you don't "bite" a piece of good Smithfield ham, you let it dissolve on your tongue... and a good biscuit is small and light, not those huge, heavy commercially available things that could double as sinkers on a fishing net. Almost unpalatable, IMO. Nancy ------- I was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days. --Daniel Boone On Jan 10, 2007, at 11:11 AM, Excalibur131 wrote: > 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 > Eastern Shore & More Forum > http://www.easternshoremore.com/forum/ > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sunshine49" <[log in to unmask]> > To: <[log in to unmask]> > 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 > > To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the > instructions > at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html