Oh my....now this is my kinda thing. Please keep sending this sort of thing out. Oh yes, remembering is my very favorite thing...will share with you all soon myself. My hard drive crashed this week and my stuff is in never land. <vbg> But I think I can find most of it on disks and I do believe I can talk about Tennessee eatin with the best of em! Keep talking... thanks, jan At 10:06 AM 5/31/00 -0500, Athol K. Foster wrote: >Chip & All, My fondest memories are when all the children and grand >children gathered at my Grand parents house on Sunday afternoon in the >summer. I can remember all the laughter and good times that everyone had. >The adults setting around talking and some playing croquet in the yard and >all the children playing hide and seek. The best of all though was the home >made ice cream. I have seen as many as 3 old hand cranked ice cream >freezers going at one time. Boy, was that good ice cream.......... > >Athol > > >Athol K. Foster >DeKalb Co. Coordinator, TnGenWeb >www.tngennet.org/dekalb > >My Fosters in DeKalb Co., Tn. >www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/3627 >----- Original Message ----- >From: <Morom01@aol.com> >To: <TNCHAT-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 9:41 AM >Subject: [TNCHAT] Fried Pies and other Tennessee eatin' > > > > In a message dated 5/31/00 10:29:22 AM Eastern Daylight Time, > > edby3@netease.net writes: > > > > << you promised to buy the fried pies this year at the Fair!!!! >> > > > > Other than collard greens there may not be a more common Tennessee food >than > > fried pies. For those of you on the list that don't know what fried pies >are, > > they're just like normal pies but the difference is the crust wraps around > > the filling. Then the whole pocket of crust and filling are either pan >fried > > or deep fried. MMMMM that's good eatin' especially with a little homemade > > Vaniller' Ice cream. > > > > There is no more common a country thing than gathering around the table >with > > family on Sunday afternoon and eating. It's still a common practice here >in > > Tennessee. This is how family history used to be passed to the next > > generation. I wish I had listened to my grandparents talk about who was >who's > > mom and who was who's uncle. But I was a teenager back then and didn't >think > > it was important. What a waste. > > > > Sunday table eating is almost as common as Moon Pies and RC Cola! > > > > Any of the rest of you have and special treats you remember eating as a >kid? > > Maybe something grandma sneaked you when mom and dad weren't looking? > > > > Chip > > > > > > ==== TNCHAT Mailing List ==== > > TNCHAT is an open to the public mailing list, > > for Tennessee history and genealogy questions. > > This is a list administered by the TNGenWeb Project. > > "Be nice rules apply." > > This mailing list is freely provided by RootsWeb > > http://www.rootsweb.com/ > > > > > > >==== TNCHAT Mailing List ==== >To subscribe or unsubscribe to this list please visit: >http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnunion/tnchat >This list is generously donated by Rootsweb for our use.