Soul food

Mama Brown's fried chicken. Hot fush. Turkey legs. Salisbury steaks. Rice: red, dirty and white. Cornbread. Biscuit.  Macaroni and cheese and butterbeans and blackeyed peas and green beans with bacon, diced yams and bread puddings.

And the chicken today? Perfect. Perfect light crisp brown perfect thigh and drumstick. No heavy seasoning. No absurd breading.

Hot food line. Piggly Wiggly. Meeting Street. Charleston.

You can dress this stuff up as haute cuisine. You can put down place settings, offer up real flatware, send out waiters in white jackets.

Won't make it any better.

Comments

[Jean McGreggor]

mmmmmm, banana puddin',cole slaw cut up fine,SWEET TEA,cucumbers drizzled with vineger,sweet potato pone,scuppernongs,musk melons,cantilope,watermelon,sweet corn,hush puppies

It's a chant to invoke Summer.

I got my daughter hooked on fatback from Mama Browns before I told her what it was.

[Pam]

When I first moved to Charleston, I went out to the Seewee Restaurant in my neck of the woods. I feel in love with it - I mean, it listed macaroni and cheese as a VEGETABLE! Gotta love it.

[Badger]

I both respect and despise you people.

It's 1:33 p.m. and I'm stuck behind a desk. Hungry.

*shiver* So hungry ... So cold ...

[Badger]

Update: It is now 2:30 p.m. on the dot and I'm well-fed thanks to your little sales pitch. :D

<3 Piggly Wiggly <3

[Joan]

See Wee...Yesssss. Their fried eggplant is the stuff dreams are made of. If you are going to do fried food these folks know how to do it right. Mmmmm.

[Lisa]

I can't believe you mentioned Mama Brown's with not one comment about the HEAVENLY Kingstree BBQ! Shame....SHAME!!!

[Jean McGreggor]

What, step into the vinager verses mustard based debate? Not I.
I like them both, even though I was raised on the vinager/pepper type. Now those people in TEXAS with the BEEF,thats just WRONG.