Mayhaw Man

What about that delicious Vietnamese Iced COffee? Does it have a name besides "delicious Vietnamese Iced Coffee"? I love that stuff.

Perhaps, as a public service, we could sign this guy up here at eGullet and broaden his horizons a bit.

I am afraid that you have lost me again with strange talk of things that don't exist her in the swamp. What is this strange "chuch eye" of which you speak? Is this something I should seek out, or is it something better left to you denizens of the North Country-as I have decided about "Tuna Hot Dish".

Actually I think that you will find several bakeries supplying the things that we need (french bread new orleans style)-Mostly you will see Leidenheimer's, Binder's, and Gendusa's though. It's the brick ovens that do the trick at all three of these old line bakeries (there used to be a fourth-Reising's-but they sold out to Leidenheimer a few years ago. Personally, since I can walk there from my wifes apt, I like Binders (in the Faubourg Marigny kinda down Frenchman St. past and behind Doerr Furniture going towards St Claude Ave). You can go there really early in the morning (on your way home, as is often the case in my case) and get a couple of loaves and some donuts (they are very good) and go home with a little breakfast before you conk out. Binder's is conveniently located just down the street from most of the clubs on Frenchman. Zip (Leidenheimers) makes awesome baguettes though. So I guess it's a toss.

Cabela's has these. I have the big boy and the thing is great. Incidentally, they sell a kit to add a motor to the thing if he just goes crazy playing with his Sausage. They really are well made and for the price you won't do much better. Incidentally, I know that you were going to the midwest, but you might take a look at the retail locations to see if one is near you. The stores will blow you away. Nothing, anywhere, not even Japan, will prepare you for the targeted (sports and outdoors) retail experience at Cabela's. I hate to shop and would drive a couple of hundred miles to go to one. Unbelievable.

Slim Jims Don't say it's not a meal. It all depends on how many you eat. And I love that crock pot roast as well. It smells great when it has been simmering a few hours and the pot is loaded with thin sliced onions.

I referenced this sight for the photo only. These things are available in any market in MX for under 5 bucks and are the superior citrus squeezers of all times. They come in a couple of sizes and work great and are really efficient. As far as the lemon juice goes, I have frozen it in the past and it seemed to work great.

Try this one. I have found that I really like it alot. 1 small bottle Prudhomme's Meat Magic 1 lb. Dark Brown Sugar Mix Well Rub on the meat about an hour or longer prior to cooking. It's really good.

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I've been eating yard eggs all of my life. In fact, I have some on the counter now (we go through them fast enough to skip the fridge and I have a cool wire egg basket from France that I like to use) and although I wasn't the one who collected them (my neighbor did) I go over there and get them all of the time whe they are not around and except for a few feathers and perhaps some straw and stuff, they are generally pretty clean. I guess if you left them there long enough they might get kind of yuck, but not with the daily picking that these layers recieve.

I am having King Ranch Casserole for dinner manana and other than the chicken and the tortillas it is pretty much just canned stuff and I make no apologies for it. The stuff is great. I love it hot and I like it cold the next day. Let's face it, sometimes you can't do it all from scratch (although most of the time I seem to, but mainly because I enjoy doing it-not because it is easier or faster).

When I was living Uptown and going to school at UNO we only had one car and I used to bike out Carrollton Ave on sunny days, but on rainy days I took the St Charles Ave Streetcar downtown and transferred to the Elysian Fields bus in front of the Cotton Exchange building on Canal St (you can get along quite well in New Orleans proper without a car with just a little effort). On my way home I often stopped at Kolb's as I had been going there for years growing up with my German grandfather (sometimes I would go to The Pearl next door for beans or oysters). It was always full of really old people and I never gave it much thought until they closed up. THe article that ran in the Picayune at the time quoted the manager as saying that young people just didn't go there and that all of the old time customers were dying off and that there were not enough to keep the place open. It was really sad. They had a menu of German fare that hadn't really changed since the turn of the century and the place was really kind of a cool throwback.

My birthday is in two weeks. I promise, I guarantee, I swear I know what kind of cake I will be dining on (for several days-these things are like the Eveready Bunny of cakes-they last and last) the same kind of cake that I have had for every birthday since 1983. Firm cake, that jelly stuff, and icing that is just slightly resistant to the blade when the knife (use a sharp knife) slices into it. Nothing else like it. I will be eating this Lemon and Chocolate Doberge Cake from Gambino's Bakery in New Orleans! Incidentally, for those readers who don't know what the deal is, order one. They ship overnight and they are totally great a day after they are iced. I love those cakes. Thanks for bringing it up. I can't wait till week after next.

I hate to see this series end. It has been most enjoyable.

Heads! Always heads on for boiling. More flavor!

Today's Picayune ran a very nice piece by Elizabeth Mullener on 2 workers who, together, have worked in the kitchen more than 100 years. It was very well done and I thought that their thoughts on the modernization of the place were very interesting. There are some great photos that Kathy Anderson shot that accompanied the piece. If you can find them you are better at navigating that stupid sight than I am. The Keepers of the Flame

Oddly and sadly true, there is a story about Walt coming here, to St Tammany Parish-Strategically located right in the middle of the Gulf South, right on the 1-10/1-12 split(6 hours from Houston, 7 from Atlanta, 5 from Memphis, etc.)-where it never freezes and the weather is pretty good (albeit hot) year round and looking at a site in the lower half of the Parish for a new Disney East. So many politicians hit him up in his very short visit (once again, well documented by Disney's biographers and local political writers as well) that he got back on his plane shortly after his arrival and continued to a little town in Florida that had real estate that was just as plentiful and cheap and politicians that were a little less greedy. And that, as Paul Harvey is so fond of saying, is the rest of the story.

What prompted the change from regional marketing? Was it pressure from the evil empire in St Louis (former employer-not really evil-just monolithic and megolomiacal) or some interior policy change?

Because Florida extended across what is now South Alabama and South Mississippi and into Louisiana as far as the Mississippi River/Lake Ponchatrain/The Rigolets (If you look on the map you will find that these are (mostly) the "St." Parishes. The Louisiana Purchase was all on the West Side of the River (sort of, it gets complicated considering New Orleans is on the East Bank and a bunch of exceptions like that ). It was all one big hunk of beach front waiting to be developed. Walt Disney would have loved it.

Peach Kernals=Peach Pits Yes? I have never heard this term. Although I did buy a sack full of dried ones one time and used them to smoke some fish with. Big waste of time, but I was trying dammit.

Spyderco makes high-quality folding, locking-blade pocketknives. Many of them can be ordered with serrated edges, perfect for thinly slicing a tomato or halving a bagel. A miniature all-stainless-steel Spyderco knife with a curved, serrated blade (the "Cricket") has been my standard take-everywhere-but-airplanes pocketknife for years now, and has sliced everything from bread to sausages. Highly practical. Doesn't look "scary," isn't very big, but will cut anything. Whether you get a stainless blade or not, the steel Spyderco uses is of very high quality. They are offered with plastic (reinforced nylon) or steel handles (plastic makes for a much lighter overall knife but is still quite sturdy.) It's been years since I bought mine, but I'd guess one of these guys could be had for between $40 (plastic handle) and $75 (steel handle) at retail. They can often be found at quite decent discounts online. Hope this helps. I'm with you. Spyderco makes some of the finest pocket knives (for the money) in the world. I have been carrying a smooth edge version of this model in my front pocket for at least ten years. The knives are tough and the blades hold up well. Just a bit of work with my swell Lansky Knife Sharpeners and you are good to go. I like the one hand opeining feature (on all of their knives) as well. I used to be able to get away with carrying it onto the plane, but no more. Gotta send it through in checked luggage these days.

Are Keith's and Rickard's generally available in all provinces? I know that you could get them both in Ontario.

I regularly eat all of that stuff (except possum-ever seen a skinned possum?looks just like a cat-yuck-they are as dry and lean as toast-kind of like giant rats ). Squirrells are damn tasty, although kind of a pain because even a fat one is pretty lean. Had turnip greens last night (although during the summer the greens tend to lean towards bitter-somehow related to the heat-they are much better in the wintertime). Squirrel Suace Piquant is fine dining down here in my neck of the woods.

1) Pecans 2) Pecans 3) Pecans Incidentally-that's "puh-cons" for you that are pronunciation impaired.

This is a pretty good map of Acadiana, although it uses Parish Lines as boundaries and that is not entirely accurate. Certainly the line could be extended into extreme Southeast Texas (ever been to Sartin's in Sabine Pass? (now apparently moved north to Nederland)-it might as well have been in Lafayette). And parts of several parishes on the Northern Border of Acadiana could easily be included. Anyway, the map broadly supports my triangle description and I can use all of the support that I can get. Incidentally, I live in St Tammany Parish which is located in the part of the map labeled as the Florida Parishes as we were not part of the Louisiana Purchase but were a part of British (and occasionally Spanish) West Florida. West Florida has been part of a number of nations. Louisiana is an interesting place. with a very diverse history.