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Archive for April 7th, 2008

#23 Meat

Country people love meat. They eat meat at nearly every meal and often in between. At dinner (the noontime meal) and supper country people include meat in every dish. A typical dinner consists of a “cold meat sandwich” on white bread and a pasta salad of bowties, miracle whip and bacon bits. [...]

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#22 Cinder Tracks

Country people like to make calculated efforts to “toughen up” their young ones. To make boys into men and girls into strong women country people insist that their children conduct gym class on cinder running tracks rather than on polyurethane surfaces. The toughening begins in elementary school as young country children are taught [...]

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