On 12/4/2012 4:27 PM, l not -l wrote:

> Yeah; mass-market southern food is better'n mass-market, uh, hmmm,
> whatever Applebee's is. At least you can get greens, fried apples and
> okra there.
>
> About the only thing I miss about my old KY home is my grannie's cookin'
> and chopped mutton barbecue from the local "Pit's". Maybe I should add
> burgoo to that list. Most of the other dishes I had as a child in KY I
> can make passable versions of, and do so fairly often.


When my mother went to school, the building had a pot-bellied stove,
which sat next to the teacher, and the students would bring whatever
they had to put in the pot. That was their lunch for the day, and
sometimes it was burgoo.

Becca