Not to go off a tangent, but every time I think about buttermilk it reminds me of the Lewis Grizzard quote about a girl being "uglier than an empty glass of buttermilk"
OT: cornbread and milk
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Next thing we know someone will be asking if we've ever eaten a mater sandwich.
I've always thought it was interesting that my dad --- who was raised on a cotton farm in north MS in the 50s, is as genuinely southern as you can get, and has eaten everything mentioned in this thread --- swears grits are not a southern food because he'd never tried them until he was an adult. So I've always wondered if other Mississippi people his age actually ate grits growing up, and how did he miss out. Or were they more common in another area of the south?
I've always thought it was interesting that my dad --- who was raised on a cotton farm in north MS in the 50s, is as genuinely southern as you can get, and has eaten everything mentioned in this thread --- swears grits are not a southern food because he'd never tried them until he was an adult. So I've always wondered if other Mississippi people his age actually ate grits growing up, and how did he miss out. Or were they more common in another area of the south?
I never ate grits much growing up and really don't eat them much now. We ate a lot of oatmeal though.
When I was growing up, that was like my dad's desert. Every time we had cornbread with a meal, after he finished eating he would crumble up a piece or two of cornbread, dump it in a glass of milk and proceed to dig it out with a spoon and eat it.
Peanuts and Coca-cola is a southern delicacy, but it really needs to be in a glass bottle. Takes me back to hanging and fishing with dad in the mid to late 80’s.
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I love my southern traditions, but much like potted meat, I’m pretty sure Vienna sausages are made of lips, peckers, and ********, with an emphasis on peckers and ********.
To me it’s not the same sans onion, whether sweet vidalia or othersise. With out onion it’s like eating a plain peanut butter sandwich without banana.
I agree, I never liked venison growing up, it was growing up and knowing how to prepare it that made me prefer it to beef. I still remember skipping high school school in the late 90’s and hunting when a buddy killed a young deer and I showed them how to properly prepare it and grill it. Going on 25 years later my buddies still talk about the fine job I done on the grill. As great as good sports moments were, there’s nothing quite like impressing your buddies with what you could do with fresh venison on the grill.
peas, cornbread made with bulgarian buttermilk [ https://www.prairiefarms.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/25406-0-bulgbuttermilk-whole-pt.jpg ], chopped onions, bell pepper and fresh garden grown tomatoes, covered with pea liquor
To die for!
To die for!
Alright I'm 38 and my grandparents were poor sharecroppers growing up born in 1928. So I'm with you all on growing up with cornbread and milk. Takes me back to Friday nights at their house in my childhood years every time I eat it....but let's get this thing going and find out where our country boys are on this board. Fried chitlins (when cooked correctly) may be what I'd ask for if I had one last meal. Who's with me? Upvote for yay and downvote for the city slickers .
Never had them but
My buddy who is a very successful surgeon swears they are his favorite food. Cracks me up. I’m not against trying them, but I’ve never had the opportunity.
My buddy who is a very successful surgeon swears they are his favorite food. Cracks me up. I’m not against trying them, but I’ve never had the opportunity.
Chitlins (chitterlings) are fine, as long as you boil the **** out of them first.
Can't do the chitlins. We used to help my grandparents kill a hog every fall and after cleaning them and smelling them boil I just can't put one in my mouth.
It was a poorly-executed old joke. How do you cook chitlins? You boil the **** out of them.
We lived in a duplex when we moved to Tupelo ~15 years ago. First night there was a Saturday night. Woke up the next morning with strong smell of sewage. My first thought was what was nearby that smells like that? Have we got to live here for a whole freaking year and wake up to this every morning?
Then found out my duplex neighbor was cooking chitlins for a big Sunday lunch. Thank goodness that was the one & only time.
Then found out my duplex neighbor was cooking chitlins for a big Sunday lunch. Thank goodness that was the one & only time.
As I read this thread....
I was going to make that point about sweet milk if someone else hadn't. Since both sweet and buttermilk were commonly consumed when I grew up in rural MS, and especially when my parents were raised, it was necessary to distinguish between the two. My mother never ate milk and bread with anything but sweet milk but daddy liked both.
We also grew up distinguishing 'loaf bread' from 'cornbread' with the latter often just referred to as 'bread' and it never, ever contained sugar. However, I did and still do enjoy eating a warm slice I've opened up slathered with butter and molasses.
I was going to make that point about sweet milk if someone else hadn't. Since both sweet and buttermilk were commonly consumed when I grew up in rural MS, and especially when my parents were raised, it was necessary to distinguish between the two. My mother never ate milk and bread with anything but sweet milk but daddy liked both.
We also grew up distinguishing 'loaf bread' from 'cornbread' with the latter often just referred to as 'bread' and it never, ever contained sugar. However, I did and still do enjoy eating a warm slice I've opened up slathered with butter and molasses.
Oh yes, my mother believed that fanatically. The story went that somebody knew somebody that knew a lady in the past that died of gastrointestinal distress caused by eating fish with milk according to the doctor who treated her, or at least it was interpreted that way. When I was older and knew better, I did my best to convince her that the fish & milk thing was just a myth. I would deliberately consume the two together in her presence, much to her consternation, just to prove the point. At first she would dismiss the lack of harm because supposedly it only affects one 'when one's stomach isn't quite right'. But as time went on I either finally convinced her or she just gave up and resigned me to my fate because eventually she quit saying anything about it.
Didn't like eating the two together anyway as milk and fish really don't complement each other that well.
Yea I probably wouldn't like them, either, if I had to do the whole process. It's not so bad when you buy from the grocery store pre-cleaned. They do still have a unique smell when boiling. Sure do taste good, though.
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