Is The "Wise One" MIA?

[sixtiesracer]

Well....it's a better description than the tired old...."Tastes like chicken" ;)

[TsgtRet]

[waaytoomuchintothis]

LOL!!! Sarge, that may be the funniest thing I've read in a week. I can't wait to tell my mother (from Pocohantas by Essary Springs, Tennessee).

[Ember]

Actually, the grits I have a handle on. A cooked grain-meal, like a polenta, or a gruel, or a porridge, right? "SOS" I'm not so sure of.

I have been introduced to Head Cheese, though.

[TsgtRet]

[waaytoomuchintothis]

My grandfather loved head cheese. He made his own, like everything else the family ate (hams, a huge vegetable garden, milk from the cows, homemade farmer cheese, molasses, sugar cane, etc). Every time I saw that stuff my stomach turned, but his favorite meal was a head cheese sandwich and buttermilk that had fresh cornbread crumbled up in it and stirred to a mush. My stomach is grinding right now remembering it. Every day of his life he had that cornbread crumbled into buttermilk for breakfast. When I was working on the farm, he always left the last piece of cornbread for me, as I got up a couple of hours after he did. He made the cornbread in a tiny little cast iron skillet, about 5 inches across, so there was just enough for the two of us, and he cut it into quarters.

Oh, and Embs- Polenta is closer to mush. Grits are made with only the cotyledon of the corn, not corn meal, like mush and polenta. But, grits refrigerated overnight can be cut and fried just like polenta.

[moparjenny]

[Ember]

[dreinecke]

I HATE grits. Sorry, never acquired a liking for them. Now, SOS - I've had some excellent stuff at bases over the years.