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From: "qvarizona" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 3:36 PM
Subject: Food and Speech Patterns: What else is new?

> Hey, "Guys & Gals",
>
>  When is all the talk about Southern food and Southern talk going to stop?
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Frankly, I thought we were just getting warmed up on the subject of
southern cooking.
Southerners, probably because they were a deprived people for about 100
years, have always been a bit obsessed with the subject. For a long, long
time down here food was hard to come by....and became a very important topic
in every way. My mother used to tell me stories about growing up in Richmond
with all her relatives scattered about the Southern part of Virginia and how
they would all visit each other for days at a time and often bring their
regional, edible specialties with them.....seafood if it would keep for the
trek, ham, fruits and vegetables, pies, etc. And there was lots of talk
about food and cooking and certain dishes. Somehow in the recesses of my
memory I remember hearing people describe someone as being "a good eater".
Now what that could have meant other than discussing, say,  a child's
health, I do not know. But it was not said in a derogatory way, I don't
believe. I think it was actually a compliment!
Well, I suppose we can go back to discussing the origins of the "ef-word".




> Hey, "Guys & Gals",
>
>  When is all the talk about Southern food and Southern talk going to stop?
> In the years I've been a subscriber I can recall few subjects that have
> compelled people to write, and they had to do with John Adams and TJ.
>
>  I was gone for 2 hours this morning and when I came home there were 49
> messages in my yahoo mail box... only two of which had anything to do with
> something besides
>  Southern food and Southern speech pattern.   I can delete as well as the
> next person,
>  but trying to delete more than 5-10 at one time drives yahoo crazy and
> the consequence
>  was a frozen browser.
>
>  Can we agree that no one will send more than 10 messages re. the same
> subject without going private?   If not, I need to unsubscribe.
>
>  Joanne Kartak
>  Long-time VA-HIST Subscriber
>
>
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