Some of the traditional foods my grandmother & mother fixed here in Rockingham County were things like canned pork sausage and canned pork tenderloin (to die for!), ham pot pie (which is country ham broth with the left over chips of ham, potatoes, and squares of dough cooked in it), most any kind of vegetable fixed with a cream sauce, and of course you had to put sugar in them, and gingerbread with lemon sauce. I really thought I talked like everyone else, until it was brought to my attention that most people don't pronounce bush - boosh (as in goo), and push - poosh, and then there's "warshing" the dishes. Probably the one thing that bothers my husband (who is a Tuckahoe) the most, is when I say I'm going "up" to Staunton (south of Harrisonburg), or "down" to Winchester (north of Harrisonburg. Since the Shenandoah River flows south to north - this is a holdover from the days of river travel. Harriet Welch On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 20:02:47 -0500, Wilmer L. Kerns <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > We cut up hard boiled eggs into potato salad in the Shenandoah Valley, > but > Shoo Fly pie is a rarity, except in certain Mennonite homes. It is more > common in the Pennsylvania Dutch communities, e.g. Lancaster County, PA. > > Wilmer L. Kerns > To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html