the big fat ass it keeps getting shoved into that's the problem. The more they eat, the less active they become because they don't have the energy to exercise because they weigh too much because they eat too much and they aren't active enough because they don't have the energy to exercise because they weigh too much.....

Detecting a bit of a cycle here?

Get off your fat ass, America!


50 posted on 02/15/2005 8:45:48 AM PST by Don Simmons (Annoy a liberal: Work hard; Prosper; Be Happy.)
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To: Fierce Allegiance

where's the grits!


51 posted on 02/15/2005 8:45:53 AM PST by peacebaby ("...please refrain from impugning my integrity." Dr. Condoleezza Rice, 1/18/05)
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights

They are probably the same people who wish to ban smoking in bars.


52 posted on 02/15/2005 8:46:33 AM PST by THE MODERATE
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To: TXBSAFH

You're right. I'm a Southerner living in yankeeland. Fortunately, my husband, who does most of the cooking, also lived long enough in the South to learn what good cooking is. So I'm the consultant! We can't buy the foods up here we need for good cooking, so we stock up when we head south.


53 posted on 02/15/2005 8:47:26 AM PST by twigs
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To: peacebaby

That sounds like what I make my wife, basically fried chicken without the chicken.


54 posted on 02/15/2005 8:48:07 AM PST by Fierce Allegiance
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To: kenth
One of the first amazing things I saw here in the mountains of N. GA

Ever been to the Lantern in Cumming...across the highway from Lake Lanier?

55 posted on 02/15/2005 8:48:18 AM PST by ErnBatavia (ErnBatavia, Boxer, Pelosi, Thomas...the ultimate nightmare Menage a Quatro)
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To: najida

Fried chicken soaked in buttermilk and hot sauce before frying.

Hot banana pudding with meringue (that is the way it is SUPPOSED to be!)

Lemon chess cake out of the fridge.

Low country boil with shrimp, home made sausage, new potatoes and sweet corn.


56 posted on 02/15/2005 8:48:41 AM PST by najida (I love my new tile saw. I LOVE it! just love the little fella....for Christmas, I want a router.)
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To: Sam's Army

Yeah, except we use Shearer's and hot sauce, too.

I always thought those were a "Black thang", lol!


57 posted on 02/15/2005 8:48:45 AM PST by Chef Dajuan (this ain't rocket science, you know. so use your knob! -emeril lagasse)
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To: Don Simmons

My grandmother is 102....was the best southern cook ever. My favorite food was what we kids called messy chicken - fried chicken in gravy. And of course there was rice, and grandmother's fresh-from-the-garden green beans, and rolls, and let's not forget the dessert.

But Grandmother exercised by working sun-up to sun-down, was climbing a ladder in her 80s, didn't drink or smoke.

Now Grandmother's mind is gone, but her body still ticks.

All things in moderation.


58 posted on 02/15/2005 8:49:11 AM PST by peacebaby ("...please refrain from impugning my integrity." Dr. Condoleezza Rice, 1/18/05)
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To: Restorer
depends on what part.

BBQ & tex-mex is the national cusine of TX!

free dixie,sw

59 posted on 02/15/2005 8:49:27 AM PST by stand watie (being a damnyankee is no better than being a racist. it is a LEARNED prejudice against dixie.)
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To: TXBSAFH

LOL. I suffered through white bread stuffing the first year. (Don't tell her that!) Then I introduced the misses to corn bread dressing. Upside, that's all we have now at holidays, downside, I do the cooking.


60 posted on 02/15/2005 8:49:33 AM PST by kenth (I love the smell of burning troll in the morning.)
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