sure, if you like that kind of thing
That thing I am referencing would be grease.
Sure, I know it’s a southern staple, but does it HAVE to be Tennessee’s sixth major food group? And does it HAVE to make everything taste better? I don’t know about the former, but unfortunately, the latter is absolutely true.
Last weekend I helped celebrate a friend into his 31st year by sharing all-things-fried at Cock of the Walk. When I say “all things fried”, I am not exaggerating. Fried pickles. Fried catfish. Fried shrimp. Fried chicken. Fried fries (of the french kind). I had a brown dinner. There was nothing green (sure, the pickles started out green, but who could tell under all the tempura?), there was nothing red. There wasn’t even anything slightly yellow. All brown. All fried. All the time. Mmmm…
Don’t get me wrong. It was gerd (an emphatic ‘good’; so good it needs to be pronounced differently). But I’m a healthy kind of girl, and fried foods make my belly sad. So I can only take so much when it comes to southern cooking.
Oh, and if you’re wondering if there’s a seventh southern food group, the answer is yes.
It is sweet tea. And they have that too. Brown, again. But of course.
June 5th, 2007 at 7:56 pm
Fried Oreos and candy bars at the Ren Faire last month…ugh!
June 5th, 2007 at 7:57 pm
And what are the major Tennessee food groups you reference? I would have thought sweet tea ranked higher than #7!
June 5th, 2007 at 8:11 pm
oooh….never heard of fried oreos before… i don’t think i want to either. quick! take it back! take it BACK!