"barbecue pit" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Wilson Gray]

Ain't *that* the truth?!

-Wilson

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
<Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:
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> Having grown up on Southern cooking, and having eaten Northern cooking
> at various times (travel, cafeterias run by Yankees, etc), it seems to
> me that anything that helps differentiate the former from the latter is
> a good thing.
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> I hate getting stuck with corned beef hash when I could have had fried
> chicken.
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>> It's always perplexed me, though. In the American South,
>> countless restaurants prominently feature their "Southern
>> cooking."  Must have something to do with the apparent defeat
>> in that war . . . .
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>> --Charlie
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