"Texas Butter" & "Narrow at the Equator;" SALLIE LEMONS!

Fri Mar 26 02:35:53 UTC 2004

OT:  SALLIE LEMONS!

Although I haven't written in a very long time, this subject is close to my
heart.
--Sallie Lemons on ADS-L, 25 March 2004

   Welcome back!  Sallie Lemons!
   You've missed a lot.  The biggest thing has to be my marriage to Jennifer Lopez on the David Letterman show, right at "Big Apple Corner."  I invited everybody here.  Letterman really impressed the DARE people with his Indiana dialect; he's even decided to donate money to the DARE project.  I wish Sheidlower would quit calling us "Barrifer," though.
   The Chicago Historical Society finally admitted that "Windy City" doesn't come from the 1893 World's Fair.  That was bound to happen sooner or later.
   I quit doing parking tickets ten hours a day, five days a week in the room with no air and the Bronx building with no fire exits.  Did you see my food dictionary on the web?

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TEXAS BUTTER & NARROW AT THE EQUATOR

TALK LIKE A COWBOY:
A DICTIONARY OF REAL WESTERN LINGO FOR YOUNG COWBOYS AND COWGIRLS
by Elizabeth Feagles
San Antonio, Texas: The Naylor Company
1955

   David Shulman was going through this small book.  It has a chapter on food.

Pg. 34:  CHUCK WAGON
Pg. 37:  ...a LARRUPIN' (mighty good) meal.
Pg. 37:  SOURDOUGH:  Cowboy's bread.
Pg. 38:  SOWBELLY:  Salt pork.
Pg. 39:  FRIJOLES:  Mexican dried beans.
Pg. 39:  JERKY:  Dried beef.
Pg. 40:  TEXAS BUTTER:  Gravy.  A cowboy can't CHAMBER A MEAL (eat) without gravy to dip his biscuit or his chunk of bread into.  Traditional cowboy gravy us made like this: the cook fries the dinner meat, takes it out of the skillet, then throws a handful of flour into the sizzling meat drippings.  After the flour has browned and the meat particles have been scraped up from the sides, he adds water, stirs again--and there it is, Texas butter.
   SINKERS:  Biscuits.
   WITH A BRIGHT EYE:  Fried egg, right side up.
   HUCKYDUMMY:  Raisin bread.
Pg. 41:  LICK:  Molasses.
Pg. 41:  HEN-FRUIT STIR:
   SPLATTER DABS:  These are both fun-names for pancakes.
Pg. 41:  SEA-PLUM:  Oysters.
Pg. 41:  FLUFF-DUFFS:  Fancy food not found on a chuck wagon.  Fluff-duffs include all manner of "lady-cooking" as well as unavailable luxuries.  It might mean the 3-layer cake (Pg. 42--ed.) some girl friend bakes for you or the homemade agarita (wild currant) jelly that the ranch owner's wife put up.  Also called THROAT-TICKLING GRUB.
   CHUCK:
   GRUB:
   MUCK-A-MUCK:
   BAIT:  Different words for plain, ordinary food.
   BREAD SACK:  Stomach.  What the cowboy wants to fill.
   STAKED TO A FILL:  When a cowboy has eaten well, he figures he has been staked to a fill.
   HOLD THE CUT:  Wait.  This is a very unhappy thing when it is applied to eating.  For when a cowboy has to hold the cut at the FEED TROUGH (dinner table), he's PLUMB RILED (angry).
   NARROW AT THE EQUATOR:  Hungry.
   SPANISH SUPPER:  Tighten your belt and eat nothing.  Sometimes a (Pg. 43--ed.) cowboy gets so far out on the range he can't make it into the ranch for supper; or perhaps he's taken grub with him and it has played out.  Then he just tightens his belt another notch and keeps on riding.  This is about as bad a thing as can happen to a hard-riding, tired and hungry man.
   GRUB PILE!:
   COME AND GET IT!:  These are the cook's calls to food, particularly when the outfit is on the home ranch, and he's yelling to the sleeping men.
   FLY AT IT!:  This is what the cook tells the boys when they're all gathered around and the food is ready to eat.

   I checked a few of these through Newspaperarchive.com and Google.  There aren't many cowboys left out there.

   FLUFF DUFFS

FLUFF DUFFS--7 Google hits, 0 Google Groups hits
FLUFF DUFF--15 Google hits, 1 Google Groups hit

Atchison Daily Globe - 2/21/1945
...thief's special, icut straw and molasses, FLUFF -DUFFS land so on and so on.. ,j from..
Atchison, Kansas   Wednesday, February 21, 1945  784 k

   HUCKYDUMMY

HUCKYDUMMY--1 Google hit, 0 Google Groups hits

   TEXAS BUTTER

TEXAS BUTTER--96 Google hits, 8 Google Groups hits

Atchison Daily Globe - 2/21/1945
...Mr. Adams makes some reference to "TEXAS BUTTER." And just what is TEXAS BUTTER? If is.....of "Charlie Taylor." It's also an oldtime -TEXAS cowboy food. But I know what it is. It.....s a Brairie substitute for BUTTER. A mix-K there s also 'Have een Third..
Atchison, Kansas   Wednesday, February 21, 1945  784 k

Dixon Evening Telegraph - 7/2/1955
...may be "black or "long sweetnin'." "TEXAS BUTTER" or "immigrant BUTTER" doesn't consist.....of BUTTER in the least. Instead its made from

Great Bend Daily Tribune - 7/2/1955
...may be "black or "long sweetnin'." "TEXAS BUTTER" or "immigrant BUTTER" doesn't consist.....of BUTTER in the least Instead Its made from..
Great Bend, Kansas   Saturday, July 02, 1955  668 k

   NARROW AT THE EQUATOR

   This seems to be gay slang, not cowboy slang.

NARROW AT THE EQUATOR--76 Google hits, 0 Google Groups hits

(GOOGLE)
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   SPANISH SUPPER

   I couldn't find anything with this definition.