Gary wrote:
> Bryan Simmons wrote:
>> On Tuesday, November 3, 2020 at 11:28:21 AM UTC-6, wrote:
>> > On Tuesday, November 3, 2020 at 10:11:02 AM UTC-6, Gary wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > > A chicken or pork chop sandwich that contained the bone
>> > > > > would be an odd sandwich, imo.
>> > > > >
>> > > >
>> > > > Bone in. You just ate around it. Damned good eating too. I have no
>> > > > idea if that was typical of soul food or just the way she slapped a hunk
>> > > > of meat between bread as a holder. This was in the late 1960s.
>> > > >
>> > > Sounds to me like she was just too lazy to remove the bone.
>> > >
>> > You'd be amazed to find out a LOT of people dearly love to gnaw and
>> > suck on the bones, especially pork chops.
>>
>> Count me among them. Pork chops and beef T-Bone/Porterhouse are
>> favorites. Something you never see anymore, at least in these parts, is
>> bone-in sirloin steaks. Those had great bones for gnawing.
>
> I like gnawing on a bone too but not inbetween 2 slices of
> bread with maybe some mayo. No wonder the "older black guy"
> gave Ed his lunch sandwiches.
> It's odd and definitely not "soul food."
>
> A much better version would be to pull off some meat to
> make a sandwich, then put the meaty bone in a separate
> baggie to gnaw on.
you must remember that "back in the day" they didn't
have baggies. Grandma sent the kids to school with
their sandwiches wrapped in newspaper and tied with
string and woe to the kid that did not bring the string
back home...
songbird (no, i'm not kidding, i heard this from
several of the uncles...