Just for fun, any dishes (in addition to chitterlings) are just unexplainable?
OT: SC's Most "Idiotic" Dish
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We call it chitlins ...
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I hate when someone will take a perfectly fine dish and add something dumb as hell to mess it up. Not a SC thing, it's a everywhere thing.
Ex: adding oysters to dressing/stuffing. I know that's a more commonly accepted dish, but I can't stand it.
Ex: adding oysters to dressing/stuffing. I know that's a more commonly accepted dish, but I can't stand it.
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I’m sure most of the insane Mt. Dew and Doritos flavors somehow originated in SC.
I grew up eating chitlins, tripe and brains and eggs. I loved tripe in menudo.
There are very few times in life you can say something without any fear of contradiction. And, this happens to be one for me. There is no way I'm ever going to eat chitlins.
Exactly!!! I told my family last Christmas " can't we have just plain damn creamed corn anymore ". Why do we have to have hot peppers and stuff all in it and turn it into a casserole!
To me the most idiotic thing you can do to a bowl of grits is turn a yankee born chef loose on it.
The French make tripe into a lovely dish...tripe a la mode de caen. My mother made tripe which she bought in a can and fried it and it was a dinner for us on many occasions. Quite different from what the French could do with it.
There is a very well known restaurant in Paris which is called, "Au Pied du Cochon", and the specialty is pig's feet. Have dined there many times over the years.
I used to pick a mess of poke sallet for my mother to cook topped with sliced boiled eggs. The problem with the poke weed is that its poisonous unless the toxins are cooked off. Best greens ever as long as they're cooked properly.
That brings back a memory. My mother, who was raised on a farm in Abbeville County in the early 1900s,
used to tell me about poke sallet and how great it was. I don't think that we kids ever ate any although we had lots of other salad greens over the years.
used to tell me about poke sallet and how great it was. I don't think that we kids ever ate any although we had lots of other salad greens over the years.
Back in the day I used to eat at Nell's Moon Glow Cafe on Washington St. when she cooked chitlins. Unlike the silly fried stuff at the Chitlin Strut these were boiled and not fried. No self respecting chitlin lover would think of eating them any other way. Nell served them cut up about the size of large elbow pasta over white rice. Several good shakes of Texas Pete always heightened that fine gamey flavor. Trust is a great factor in eating chitlins. It helps to be on a first name basis with the cook to be assured she got all the chit out.
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My Daddy liked poke sallet. I remember eating it once. My Grandmother cooked it. It was good with cornbread. I eat all my greens with cornbread, and chow chow.
The smell of cooking chitlins is enough to keep me from eating them. It's terrible ! I don't do pigs feet either or liver or tongue or gizzards. I did try escargot on a cruise ship and found them a bit rubbery
That's how I feel about shrimp and grits you find in restaurants. Some asshole decided to gussy it up with peppers and other unnecessary vegetation. For me growing up it was a way to use leftover boiled shrimp the next morning. Warm them with some garlic and butter and toss it onto a plate of grits.
As for the OP's topic, Hog Pudding.
And actually on the topic of idiotic dishes in general, where in the actual f*** did chicken and waffles come from? I literally had never heard of it before seeing Alton Brown mix the two together on Good Eats back in the 2000s. Even after that it was a few years later before every wannabe southern restaurant decided to pretend it's been a staple as ubiquitous with SC as grits and boiled peanuts are.
Did I just happen to grow up in a bubble or something? I mean we ate the hell out of fried chicken and collard/turnip greens with neckbones and a whole bunch of other things now classified as "soul food". I don't even know where that phrase came from either. When I was growing up, we just called it food.
Did I just happen to grow up in a bubble or something? I mean we ate the hell out of fried chicken and collard/turnip greens with neckbones and a whole bunch of other things now classified as "soul food". I don't even know where that phrase came from either. When I was growing up, we just called it food.
I don't know why some perceive chicken and waffles to be a southern thing. It originated in the northeast.
If it were a southern thing, it would probably have been chicken and hoecakes.
From all I've read, the first printed recipe was in Charleston in 1930....although it has been called a variety of names, such as breakfast shrimp. Any Gullah will swear it was way before then and the slaves brought the dish from West Africa. First restaurant I ever remember seeing it in was at Abe's in the late 1970's-early 1980's on Hilton Head. Abe's was an old Gullah restaurant on the river's edge.
Rogue, though I honestly have No Idea as to where it originated, there are a couple of restaurants in Charleston and one just south of Camden where their Shrimp and Grits dinners are No Doubt within the top 10 of the finest meals this South Carolina Native has Ever Had Anywhere within my 54 years of time on this planet - and I have been All Over All 50 States (with the exceptions of course of Cali., Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Hawaii, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Both Dakota's and New Mexico! =;-p)!!!
As-far-as any foreign grub(s), I have also been to Toronto and Montreal, Jamaica, as-well-as Matamoros, Belize and Cancun FWIW!! Just Sayin'!
And In Closing, I make that entire statement in 100% Sincere Honesty FWIW!!!
Gaim
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Growing up in Pickens County we knew nothing of shrimp back in the day. My oldest brother had some at Clemson and liked them enough to drive to Greenville to buy some for mother to fry. Mother, although a home economics teacher, didn't know any better so she fried them in the shell and we ate them anyway.
What's interesting is that you could buy fresh oysters in Pickens County grocery stores back then but not shrimp. We all loved oyster stew.
What's interesting is that you could buy fresh oysters in Pickens County grocery stores back then but not shrimp. We all loved oyster stew.
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First time I ever encountered the concept of putting something sweet on fried chicken was Yogi Bear's Honey Fried Chicken next to Columbia Mall. Must be a yankee thing.
I promise you will not find grits to order in N Dakota. I once ordered some by chance and the waitress looked at me like I had 3 eyes and 2 heads. Same for sweet tea...
