Named'em Tamed'em
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Next month in Shelton Washington we have the oyster festival, beer and oysters!!
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Hard pass! They're already coming into town with their campers and infiltrating Walmart & the liquor stores.
MrChevy
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Woodstock would have been a good one to be at. Grateful Dead,Janis Joplin,Jimi Hendrix.... did any of ya'll go? Or remember going. Hahahaha
greybeard
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Toad Suck. In Arkansas. Don't ask me.. I've just heard my brother talk about it when I visited him in Little Rock.
kenny thomas
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Toad Suck is on Rt 60 west of Conway i believe.
simme
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Salley, SC has the "Chitlin' Strut" to celebrate "Chitterlings, - a prepared food usually made from the small intestines of a pig, although the intestines of cattle and other animals are sometimes used". Can be fried or boiled. I have never been to Salley and never had a chitlin', and don't intend to. I can only imagine what they might smell like, especially the boiled ones.
kenny thomas
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We always made cracklins but never chittlins.
MrChevy
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Mr Thomas
Sounds tasty. Do you put bbq or hot sauce on them?
FINE! I LIED! THAT SOUNDS LIKE NOT FOR ME, to each there own.
MrChevy
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Oops sorry I was typing some bs and forgot what I was doing. Ha
simme
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Cracklins are made from pork skin/fat. Dip them out of the fat being rendered for lard, if I remember correctly. Add to cornbread for cracklin cornbread. Or eat like pork rinds. Good stuff. Chitlins' made from intestines. My understanding is that you flush the intestines with a garden hose, cut them up and fry them up. I don't have the stomach to even think about trying those.
FlyingLSimmentals
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The local one here is the Black Patch. I don't usually attend any much more. Mostly on Saturdays, If I'm not working I'm probably relaxing watching college football and missing the traffic and crowd.
MrChevy
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Black patch was last weekend. We went watched the parade. The kids fought with the Gma's for candy. (Just playing)
kenny thomas
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Maybe thats why we didn't make them, we didn't have running water until i was in college so no garden hose.
Ky hills
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@greybeard @kenny thomas the first time we went to visit my wife's family after we married, I was driving and saw the sign for Toad Suck, I read it aloud apparently excitedly and woke my wife up. She still holding a grudge about me waking her up for that.
Kenney is right it's right outside of Conway, AR.
Kenney is right it's right outside of Conway, AR.
Ky hills
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My mother made cracklin cornbread.
I've heard my grandmother on my father's side say that when she was young they'd take the hog intestines down to fast moving creek and tie them to a rock to clean them for chitlins.
I can remember as a child coming into my maternal grandmother's kitchen and seeing hog heads in the sink, where she'd be getting ready to fix souse.
She also liked to eat the hog brains with eggs. The brains is the one that would back me up, I couldn't bring myself to eat that.
I've heard my grandmother on my father's side say that when she was young they'd take the hog intestines down to fast moving creek and tie them to a rock to clean them for chitlins.
I can remember as a child coming into my maternal grandmother's kitchen and seeing hog heads in the sink, where she'd be getting ready to fix souse.
She also liked to eat the hog brains with eggs. The brains is the one that would back me up, I couldn't bring myself to eat that.
Ouachita
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Momma used to say "You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friends nose".
I think there must be a deeper meaning behind that phrase, but I haven't tried to figured it out yet.
Lucky_P
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Kenny, I was thinking there were two types of chitlins, creek-washed or stump-whupped.
My parents ran a small restaurant for a while, when I was a kid, and offered really good food. One of the other restaurants, in an adjoining county, was sorta famous for their chitlin dinners, once a month or so. Mom & Dad decided to try it. My first experience with chitlins- the whole restaurant smelled like hog shyte! They should never be cooked indoors! Boiled or fried... boiled looked gross; wouldn't touch them with a 10-ft pole. I tried the fried chitlins...couldn't get the first mouthful down. They never tried that again.
Years later, I worked with an old vet who'd been meat inspector at the University meats lab. His take on chitlins... "I've never been hungry enough to skin a turd for something to eat." I hope I never get that hungry, either.
Lucky_P
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@MrChevy, For the 30 years I've been here, Ms. Peg Hayes has been the driving force behind the Trail of Tears PowWow, and I always heard her doing ads and PSAs for it on the radio.
She and her husband AJ Jones have their hands full running the Casey Jones Distillery(link to website at bottom of this post), and I guess she's passed the PowWow off to someone else. Me and the Wife, adopted son/daughter/grandson were at Casey Jones' last Sat nite for music on the patio, Moon-a-ritas, and Camo Caravan foodtruck. Saw Ms Peg, so I'm presuming she was not at the PowWow.
I had a friend/coworker who used to go to the Floyd Co./Slone Mtn. Squirrel Festival every year (some of the Slones had purchased hunting property adjoining their farm here in Christian Co.) From what I understand, they used to serve a LOT of squirrel & venison dishes, including a big kettle of squirrel stew, which she said would have squirrel heads floating in it. I guess the public health department cracked down on them and prohibited them cooking/selling squirrel & venison, and the festival died out pretty soon afterward.
Casey Jones Distillery
Casey Jones Distillery. Small batch craft spirits. Authentic square pot distilling. Hopkinsville, Ky.
www.caseyjonesdistillery.com
