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December 11, 2006
Eating our way across the South - road snacks
It was a road-trip after all, so we also ate plenty of road snacks. A few snacks of note:
Erica taught me to eat shelled* sunflowers the way her father had taught her. I'd never done the whole thing with sticking a bunch in your mouth at once and then moving the shells and seeds into different cheeks like a hamster. I'm not sure I've really mastered it yet.
Coming out of Starkville, I bought a little taste of home -- "The Original 1893 Chicago State Street Caramel Corn". Of course, it turned out to have been made in South Carolina. Tasty, none-the-less.
Now, don't get me wrong, I love pork fat. I gross out Erica all the time by eating the nice fatty strip of my pork chops. Pork cracklins are pretty weird, though. They're super-hard at first, but as they re-hydrate in your mouth they turn into -- fat. Weird.
I was having such a mixed coffee-experience on this trip that when noticed that a rest stop vending machine claimed it could provide me with an "espresso"** for 70 cents, my curiosity gland overrode my common sense and I got one. It was terrible, of course.
* Or unshelled? Are we refering to the process or the state? Anyway, they had shells on.
** Or chicken soup. Out if the same tube?
Posted by Fuzzy at December 11, 2006 3:49 PM
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Posted by: Dan Telfer ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.fuzzyco.com/nav-commenters.gif)
at December 11, 2006 4:31 PM
The mother of my children sometimes calls them "chitlins" as a diminutive of "children." They recently found out what "chitlins" really means. I now sometimes refer to them as "fried pork intestines."
Ignorance really is bliss sometimes.
Posted by: ironic1 at December 14, 2006 2:37 PM