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My Mayberry fantasy
Missus Fan made dinner tonight, including Greenbean Casserole. That is one of my favorite comfort foods. As we were eating I once again told her my Mayberry fantasy. On Sunday after church the whole family comes home to a home cooked fried chicken dinner, with Greenbean Casserole of course. The Women all gather in the kitchen. All the guys sit out on the front porch in rocking chairs, still in our white shirts after we took our suit coats off, rock back and forth and say "yep" a lot. Maybe smoke cigars.
We could solve all the worlds problems.
Missus Fan just patted me on the head and said only if we could get Aunt Bee to cook.
I don't have an Aunt Bee.
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I think we need a rule that all food threads have to be dietetic, as I have gained 10 pounds just reading them.
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Missus Fan made dinner tonight, including Greenbean Casserole. That is one of my favorite comfort foods. As we were eating I once again told her my Mayberry fantasy. On Sunday after church the whole family comes home to a home cooked fried chicken dinner, with Greenbean Casserole of course. The Women all gather in the kitchen. All the guys sit out on the front porch in rocking chairs, still in our white shirts after we took our suit coats off, rock back and forth and say "yep" a lot. Maybe smoke cigars.
We could solve all the worlds problems.
Missus Fan just patted me on the head and said only if we could get Aunt Bee to cook.
I don't have an Aunt Bee.
Jim
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You could have had it at my grandparents house until they passed away. The only difference was we kids brought shorts shirts, shoes etc to play football. No green bean casserole either, chicken, rolls, gravy, mashed potatoes, corn on the cob and either strawberry pie or watermelon, depending on the time of spting/summer it was.
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No green bean casserole at ours, but lots of Kentucky Wonder pole beans cooked long and slow with salt pork, fried chicken with milk gravy and biscuits, mashed potatoes, fried white corn, Big Boy tomatoes, chopped white onion to go on the beans and a jar of green onions to eat on the side. When I was quite young the chicken would have been one my grandmother kept, caught and killed by slicing off its head with a butcher knife. I would then chase down the decapitated bird so she could clean it. The beans, tomatoes and green onions would have been from her garden. If you didn't want gravy on your biscuits there was country butter and my grandmother's plum butter or peach preserves. Dessert would frequently be green-apple pie or devil's food cake with caramel icing. Everything from scratch, of course.
In summer there often would be homemade peach ice cream.
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Stop wish'in and start do'in. All it takes is a couple of people asking a couple of more people to "come on over" and the next thing you know is you've got something going. Ask two people and then ask them to ask two people and so on and so forth. You might even start a movement
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When church let out and we went home to Grandmas house it was usually sliced baloney sandwiches and those little bottles of Coke kept in a washtub full of ice. Sunday evening was when the big meal was cooked, very much like the ones described above.
When we went to my aunt Teens house it was almost identical to the OPs description, minus the greenbean casserole, which almost no one liked. Always tasted kind of like burned innertube.
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I can be to Mount Airy NC in just over an hour. (The city that was the basis for Mayberry)
You can get a pork chop sandwich and ride in a '63 Ford black and white police car that gives tours.
We do live the "friends over for Sunday dinner" lifestyle, and thought it was typical!
I typically grill, to help keep the kitchen clean.
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Wow, read this too soon after the Mary Ann/Ginger thread.
When I saw "Mayberry Fantasy" I started thinking about Joanna Moore (Peg in season 3 of the Andy Griffith Show).... guess I gotta get my mind outta the gutter.
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Wow, read this too soon after the Mary Ann/Ginger thread.
When I saw "Mayberry Fantasy" I started thinking about Joanna Moore (Peg in season 3 of the Andy Griffith Show).... guess I gotta get my mind outta the gutter.
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I know - this thread made me want to be in the water tower "down at the junction"!
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Wow, read this too soon after the Mary Ann/Ginger thread.
When I saw "Mayberry Fantasy" I started thinking about Joanna Moore (Peg in season 3 of the Andy Griffith Show).... guess I gotta get my mind outta the gutter.
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My first real girlfriend (I was a Sophomore, she was a Senoir, I was the class stud) looked just like her.
I always smile when I see those episodes.
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Stop wish'in and start do'in. All it takes is a couple of people asking a couple of more people to "come on over" and the next thing you know is you've got something going. Ask two people and then ask them to ask two people and so on and so forth. You might even start a movement
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With us there wasn't often room for guests for Sunday dinner--too many in the family. My grandfather was a minister and not paid much more than it cost to feed his own. Although he always drove a Packard.
Now those church reunions with "dinner on the grounds" were a whole other matter.
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I am seriously in need of a slice of rhubarb pie at this moment.
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I am seriously in need of a slice of rhubarb pie at this moment.
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I want Gooseberry.
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I want Gooseberry.
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I want Helen Crump. Yowza! Maybe even Barneys squeeze--Juanita.
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I am seriously in need of a slice of rhubarb pie at this moment.
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That was my grandmother's specialty. Rhubarb from the backyard and sometimes rhubarb with cherries from their tree. That combo was especially good.
She fried a pretty mean chicken too!
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While I suspected that Aunt Bea figured into your fantasy
That isn't how
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I want Helen Crump. Yowza! Maybe even Barneys squeeze--Juanita.
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Nobody ever saw Juanita. Barn just talked to her on the phone.
Someday I'm gonna find Mayberry. Then I'll have all of you over for fried chicken, green bean casserole and Gooseberry pie.
Then we'll go shootin' out back.
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No green bean casserole at ours, but lots of Kentucky Wonder pole beans cooked long and slow with salt pork, fried chicken with milk gravy and biscuits, mashed potatoes, fried white corn, Big Boy tomatoes, chopped white onion to go on the beans and a jar of green onions to eat on the side. When I was quite young the chicken would have been one my grandmother kept, caught and killed by slicing off its head with a butcher knife. I would then chase down the decapitated bird so she could clean it. The beans, tomatoes and green onions would have been from her garden. If you didn't want gravy on your biscuits there was country butter and my grandmother's plum butter or peach preserves. Dessert would frequently be green-apple pie or devil's food cake with caramel icing. Everything from scratch, of course.
In summer there often would be homemade peach ice cream.
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Mike, STOP IT RIGHT NOW , your killing me. I'm still trying to stay with me New Years diet. The banana, and slice of dry toast I had for breakfast just lost it's charm.
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Mike, STOP IT RIGHT NOW , your killing me. I'm still trying to stay with me New Years diet. The banana, and slice of dry toast I had for breakfast just lost it's charm.
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Sorry about that. Writing it kinda tore me up too.
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Helen Crump was also hot as/in -
- Steve McQueen's girlfriend in "The Blob"
- Adam-12
- Emergency
- Bonanza
and dozens of other series from the 50s through the 90s.
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Wow, read this too soon after the Mary Ann/Ginger thread.
When I saw "Mayberry Fantasy" I started thinking about Joanna Moore (Peg in season 3 of the Andy Griffith Show).... guess I gotta get my mind outta the gutter.
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Thanking gawd you didn't say Aunt Bea...
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I can be to Mount Airy NC in just over an hour. (The city that was the basis for Mayberry)
You can get a pork chop sandwich and ride in a '63 Ford black and white police car that gives tours.
We do live the "friends over for Sunday dinner" lifestyle, and thought it was typical!
I typically grill, to help keep the kitchen clean.
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My wife and I were in Snappy Lunch a couple of weeks ago and I got a pork chop sandwich. The sandwich always makes the trip worthwhile. Larry
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Sounds like.....
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Missus Fan made dinner tonight, including Greenbean Casserole. That is one of my favorite comfort foods. As we were eating I once again told her my Mayberry fantasy. On Sunday after church the whole family comes home to a home cooked fried chicken dinner, with Greenbean Casserole of course. The Women all gather in the kitchen. All the guys sit out on the front porch in rocking chairs, still in our white shirts after we took our suit coats off, rock back and forth and say "yep" a lot. Maybe smoke cigars.
We could solve all the worlds problems.
Missus Fan just patted me on the head and said only if we could get Aunt Bee to cook.
I don't have an Aunt Bee.
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Sounds like a real Utopia. Worthy of a Twilight Zone episode.
Think...... Having to live perpetual Sundays. Wouldn't that be awful............NOT!!
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Sounds like a real Utopia. Worthy of a Twilight Zone episode.
Think...... Having to live perpetual Sundays. Wouldn't that be awful............NOT!!
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I dunno,there's always that one relative...
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P&R, I don't think this is the Mayberry you're speaking of...
Mad TV - Andy Griffith 2001 - YouTube
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I like the episode where the businessman's car breaks down in Mayberry on a Sunday. He can't use the phone and can't get his car fixed so he has to stay overnight. Ainge and Barn are sitting on the porch and Barn says "You know what I think I'm gonna do? Think I'll go home, have me a little nap, then go over to Thelma Lou's and watch a little TV". He keeps sayin' it and really irritates the business man.
Sometimes I can relate to 'ol Barn.
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I like the episode where the businessman's car breaks down in Mayberry on a Sunday. He can't use the phone and can't get his car fixed so he has to stay overnight. Ainge and Barn are sitting on the porch and Barn says "You know what I think I'm gonna do? Think I'll go home, have me a little nap, then go over to Thelma Lou's and watch a little TV". He keeps sayin' it and really irritates the business man.
Sometimes I can relate to 'ol Barn.
Come to think of it, Ainge too.
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This is the first time anybody mentioned Thelma Lou. Was she hot or what?
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After Peggy McMillan the hottest one was the county nurse, Mary who gave Rafe Hollister his tetanus shot.
I really like Rafe too. In fact, I have developed the Rafe Hollister version of health care for myself. When they showed him a thermometer he said he had one on the hen house. They said it was to show him how hot HE was. (Like me he had told them he never gets sick). He said "I know how hot I am....DANG hot"! They said "I thought you said you never get sick?" He replied "Balls 'o fahr, Ma'am, bein' hot aint sick, sooner 'er later yer bound to git cold agin!"
He also told them he didn't need a doctor. "When I was born I had my Momma, when I die I'll have the undertaker, and I don't see no need in messin' it up in between".
My Dad had this same outlook. 'Course, he died at 55, but that's beside the point.
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Sunday dinner
Sounds like my grandmother's big ol' house next the the Alamakee County fairgrounds ,big wood burning stove in kitchen, big walnut table in dining room. The meat could have been roast beef chicken or ham, always lots of gravy and potatoes, beets carrots or green beans, pie for desert. No one left the table without asking to be excused, wicker chairs on the front porch, the baseball game on the old philco radio in the sitting room.
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