;-) Corn (was) RE: [at-l] this smells

[nealb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (William Neal)]

Y'all ain't Southern or Indian.  Why Grits (which is mainly what y'all
Yankees or Yankeeized Southerners call Hominy) is what almost won the Late
Unpleasentness for us Southerners.  And "grits" was a good staple of the
Indian diet.

It's only after y'all starting poisoning grits with sweet syrups and sich
that it began to run down hill.  And since y'all couldn't stand the sight of
good yallow grits, we started using watered down white grits.  'Bout like
trying to make white Black bread.

As for making 'shine our of corn.  Why good corn is 'bout the best thing for
you if you're ailing.  Only you Yankees or Yankeefied southerners have to
have taxed and stamped l'gal whiskey which is pure poison.  Good corn is as
clear as pure mountain water and if your water ain't pure, j'st mix in some
mountain dew and it'll kill anything in the water.

Now Indians admittedly don't have the genes that white folk have, so
alky-haul hits 'em harder.  But then they didn't have airy drunks 'til they
fell afoul of firewater.  And Europeans had lots of drunks going way back.
But Indians had been eating and drinking corn mixtures going way back.

William, The Turtle
	Who Grew up on Corn

PS	Corn "dogers" are one way to make "bread" on the trail without
having a stove or fancy gear.  Many wood tramps use to carry no cooking
utensils and would cook on flat, clean rocks propped next to the fire.

P2S   My father use to go to this corn mill and get our corn ground for
meal, grits, etc.  He once had some made into hominy (which really is
different from grits).  One year our crop was puny and he bought some from a
cousin.  But he would not go with the cousin to get the meal.  Figured out
years later that it was cause the cousin was going to make shine.

-----Original Message-----
From: Felix [mailto:AThiker@smithville.net]
Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 8:55 AM
To: AT-list
Subject: Re: [at-l] this smells


Steve Landis wrote:

> Whatever Joe's Smoking ain't workin'
> Steve
>
> smokinjoe wrote:
> Ad hominen, Ad hominen, Ad hominen....

So...it all comes back to hominy. And, how could that not
remind us of this 'blast from the past'?:

We have gathered together today for a homily to pay homage
to hominy,
corn porridge. Its distasteful stuff. It was a concoction of
the American
Indian, and possibly lead to the downfall of this proud
people. As
Europeans began moving in to the New World, the Indians
would offer them
hominy to eat. The Europeans would take the corn and, after
a series of
events, turn it in to whisky. One thing lead to another and
the "White
Man" owned all the land of America. The term 'homicide'
comes from the
fact that the Indians were 'killed' because of the hominy.
Until 1842,
the "Homing Pigeon" was known as the "Hominy Pigeon". A
secretary had
trouble reading one of John Audubon's press releases,
thinking the 'y'
was a 'g'. The pigeon only ate hominy, and is now extinct
because of it.
Looking back on it now, hominy doesn't seem to be all that
good. The only
good thing that comes from it are grits, and they're
disgusting. But, it
will do your heart some good to observe a moment of silence
today in
honor of hominy, that dried-corn treat of days gone by.

--
Felix J. McGillicuddy
ME-->GA '98
"Your Move"
http://Felixhikes.tripod.com/