"cshenk" > wrote in message
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> "jmcquown" wrote
>> "notbob" wrote
>
>>> Interesting study about high rate of strokes from eating fried fish.
>>> Uhmmm... isn't this "belt" also notorious for fried foods other than
>>> fish?
>
>>> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40795126...and_nutrition/
>
>> I love the way news reports claim people who live in the southern U.S.
>> eat fried food all the time.
>
>> Seems to me more people are apt to eat it up north. They seem to like
>> Friday fish fries Apparently it's a Catholic thing.
>
>> It's just weird, the stereotype that everything here is fried. Sorry,
>> it's just not true. But then again, you've never lived in the south.
>> And neither have the people who wrote that article They don't know what
>> they're talking about.
>
> We do have some fantastic recipes that are fried, but we don't eat them
> all that often either nor do my friends who are southern to the bone.
> More common to my area in real cooking is stews and soups and things that
> are steamed or boiled.
>

I'm not southern to the bone... I just happened to wind up in the south. It
wasn't my choice, really. I was born in SO Cal. Lived there twice. And I
lived from Lakehurst to Quantico Parris Island to Thailand to Ohio to
Pennsylvania to back again. I'm a military brat. I went wherever my father
dragged us.

But I agree, I cook more soups and stews and steam and broile. *Broil* not
boil. That's also a stereotype. That we boil vegetables to death.

Jill