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To: Blue On Black who wrote (8616)	5/16/2000 12:30:00 AM
From: Druss	Read Replies (1) of 12754

Southern Cuisine An interesting feature of Arkansas restaurants is about half are based on serving catfish. A normal Yankee attitude toward catfish it that they are bottom grubbing scavengers that will eat anything. However I was told by a number of catfish eating fans that the catfish now are raised and further they are fed on pellets that float. So they can't be considered bottom grubbers. The fact that the floating pellets are animal by products from God knows what has no bearing on this. However after a half gallon of moonshine each, a trip to the 'Catfish Wharf' sounded like a good idea. On arrival we found that every customer there was over 80. But Lee explained that anyone who retires in the South then spends the rest of their life looking for ever better catfish restaurants [I am not making this up.] Lee and I both ordered a plate of the fried scavengers but first the waitress brought out a basket of round fried dough balls, some beans and relish. I looked at her and said "What are those?" She said, "That is relish and pinto beans." I replied "No, those ball things." Lee quickly explained at this point what she was dealing with by saying, "He is just a dumb Yankee." She patted me on the shoulder and said, "We are country folk around here, those are Hush Puppies," and walked away like she had given me an explanation. I have eaten a fair amount of Southern cooking in my day having lived five years in Texas. While grits, okra, and corn bread may not be top of my list I do generally classify the stuff they eat as food. So even for country folk Southerners it was hard for me to picture them dough frying pieces of shoes. This left me with the image that they had done something terrible to a stray dog. Lee however saw my confusion and clarified things for me by saying, "They are fried cornbread." This came though after a soft spoken comment of "They don't teach you a damn thing worth knowin in them Yankee schools do they? They just teach you to steal every dime you can from honest working folks." [Somehow I think Lee was including himself in the "Honest working folks" catagory. Most people would view someone who makes his living running shine for his cousins and steals all he can of their product as not quite being totally up standing. However to the inhabitants of the Ozarks he is merely handling a night shift job and taking his wages in trade.] So we ate the various concoctions and I got to watch Lee get an ever growing smile as he contemplated telling everyone he knew, in front of me, how dumb I was. Druss

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