The first paid employment for a country teenager is detasseling. Detasselers meet at the city park each morning of July at 4:30am and ride a school bus to the detasseling site. Upon arriving at the corn field detasseling “crews” walk through rows of corn and tear tassels off the top of cornstalks. When working as [...]
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#33 Detasseling
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#32 Layered Foods
Posted in Food on May 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Country people prefer dishes served in seven layers. The simplest of the 7-layer country specialties is 7-layer Jello. 7-layer Jello requires patience and persistence as one layer of Jello must set up before the subsequent layer is poured. Each layer is a different color and no canned fruit is included in the dish as [...]
