Thanks Joe, I know I watched the last one before, I'll have to watch the others you posted some time when I get a chance.

Quote from: Blazor on June 12, 2024, 12:06:56 AMThanks Joe, I know I watched the last one before, I'll have to watch the others you posted some time when I get a chance.

You got your thread fixed. 

Quote from: Herman on June 12, 2024, 10:23:54 PMYou got your thread fixed. 

Not exactly, but at least new posts don't have lines through the text lol.

Quote from: Blazor on June 12, 2024, 11:34:15 PMNot exactly, but at least new posts don't have lines through the text lol.

That is good. That was frustrating.

Im bumping an old post from here, as a reminder of the tale of Southern black eyed peas on New Years.......


As we prepare to ring in 2021

A New Years is coming...and a New decade



Understand what might or should be cooking in your Kitchen has Been a long Standing Southern Tradition with a sobering reminder to us all...

Enjoy a good bowl of black eye peas is one thing but know there meaning makes it that much better



A story that you might hear a lot as New Year is approaching. A story that should be retold and reminded to us every year



Why does Southerns eat Black Eye Peas on New Years Day?

What Is In Your Kitchen?



The story of the Southern tradition of eating black-eyed peas as the first meal on New Year's Day is generally believed to date back the winter of 1864 - 1865 during the later part of the of Southern Independence.



When Union General William T. Sherman led his invading troops on their destructive march through Georgia, the fields of black-eyed peas were largely left untouched because they were deemed fit only for animals.



 The Union foragers took everything, plunder the land, and left what they could not take burning or in shambles.

But one thing did remain the lonely peas and good Ol Southern salted pork.



As a result, the humble yet nourishing black-eyed pea saved surviving Southerners - mainly women, children and the disabled veterans of the Confederate army - from mass starvation and were thereafter regarded as a symbol of good luck.



The peas are said to represent good fortune. Certainly, the starving Southern families and soldiers were fortunate to have those meager supplies.



According to the tradition and folklore, the peas are served with several other dishes that symbolically represent good fortune, wealth and prosperity in the coming year. Some folks still traditionally cook the black-eyed peas with a silver dime in the pot as a symbol of good fortune.



Greens represent wealth and paper money. Any greens will do, but in the South, the most popular are collards, mustard greens, turnip greens, and boiled cabbage.



 Cornbread - a regular staple mean among Southerners in absence of wheat - symbolizes gold and is very good for soaking up the juice from the greens on the plate.

Good for dinner and in the morning with syrup



Pork symbolizes bountiful prosperity and then progressing into the year ahead. Ham and hog jowls are typical with the New Year meal, though sometimes bacon will work too.



Stewed tomatoes are often eaten with this meal as well. They represent health and wealth.



This is just of few of rich Southern New Year Traditions



I hope you reflect on those stories when you sit down at your family table this coming year



Enjoy this humble uniquely Southern meal every New Years Day. Be thankful for what this year did give you and better days that are coming ahead of you



It was what your Southern Kinfolk DID and reflected upon every year.

Time is coming to get the Southern Smell a cooking

In all things and Holidays keep true to your Southern Roots

April seems like the promised land at this time of year.

Quote from: DKG on December 31, 2024, 07:01:15 AMApril seems like the promised land at this time of year.

It does lol. I know St. Patrick's day is mid-March, but that's when the weather starts getting better. BUT, its roller coaster time, so one year it can be in the 20's whipping wind while watching the parade, or in the 70's and Ladies walking around with barely any green clothes 

Yesterday was Lee Jackson day, today was the parade. Long live the heroes of the South!!!

Living within 1/2 hour of all the Lincoln shit, I just about hate lincoln most of the time. Slavery sure AF needed to go tho and maybe the bloodshed was divine judgment for the enslavement of people. What lincoln did by violating Constitutional guardrails got him what he deserved, DEATH!!!

They fought to protect their families from a tyrannical force, not for slavery.

Quote from: Lokmar on January 18, 2025, 12:56:02 PMLiving within 1/2 hour of all the Lincoln shit, I just about hate lincoln most of the time. Slavery sure AF needed to go tho and maybe the bloodshed was divine judgment for the enslavement of people. What lincoln did by violating Constitutional guardrails got him what he deserved, DEATH!!!

Lincoln was a piece of shit. The war didn't start over slavery though.

I'm making fried chicken tonight, Lee's favorite.