Meta:benzocaine wrote:Hello to all from the bible/coranary artery disease belt!![]()
Ever have green beens with fat back in it? I hadn't until I moved here. It finds its way into even the hospital cateteria's food.
The morons who make the food put little cards in front of the selection that says the green beens have zero fat... but then you look down at them and there is a huge hunk of fat floating in it and a layer of grease on top![]()
Actually, my main food vice?
Country-fried steak with mashed 'taters or biscuits and smothered with white country gravy and a side of grits.
Good stuff!
But yeah, I have no idea why most parts of the U.S. have to cook green beans in bacon grease...

BTW: Anyone know what the heck "Corn-pone" is?
I saw it on the menu at a greasy spoon out in the sticks in Georgia, but never asked what it was.
On the whole wheat pasta issue, try:
Soba!
Good stuff, and tastes great with marinara!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soba