Actually Bob I have had several full Southern breakfasts but I feel the way
Americans do about British baked beans which we borrowed and bastardised.
Now as for Jack Daniels that is another matter. I owe a certain pipe mad
archaeologist from Arkansas half a bottle of bourbon some time -it was a
certainly lot better than the liquorish shots I seem to remember drinking
with Tim Scarlett later the same evening in that Biker bar near the Mobile
hotel- my worst hangover in a decade followed but I blame it on your foul
American beer not the bourbon.

paul courtney
Actually all I get for breakfast is museli


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Hoover" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 2:35 PM
Subject: Re: being Southern


> You have missed one of life's most outstanding experiences, Paul. If I had
> known, I would have ordered you some of the aforementioned (with smoked
ham,
> of course) during our recent excursion through Florida. Europe has its
French
> haute cuisine; America has its Southern cooking. Even Pacific seafood
eaters,
> like myself, gourmandize when we visit that part of the country. Don't
> believe the stereotypes!
>
> By the way, remember my exposition on the importance of hearty breakfasts
in
> history.
> Good solid morning meals helped you to keep the French and Germans at bay
for
> some 500 years, while they quickly ran out of steam with their croissants
and
> coffee. I'm not quite sure what happened at Hastings, but the Normans were
> really recently Vikings anyhow and came from the same basic tradition.
Stick
> to the kippers and kidneys. You can't go wrong. Remember the lyrics from
> "Roast Beef of Old England."
>
> Even here we still see vestiges of the British tradition.  We now have the
> very popular "Outback Steakhouses", purporting to be Australian but
serving
> very little mutton and a lot of beef in the finest traditions of old
Albion.
> Stout stuff!
>
> Bob Hoover
>