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"Jeff Franks" wrote:

I have lived in the South 10 years and consider it to be pretty much a
culinary wasteland. I can't fathom the taste for grease, canned veggies
or overcooked veggies.

Lemme guess. You cook your tomatoes, but not your green beans....and you
like those rock hard roll things that can't sop up a lick of gravy from your
plate.

and "canned veggies"??? they put veggies in a can? Never had them


Seriously, Cracker Barrel does a fair job of replicating our cuisine on a
mass scale. But if you want REAL southern cookin at a restaurant, it has to
be served by someone with a hairnet and a southern draw so thick that even
the locals can barely understand AND every item on the menu has to end with
"...and gravy"

Lemme know if you ever fly down the TN way, I'll let you treat!

JF



I DO like barbecue -- except that it has to be pretty well degreased.
Pecan pie is one of my favorites.

Hominy & grits? BLEAH!

Thr trouble with most Southern cooking is the use of bacon grease. Get
rid of the grease and you have a chance.

I lived in Huntspatch during the boom years and found mostly mediocre
restaurant fare there, but I haven't been there in 27 years.

BTW, the 18 treadmarks would probably be awarded to Bubba's Diner's
"Roadkill Possum Surprise."