----- Original Message ----- From: "Cecelia" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, July 02, 2006 9:45 AM Subject: [TNCANNON] Re: [TNCANNON ] Southern Food > Kevin, > Gravy makes it good! And, you can't have potatoes or grits without gravy! > Even broiled steak needs some juice or drippings on it, and barbeque needs > some "sop"! > If you watch the news, lately, Mexicans are everywhere. Nearly all my > students, in our little school, before I retired, all of a sudden, were born > in Mexico-almost everyone else transferred elsewhere. With low enrollment, > jobs were cut, so I took retirement before I planned to. > But, all cultures are all over the U.S., and, as someone said, you don't > have to have Mexicans for a Mexican restaurant, but we have a Czech lady who > has a kolache shop using her grandmother's kolache recipe. My sister said > she would weigh 400 pounds if she still lived there, just from the kolaches > she would eat every day! People are crazy about her kolaches. There was an > excellent Mexican restaurant, a gourmet restaurant and small hotel, and > another restaurant that all just went out of business there. > I live in a nearby city and we're getting in all kinds of restaurants as it > is growing a lot. Many Mexican, Italian, and Asian restaurants, but also > Scottish, German, and you name it. But the most popular are still the > family style, casual, country style with chicken fried steak, and barbeque > places. > Cecelia in Texas > > > > > Mexican Rest. in Woodbury ??? I did not think there were any Mexicans > > within 200 miles of there. > > A lost art ?? Wow, all that food sounds good !! > > Why do all the people in the South put gravy over their steak ? What is > > that steak ? You never can see what you are eating because it has so much > > gravy on it ! > > Thank you M. M. John 3 : 16. She has been such a BLESSING to me in the > > past two years ! > > Kevin > > > > > > ==== TNCANNON Mailing List ==== > To subscribe to or unsubscribe from the Cannon Co. list, send mail to.. > [email protected] ,with subscribe or unsubscribe > in the subject line. NOTHING ELSE. > > ============================== > Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx > > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.9.8/380 - Release Date: 6/30/06 > >

I'm thinking we're getting a bit off the subject for this site. Maybe you could e-mail one another off site. Pamela Betty McCollum <[email protected]> wrote: ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cecelia" To: Sent: Sunday, July 02, 2006 9:45 AM Subject: [TNCANNON] Re: [TNCANNON ] Southern Food > Kevin, > Gravy makes it good! And, you can't have potatoes or grits without gravy! > Even broiled steak needs some juice or drippings on it, and barbeque needs > some "sop"! > If you watch the news, lately, Mexicans are everywhere. Nearly all my > students, in our little school, before I retired, all of a sudden, were born > in Mexico-almost everyone else transferred elsewhere. With low enrollment, > jobs were cut, so I took retirement before I planned to. > But, all cultures are all over the U.S., and, as someone said, you don't > have to have Mexicans for a Mexican restaurant, but we have a Czech lady who > has a kolache shop using her grandmother's kolache recipe. My sister said > she would weigh 400 pounds if she still lived there, just from the kolaches > she would eat every day! People are crazy about her kolaches. There was an > excellent Mexican restaurant, a gourmet restaurant and small hotel, and > another restaurant that all just went out of business there. > I live in a nearby city and we're getting in all kinds of restaurants as it > is growing a lot. Many Mexican, Italian, and Asian restaurants, but also > Scottish, German, and you name it. But the most popular are still the > family style, casual, country style with chicken fried steak, and barbeque > places. > Cecelia in Texas > > > > > Mexican Rest. in Woodbury ??? I did not think there were any Mexicans > > within 200 miles of there. > > A lost art ?? Wow, all that food sounds good !! > > Why do all the people in the South put gravy over their steak ? What is > > that steak ? You never can see what you are eating because it has so much > > gravy on it ! > > Thank you M. M. John 3 : 16. She has been such a BLESSING to me in the > > past two years ! > > Kevin > > > > > > ==== TNCANNON Mailing List ==== > To subscribe to or unsubscribe from the Cannon Co. list, send mail to.. > [email protected] ,with subscribe or unsubscribe > in the subject line. NOTHING ELSE. > > ============================== > Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx > > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.9.8/380 - Release Date: 6/30/06 > > ==== TNCANNON Mailing List ==== To subscribe to or unsubscribe from the Cannon Co. list, send mail to.. [email protected] ,with subscribe or unsubscribe in the subject line. NOTHING ELSE. ============================== View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find marriage announcements and more. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx