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SUBJECT: cosig: weird food

Ok if we are going to talk about weird food I have got one for you....
(actually I don't think fried mush is all that weird).

Place heavily buttered biscuits in a bowl and pour hot coffee over them. Eat
with a spoon. This is popular in my ex-husband's Kentucky family. Other
Kentuckians I have run across pour syrup on biscuits and I think cream gravy
over biscuits is popular all over the south.

Any opinions?
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In Reply to: 89-07-17  22:19  FROM MATEJKA_MARY @AUSTIN : cosig: weird food

Now, I've heard of Biscuits and Gravy (my husband is from Oklahoma, found
a coffee shop on our way to the lake that served them, and convinced me
to try them).  They're quite good; the gravy is made from pan drippings
from frying sausage, is cream-colored, and has bits & small chunks of
sausage in it.  I haven't heard of biscuits and syrup, but it makes
sense (from my husbands influence, we quite often have biscuits with our
eggs, instead of toast).  Similar to putting jam or honey on biscuits.
Biscuits with butter and coffe is a new one, though!  Perhaps it relates
to a European breakfast of Cafe au lait and croissants.  Cafe au lait is
about half coffee, half milk.  When I was growing up, a friend was first
generation American, her parents were from Italy.  For breakfast, they had
bowls of coffee/milk into which they dipped pieces of sliced San Franciso
french bread.  My friend modified this by pouring american breakfast cereal
into hers.