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[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

"So why do they do it? I've been tempted to put my old shoes on the fence of my mini-orchard. The scent would be enough to keep the deer out a while."

[Delmonico]

Toooooo easy if I just tell ya right now.   The story that they keep the fence post from rottin' ain't right, it rots in the ground not on top.   They had a folklorist on the local radio the other day.  He's been researchin' it fer years, what I was often told and what I thought is most likey the true reason.

[Delmonico]

Get yer Cuzion ta ask Mr. Google, if Mr. Google don't know does that mean I'm smarter than Mr. Google.

[Uncle Eph]

I was always told that it meant that someone lived on the place.

[Delmonico]

Noooope.

[Delmonico]

Mean while back at the ranch, Delmonico is feelin' better and is putterin' around in the kitchen, makein' supper wonderin' if anyone is gonna show up. 

Tonight he has planned on a fancy meal, one of the best of the time, served at fancy eatin' houses the country over.

[gophergrease]

I know whats for supper.

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

"The wench ... ooops, I mean nun," the Frumpy Fairy Godmother ducks as if avoiding an oncoming skillet, "was busy this afternoon using Mr. Google to try and find proof that the Kennedy clan makes money off every bottle of Scotch that is imported to the country. What's for dinner, and why did they hang their boots?"

[gophergrease]

I will not tell.








































































Old McDonald had a farm...........

[Trinity]

"Ole Trinity don' take his boots off fer nothin. 












Nope, not nothin!"

[Delmonico]

Sit in the fancy eatin' room, I set the Wedgewood China.  Here I have some nice cheese to start the meal and some nice lettuce for salad.  Got some homemade mayo-naase for dressing, nuthin' to fancy fer my friends, GG's been whippin' it up fer the last hour.   Got some onions fer the salad and some pickles to eat on the side.   Oh here is some nice benne seed buns I baked.   

Here, the finest steak, a Hamburg steak, just like at the real Delmonicos in New York, they charge more for this 8 oz steak than they do for a 20 oz Porterhouse, I ground it out of some top sirloin fresh this afternoo.  Here is some mustard and some of that new Heinz Tomato Ketchup they intoduced in Philly at the Cennteny-al Expo. 

Serve yerself's I got some Saratoga Chips about ready to come out of the fryer.

[Delmonico]

Delmonico returns with those nice potatoes, sliced 1/16th inch thick and deep fat fried to perfection.    

What he sees horrifies him, Trinity has taked a benne seed bun, cut it in half and put his Hamburg steak on it.  He has also added lettuce, onion, pickle, mustard, ketchup, mayo and a slice of cheese. 

"Durn you Trinity, must you always have it your way!"

[Silver Creek Slim]

"Ya mean this ain't Burger King?" 

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

"Why would anyone grind up a decent steak? What is that thing, a beef sausage patty??" The Frumpy Fairy Godmother stares.

[Delmonico]

Cause with the often tough beef of the era it was easier for folks with bad teeth ta be able to eat.

Sides that if the cook used good meat and hand ground it as needed it would add cost to the item, that's what gooooomay food is all about, it don't have to be good, just more 'spensive.

Cheap ground beef made out of the scraps is a product of the 20th century, made popular by folks bein' able to drive up and get food with out gettin' outa their horseless carrages.   With out that contraption ground cow would sell far less than it does.

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

"You said you used top sirloin, not cheap, tough meat. You took a decent steak and made a sausage patty out of it. Humph!"

[Silver Creek Slim]

Steers weren't grain feed back in the cattle drive days. They ate grass on the drives. I doubt that after they reached the stockyards they were finished on grain.

[Silver Creek Slim]

It is a custom to put old boots on fence posts to keep the horses from hurting themselves on the fence.

Mr. Google found this, but I don't believe it is true 'cuz it makes no logical sense. Can't horses see fence posts?

Another one Mr. Google found was something about the stink of the boots would keep 'yotes away from livestock. 

[Delmonico]

FFg, top sirloin is only a mediocere piece of meat, Hamburg steak is made out of meat of a fair quality, it has about the right amount of fat and little or no gristle.   Out here on the ranch we don't need to eat the lesser cuts, we trade that with the homesteaders for onions and other garden crops.   If you want a unground steak, we can do a 1 1/2 ich thick porterhouse for you.

And besides that Hamburg steak is meant to be eaten on the plate as a steak, not slapped on a bun and salad and other goop poured all over it.

Would you rather have a porterhouse?

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

The Frumpy Fairy Godmother visibly brightens.

"Yes, please!"