Ben, you have to put butter and salt on grits or they are incredibly bland, I think. Cheese grits are delicious, but fattening. Here, down south in southern NH, we like our grits with butter and maple syrup. Yum Cousin Marilyn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Barr" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 9:39 PM Subject: Re: [ARMSTRONG] To Ben Barr, brother of Rosanne > Well Marilynn, > Yes, I think that it might have been mentioned. One thing that the > Southerners really tried to impress upon me was how good Grits were. > I must say, that I did give it the old college try once. The grits > were > awful! There answer was that I didn't have them prepared right and I > needed > to salt, pepper and butter them...hmmmm...I don't think so. > But in all fairness, I do love their ham biscuits and fried okra. > Ben Barr from North-central Maine where the leaves have changed. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Marilynn Masten" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 10:26 AM > Subject: [ARMSTRONG] To Ben Barr, brother of Rosanne > > >> Gardner-Webb was started by my relatives. I had no idea they taught >> English, the way they speak around here, but a lot of people go there >> and >> seem to love it. And they don't talk funny after they graduate. Did they >> try to get you to eat Liver Mush? >> Marilynn >> IBSSG >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Ben Barr" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 8:51 PM >> Subject: Re: [ARMSTRONG] to the Old Red-Head >> >> >>> Marilynn, >>> Are you living in Shelby? I finished my college education at >>> Gardner-Webb College (now University) in 1980 with a degree in English. >>> Ben Barr from North-central Maine where the leaves have turned. >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Marilynn Masten" <[email protected]> >>> To: <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 1:43 PM >>> Subject: [ARMSTRONG] to the Old Red-Head >>> >>> >>>>I DID play Right Guard for the Green Bay Packers. You must have missed >>>>it. >>>> Could you concoct a recipe for Peacock Haggis? My daughter was once >>>> married >>>> to a Scotsman (didn't take. Irish tempers and Scottish tempers are a >>>> volatile mixture) But he didn't like Haggis either. They have something >>>> here >>>> in Shelby, NC, which they think they invented but it is only >>>> Philadelphia >>>> Scrapple made south of Philly. NO, I don't eat that either. And don't >>>> anybody write and tell me how good it was when mama made it for >>>> breakfast >>>> and served it with maple syrup. I'll take your word for it. >>>> >>>> I have a problem about where my loyalties lay. I am a MacAteer, a >>>> MacIntyre, a Lamont (pronounced Lammit, dammit which became McClymont) >>>> an >>>> O'Cleirigh and a Loftus, plus an Irish Armstrong who probably wandered >>>> over >>>> the border. They all want me to wear THEIR pins etc. And who knows >>>> what >>>> Pryors are? Are my Gardners really Gordons? Very confusing. >>>> Marilynn >>>> IBSSG >>>> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> From: "Thomas S. Fiske" <[email protected]> >>>> To: <[email protected]> >>>> Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 11:59 AM >>>> Subject: Re: [ARMSTRONG] chosen occupations? >>>> >>>> >>>>> Dear RR, >>>>> >>>>> > >>>>> In >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ------------------------------- >>>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>>> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>>> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>> >>> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message