She got sick looking at an egg with the yellow runny? I wouldn't eat them any other way!!! Shoot, any harder and they become hard boiled eggs <G>. My brother has always eaten eggs with ketchup..Of course this is the same brother who ran behind the bug spray truck in Mississippi!!! Mari :) At 09:00 AM 7/18/00 -0700, you wrote: >TNCHAT-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 46 > >Today's Topics: > #1 Re: [TNCHAT] re: Greens and ketchu [Morom01@aol.com] > #2 Re: [TNCHAT] re: Greens and ketchu [Morom01@aol.com] > >Administrivia: >To unsubscribe from TNCHAT-D, send a message to > > TNCHAT-D-request@rootsweb.com > >that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > >and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software >requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. >Complete rules for TnChat may be found at: >http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnunion/tnchat > > >______________________________X-Message: #1 >Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 23:34:41 EDT >From: Morom01@aol.com >To: TNCHAT-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <72.13aa185.26a52a51@aol.com> >Subject: Re: [TNCHAT] re: Greens and ketchup >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >In a message dated 7/14/00 1:12:46 PM Eastern Daylight Time, >lyric@bna.bellsouth.net writes: > ><< Ok, I was raised down in Mississippi eating turnip greens and black eyed > peas with RED ketchup on them. However, when I do this in Tennessee ppl > look at me funny. What's the deal? >> > >I saw a lady at the Cracker Barrell (restaurant) with an up north accent get >physically ill when she ordered fried eggs and the yellow was still runny. >She started screaming that her eggs weren't done. The waitress explained >that's how we eat them around here. The lady made a very bad remark about >Tennessee people to the waitress. I started to get mad, but then I started to >feel sorry for her. It must be really bad to go through life and not know how >to order eggs. <g> Maybe she should have just poured ketchup over them. She >was already sick or I would have suggested it. Shoot ketchup makes everything >better! > >Chip > >______________________________X-Message: #2 >Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 08:30:09 EDT >From: Morom01@aol.com >To: TNCHAT-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <46.83e6abc.26a5a7d1@aol.com> >Subject: Re: [TNCHAT] re: Greens and ketchup >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >In a message dated 7/18/00 12:47:10 AM Eastern Daylight Time, BeArdent writes: > ><< Chip, I sometimes put ketchup on my mac and cheese and I love mashed >potatoes with stewed tomatoes instead of gravy. >> > >In the South we believe that ketchup or Tobasco Sauce (not that Texas Pete >sissy tomato juice) poured on anything makes it better. As far as stewed >tomatoes and mashed taters, well to quote the Reeces Corporation. Two great >tastes that taste great together. > >One of my pet peeves is those cooking shows. They make ten gallons of >something and add two shakes of Tobasco sauce. Two shakes? You can't even >taste that! I swear to you and I'll take a picture of it if nobody believes >me but I have a quart of the stuff in my fridge. > >Due to your suggestion that I add tomatoes to my taters, you have just been >made an honorary citizen of Union County Tennessee. On certain years if the >right candidate is running that even gets you voting rights.<g> > >Chip >