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Anita....
I fully agree with your assessment of the preparation and aroma... once I
smelled it I believed the word had been misspelled.
Ron
----- Original Message -----
From: "Anita L. Henderson" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 8:42 AM
Subject: Re: food and history
> In a message dated 1/13/07 10:24:36 AM, [log in to unmask] writes:
>
>
>> When it comes to chittlins, I am inclined to agree with... um... the
>> English on this one...
>>
> Dear Nancy:
> I am with you on this one. Ah chittlins'.... I have not so fond
> remembrances of my encounters with the entrails as a child. It seems
> that my parents
> loved them but I could not stomach the smell or sight of them. I would
> usually exit the house when they were cooking and do my best to avoid
> coming in
> till dark. With depression era parents and always being encouraged to
> belong
> to the "clean plate club", I was supposed to finish everything on my
> plate.
> One night they had exclusively prepared chittlins' with nothing else on
> the
> menu and I sat for 2-3 hours in the dark refusing to touch them. My
> parents
> finally relented and from then on always cooked some hamburger for me when
> they ate them. I still had to clean up the pots after they were cooked
> which
> was just as bad as eating them imho. I also avoid hog maws too, in my
> mind,
> food has to SMELL good to taste good. I haven't ventured to try them as
> an
> adult but I am probably in the minority of black folks who disllike them
> and plan
> on staying in the minority, lol!
>
> Anita L. Henderson
>
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