The Best Time in Anderson or In Your Life

[Gardengirl]

I just shared that with my hubby, and he went, "Oh, gross!" But this is a man who won't touch any condiment known to man, so he will barely eat the usual, boring food and hardly anything exciting.

I can't imagine what happens between the peanut butter and tomato to make it wonderful, but yes, Indiana tomatoes are the best. I have a friend out here, who years ago went to Indiana and was fed tomatoes, corn and green beans nearly the whole trip by her relatives. When she complained to me, I told her that was the point! That is the best thing Hoosiers can treat you to when you visit.

At the lake, we traded a farmer several acres he could plant with corn for the right to pluck as many ears as we wanted for free. We threw the dead fish into that field, which is the best fertilizer for corn. We'd go out there and get ears of corn and shuck them and eat them raw. They were tender and good that way! I just read "Dewey" about a library cat in Spencer, Iowa, and in it, the writer explained something I didn't know about corn. Each silk strand must be fertilized for every kernal of corn to develop. That's when you shuck an ear, if every strand hasn't been pollenized, there will be missing kernals. Who knew that?

Have you ever eaten a tomato sandwich with butter? My sis used to eat plain mayo sandwiches, not another thing on them!

[Gardengirl]

How to find the recipe section here? I don't see it.

[Ma and Pa]

How to find the recipe section here? I don't see it.

[me]

How to find the recipe section here? I don't see it.

Here's a link to that pie recipe  http://theunknownzone.us/smf/index.php?topic=13264.0

[Gardengirl]

Thank you!

[Ma and Pa]

Gardengirl: The recipe section is item #4 on the child boards; Anderson / Madison Co. / Indiana is #1-- the way you get to this thread.

Very interesting, throwing the dead fish out into the cornfield as fertilizer (unless coons and possums ate them as fast as you threw them out); that is exactly what friendly Indians taught the Pilgrims to do when they first came to the New World. Didn't work out so well for the Indians, tho! Wonder if there's any analogy between that and the welfare, medical care, etc. we so freely profer to (dare I say it?) ILLEGAL immigrants sweeping in from the south?

I've never tasted a 'mater & butter sammitch, but I bleeve I could probably choke a couple down without any serious repercussions! I had a buddy in college who introduced me to the pleasures of the "menneraise sammitch" (among other vices) back in the 60's. They floated pretty well on bellies full of illicitly acquired
Pabst Blue Ribbon! Ah, youth... full heads of hair, great vision, and cast-iron digestive systems. Which reminds me of two more teenage quests: loading up the car with buddies and burning up the highway to: A. White Castle in Indy, or B. the Ohio state line, where cold 3.2 beer was ready and waiting. And LEGAL! Anyone besides me want to admit to such shenanigans? How about you, Palehorse?  Pa (feelin' old)

[Anne]

Did you go to the Triangle Bar in Ohio? I have heard about it since I was 13, never went. However, my sister, cousin, and children went. Somehow I just never made it over there. I'm probably too old to enjoy it now.

[Ma and Pa]

Anne: Ohhh Yesss! The Triangle in Greenville (Annie Oakley's hometown), a place in Palestine (Leo & Mary's,
maybe?), and my personal favorite, the Gateway Inn in Union City! Park in Indiana and walk across the street into Ohio! Their beer and hamburgers -- delicious, the kind you used to get everywhere, until McDonald's came along and changed the game -- were both 25 cents!!!  Can you imagine? How many times did I head back home, broke, with both belly AND bladder bulging!?  I wouldn't trade those memories for anything.

[Ma and Pa]

Gawd, I love this thread! The next best thing to a time machine.

[Gardengirl]

My hubby said Philly teens went to NJ because drinking age was 18, whereas in PA it was 21. He wonders if teens in PA went to the other side of Ohio for the same reason.

I had NO desire for drinking. There was and is alot of alcoholism in Indiana, runs in many families, and once the kids see that, some of them want no part for the rest of their lives.

[Ma and Pa]

Gardengirl: I have no doubt that teens from West PA were making the same "beer runs" into Ohio that we East IND kids made; that's the nutty sort of behavior to which adolescents are prone.
That being said, there is much to be said about your viewpoint; young folks just don't realize the implications of their behavior. Lives can be turned upside down (or ended) in an instant. An evening of fun with friends can go suddenly, and irreversably, sour in the flash of an eye. Those of us who were lucky came through the phase with a store of happy memories, and some regrets. I have both,
and tho I have NO inclination to relive the wacky episodes of my wastrel youth, I realize that they're part of what made me the person I am. For better or worse.  Pa (feelin' REALLY old now!)

[Gardengirl]

I just wish one person had informed me while I was a teen how really short life was and how it felt to be this age, looking back, and feeling like everything happened "just yesterday." Maybe then I would have cherished each and every day a little more.

[Anne]

I know what you mean GG. I thought I learned that lesson years ago when my children were toddlers, but it hit home again a few years ago when two of our grandchildren were killed. I never wish for time to go faster now, like "I wish winter was over". I may hate the cold, but it is another day with family and friends to enjoy and remember.

[Ma and Pa]

You are both right on the money. The sad thing is, we were probably all given this lesson in various forms, by
different people in our earlier lives, but this is one of the facts of life we must all learn for ourselves -- usually
the HARD WAY.

[Gardengirl]

Anne,

That is HORRIBLE! I don't know if I could make it through that. I am so sorry to hear that, you have no idea.