Day Three
pot-likker, Linda cooked collards, and poured off, filling a 12 ounce mug, the pot-likker, which I've been sipping since yesterday. It's real tasty, and, IDK, maybe good for you.
In 2004 when we went to Atlanta for my prostate cancer treatment, a friend told me about fun and interesting restaurants in Atlanta - - one was Eatzi's and another one that I forget the name was choice for Southern dishes. One item on the menu was a bowl of pot-likker from their collards or turnips: it was extraordinary, and the dietician nutritionist at my radiation clinic said it was the only healthy thing on the menu.
Add the tiniest drop of hot sauce and this pot-likker that I've been sipping here is just as good.
Another thing I like to drink is the liquid from a jar of sauerkraut. Also delicious, but it cannot be good for you, because it's like drinking ice cold salty vinegar. But OMG!
Another is the liquid from a tin of canned spinach, and another is the pot-likker from a pot of lady cream peas - - I like the peas spooned over a slice of buttered whole wheat bread, but the pot-likker I drink separate.
If you haven't tried these favorites of mine, try it, you may like it, Sam I Am.
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Actually, what was on my mind is Spain, Norway and Ireland moving to recognize Palestine statehood, as many other nations have done. In the existing condition of war, the move is more symbol than substance, as a state or nation is a territorially bound sovereignty and no such sovereign polity exists in fact. Israel itself is a decades long test of the proposition that a national state can be created by international bodies, or body, carving out land and designating, recognizing, declaring it to be a sovereign nation (or part of an adjoining nation) as has been done in the history of nations especially in war and war reparations.
Territorial disagreements can be settled by agreement or by force. It is either stupidity or political guile that insists Palestine can only be created, that the two-state issue can only be settled by negotiated agreement between Israel and the Palestinians. Furthermore, even these decades on, Israel is not agreed by all nations and neighbors, and Palestine may never be. Is there right and wrong? Yes, establishing Israel was the White western nations self-righteously salving conscience after the Holocaust; which, Israel should have been created by carving out a section of Germany after World War Two instead of laying the Nakba on Brown people who had equal claim to Canaan. But here we are, and what to do?
People are no damn good, and taking others' land by force is our way of life, of which the United States is the most prominent racist proof, White man against Red man. Cowboys and Indians, who's the good guy?
Which raises the question, when was it that America was Great, so as to go there again? America seemed Great during World War Two, but nobody wants to go there again. America seemed great during the period after WW2 and before the Korean War started, August 1945 to June 1950, but that was for me, a White male. One thing I remember about that period, recorded here before, was outside at recess during my Cove School days, a friend asking me, "Are you for Civil Rights or States Rights?" Obliviously innocent, I asked, "What's the difference?" My friend gave the definition that is with me to this day, "Civil Rights means the (N-Word) would go to school with us." Nothing has changed: Civil Rights means that those who have nothing would have the same opportunities and rights that we Whites have, and we White folks sure as hell don't want that. States Rights means that we can keep them down by force of political machinations for a bit longer.
Great Again, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. So are selfishness and grotesque evil.
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pic: USS Corry DD817 my first ship as a U S Navy officer