Wednesday 24 January 2007

Sweet Home Alabama

The rest of the week was spent, just spending time with Sarah and Brennen and getting a flavour of deep fried southern life. Alabama is home to the world's nicest and most generous woman, Chellis, mother of Brennen. Chellis and her husband Jerry very kindly introduced us to the fine dining habits of the southerners and took us to lots of different restaurants around the area, including, most excitingly, a drive-thru diner. By the end of the week, I totalled up a fair number of new food experiences and I list them below for your perusal and awarded them a rating out of 5, 5 being good.

1. Beef Jerkey 3.5
2. Pork Scratchings -5
3. Low country boil 4 (meat and seafood platter)
4. Ocra 1 (deep fried side dish things)
5. Root Beer 5
6. Gritz -5 (wet porridgey cous-cousy thing)
7. Biscuits 2 (similar to scones but firmer)
8. Corn Bread 1
9. Gumbo 4 (brown soup with rice)
10. Corn Nuggets 3
11. Corn Dog 3
12. Fried green Tomatoes 4.5
13. Brunswick Stew 4.5
14. Twinkie -100
15. Moon Pie 2

2 comments:

Sarah said...

You gave biscuits a TWO??!
And Nikki still LOVES you??!

*scratches head*

I have yet to make zee twinkie sculpture...

Lyvvie said...

I know this was posted eons ago but: You hated the Twinkie?!?! How can anyone hate a twinkie? There is no such thing as a bad twinkie. Obviously something was wrong on twinkie day - did you eat the twinkie the same day as the pork scratchings? Seriously - give twinkies another chance. OR just give them to me when you get back to Scotland.