Comments by "" (@janetprice85) on "Tasting History with Max Miller" channel.

  1. My grandparents were farmers. Often hobos would stop and beg food from my grandmother. She never turned anyone away. She'd feed them and give them a package of food to go. Once my grandfather caught a man stealing a milk cow. The man cried. He was a,sharecropper with a wife and five kids and no food and had just hit town. My grandfather who was also a Deputy Sheriff gave him $40,00 out of his own pocket and told him to buy a milk cow and even showed him the market where he could by one. That was a lot of money back then but he'd just sold a load of melons.
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  2. My grandfather and his buddy used to go to Savannah,Ga and bring back smuggled liquor from Bermuda and the Bahamas. They'd sell it to private clubs and roadhouses. They got caught but it was " okay" they got off with a warning because grandpa's partner was the Sheriff's son and grandpa's grandpa was the judge. Lol!
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  3. My grandmother went to Turkey on holiday and was surprised at the coffee as to how rich and strong it was but she loved coffee and liked the food. Grandma was an adventurous old lady. Lol! A long way from a Missouri farm wife to a world traveler. Grandma was something.
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  4. They have traditioal vessels they cook it in.
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  5. Lol!
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  6. Very rich food. They'd need lots of wine to wash it down.
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  7. During the Great Depession Dad said they ate a lot of pinto beans in Missouri. My mother from the south said that peas and rice was a mainstay.
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  8. I love the little skinny meat filled egg role style treats my brother's friend's wife used to make. She was from the Phillipines. I can't remember what she called them but they were yummy.
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  9. Oh,Yes that's very true. Neighbors you barely know will come with food and condolences. It's a nice custom. And does relieve the bereaved from feeling they must entertain or cook if out of town family comes. They can feed them w/o effort.
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  10. I love mango. They sell it in my grocery in Florida.
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  11. Lol! Clever idea.
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  12. The south didn't have enough to feed themselves with all the male population off to war,and the requisitions of food stuffs by the Confederate military and Yankee naval blockade. Rice was the main food crop in east Georgia and Mississippi as well as cotton and it wouldn't have been that available or nutritious due to the collapse of the economy in war time. Whole counties's worth of young men and even old marched off to war and many never came back and after Sherman came through targetting the wealthy plantations there wsn't much left to rebuild with then there was the bank crash of 1893 and the bole weevils in the early 20th century. The south only recovered it's economy in the late 20's then that was struck by the Great Depression. Mississippi can be said to have never recovered even in modern times. My Aunt and Uncle were Baptist missionaries there in 1960s and the poverty stunned them. They became involved in civil rights because of the poverty and almost were lynched by the Klan. Democrats frowned on Yankees registering Black voters. Luckily the FBI had an informant in the local Klan. Everybody was either KKK or White Businessmen's Council members back then. The question is who paid for the " hits" on SJWs like Dr.King and my Uncle? Lol! For sure Ray wasn't a lone killer. No one believes that BS.
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  13. I remember reading that oyster flavored ice cream was popular in the days of Dolly Madison. Ew! Lol!
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  14. Condolences on your loss. Halva sounds like my midwestern relatives that make raisin pie for funerals.I think that may have come from the German emigrant side of the family.
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  15. It was used to pay Roman troops. It's the source of our word salary aming others. A hot commodity even today.
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  16. ​ @bromisovalum8417 Yep,and for trade and not a of few wars were fought over salt.
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  17. I was in school. It was right after the Cuban missile crisis. We wore dog tags to school like the military. The roads were full of tanks headed south. Many of Dad's co-workers sent their wives and kids up north. Kennedy made the Russians blink. He also was pushing the Civil Right Bill.Many wondered who actually killed him?
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  18. I actually love mincemeat pies although it wasn't a traditional dish here in the part of the States where I grew up. MY southern grandma made pecan and banana cream pies.My grandmother though from the midwest made fruit pies and even mincemeat cookies.
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  19. I have a cookbook collection that includes my Grandmother's and Great Aunts's notes with NO measurements! I have to guess.
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  20. I've made this cake and it's very rich and yummy and easy.
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