Pork Brains, Spotted Dick, And Other Delicacies.

Now, Mama Hawthorne and Sister Hawthorne, scroll down and look at the right hand side, and stop on My Blog List.

My Blog List contains links to other blogs and sites - to friends that I've met and haven't met, to people that I only know through their writings, and to others, to total strangers, to those who put themselves naked and voice their thoughts and themselves.

Mother Dearest, If you scroll down far enough, you'll see a blog entitled "Food Network Humor." Mama Hawthorne, click on the above link. Or the link at the Food Network Humor Blog Site, right side of page, scroll down. They both go to the same place. Click on each one just to check it out for an internet exercise. This is the picture on the Food Network Humor, with the cholesterol content circled. Pork Brain In Milk Gravy. Well, I've been inspired. Inspired to go to my pantry. And what do I retrieve?

Ah HAH! It's Pork Brains WITH, not IN, milk gravy. Now, why on earth would Rosie have canned pork brains in her pantry? Wellllllll, several years ago, April 7, 2007 to be exact, at Easter, my dear friend, Ticky, of Reinventing a Boomer was visiting at the time. We had physically met, for the first time, for my birthday, several months previously, in January of 2007. We had known each other for a while before after meeting online at a forum we frequented, Television Without Pity 's How To Reality Shows about the Food Network and Semi Homemade Cooking With Sandra Lee. We found out we lived within proximity of each other and also that Ticky's father and I had been in the same aerobics class back in the winter of '84 to several months in '85. One of those, "Wow, small world kinda things." Anyways, Ticky was visiting and I had stopped up at TJ's earlier to pick up a few things. TJ's is a convenience store about 1/2 mile away, right outside of the harbor. I was checking out the canned goods and found Pork Brains. Whoa, I thought! When I got home, I called up Mr. Hawthorne and instructed him to stop at TJ's on the way home and pick up the can of Pork Brains. Don't ask me why I didn't pick them up when first I saw them. I wanted to impress Ticky. After all, she had brought me Spotted Dick.

So, here's the mise on place Ticky encountered. Upon seeing the can of pork brains, Ticky wanted me to show her immediately where she could obtain pork brains. She drove up to TJ's and I told her I'd wait in the car. 'cause I just wanted to hear about the chick at the cash register saying, "OMG! You're the second person in the past hour that's bought that!!" Then Ticky told the frantic girl, "Well, yeah, it's GREAT with scrambled eggs!" I could just imagine Cashier Chickie immediately calling the owner of TJ's and Billy's Seafood, (one and the same) " Hey, Judy!!???!!, We dun got a run on dem pig brains!!! You need to go order sum mo!!!!" Hey, here's a satellite view. There's TJ's on the right, #13, and my digs at the end of Roanoke Drive, with the pool. OK, back to the point of this post- Food Network Humor.

I checked out the cholesterol amount on the back of my can of pork brains. It's only 1060! Hey, 1060 is good, right??