On Dec 11, 12:30*am, Damsel in dis Dress >
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> On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:18:30 +1100, Welsh Dog >
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> >An old chef I used to work for in the Royal Hotel in Cardiff during
> >the 1960's had a dish he used to make regularly for the staff. He
> >called it *'Alabama Pie'.
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> >When I asked him what the recipe was he said he just whatever was left
> >over in the fridge, chopped up, boiled with a couple of tins of
> >tomatoes, salt and pepper... let it 'reduced' til it was thick and
> >then he wrapped it in pastry and baked it.
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> >I never ate it again.
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> >Apparently he learned it from his mother up when he was a kid in the
> >South of the USA. He was 60 then... so this must have been in the
> >early part of the century.
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> >He told me the family was so poor he and his brothers used to go to
> >the bins at the back of the restaurants of 'white folk' and bring back
> >anything they could find that might be edible. Half eaten bits of
> >fish, chicken or meat... old veg... whatever they could scrounge.
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> >His mother would cut the worst bits off and throw the rest in the pot.
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> >Hard to believe how poor some people could be.
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> >Just something to remember while we're stuffing our faces over Xmas
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> Thank you very much for sharing that, Welsh Dog. *Makes me feel
> downright prosperous. *And humble.
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Just think - nowadays, urban young adults are dumpster diving as a
means of eating free - not necessarily because they have to, but
because they are more or less interested in not wasting anything.

N.