Posted on 12/04/2004 1:50:28 PM PST by chasio649
cyborg ping my last post
43 - "1. Save all manner of bacon grease. You will be instructed later how to use it.
Actually my wife does save bacon grease. She uses it to make home-made suet cakes for the birds. By the time winter comes, she has quite a few in the freezer. We put out the first one of the season this week."
No wonder youall's yankee food tastes the way it does, you feed one of the best flavorings to the birds.
I'd love for someone here to find it.
That one is the best of all.
You know, I am thankful for our humid
summers or else I fear we'd be inundated
with yankees and CA folks moving South.
Southerners are almost to a man Scots-Irish. You can't help but notice the similarity to the freedom loving Scots in movies such as Mel Gibson's Braveheart. From a website on Scotland:
"The Scottish people have always been independent, individualistic, and have long memories. Also their land is sufficiently dramatic in itself. There is scarcely a yard of the country without its story to tell, of heroism and treachery, of warfare or worship, of flourish or folly or heartbreak - for the Scots never did anything by half."
Independent, idividualistic, and with long memories. No wonder Yankees had more than they bargained for in the civil with these descendants of the fighting Scot-Irish. Long memories? In parts of the south you'd think the civil war has never ended.
And music. Listen to "The Thistile and Shamrock," Scot-Irish music, and American Bluegrass, very little difference. Why one of Bill Monroe's famous recordings is "Scotland." The Monroe name is case in point, it is the name of one of the highland clans of Scotland.
To understand the south, its people, its music, read up on Scotland and Ireland.
44 - ""Yankee moves down to the South and then proceeds to complains about everything."
Not only that but try to convert us to their way of thinking."
Too true - Yankees Stay Home !
My mother used to save bacon grease. I don't know what for though *LOL*
"KennyBob"
I am ever so happy to see that you are following proper Texas protocol, name-wise. Any respectable guy HAS to have a double name...aaahh, the stories I could tell about the Bobby-Joe's, Guy-Walt's, Jimmy-Mac's, etc. I used to work for a yankee, transplanted to Texas. His name was Robert Charles...we turned him into a "Bobby-Chuck" and he loved it!
Yup
My family is Irish - Dublin circa 1754
Wife is seriously Scotch
That's true. Scot-Irish music is so beautiful and soothing to me. Maybe, it is that old Irish blood in me passed down from my father's side of the family.
Go in to a restaurant for breakfast in N. Florida and ask the waitress, "Do y'all have grits this far North?"
Birds?
Although I am planning on making a suet pudding for the family for New Years.
All I want to listen to much any more is Celtic music...it is my genetics talking to me, I think...racial memory...but how come my German and French bloodlines don't clamour for their piece of the the action?
That reminds me. If someone asks you to hold his beer before saying, "Watch this!", step WAY back.
Anybody got one of these lists for a Northwesterner moving to Utah?!
105-"My mother used to save bacon grease. I don't know what for though *LOL*
If your mother was a good cook, which it sounds like, you probably enjoyed it all your life growing up - that's what for.
yea sort of. What happens after they git ya out is up for discussion.
110- "Go in to a restaurant for breakfast in N. Florida and ask the waitress, "Do y'all have grits this far North?"
Good point, I always noticed that the dividing line between North and South is not the Mason-Dixon line, but the
'grits' for breakfast line.
ROFLMAO!!!!!
ROFLMAO!!!!!
As a youngster, I was like most everybody else brought up on rock and roll - despite the country and bluegrass music all around me. My Grandfather was a fiddle player. But then an amazing thing happened, can't explain it, I began to LOVE bluegrass music - and have ever since. It must be the Scot-Irish blood. It was as natural as riding a bike.
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