Pimento Cheese Heaven

[susandennis]

In the South (eastern part of the United States) pimento cheese is a staple. The rest of the world is pretty much left out of this delicacy. But, today, at the grocery store, I found some!!!! When I first moved to Seattle, you couldn't even get pimentos but now you can get pimento cheese. I just had a PC sandwich and it was sooooo good. Happy Happy.

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Pimento Cheese

[joyofmacs.livejournal.com]

Was it a Kraft Cheese Spread thing? We love the pimento and olive and the pineapple spread. When done eating the spreads, you can wash out the bottles and have little glasses to drink out of. Double duty, I love things like that.

Or is it sliced?

Sounds good!

Re: Pimento Cheese

[susandennis]

Rocka Blue is my best... yum... but, alas, no, it's not one of those.

Generally, it's a local brand like Aunt Emma's Pimento Cheese or something... And, it's a spread. Here, I'll snap a photo of mine. Better than trying to explain it.

Oh, interesting... it's a store brand and the store is Albertson's which I think is pretty much limited to the west coast. Hmmm. This does not look as good as it is... But, at least you get the idea of what I'm talking about.

[cloverbee.livejournal.com]

Bless your heart... I'm in Atlanta and saw your post through Ed Book and I almost spit my sweet tea out! I'm glad you found the pimento cheese and even gladder (is that a word?) that you enjoyed it, which could only mean, that it was decent pimento cheese.

[susandennis]

Oh, honey, I hope you didn't spit your tea on anything that will stain! You know that sugar just grabs that stains and holds it! Your notes just cracked me up.

Yes, the pimento cheese was suprisingly excellent. But, (I saw your other comment, too) it would have tasted soooo much better on a biscuit. You have nailed my tastebuds on that one.

Did you know... (Watching way too much Food Channel here) that the flour we get here in Seattle is different than the floor you get in Atlanta? So even if I had the skill (which, sadly, I do not), I am shot in the foot before I even start down biscuit boulevard.

But, lord, do I love 'em.

I don't miss much about the South, really. Except the food and boy, do I ever miss the food. I go to visit my old Mom twice a year and it's really just an excuse to get country ham, Virginia ham, biscuits, fried chicken, fried okra, honey buns, squishy white bread and pimento cheese. Maybe there's hope here. When I first moved to Seattle, 10 years ago, they didn't even have Dr. Pepper! Can you imagine?? I had to special order it. (The soda pop guy at the grocery store was my first best friend in Seattle.) Now they have it everywhere... is country ham far behind????

[cloverbee.livejournal.com]

We share that "don't miss much about the south", except unfortunately, I'm kind of rooted here. I live way north of Atlanta, pretty much in the middle of nowhere. But if I wasn't - I'm sure I wouldn't miss a whole lot about it. Except, as you said - the food.

Biscuits and sausage gravy with sliced homegrown tomatoes
vs.
rednecks and fire ants with 200% humidity

We live on top of a small mountain ridge and sound travels really well from the valley below us. A few months ago my husband & I were sitting on our porch (before the humidity and fear of west nile drove us inside), and we kept hearing this horrible screaming coming up the hill. It sounded, honestly, like some sort of domestic violence situation was transpiring. So, we kind of looked at each other and thought, "What do we do? It's Saturday night, ain't no telling what's going on." (You know, this is the type of place where people shoot guns in the air at parties).

So my husband decided that he would go "drive by" the location where we heard the screaming. About 15 minutes later, he comes back as says:

"Honey, I got some good news and some bad news. What you want first?"
"Good news."
"Well, the trailer at the bottom of the ridge finally got underpenning."
"Oh my god, that's great! Ok, what's the bad news?"
"They've installed a wrestling ring in their front yard, complete with turnbuckles, and evidently, they are charging admission and giving away free beer. The screams you heard were from two women in the ring."
"Hell, that's it!. As much as I love this place, we're gonna have to move. I am NOT going to live next door to THAT".
"Yea, ok, hey are you going to bed? Cuz, I was thinking of going back..."

Needless to say, we didn't move and fortunately, someone called the police and they made them take it down. Not from the fact that they were doing it or giving beer away - but evidently because they were charging money.

I think my husband kind of misses it. :)

Cheap entertainment I guess. But if you ever need some White Lily Flour, just let me know :) Btw, why is it different? It's just corn, right?

[susandennis]

You would be so depressed if you could see our tomatoes... even in August they are worse than the ones you get in January. I think the flour thing is because of where the raw materials are grown. But, frankly, it's only a nit cause the biscuits I make always resemble hockey pucks...

I did see in a magazine yesterday that Bisquix has some new biscuit mixes out. When I go to Mom's at Thanksgiving, I think I'll snag me some.

LOVE the wrestling ring story.

I won't torture you with the fun things about the Northwest... I won't tell you that I haven't seen a misquito in 10 years or that we have rainbows about once a month or that we have so little humidity that you can leave a saltine on the counter for a week and it will still be crunchy - any time of the year.

But, I will tell you that we don't have lightening bugs - none. Kids here have never ever gotten a mayo jar and punched holes in the lide and filled it with grass and lightening bugs and took them to bed to watch. And in the 10 years I've lived here, I've only seen 2 thunderstorms.

Sometimes it's like living in a different country!

[cloverbee.livejournal.com]

hey, if you ever need a fix of homemade biscuits... holler - my mom lives next door and lives for moments like this (since trying to teach me the "art" failed miserably)

fdex could get them there while they are still warm.