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Skriven 2007-04-17 09:38:00 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
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I'd promised Kenneth I'd come by and set for a spell so
walked across the field to his house; we were busy solving
the problems of the world (he's a conservative Republican,
and I am not) when Barry roared up in the truck with the
two grandboys, so much for a quiet afternoon. We tried to
sit around as normal as much as possible, but various play
interventions were necessary, as is inevitable.

Fay came by around suppertime, and we called Ella to come over
for a light meal of cornbread and milk (for me, cornbread
and water). Kenneth's secret recipe makes a lovely-textured
bread, crispy on the outside, light on the inside. With mine
I had muscadine jelly from Post Vineyards.

Dessert was birthday cupcakes from the next-door neighbor (I
passed) and Braum's chocolate amaretto frozen yogurt, which
I'd picked up with an eye to making lowfat banana splits
until the neighbors had showed up with their gift.

We'd been supposed to play four I think concerts for the
schools (Adventures in Music), but the funding hadn't come
through, so I had two days to sit on my hands, visit with
Ella Lou's grandsons, and so on.

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Ella decided to take me to Catfish John's for supper; not
quite my type of place - most of the diners get catfish
and freedom fries, with a tiny aberrant minority ordering
a burger or a chicken dinner or, worst of all, a baked
potato to substitute for the fries. She got the special,
a 6-piece dinner (substituting baked potato, I was proud
of her) for $8 something; I had the chicken dinner for $6
something. Lemonade for her, root beer for me (a mistake -
it turned out to be caffeinated). The catfish were about
1-oz strips with another about 1/2 oz of breading each, with
cole slaw (fresh and pretty good), foil-baked potato, a
little tub of green tomato relish (sweet and sour), a slice
of onion, and 4 hushpuppies. What made it special was that
for an extra buck or so over the regular price, you got a
big bowl of beans and bacon (quite good for that). The
catfish was fresh but farm-raised. My chicken dinner was
similar to hers, chicken strips from Tyson down the street
for the fish, one fewer hushpuppy (yay, though they were
fluffy, oniony, and not bad), and no beans. Cheap, filling,
decent. Ella Lou had enticed me there with the promise that
the food wasn't greasy, which, miraculously, was true.

Sadly, we got 2 1-oz tubs of sour cream and 6 little things
of Shedd's Country Crock, and she appropriated both of the
sour creams and 4 of the Crocks. I was not proud of her. She
left part of a tub of sour cream. I was proud of her again.

Country Crock, for those who don't know, is a margarine-like
substance that is mostly water flavored with rancid fat. It
is unspeakably nasty: I used one in my potato and had to
drown the taste with raw onion and lots of pepper.

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