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From: "Jay Banks"

 >it would seem that
 > those in the South would be eating a higher meat diet and/or be *closer* to
 > what some would consider a modern paleo/atkins-type of diet.

Atkins?  Atkins who?  This is the land of chicken fried steak, cream gravy,
and fried taters.  And for dessert fried Twinkies or Fried Milky Way bars.
Alternate menu is beans w/ham, more fried taters, cornbread slathered
w/butter (and maybe honey or sorghum syrup), and an unidentifiable dessert
laden w/ CoolWhip.  Maybe the low-fat kind.  Gotta cut back somewhere.

In the local paper today, a FULL page bearing the headline "The Cookies are
Coming" announced the arrival of--are you ready for this?--Girl Scout
Cookies!   A Baker's Dozen of 13 sublime recipes using said cookies
followed:

Original Shortbread Trefoils (Or, Oops, Foiled Again)
"Thin Mint" Ranier Pavlova  (Or, You Won't Get Thin w/This)
Levitating Layers (Or, A Little Closer to Heaven/Lord, These are Good)
Cheesecake Canada (Or, Cheesecake Candida)
Baked Alaska (Or, Hell Frozen Over)
Chocolate Peanut Butter Parfait (Or, Tagalong Cookies w/Goop.
Tagalong--really great name, huh? Hitches a ride on you.)
Rich and Famous Brownies (Or, Plain Cheap Eats)
Strawberry Angel Surprise (Or, Heaven's Just a Bite Away!)
Crunchy Caramel Apples (Or, Apples w/Cosmetic Surgery)
Southern Peanut Butter Pie (Or, Tagalongs to Follow You All the Days of your
Short Life)
Walnut Brownie Surprise (Or, Walnuts?  Where?  ...Oh, Walnut-flavored
Brownie Mix and Tagalongs!)
Scavenger Delight  (Or, H/G Seal of Disapproval)
Angelic Surprise (Or, Follow the Light...Follow the Light....You've Finally
Arrived!)

 > care to comment?

Seriously, things just haven't been the same since Reconstruction.  In the
spirit of share and share alike to even out the risk of stroke, I'll be
happy to send recipes North upon request. :-)

Theola