WHY I LOVE NH IN THE WINTER TIME

HRinNH

WHY I LOVE NEW HAMPSHIRE IN WINTER TIME

When it's winter in New Hampshire
and the gentle breezes blow
about seventy miles an hour
and it's fifty-two below,
you can tell you're in New Hampshire
'cause the snow's up to your butt,
and you take a breath of frigid air,
and your nostrils both freeze shut.
The weather here is wonderful,
so I guess I'll hang around.
I could NEVER leave New Hampshire;
my feet are frozen to the ground.

Don D

As Leviticus would say, "Damn, it's cold enough to kill a hog!" If you've never been to a real live (dead?) hog-killin' during a cold snap, you have missed something.

HRinNH

Don, that's not a bit tempting. Not too many hog farms up here.

POPEYE

My job was helping to scrape, then I would take the fat cut it into small pieces and put it on to cook. Once it was done, I'd squeeze it in a cider press dry it out and make cracklins. Nothing better than HOT cracklins right out of the press.

HRinNH

Great...there goes my supper appetite. Thanks!

POPEYE

I could of "splained" how we took the intestines and cleaned them out to make chittlins, but I thougt I'd spare you those graphic details.

HRinNH

Oh you're so kind...ugh...

SMace

Unfortunately, I know exactly what you mean. I'm in NH enjoying the below zero weather.

HRinNH

Are you here for business or pleasure? Anywhere near Concord?

SMace

Isn't business pleasure???????? Honestly I don't know if I'm near Concord. I'm in the Nashua-Hudson area. Just got back from lunch. Man that wind is COLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HRinNH

Oh, you're about 45 minute south. We have many warm people and warm places in this beautiful state...hopefully you'll find one or more before you leave.

SMace

I enjoy coming up. More so in the summer. It's a great place. You can take the train to Boston or drive up to Maine.

Don D

S.M. Next time, please take her some chittlins. Or at least a can full of the smell.

HRinNH

No need, I have a good idea as to what that would smell like. /:)

I've been in NC once (Hendersonville area) and it was very pretty. I hope to go back for a visit once my step-brother marries and relocates there with his bride.

SMace

I live in Hendersonville. I agree, no finer place to be. Except at the beach some of the time.

Don, I think security would confiscate the chitlins. Next time I'll try to smuggle them through.

System

Okay, though I'm reluctant to ask. Popeye, what is 'cracklins' and what do you do with it? All the rest of you, be gentle with me!

We're having our first snow. It's beautiful.

HRinNH

I believe it's fried pig flesh minus the fat...makes me shudder just to write about it.

See? A Yankee Lady can know about these things without ever experiencing them.

POPEYE

Almost right HRin NH. You would be describing pork rinds which also are very delectable.

Cracklins are the fat cut into small pieces, boiled until most of the grease is cooked out, then squeezed (compressed) and dried.

It really is not as bad as it sounds from a health standpoint. I have been eating cracklins and rinds regularly since I was knee-high to a grasshopper and my BMI (check out another post)
is 22 and my cholesterol is 173. Not bad for someone that will reach double nickle status in about 3 months.

HRinNH

You're turning 10 years old? ...just kidding :-)

Well, to me it still sounds pretty unhealthy. Someone with a bent to heart disease may not be able to handle it as well as you.

Don D

Pork Skins are the only 'chips' type item allowed on the Atkins program. I am calling Leviticus tonite at 10:00 his time and will post later.

HRinNH

Well let us know if you actually reach him. I hear he's been very busy answering e-mails about Pork's report that all the disease has been bred out of American pigs. :-)

Don D

Pork may be onto something. I ain't never heard of MAD-PIG. Hold my beer, She tells me Leviticus is on the other line.........