Southern English

[IslandTractor]

To many of us.....a Yankee is just a spoiled baseball player!:laughing:

Yep. Alex Rodriguez is the Yankee we all love to hate in Boston. We have always admired Mariano Rivera though and are sad to see him go.

 

[bandaidmd]

schew all this talk about sausage has made me hungry im going to go fix some scrapple and eggs, later y'all

 

[Bwana64]

Back to Southern English:
"Couldn't poor piss out of a boot with instructions on the heel"

 

[two_bit_score]

If you're buying name branded sausage:
Bob Evans, Jimmy Dean, Williams - all extra sage.
Cook it in a seasoned cast iron skillet. Preferably one your Mema used and you've maybe cleaned up a little. Low-medium heat.
Looks sorta like this:
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wheeeeedooooooggggiiiieeeee!

 

[two_bit_score]

Yep, best to season them again with a quarter sized spot of olive oil. At least that is what I do... And while I consider my self a southerner, I have brains enough to know that every area of the USA has some great eats. While I don't care a lot for Boston politics, I also know they make some very tempting dishes up there.

Best place I ever found to eat out side of the south is Maine. You just can't beat the food up there: lobstah pie, lobstah rolls, boiled lobstah, steamed lobstah, lobstah bisque, lobstah stew……

My son and I took off through Portland and up the coast and ate lobstah three or more meals a day for three days. I love it.

 

[IslandTractor]

Best place I ever found to eat out side of the south is Maine. You just can't beat the food up there: lobstah pie, lobstah rolls, boiled lobstah, steamed lobstah, lobstah bisque, lobstah stew……

My son and I took off through Portland and up the coast and ate lobstah three or more meals a day for three days. I love it.

The Bath shipyard about an hours drive north of Portland has been building ships since colonial times. These days they built high tech frigates for the USN. In colonial days, there was a famous wildcat strike by the workers who rebelled because they were being fed lobster three times a day. Lobster used to be so common it was a trash "fish".

 

[Daver1963]

Quote Originally Posted by /pine View Post

just an opinion based on observation...no personal animosity...

Not trying to throw gas on a fire but...I think it's going to be quite a while before all the deep seated hatred (rightly deserved or not) that is rooted in the demeaning use of the word (Yankee) becomes diluted enough to be accepted as being "good" in nature...JMO

Yes, there is that perspective. But I don't think it was too long ago that Japs and Krauts were reviled and those feelings subsided within a generation. I appreciate that southerners hang on to some civil war related feelings but the inverse really is not the case. We might cheer for the blue rather than grey in an annual football game but any memories of Andersonville or Bulls Run etc etc have long since passed into history and no longer have any significant emotional component up here.

You have to understand that during the War Between the States that the South was invaded and large swaths of destruction were wracked upon the countryside laying waste to all items of any economic value. This was part of the strategy of total war to visit it not only upon the armies, but the civilian populace that supported the war and even upon those who didn't support the war as the Union armies usually didn't discern between those who did or didn't support the war. Anyone below the Mason-Dixon was a REBEL.
Add to that that the South was then occupied by troops from 1865-1877 under the so called "Reconstruction" even though there wasn't too much reconstruction accomplished. You also had the "Carpetbaggers" who came and took advantage of an already bad situation. Areas of the South were still trying to recover economically even in the 1920s to the point that a lot of people didn't know there was a "Great Depression" because things had never gotten any better since the "Yankee" invasion. That generation was my grandparents. There still was an emotional impact left from the Civil War in that time because of the continuing economic impact.
Now I use the term "Yankee" mostly in jest and I am one of those that while in the military spent time in Europe and was referred to as a "Yank" which I took with a bit of pride. My father was stationed in England from 1955-58 and 1964-67 and he has told me that then they were called "Yanks" and someone asked him if that bothered him being from the South. He said that he didn't mind being called a "Yank," but just don't call him a "Yankee."

 

[two_bit_score]

The Bath shipyard about an hours drive north of Portland has been building ships since colonial times. These days they built high tech frigates for the USN. In colonial days, there was a famous wildcat strike by the workers who rebelled because they were being fed lobster three times a day. Lobster used to be so common it was a trash "fish".

I think there is a little ship museum there in Bath and we went through it. Neat place. Lady there told us that about the lobsters being very plentiful in colonial times and to such extent that the prisoners were fed lobster because nobody else wanted them. She said kids in school were ashamed to take lobster in their lunch from home because it was considered 'poor peoples food'.

It's interesting that in this day and time one can probably go in a grocery store and buy lobster, ribeye, filet mignon, etc with a govt provided EBT card and the guy behind them in line who is paying for his food with his own hard earned money is probably buying spam and hamburger if he can even afford meat.

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[Gunny]

Pre-mixed sausage seasoning, never had any idea they sold them.

But back on subject - Mom-n-em always brought out the bulk seasonings, then Dad and PaPa would measure them out, us young un's had to mix it all up and turn the grinder, but MaMa was standing right there to make sure we did it right.

When the wife comes home tonight, I'll get her to find our old family recipe for sage sausage, it's at least five generations old and, in my opinion, a very good one.

Pernell's is pretty good and they do offer a sage version

 

[coobie]

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