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"Leila" > wrote:

> This is a chain across the Southeast (not certain of the geography, but
> my cousin in Virginia had a summer job there in college, as I did in
> Greensboro NC). I served vegetables and salads there one summer, my
> only foray into food service. All you had to do was keep the little
> bowls full of various cold salads on the ice bed, and dish up hot
> veggies for people as they pushed trays down the line.
>
> You could get hot roast ham, beef and turkey sliced to order, but I
> wasn't senior enough to cut meat!
>
> Loved the veggies: fried okra, fried mushrooms, turnip greens with
> vinegar and raw onion offered as condiments, green beans boiled with
> fatback, and macaroni and cheese. Don't even argue, mac 'n cheese is a
> vegetable and you know it.

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I tried explaining that macaroni and cheese is a vegetable to my
students here in Seattle and they were appalled. (It's not described in
the old or new Food Guide Pyramid that way.) Then I described how green
beans are cooked down yonder, which really riled the vegetarians in the
class.

Of course, my major problem with southern cuisine is sweet tea. I
consider chocolate a better source of Calories than beverages.

Cindy

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