Put pinto-pork stew
over just-baked potatoes
with butter and cheese!
The eyes: bright, shiny.
The gills: are bright red, not pink!
Scales slimy and firm!
Got pintos soakin’
and bacon, onion, peppers
to marry cornbread!
You a thumb-cutter;
index-finger knife-driver?
I pray in both pews.
boiled green goobers:
salt, onion, garlic, peppers –
the white stuff* is best!
*(green peanuts, only partially formed in shell have a white, creamy {for want of a better word} placenta surrounding the nascent nut-meat which takes on all the flavorings in which it is boiled, yet retains that unnamable something that says to so many sons and daughters of the south and those few Yankees innoculated by the crewe as Goober Peas. One should try either redskin Virginia peanuts, of the naked roasted and salted versions in a six-ounce bottle of Coca-Cola for another true taste of The South you Put In Your Mouth!)
Jacques Pepin’s favored
phrase in his famous kitchen:
‘That’s more than enough!’
I likes me offal
when done to a turn, kind cook:
keeps me un-awful!
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