Heck, come to think of it, I don't remember much about Coke until I was
probably 10 or 12 and I don't think I tasted coffee until I was a teenager.
I do remember lots of Kool-Aid Popsicles in the summer though. As for real
Smithfield ham (yes, there are many pretenders out there) I'm not sure I'd
call them "rubbery," but I'd sure call them reallllllly goooooooood. Real
Smithfield ham is still around, thank goodness, and my family has it every
Christmas Eve. We used to have it with silver dollar biscuits, but good
silver dollar biscuits have simply gotten too hard to find and, if you find
decent ones, they cost a small fortune.

As a child I remember Granny cooking Smithfield ham. She'd start by putting
the ham in a sink of water, and then scrubbing it down with soap and a scrub
brush. And for those that don't know, yes, Smithfield ham is best eaten
paper thin -- the thinner the better. If you can almost see your hand
through the slice of ham you've gotten a true treasure!

Tom
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Sunshine49" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 9:59 AM
Subject: Re: Speech patterns


> When I was a kid- pre air conditioning- we had summer curtains and
> winter curtains, a summer and a winter rug, all designed to keep the
> house cooler or warmer, as the case may be. Popular culture today is
> a bit hard for me to understand, because when I was a kid the word
> "heck" was considered too strong or dirty for children to say. I once
> got bit on a finger by our parakeet and blurted out that it hurt like
> heck. My mother was shocked. And we 3 kids were only rarely allowed
> to drink Cokes [and never coffee], Mama said we already had too much
> energy, we didn't need the caffeine. To drink some Coke- usually on
> summer vacation to the beach- was a rare treat. I guess the caffeine
> in sweet iced tea in the summer didn't factor into that equation. But
> the big treat was at Christmas, paper thin slices of real Smithfield
> ham. People who only eat those rubbery, wet hams don't know what they
> are missing.
>
> Nancy

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