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Mr.DanielsAndRosaParksRodeTheBusToTheOtherSide I was employed as an in-home care provider and one of the was a black gentleman who lived on top of a hill. Mr. Daniels had a fondness for biscuits and gravy. I am no domestic Goddess so I would purchase biscuit and gravy for him at the diner at the bottom of the hill. I fibbed a bit by telling Mr. Daniels that I made it at home "just for him." Yeah Right! He talked about the diner at the bottom of the hill. He talked about the diner in his youth. They had a special entrance for colored folks. They could buy but they couldn't eat inside the diner. They attended a school for the colored on top of the hill. Along came Rosa Parks and the boycott transit company along with other business that practice Jim Crow laws. So the colored people along with supportive white allies decided to do the in the West Virginia Community. Separate but Equal? Bah! The businesses wanted their but wanted to treat them as second rate humans. The Boycott spread though the South. Businesses were hurting and eventually, Jim Crow Laws were declared unconstitutional. Mr. Daniels passed away at about the time Rosa Parks did. I visualize them getting on a bus took them to the other side. They could sit anyplace that they wanted but there might have even been special seats with their names on it. I would have been learning to make biscuit and gravy if I would have been of age in that era. My mother made biscuits of a rolled container but they don't measure up to the stuff made from scratch.  Abracadabra  |
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I think making good biscuits is a talent and I don't have it. If we have them, they come out of a tube. Slavery was and is a horrible thing and people of all colors and nationalities have been enslaved by others. Thankfully, although sometimes it seemed too slowly, that was rectified in our country. Why some people want to dredge it up and place the race card all the time seems to just show that they want to play the victim. That's the mentality that shouts "I'm as good as you" but I wonder if those people still feel inferior? Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.
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I think making good biscuits is a talent and I don't have it. If we have them, they come out of a tube. Slavery was and is a horrible thing and people of all colors and nationalities have been enslaved by others. Thankfully, although sometimes it seemed too slowly, that was rectified in our country. Why some people want to dredge it up and place the race card all the time seems to just show that they want to play the victim. That's the mentality that shouts "I'm as good as you" but I wonder if those people still feel inferior? Abracadabra
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I do love listening to elders who were there in historical eras. Now I've been on this earth long enough to tell youngsters a few tales of my own. I have some "back in the day" tales too, but Joe is enough older than me and from a different culture and I've enjoyed listening to him tell about his childhood. His family recognized the injustices of that era and ignored the stigma that was often aimed at people who had no problems with people of other colors. In fact, Italians were once often considered people of color and discriminated against, as were folks of other nationalities, like the Irish. It was wrong then, and it's still wrong, but harping about the past does nothing to change the future. Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.
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I will look for them. Joe doesn't care much for biscuits, but I still have to watch the sodium, just in case he wants some. If I could make decent ones, I could control the sodium, but that doesn't matter if they aren't edible! lol Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.
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I never make biscuits and don't buy the canned variety either. My mother made the best biscuits. She used lard and buttermilk in her biscuits. They were also the drop variety. We usually had them when we ran out of bread. Nothing like a hot biscuit with homemade butter and Roger's syrup on them. (P.S. Roger's syrup was a Canadian brand). After my sister moved to the states she missed Roger's syrup and so every time she came to Canada she took a bucket of it back with her. I guess Roger's syrup would be comparative to creamed honey. I don't have a sodium problem but I am diabetic so no more syrup for me anymore. I miss those good old days when life was so much simpler and the food was better.
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You and most of us look at slavery through the glasses we now wear..... and really do not comprehend what society was like back then. I'm sure there were some who found it awful then, but for most, it was a way of life. People have made slaves of others for all of history, and even though we tend to view it as black slavery, there were other nationalities who were also enslaved, even here in our own countries. I'm thankful that our countries are now free, but it isn't that way all over the world yet. As for those biscuits at Red Lobster,,,,, YES! Yum, Yum. And I like them dipped in the garlic butter on the Shrimp Scampi. The regular biscuits are similar to the ones made from Bisquick, sometimes rolled out and cut and other times dropped. Many of us grew up on them, either butter and jelly or apple butter, or broke open and covered with white gravy..... with or without sausage in it. Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.
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I enjoyed reading this blog Star.
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