Nov 13
Tags: BigLie,BleedingHeart,Charity,Community,Culture,DarwinAtWork,DoGoodery,Ethics,EvolutionInAction,Food,Parasites,Silliness
Hungry Elmirans
This is National Homeless and Hunger Awareness Week, a week when you’re supposed to take action and make sure no one goes hungry. With 1stBass’s recipe and feed my family. Doing my small part to stamp out hunger, now if I can get them not to snack before dinner…
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You bring up a good point. I hate to see kids go hungry. I remember when I was in 7th grade and my parents wouldn’t buy the school lunch. I had to go home for lunch. I recall seeing this kid hiding in the viaduct by Green Pastures. It was cold and he was hardly dressed for it. He would go there every day because he had no lunch. It made me feel bad. One day I tried to invite him to my house for lunch, but as I approached, he ran off. Maybe he didn’t my fried egg, or PB&J, or potted meat that I had to eat. Maybe he thought that this Black kid was coming to beat him up. Maybe he was just ashamed. Oh well, guess I was predestined to dogoodery.
Be careful. Once you have Cornell chicken, it becomes the preferred choice. Especially good over a wood fire. I’d be interested to know what you think it.
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The Food Bank prefers the expression: “Food insecure.”
That expression refers to those who don’t know from where their next meal is coming.
Many in our county and city are food insecure. Especially those who depend on school lunches. When school is out, a lot of city/county kids immediately become ‘food insecure’ through no fault of their own.
Want to really feel good about doing something that really helps others? Donate a few hours some day volunteering at the Food Bank of the Southern Tier. Get a group of friends and family together some Saturday, call the Food Bank, make an appointment, go over and separate food into boxes and bags. It’s hard work but very rewarding!
What is Cornell Chicken? WHAT sauce?
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Nina, it’s a marinade create by a Cornell professor. Here’s a link to tell you more. It’s so good.
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Cornell-Chicken-Marinade/Detail.aspx
Silly question, you do know about spiedies, right?
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I never heard of spiedies until I moved up here, 1stBass. Evidently spiedies are a regional food. Vinegar based recipies aren’t favorites with me so spiedies aren’t something I’m prone to order when out.
Checked out the Cornell chicken. Thank you for the link! Again, vinegar based. No real spices? Must be something in the pepper.
I understand you make a mean BBQ sauce!!
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First step is to take over a word or term (re: Gay), then you get to define the meaning, once you have defined the meaning, you get to use it as a club against others, not in tune with your newly defined word or phrase.
The greatest motivator in the world is hunger, there is no good reason (And the bad ones just don’t hold up either) why any single person in this country woudl ever be hungry with the tiniest amount of action on their part. Sigh. If an entire group of people are allowed to feel that there will always be others to provide for them, they will always expect it, and eventually, think of it as a right.
Or am I off base with my limited world view?
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No Nina, I hear YOU make a mean BBQ sauce.
Yes, Cornell is a vinegar based marinade. If you’re not found of spiedies, Cornell make not work for you. They are both very regional. Spiedies in Binghamton, Cornell in Ithaca- Watkins Glen area.
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(sounds like a little slice of heaven…)
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Could be?
Stop hunger! Jazz and chicken at GP’s. I will be there after B-ball and some dogoodery.
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Doubtful on the cook off this year. WAY too chilly to engage in such activities. Perhaps next year.
Food insecure. Not an expression coined by yours truly. It is what is now called the situation in which many of our people find themselves.
Many in the world are flat out hungry. They live in areas that are war torn, in hot, arid areas when there is insufficient water for agriculture, and also in areas prone to poor ground and plagues of crop eating bugs. THOSE people get up hungry and go to bed hungry. Their children have swollen bellies, thin little limbs, naked bodies and parasites. Their black hair is red from chronic malnutrition and their little brains are forever underdeveloped. Think the Sudan, Darfur and many other African countries as well as middle European countries and parts of India.
Food insecure folks get a balanced meal from time to time but they don’t have a regularly dependable source and often wonder when and where they will eat again. Think many American school children and some of the homeless and elderly. During school months, many of those kids get one balanced meal once a day, 5 days a week. In the summer, there are no hot, nutritious meals and they become completely food insecure.
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As callous as it is, they are not my problem, and in reality, the rest of us would be better off if nature took its course. Food insecure? It’s just natures way of telling you that you have overstayed your welcome.
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I would hate be “Sauce Insecure”…
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And there we sharply differ, Bill. I believe we are put on this earth to help others where we can. And that belief is in direct and stark contradiction to another that I have: No free handouts for those who make no effort to help themselves.
And I’m presuming you’ve talked this take over of the guest house with your honey and she sees the benefits thereof?
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I also believe in helping people, but it is up to me to pick and choose whom I help. And further, it is up to me as to what form of help I provide.
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An interesting observation that I had while teaching in the public school system was that when and if I had contact with the ‘legal guardian’ of the food insecure children, (whether it be mom, dad, grandma, uncle Joe or cousin flo or grandma’s boyfriend, etc.) they many times reeked of cigarette and cat urine (from multiple pets in the house) and/or smelled of booze, came to the conference on an expensive motorcycle…many of the kids were also severely overweight. There was obviously enough money for those things; but not for proper nutrition for the kids in their care. We (teachers) took care of them the best we could…often times just keeping bread, milk and peanut butter in our classrooms for a quick meal because often times these children didn’t come to school in time to get their free breakfast (one explanation I actually received from a 1st grade kid was that ‘grandma was “asleep” (passed out stone drunk) on the floor; so the kid had to get himself around and walk; he didn’t live close. I wish that the public assistance for food went directly to their teachers and we could provide decent meals for them right in class; God only knows what happens to all of the ‘assistance’ the caretakers get. VERY FRUSTRATING.
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Cold, callous, realistic.
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I wanted to take that particular little boy home (the one with the drunken grandma) adopt him and raise him as my own. My boss said no.
-sigh-.
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