That is a very cool story. Thanks for sharing that.
The only one I have is the story of one of my Uncles calling my grandfather to let him know his troop train was going to pass through Shreveport and to call the tamale lady and buy everyone she had. They gave him a grocery sack full of them and he passed them out to all his buddies.
After the war they asked him about how his pals liked the tamales. “They didn’t like them. Those yankees don’t know the difference between good food and dirt”.
Lol
Mississippi delta tamales are fairly famous ....i buy them in small paint cans
Hipsters now fetishize them in Nashville and offer them up in various fillers no longer just pork
I smother mine in homemade chili but I’ll use frozen skyline in a pinch over the top
Pass the nexium please....
I’m having Mexican today at some point kind of a Sunday family tradition like gumbo is for Christmas ...
Speaking of which...I bought three quarts last nite from Gumbo Brothers in the gulch downtown Music city
Braved the tourists and hipster throngs....Gumbo Bros is good...very good actually...for outside the coast or south Louisiana.
Anyhow I get home pickup up the bag...and the bottom falls out soaked ...bags had stayed straight up...but someone hadn’t sealed the quarts and bottom rotted...sixty bucks for family of five all over back carpet trunk of rented Mazda crossover
I was tempted to scoop up the best.. parts into my pelican mouth...confession....those plump shrimp didn’t get tossed...floating on the “debris”
My wife called them and they issued a credit or gift card# immediately ....very apologetic
It’s quite good...I believe it’s black Louisiana owned with one in Brooklyn and here ...
Anyhow you can tell I’m damn hungry ...I salvaged the remoulade and fried shrimp last nite and we opened a can Blue Runner read beans and made rice and were good....Blue Runner from Baton Rouge makes excellent red beans and rice prepared beans.....chop some andouille in and they are good...truly a stellar product like anything Savoies is too...for bottled roux in an emergency
Publix sells Blue Runner..I highly recommend them.....if you like red beans and rice