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Post by DanBintheUnderworld on May 3, 2017 13:57:34 GMT -5
Question for those with knowledge of living down in the southern states: if you were in a BBQ joint in Mississippi or Alabama, and they had Tamales on the menu, would the Tamales all automatically have meat in them? Or could you order them with, like, cheese and vegetarian chilli in them? Attendant question, how easy (or not) is it to find vegetarian food in restaurants in the south? Asked a friend from Virginia, but who has been all over the South. As to tamales, they're time consuming to make and are done in big batches. So if they aren't on the menu in non-veggie form you're not likely to get them. And they're pretty much just a thing in Mississippi and Louisiana and parts of Alabama. Then there's the Mexican tamales which are a thing in the southwest and west. As to vegetarian food, you should be fine if you're in a bigger city. In the hinterlands you may have a harder time. However, it is pretty traditional in the South to have two or even three vegetables with meals. So you may be able to get sides of veggies. Though it's also possible they may have been cooked with meat or with animal fat. To the point that there's a popular class of eateries known as "meat & threes," varieties of which I & a co-worker eat in every workday. Just got back from such a place, where my veggie sides were collard greens (probably cooked with pork of some sort) & broccoli & cheese casserole. My co-worker had speckled butterbeans (possibly with pork content) & fried green tomatoes. The dish wasn't on the menu today, but their creamed corn is some of the best I've ever had. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 3, 2017 14:03:17 GMT -5
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 3, 2017 14:10:37 GMT -5
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Post by Ish Kabbible on May 3, 2017 14:10:44 GMT -5
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Post by DanBintheUnderworld on May 3, 2017 14:29:05 GMT -5
Corn pudding is something you hardly ever see around here, though I suppose it's really about the same as corn casserole, which isn't that unusual.
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Post by DanBintheUnderworld on May 3, 2017 14:31:37 GMT -5
Pudding makes me think of dessert, which reminds that the aforementioned restaurant's owner was talking up their new bread pudding to a couple of guys at the table next to ours. In lieu of bread per se, they use Krispy Kreme doughnuts.
Intriguing, to say the least, though probably enough to cause tooth decay at 50 paces.
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Post by Prince Hal on May 3, 2017 15:32:21 GMT -5
Pudding makes me think of dessert, which reminds that the aforementioned restaurant's owner was talking up their new bread pudding to a couple of guys at the table next to ours. In lieu of bread per se, they use Krispy Kreme doughnuts. Intriguing, to say the least, though probably enough to cause tooth decay at 50 paces. Nice to see a junior member with such a good sense of humor! prince ha l |
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2017 16:16:16 GMT -5
I love Creamy Corn Pudding and it's a favorite of mine and I have it pretty much on a weekly basis at a restaurant that served it on a Thursday for Lunch and Dinner.
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Post by DanBintheUnderworld on May 3, 2017 16:30:52 GMT -5
Speaking of (a) corn & (b) Southern cuisine, fried corn on the cob is quite good.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on May 3, 2017 16:36:47 GMT -5
Speaking of (a) corn & (b) Southern cuisine, fried corn on the cob is quite good. They fry just about anything down south, ain't it a fact? |
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Post by Rob Allen on May 3, 2017 18:53:25 GMT -5
This Friday, May 5, is not just a Mexican holiday; it's also National Cartoonists Day (or, as one wag has dubbed it, "Inko de Mayo"). If you get the DECADES channel on cable, you might want to set your DVR for "Through the Decades" this Friday. This installment will be about the history of comic books (with guest Mark Hamill), plus a segment about the life of Charles Schulz. nationalcartoonistsday.com/ |
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Post by hondobrode on May 3, 2017 23:06:24 GMT -5
Always quite delicious grilled
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Post by Mormel on May 4, 2017 16:32:57 GMT -5
So today, here in the Netherlands, like every year, we commemorated the victims of World War 2 (as well as all Dutch victims of armed conflict since, which mostly includes our soldiers on peace-keeping missions). One of the people who lost their lives was a young woman named Ellen Hoffmann.  Ellen was born in 1919 in Goch, Germany, to a Jewish family owning a department store. While taking part in a dance performance with classmates at a school festival in 1934, the Nazi top local official Salzmann -who was also attending- wrote an angry letter to the school principal to express his dismay over a "non-Aryan girl performing traditional German dance". After spending a year in hiding in Goch, she wed Dutch cattle trader Arthur van Leeuwen in Gennep, the Netherlands, just across the border. She was quickly known as 'the prettiest girl of Gennep', and displayed an interest in theatre. Two days after the Dutch surrender to Germany in May 1940, their daughter Anneke was born. In april 1943, the Nazis demanded that all Jewish residents of Gennep (about 20 individuals in total) board the train to concentration camp Vught. Arthur's aunt Jette, in whose house the family had resided, feigned ignorance as to the threesome's whereabouts; Jette would be killed in Sobibor the next month. Ellen and Arthur managed to deliver Anneke to safety, by handing her over to a Red Cross worker at night, who transported her to a hiding address in Frisia, in the north of the Netherlands. Of all places, Ellen and Arthur themselves chose to go into hiding in Berlin, at Ellen's sister Hannie's place (Arthur: "Better for us to seek the enemy, than the other way around"). They were given forged IDs, and Arthur found a job as an electrician, for which he had to travel a lot throughout the Reich and spend much time apart from Ellen. Sadly, in summer '43, Ellen and Hannie were betrayed by an upstairs neighbour. While Hannie was sent to camp Ravensbrück, Ellen went to Theresienstadt, and the following year to Auschwitz. It is believed that Ellen Hoffmann was killed while being moved from Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen in early 1945. In that case, she was only 26 years old. Arthur, Hannie, and Anneke all survived the war. A small square in Ellen's old hometown of Gennep was named in her honour. Adjacent to the square are the public library and the town hall.  ^This is Ellen with Anneke and Arthur, in 1941. |
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2017 18:51:19 GMT -5
MormelI was in the Netherlands in 1994 (during the 50th Anniversary of D-DAY) and I spent a day with a dear gentleman tour guide and he shared the story Ellen Hoffmann and he was in his 70's when re-telling the story and met her briefly in 1942 while hiding from the Nazis. He tried to find her in 45 and was told after Christmas in 1945 that she was killed earlier that year and he was heart-broken and sad. He wanted to remind people of the suffering and persecution that these people endured and thanks for sharing this with us today. I can relate to these stories because I heard so many of them on my trip to Europe that year of which it was a learning experiences for the ages.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on May 5, 2017 12:12:28 GMT -5
Jugger .... don't ever change that avatar gif buddy ..... :heart: Diana Rigg
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