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Patsy has found the link that binds us all together....food. Food and racing go hand in hand as well, it has become my ritual that I stop in Lake View, SC at the Mom & Pops burger joint for my fix of a freshly ground beef hamburger, fries, and a chocolate shake spun the old fashion way with stainless steel cup and a mixer. If I don't eat a good meal before I race I don't feel I'll have the energy to be competitive for the main event. Food is as important to racing as any part or tool.

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Baked or fried?

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Back home we caught Smelt much the same way but deep friend them, head, guts and all and ate them like french fries. Pickled Herring is delicious too, same principle, leave the bones in them, gut em' removed the head and fins for pickling but leave the skin and fins on for smoking. I have my Dad's old hand written smoking recipe framed at the house.

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Pickled sucker are any sucker, the hognose, white, black, red sucker fish that you could spear in the spring. They averaged about 16 inches long,. Mom would cut them up into nuggets and pickle them just like you would pickling cucs, and Dad would fillet them out and smoke em' in a homemade smoker made out of an old refrigerator. A lot of folks thought of suckers as trash fish, like carp which is false, suckers only live in cold clean water. I won't go as low as eating carp, they ARE nasty.

Note: the rabbits are good ol' northern fat bunny's and that blue cat is out of the Pee Dee River, the best cat I've ever eaten.

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Patty, you know the old saying "You can take the boy or girl out of the country but, you can't take the country out of boy or girl." We are who we are, I was raised on Great Northern Beans, corn on the cob, game meat and lots and lots of pan fish. Mom even cooked a raccoon once, a little greasy but the meat fell off the bone. Wild rabbit, squirrel, and venison were staple foods. Since I couldn't shoot flying objects pheasants never ended up on the table. I will say that I've eaten pigs feet only when cooked in a pot of field beans. The older I get the more I revert back to the foods I grew up on, I miss bean soup, split pea soup, goulash, and shepard's pie. Since my wife loathes liver we don't cook it but, I'll have some if offered.

It's all good food, whether from the German roots of the north to the Scottish roots of the south, I'll sit at anyone's table and sample the fixins'.

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Well I'm not a transplant since I spent most of my military career in N.C. and, I don't consider myself a Yankee since I'm a midwestern boy from Michigan (anyone from Ohio was southerners to us.) I have many Southern friends and I've tried all the above at one time or another. Though the name "Little Debbie Double Decker Deluxe Mooooon Pie" sounds good I never acquired the taste for them, however, I have grown to like grits, greens, and Carolina barbecue.

As for pickled pigs feet, *hitlins, and slippery slimy bald okra, I'm out. As a kid from a large family light on cash we ate a lot of cow tonque, liver, cow heart, pickled sucker, frog legs, and thousands of bluegills. We all grew up eating things others would frown on but, I'll try anything once. How about we all go out and get some fried chicken gizzards for lunch, now that's sumpin we can all indulge in.

Story of the Week "Female Drivers 1949 - 1965" in german Stockcar-news.de

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Thomas, thanks for sharing the story with your us and giving your fellow countrymen/woman some insight to the history of stock car racing in America, very cool.

Let's pray for the families and children in Connecticut

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That's awesome

Let's pray for the families and children in Connecticut

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On Earth as it is in Heaven

Improper Safety Equipment

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I was nervous when Rick was riding the door like that, he didn't look too steady. As for Santa, he needs to stick to sleigh and reindeer power, leave the horse power to the professionals.