Southern Food Frustrates Health Officials

hosted.ap.org ^ | Feb 13, 2005 | DANIEL YEE

[popdonnelly]

"I'm the only girl who can eat a whole one without flinching."

I couldn't look at it without barfing.

[MamaTexan]

only in your kitchen can they interfere.

A guy at work thought that he could mess with my food, too, by taking my lunch from the refrigerator

Then he suffered 'Mama's Revenge'!

[bayourod]

" Rape seed oil? "

We call it canola in Texas. If we called it rape oil some of the cowboys might get ideas.

[maryz]

healthy, delicious Purina People Chow

LOL! Wouldn't the health nazis just love it, though!

[razorback-bert]

Here is a list of great wholesome Yankee food.

[tob2]

Man, that sounds good! My favorite no-no meal is of Hungarian origin. Take a piece of fat back bacon, put it on an iron skewer, slowly roast over an open fire until the grease starts to drip. Put the drippings on fresh rye bread, add lettuce, tomato, onion, salt and pepper, more grease to taste. Continue to make pieces of greasy bread from the bacon until the slight bit of meat is cooked, cut that off and eat it. Roast the bacon until all the fat is gone from the rind. Eat the rind. Peppers can be roasted with the bacon if you like. Grew up eating this manna from heaven. That is probably why I no longer have a gall bladder.

[tet68]

Dang, I got to find this place!

[OpusatFR]

Wow. That sounds nauseating.

Of course, I'm still on the quest for the perfect chili cheeseburger so my judgment may be unsound.

[Feiny]

I had a Krispy Creme today. It was a chocolate covered one with whipped cream filling. In fairness, I ate it while on a 10 mile hike.

[Coldwater Creek]

The FOOD and grandchildren are the two things that keep us in the South.

When we lived in California, a friend that was from Chattanooga taught me how to make the best fried chicken.

We now live in Tenn. and my 20 yo granddaughter wanted me to teach her how to cook the chicken so that she could be a real Southern woman. That was double pleasure.

[Calamari]

Other things to worry about:

Asteroid Impact, Same Sex Marriage, Massive gamma ray burst from an outside the solar system event, BSE nvCJD, SARS, Smallpox, Ebola ,Flu- (human, bird, swine, duck, chicken), Salmonella, Carbs, Fat, Protein, Terrorists, Anthrax, Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Too little ozone, Too much ozone, Global warming, Global cooling, Global Warming Chaos, Pesticides, Deer ticks, Nerve gas, Dirty bombs, Haliburton, SUVs, Guns, Acid rain, Too much Rain, Too little Rain, Nuclear power, Non-nuclearpower, Nuclear war, Conventional war, Wind Turbines shredding endangered birds, Obesity, Starvation, BCS, The Yankees with A’Rod, NCAA Basketball Tournament Selections, Pit bulls, Rottweilers, German Shepherds, Huskies, Alaskan Malamutes ,Doberman Pinschers, Chow Chows, Great Danes, St. Bernards, Akitas, green ketchup, MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus), Pet spiders, Yard Sale Congestion, Red King Crabs, Shadow people, Cattle mutilations, Junk Science, Supersize fries, ”Our worst fears were confirmed”, steroids in baseball, microwave popcorn, HIV, Peak Oil, Cholesterol both LDL and HDL, second hand smoke, Google Telephone Searches, backyard nuclear reactor, Nitrogen pollution, Carbon Dioxide Reported at Record Levels, Dangerous' Curry Colourings Cataracts from computers, brain tumors from cell phones, fire ants, killer bees, killer tomatoes, killer clowns the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, Terrell Owens and Ron Artest, Exploding cell phones, cryptococcus gattii, methylisothiazolinone (MIT), "holiday heart," , U.S. Teens Are Among the Worst at Math, picking your teeth in public,"The Hamdog.", …. ... …

So much to worry about...

[OpusatFR]

Sounds wonderful. How about deep fried chicken with gravy, mashed potatoes, collards cooked with streak o lean, sweet cornbread dripping with butter and fresh from the garden BigBoy tomatoes? Chocolate icebox cake for desert.

(Of course, I had brown rice and chicken with fresh greenbeans, no butter for dinner.) ~sigh~

[tob2]

You just got this damn Yankee riled! New England Clam Chowder should be at the top of this list, followed by Yankee Pot Roast.

[dljordan]

"The dish, a specialty of Mulligan's, a suburban bar, is a hot dog wrapped by a beef patty that's deep fried, covered with chili, cheese and onions and served on a hoagie bun. Oh yeah, it's also topped with a fried egg and two fistfuls of fries."

YUM!!!!!!

Screw the Feds! Mind your own damned business you socialist b*stards.

[Doctor Raoul]

But he acknowledged that the "Hamdog" and the "Luther Burger," a bacon-cheeseburger served on a Krispy Kreme doughnut bun, are what draw attention.

You can't get those here. I'd have let the South win the Civil War for one of those...

[snowsislander]

I checked, and as far as I can see, this is not a sound article.

The two strong correlations for strokes are age and race. The older you are, the more likely you are to have a stroke. Also, blacks tend to have more strokes than whites.

I found no published correlation between stroke rates and the consumption of southern cooking; if anyone does find anything, please post it, especially if it has an age and race breakdown.

[Doctor Raoul]

....while on a 10 mile hike.

Never do those kinds of things unless your car breaks down.

[SAJ]

Uh, canola is rapeseed oil, m'friend, not soybean. Canola has roughly 1/2 the saturated fatty acids per unit volume as soybean oil.

;^)

[WilliamWallace1999]

This native Texan also wants to add Maryland Crab Cakes to the list of good Yankee foods. Best thing I ever ate in a bar. Maine lobster rocks too.

[PresbyRev]

When I went into a national steak house franchise in upstate New York and they didn't have salt and pepper on the tables, nor any sauces (the waitress had to hunt up a bottle of A-1) I knew I was in a different culture.

From what I gathered in my year and half living in NY (above Albany) - butter, salt/pepper, paprika - made the dish 'cajun' and unbelievably spicy for the natives.

Hot sauces of various kinds, peppers, heavy use of s&p, butter, etc. was anathema.

I was happy to get back to the land of deep fried pickles, BBQ, LARD!, pork rinds, Waffle House, real butter,spices, fry daddies, fat back, fat back fried chicken, fried okra, fried everything, and Sweet Tea. I can't take tepid and tasteless New England food.