FFV closed a few years ago, I think. They also made Girl Scout
Cookies, didn't they?
BTW, "FFV" also stands for "First Families of Virginia", the Byrds
and other of the early gentry.
Nancy
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On Jan 12, 2007, at 7:20 AM, Grundset, Eric wrote:
> Whatever happened to FFV cookies? Are they still made or did the
> plant close? We haven't seen them in Fairfax County for years.
>
> Also, does anyone know if there is a bakery in the Short Pump area
> of Henrico County that still makes the chocolate-frosted multi-
> layer yellow cake that was sold at the Thalheimer's bakery and more
> recently available at "Chicken's" in the State Capitol Building? I
> grew up eating that cake, was happy to get it at "Chicken's" and
> then it disappeared. They told me that there was a bakery in Short
> Pump that makes it, but I've not been able to figure out which one.
>
> Eric
>
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> Subject: Re: southern tastes and other sesnes?
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>
> Growing up in south Rich'mun, depending on the humidity, cloud cover,
> and wind, some days we could smell the cookies baking from the FFV
> plant way across the river; at other times you could smell the
> tobacco in the tobacco warehouses down on Semmes Ave. It was a nice
> smell, I guess tobacco smells nice until you light it. Since we were
> only a few blocks from the river, a few times when the river was very
> low there was the unfortunate smell of a dirty aquarium, that blue-
> green algae smell, I guess. Peanuts baking in the oven, Daddy's fried
> egg and onion sandwiches coming up thru the floor- my bedroom was
> above the kitchen and he worked shift work at VEPCO. It always made
> me hungry. Friends in Varina boiling a haunch of deer meat in a big
> pot of water on the stove. I know a lot of people love venison, and
> maybe it's all in the way you cook it, but this smelled awful.
> Magnolias, lilacs, honeysuckle and roses in summer, and the wonderful
> Carolina Allspice bush next door. And in Smithfield, the hickory wood
> smoke in the fall.
>
> Nancy
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>
> --Anon.
>
>
> On Jan 11, 2007, at 6:57 PM, David Kiracofe wrote:
>
>> My mother always called it "poor horse" (to make fun of Daddy),
>> but we
>> all ate it.
>> We've all been talking about the tastes of the south (and I guess
>> Pennsylvania and Virginia Germans--our Kiracofes came over as George
>> III's mercenaries, but stayed around because they found plenty of
>> Germans here), what about the smells?: all this talk of ham, and
>> stew
>> and panhaus -- we get some pretty distinctive southern smells (don't
>> forget collards!). What are some other smells we associate with the
>> south?
>>
>> David
>>
>>
>> David Kiracofe
>> History
>> Tidewater Community College
>> Chesapeake Campus
>> 1428 Cedar Road
>> Chesapeake, Virginia 23322
>> 757-822-5136
>>>>> Anne Pemberton <[log in to unmask]> 01/11/07 6:13 PM >>>
>> David,
>>
>> The valley was settled by the Penn Dutch folks, if I remember my
>> geography
>> well enough. In my Penn Dutch cookbook it's written as panhaus.
>> When I
>> was
>> little, my mom used to sometimes go to the family farm and get fresh
>> scrapple. It wasn't in a loaf, it was just put in the pan and heated,
>> often
>> we had it with scrambled eggs.
>>
>> The local stores sell a scrapple, but it just isn't the same as back
>> home.
>> But, then what is?
>>
>> BTW, do they make Shoo Fly Pie in the valley? Do they put hard boiled
>> eggs
>> in their potato salad? Mom used to cut up the eggs in the salad, then
>> put
>> some sliced eggs on the top, topped then with paprika and nutmeg.
>> First
>> time
>> I added paprika and nutmeg to potato salad for my Richmond-born
>> husband,
>> he
>> asked if I was poisoning him!
>>
>> Anne
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