Re: Grits

Wow - white lightning will melt your eyebrows. BTW - got your pic from
Jesse this afternoon so we can have it scanned and share w/ the others.
Stay tuned.

P.S. a most handsome child you are!

Pam

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From: romans810@juno.com
Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date:  Mon, 17 Mar 2003 12:31:58 -0800

>feeling 
>Thanks Pam - I'm still feeling gr888. Besides the grits, etc, back in the
>"old" days, my ex  - Bro-law was from Tenn. & a truck driver. he would
>bring back good old 'WHITE LIGHTNING & down home salted ham. One shot of
>lightning & I forgot how salty the ham was. Oh yes, along with some gr888
>okra.
>
>Tony Veca <><
>Another Gr888 Day in Paradise !!!!!
>Vancouver, WA
>
>On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 19:45:54 -0600 "Pamela J. Evans"
><gardenqueen@gbronline.com> writes:
>> Tony - now that's hilarious!  How are you feeling BTW??
>> 
>> Pam
>> 
>> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
>> From: romans810@juno.com
>> Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
>> Date:  Sun, 16 Mar 2003 16:34:46 -0800
>> 
>> >grits 
>> >My first wife was from Kentucky & I got introduced to southern 
>> vittles. I
>> >loved them all. I was known as the only sicilian in southern 
>> captivity.
>> >
>> >Tony Veca <><
>> >Another Gr888 Day in Paradise !!!!!
>> >Vancouver, WA
>> >
>> >On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 19:21:44 -0500 "Andrea H" <hodgesaa@islc.net> 
>> writes:
>> >> Wow, I'm surprised. Most people who didn't grow up eating them 
>> freak 
>> >> out
>> >> when they taste them for the first time. One thing I've never 
>> >> understood is
>> >> eating them with cream and sugar. YUCK! We always had butter, 
>> salt & 
>> >> pepper
>> >> and that's it. Sometimes cheese. Of course now that I live on the 
>> 
>> >> coast
>> >> shrimp & grits is a good thing!
>> >> 
>> >> Andrea H
>> >> Beaufort, SC
>> >> Zone 8b
>> >> 
>> >> ----- Original Message -----
>> >> From: "Maria Olshin" <marolsh@ptd.net>
>> >> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
>> >> Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2003 11:57 AM
>> >> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Hello?
>> >> 
>> >> 
>> >> > I'm not Southern, but I worked on a movie in MD for seven weeks 
>> 
>> >> once, and
>> >> > had grits every day. Still love 'em.
>> >> >
>> >> > Maria
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > >
>> >> > > OHHHHH, now you are truly southern if you love grits.  I grew 
>> up 
>> >> in the
>> >> > > south....grits and butter, cheese grits, grits with 
>> eggs....my 
>> >> husband
>> >> does
>> >> > > not like them.  I can't even imagine that.
>> >> > >
>> >> > > Jesse Rene' Bell
>> >> > >
>> >> > >
>> >> > >
>> >> > >> From: "Andrea H" <hodgesaa@islc.net>
>> >> > >> Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
>> >> > >> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
>> >> > >> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Hello?
>> >> > >> Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 17:55:41 -0500
>> >> > >>
>> >> > >> Pinto beans and cornbread is a staple here too Rene'. My Dad 
>> 
>> >> would FLIP
>> >> if
>> >> > >> he couldn't have cornbread. (Oh, and grits of course)
>> >> > >>
>> >> > >> Andrea H
>> >> > >> Beaufort, SC
>> >> > >> Zone 8b
>> >> > >>
>> >> > >> ----- Original Message -----
>> >> > >> From: "Jesse Bell" <jesserenebell@hotmail.com>
>> >> > >> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
>> >> > >> Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2003 4:23 PM
>> >> > >> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Hello?
>> >> > >>
>> >> > >>
>> >> > >>> Ummmm...wait a minute...I think that's MY mother you are 
>> >> talking
>> >> about.
>> >> > >> Luv
>> >> > >>> her....hate the cooking.  My kids won't even eat my 
>> mother's 
>> >> cooking.
>> >> > >> They
>> >> > >>> saw pictures of me when I was a skinny teenager and all of 
>> 
>> >> them chimed
>> >> > >> in,
>> >> > >>> "GEE MOM...IT'S NO WONDER YOU WERE SO SKINNY...MIMI CAN'T 
>> COOK 
>> >> FOR
>> >> > >>> NOTHING...YOU LOOKED STARVED!"  I wore a size 1 when all my 
>> 
>> >> friends
>> >> were
>> >> > >> in
>> >> > >>> size 6.  I learned to cook in high school just so I could 
>> EAT 
>> >> at home.
>> >> > >> My
>> >> > >>> mother started selling real estate then...so I took over 
>> the 
>> >> cooking.
>> >> > >> My
>> >> > >>> siblings were very happy...and so was my father!!  He still 
>> 
>> >> comes over
>> >> > >> to
>> >> > >> my
>> >> > >>> house so he can "get a decent bowl of pinto beans and 
>> >> cornbread!"
>> >> > >> (that's
>> >> > >> a
>> >> > >>> staple in Oklahoma....like red beans and rice in New 
>> Orleans)
>> >> > >>>
>> >> > >>> Jesse Rene' Bell
>> >> > >>> Claremore, OK
>> >> > >>> Zone 6
>> >> > >>>
>> >> > >>>
>> >> > >>>
>> >> > >>>> From: Island Jim <jsinger@igc.org>
>> >> > >>>> Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
>> >> > >>>> To: gardenchat@hort.net
>> >> > >>>> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Hello?
>> >> > >>>> Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 14:30:17 -0500
>> >> > >>>>
>> >> > >>>> did we have the same mother?
>> >> > >>>>
>> >> > >>>>
>> >> > >>>> At 09:20 AM 3/15/03 -0800, you wrote:
>> >> > >>>>> As a chef Zem, I appreciate that.  However, you obviously 
>> 
>> >> didn't
>> >> know
>> >> > >> my
>> >> > >>>>> sainted mother may she rest in peace.  My mother had many 
>> 
>> >> great
>> >> > >>>>> attibutes...cooking wasn't one of them.
>> >> > >>>>>
>> >> > >>>>> DF
>> >> > >>>>>
>> >> > >>>>> Zemuly@aol.com wrote:
>> >> > >>>>>
>> >> > >>>>>> In a message dated 03/14/2003 6:04:45 PM Central 
>> Standard 
>> >> Time,
>> >> > >>>>>> dfranzma@pacbell.net writes:
>> >> > >>>>>>
>> >> > >>>>>>
>> >> > >>>>>>
>> >> > >>>>>>
>> >> > >>>>>>> next to lima beans brussel sprouts are the lowest of 
>> life 
>> >> forms.
>> >> > >>>>>>>
>> >> > >>>>>>>
>> >> > >>>>>>>
>> >> > >>>>>>
>> >> > >>>>>> Obviously, you are not familiar with that Southern 
>> anthem, 
>> >> "Just a
>> >> > >> Bowl
>> >> > >>>>> of
>> >> > >>>>>> Butter Beans" sung to the tune of "Just a Closer Walk 
>> with 
>> >> Thee."
>> >> > >> Very
>> >> > >>>>>> touching.  If somebody is willing to cook for me I'm 
>> >> delighted to
>> >> > >> eat
>> >> > >> it
>> >> > >>>>> --
>> >> > >>>>>> no matter what, well, maybe not dirt.
>> >> > >>>>>>
>> >> > >>>>>> zem
>> >> > >>>>>> zone 7
>> >> > >>>>>> West TN
>> >> > >>>>>>
>> >> > >>>>>
>> >> > >>> 
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>> >Tony Veca <><
>> >Another Gr888 Day in Paradise !!!!!
>> >Vancouver, WA
>> >
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>> --
>> Pam Evans
>> Kemp TX/zone 8A
>> 
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>
>Tony Veca <><
>Another Gr888 Day in Paradise !!!!!
>Vancouver, WA
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Kemp TX/zone 8A



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