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Chow-Chow is a traditional Pennsylvania Dutch vegetable side dish. It’s a mix of lima beans, celery, sugar, vinegar, green and yellow wax beans, tomato, onions, corn, carrots, peppers, cauliflower, salt and various spices coming from local farms, produced commercially by WOS WIT (PA Dutch for 'what do you want'). They started out on a local farm on the outskirts of a town where I had lived. I went in every Saturday to buy their offerings. Occasionally the farmer was stirring the day’s product in their large open barn when I arrived. He stood on a wooden ladder constantly mixing away at a huge pot cooking over an open wood fire. (Sanitary conditions... We don't need no stinkin' sanitary conditions
). Sometimes he asked me if I would take over so he could take a break. I would climb up on the ladder, taking the massive wooden ladle in hand, and stirred endlessly. His breaks were always longer than promised. In 1983 the Kresges sold out to a larger local entity that took their fare nationwide and then globally. Their best selling products are Chow-Chow and Bacon Dressing (served hot over a salad). I think everyone in central and northeastern Pennsylvania has a bottle of Chow-Chow and Bacon Dressing in their pantry. And always served at Thanksgiving.
And for good measure the best salad dressing I've ever tasted in my 60+ years...
Y'alls chow chow is different from ours.Chow-Chow is a traditional Pennsylvania Dutch vegetable side dish. It’s a mix of lima beans, celery, sugar, vinegar, green and yellow wax beans, tomato, onions, corn, carrots, peppers, cauliflower, salt and various spices coming from local farms, produced commercially by WOS WIT (PA Dutch for 'what do you want'). They started out on a local farm on the outskirts of a town where I had lived. I went in every Saturday to buy their offerings. Occasionally the farmer was stirring the day’s product in their large open barn when I arrived. He stood on a wooden ladder constantly mixing away at a huge pot cooking over an open wood fire. (Sanitary conditions... We don't need no stinkin' sanitary conditions
And for good measure the best salad dressing I've ever tasted in my 60+ years...
....and I could use some of that bacon dressing. It sounds fabulous!
Have you ever had bamboo pickles?
They have a website you can order from. Also like their beet & horseradish on roast beef, and I OD'd on their apple butter long time ago and can't stand the thought of it anymore.
Bamboo pickles? What am I... a panda?
So you'll eat oysrers, but not pickled bamboo? You worry me something awful......They have a website you can order from. Also like their beet & horseradish on roast beef, and I OD'd on their apple butter long time ago and can't stand the thought of it anymore.
Bamboo pickles? What am I... a panda?
One of the guys that used to work here made bamboo pickles and would bring me a quart for my birthday.
Bamboo should be used as stakes to hold up your tomato plants... not put in your stomach (unless it’s turned into alcohol, that isSo you'll eat oysrers, but not pickled bamboo? You worry me something awful......
). Comparing bamboo to oysters is like comparing wood pulp to ambrosia. Sorry the guy hated you so much. Did you report him to HR?
My mother grew up on the shores of Galway Ireland. As a young girl, in months ending in ‘r’, they would head to the beach and collect oysters, crack them open and eat them on the spot. It is one of the only fond memories she had of her hard life growing up in Ireland. She instilled her love of oysters to us. Her hometown in the old country hosts the Galway International Oyster & Seafood Festival each year. A really big event on the isle. Oysters and Guinness go together like peas and carrots. I’ve become allergic to beer but still tempt fate and hoist a single pint of Guinness when I eat oysters. (Guinness for some reason doesn’t affect me as bad as other beers). Visiting my mother’s old stomping grounds and attending the oyster festival is one item on my bucket list I still need to cross off. It’s kinda like the Irish Thanksgiving.
You've not lived until you've had a bamboo pickle! Oysters look like a slug to me......I just can't do it.Bamboo should be used as stakes to hold up your tomato plants... not put in your stomach (unless it’s turned into alcohol, that is
Report him??..... I begged for more!DiO said:Sorry the guy hated you so much. Did you report him to HR?
Hmmm... A show of hands from everyone that's ever looked at menu and thought... Sure hope they have bamboo pickles on the menu.
Hmmm... A show of hands from everyone that's ever looked at menu and thought... Sure hope they have bamboo pickles on the menu.
You won't find them on any menu.....youve gotta have a connectionHmmm... A show of hands from everyone that's ever looked at menu and thought... Sure hope they have bamboo pickles on the menu.
Connection? Conniption is more like it.You won't find them on any menu.....youve gotta have a connection
You won't find them on any menu.....youve gotta have a connection
Now batting for Out of Order --Doc Creed said:
Doc Doc Doc Creeeeeeedddd eeedddd eeeeddddd!
Lmbo...yeah, I think that's what I meant. Or did I mean 'pinch-hitter'? A switch-hitter is a left and right hitter, right?I hope we're talking baseball.
Switch hit? Don’t you mean ‘Go to bat for?’
As long as it doesn't ruin my joke, you can be whatever you want to be! Do you know how long it took me to set that up? FOREVER!Lmbo...yeah, I think that's what I meant. Or did I mean 'pinch-hitter'? A switch-hitter is a left and right hitter, right?
