I don’t know if any of you out there know what chitlins are but the Old Soldier was just thinking about them. Chitlins are good eatin’. They’re pig intestines. Man, do they stink up a house. Drop an onion in the pot while they’re boiling to cut down on the smell. A crock pot or slow cooker are great for cooking chitlins.
Cleaning chitlins is the tough part. You want to get out all the grit and the fat. Chitlins are a food of the South. Southern folks and black folks like me mainly eat them.
Put them on a plate with a mess of greeens, potato salad and hot corn bread with plenty of hot sauce handy and you got yourself some good eatin’. I think I’ll have me some chitlins for the Memorial Day Weekend.
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Writing And Drinking
Does drinking help writing? Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Raymond Carver and John O’Hara were all alcoholics and in most literary circles are considered great writers. I know when I can afford it I like to drink beer. Beer helps me get past the sheer agony of trying to come up with an idea for a flash fiction story.
Do writers drink because they write or do they write because they drink? Who knows? Creative writing is such a mysterious thing that the only thing that matters is the quality of the writing. A writer’s life certainly impacts his or her writing but when we buy a writer’s novel or book of short stories or read the writer’s work on the Internet it’s the work that has to stand up even if the writer cannot.
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