[at-l] '...half order...?"

[daveh at psknet.com (David Hicks)]

Now how do they prepare the chitlins?

Some folk do a cream gravy presentation -- breaded, or batter dipped, or 
un-bread/batter dipped, according to local custom. However, I prefer them 
fried [un-bread/batter dipped] with hot peppers and served with vinegar on the 
side as a topping.  Ah, a plate of chitlins, collards, potatoes, & biscuits --  
the sure sign that winter is on the doorstep.

Getting back to biscuits & gravy, I'm surprised that no one has raised the 
question of "what sort of gravy."  Now I'm of the opinion anything that only 
white gravy [made from the grease from frying sausage patties, flour & milk] 
containing a significant amount of crumbled sausage patties is the only true 
biscuits & gravy.  Any thing less is a generic dilution ["Lite" whatever] and 
in the same class as the SOS of the DOD mess halls and school cafeterias, when 
compared to true chip beef on toast.

As for brains, I grew up eating brains -- brains and eggs for breakfast, fried 
brains, etc.  However, now I'll pass given with what we now know about mad cow 
disease, wasting disease, etc.

But as we said back then, "When we butcher we use everything but the squeal." 
It was true -- from the bristles on the outside to the guts, everything was 
used.

Chainsaw

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Leslie Booher" <lbooher@pure.net>
To: <TrailR@aol.com>; <AThiker@smithville.net>
Cc: <at-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 10:27 PM
Subject: Re: [at-l] '...half order...?"


>I've never heard anyone order ANY 'chitlins'... Single or plural...<

Actually, the local delicacy in our part of Indiana when we lived there was 
fried brain sandwiches.  Do they eat them up your way, Felix?  I never had the 
courage to try one.  I agree with whomever said that two biscuits with gravy 
constitutes one order.  There's a diner down our road here in Virginia that 
serves chitlins.  The staff tell us that people really do order them, but I've 
never seen it happen.  anklebear
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