My dad and mom owned a small grocery business when I was a kid. My dad went into business right after WWII and had the very first commercial refrigerator in the small Alabama town where we lived. A meat market was his claim to fame. They brought in locally slaughtered beef and pork, and sold it to the public. Sunday morning was his best business day because most of the country folk that were his customers didn't purchase their meat for their Sunday meal until then. Now this meat market kept us in all kinds of bazaar things to eat at home. Anything left that was on the verge of spoiling got cooked at our house. My mother cooked fried chicken, steak and various kinds of meat for breakfast. My dad sold cheese that he bought in whole "hoops" that came in a round wooden box. He also sold salted mackerel that was packed in brine and came in a wooden tub. (My mother was always extremely watchful of me as a little boy that I did not turn over that tub of salted fish..pewww that stuff smelled fishy) However, fried crispy and served with my mother's homemade scratch biscuits and real home churned butter-I still remember how good that was. You can't find that stuff anymore. Probably the most unusual thing though, that you certainly don't see any more are the organs of liver, lungs (called "lights") and heart of fresh home slaughtered pork. Mother cooked it all together in a big pot with lots of pepper. It was served with green leafy vegetables like collards or turnip greens with her homemade corn bread. Yes, Curt, cracklins were also sold here and they were used to make cracklin corn bread. Another favorite of our family was mother's chicken cornbread. She fried chicken, then put that in her cornbread batter and then cooked it all together in a big iron skillet. Those days are long gone though. My cardiologist saw to that many years ago. Oh well, I'll just sit back here and have another carrot and remember yesteryear!
Last edited by Larry Bratton; 01-16-2011 at 6:28 PM.
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