Regional foods, what ya got others aint??

[waterdog101]

this menu was all we could afford.
i was raised on the low side of poor but always had good food that we mostly raised.
momma only bought dried beans, flour, etc.
we ate beans and taters almost every day of the week, if not for main course, they were the side dish.
we had fried chicken for Sunday dinner(lunch for you yanks) with home canned green beans.
maybe once a month at the most, we had pork chops.
might have had sausage gravy for saturday morning breakfast maybe twice a month before i had to go to tobacco patch.
we had beef roast maybe once a year.
i never heard of steak until i was 16.
did i say we were poor?
but i was rich in good food and the greatest parents.
i've done pretty well in my life but i would trade it all to relive some of those days.
money doesn't make you happy.
i would give $10,000 for one of the meals and the atmosphere momma created on Christmas Eve.
She was one in a billion.

I know what you're saying for sure, you could flip your coin over and the other side would be me, and when your mother and dad are gone on to the other side of life, then all you have of them are memories, and those memories show us that we weren't as poor as we thought, I to was a grown man before I new what a steak tasted like, we raised a garden and mom canned food, I remember as a small boy building a wood fire under a washing tub to heat water to the boiling point, and pour it over a hog we just killed, the boilling water would loosen the hair on the hog so we could use a large knife to scrape the hog, but that fresh hog meat was the best ever, pork now days don't have the same flavor, I wore hand me down clothes, blue jeans with patches on them, went bare footed most of the summer, was a grown man before we had indoor plumbing, used the old outhouse, and in the winter you never visited that building until the need to made you. it was a rough life for me back then, I sometimes get pleasure from thinking back to those days, but wouldn't want to go through that part of my life again if i could, really it seams like another lifetime when I go back there in my mind, i remember we had the food we needed most of the time, most folks will say we were poor but we never went hungry, well I grew up poor, had one of the best mothers that ever lived, my dad was another story, yes I know what being poor is like, and I know what it's like to go to bed hungry, something you will never forget. and it's something that will make you work hard the rest of your life, to make sure that part of your life never shows up again.

[kygorski]

red beans and rice, with spicy anduli sausage, and an fried oyster poboy..and a couple of cups of community coffeee.. what I miss here in georgia is a bag of white castle cheeseburgers. But being originally from chicago, no one makes pizza any better.

[Bill M of NJ]

Also the Ironbound section of Newark has amazing Portuguese food.

[riverrat12]

Also the Ironbound section of Newark has amazing Portuguese food.

Years ago I know you guys had some great cheese cake up there to. I sent several thousand to Jamac in New Jersey.😄 Back in my baking days.

[Bill M of NJ]

Bagels are another that is outstanding, not the Dunkin Donuts or store garbage you find in freezer or refrigerated, REAL Bagel store kind.

[kygorski]

thats what napolean called them,and yes I've had them. there are no auhthenic jewish delis here in the lanta area.bagels with smoked lox[salmon] and dripping with good philly cheese, and a nice big kosher pickle out of a barrel, is something that i dream about.Can you imagine a bucket list based souly on food? I'll never have another of my aunts mock chicken legs, that wasa closly guarded family secret, oprah winfrey tried them[long story] and she couldn't get the reciepe, niether did my mom, or both of her daughters. hey were expensive and time consuming, and the thing dreams were made of.Last year I made a pastrami sandwich, the ingredients were hard to come by specially the kosher pickle and seeded rye bread. Sine I was told I have a lomited time left here, i over indulged.As I was ordering the ingredients from the deli counter, another guy gave me a strange look and asked what part of new yourk I was from, I told him that thee are plenty of real polish jews in chicago, and we talked blintzes stuffed cabages,.I was brought up in a depression family, si Got used to foods that today are almost thought of as waste. Ox tail stew. neck bones with beet soup.apple pan cakes[had a couple of trees],Chicken soup with home made egg noodles[my gram had a flock. There were other ethnic dishes that I shunned in my youth, and wish I could taste them again.

[GeoFisher]

red beans and rice, with spicy anduli sausage, and an fried oyster poboy..and a couple of cups of community coffeee.. what I miss here in georgia is a bag of white castle cheeseburgers. But being originally from chicago, no one makes pizza any better.

Man, I had some of the best red beans and rice I've had in a long long time. Had them at a new seafood restaurant in New Albany.


Hull and Highwater  is the name of the place.

[kygorski]

My grand daughter went to a great super bowl party, in Philly, where she has some friends, needless to say she had a great time, but she also says there is nothing compared to a chicago pizza. But she said the cheese steak was delicious.Of course she went to the street party after wards.. then caught a 0400 flight back to atlanta this morning.. ah to be young again,

[Bill M of NJ]

Riverrat,you are right about cheesecake, most know of Juniors cheesecakes, to mass produced IMO, Nick's famous cheesecakes are way better and made one at a time to your flavors. I like there mixed berry cheesecake.

[R19]

I am going to steal a quote from my mother and it applies to people in south central KY..." pinto beans, cornbread and fried taters kept many people from starving to death" . That's a pretty common meal in my area. I have family that lives in South Carolina and it seems like no matter what you have you get grits on the side.

[Moveon]

[QUOTE=Bill M of NJ;566621]Moveon, guess you don't have a brain.[/QUOTE

Lame!!

You take a perfectly good thread and ruin it with a lame comment. That says more about you than me!

[riverrat12]

[QUOTE=Moveon;566739]

Moveon, guess you don't have a brain.[/QUOTE

Lame!!

You take a perfectly good thread and ruin it with a lame comment. That says more about you than me!

Lol coming from you... That's comical. Trump hates clean water,Carter bla,bla,bla. You seem to bring politics into everything.you are one angry person.... And that makes me happy😄