Hello, all, and thank you so much for reading and sharing! Interesting factoid, I read where only 1 in 3 Floridians were actually born in Florida.... Hmmmm... That totally makes sense to me!
Sooo... another good week in the south, hahaha... This past week, I learned a lot... One thing in particular that had my head spinning was the realization of how little I know about chicken wings. Both in ordering them and in eating them... How did this "learnin" happen, you might wonder... Well, it all started with a simple play date...
My daughter had some friends over, and their dad, being super kind, treated us all to pizza and wings. Since it was my house, I made the call to the local pizza place - now again, this is Florida, so my expectations on the pizza have been dramatically lowered. I ordered 2 small pies, and honey barbecue wings. They asked me what kind, and the dad replied "Flats". I looked at him like he had 3 heads. I thought, did he just say "flats?" Did he hear my question? Yup, I heard him right.... He ordered 20 wings, flats... I was befuddled.... So then he explained how there are drumsticks, and there are these 2-boned flat things... called, appropriately enough, flats. Lesson one of the night... I had been warned that I was going to get "learned", lol, it was very funny...
Then the food arrived. The kids scattered with their paper plates full of pineapple and pepperoni pizza, and the second part of my lesson began.... And this is where I learned that I have been doing it wrong my whole life. First of all, I learned that you really do need to use both hands.... I have been a one handed girl, but that was mostly because I was ordering the wrong kind, the drumstick kind. What has a handle, really, and fits one hand... OK, lesson learned. Next, there is a detailed process, having to do with pulling the extra fat off of one end, and somehow separating the meat from between the 2 bones... I gotta tell you, I kinda forgot it all. I am sure I have more work to do in order to really master this. But I can say that I surely do understand that there is an ordering and eating process for wings that I had never ever heard of... and now, now I know that, and will work on following this method to the best of my ability.
I also think that in part of the lesson was that I should never order the drumstick kind, but I will have to pretend that I wasn't really "learned" on that part, lol...I can't help it, I like them...
BTW, I can't help but wonder - geography aside, is Florida even really considered "The South"? I mean, when you consider "The Old South", civil war history and plantations and all that, do you ever, ever picture Florida? I never have... I picture South Carolina, I picture Atlanta, Georgia... But Florida? Not really the south... and based on the people I have met, it is a northern state hiding in the south. Culturally, it really has a unique feel, very different from the north, but very different from the deep south... Either way,it's home now... And I love it... :-)
Thank you for reading and sharing, I really appreciate it!
More to come.... xo
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